Verse Lens · Context pointer
Job 23:15 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 15. 15Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.
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Role in This Section
Job 23:15 advances the thought unit with the words “Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.” Job develops the next stated step through “Therefore am I troubled at his presence” as part of Job Fears the Unchangeable Divine Purpose.
Read It With
- Job 23:13–23:17
Read Job 23:15 with 23:13–23:17. Read alone, “Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him” could lose its speaker, the question or claim it develops, and the unit's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Job says no one can turn God, expects the appointed action to be completed, and feels terrified rather than silenced by darkness.
Why It Needs Context
Job 23:15 depends on 23:13–23:17; isolating “Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him” would detach a poetic premise, image, response, or transition from Job and “Job Fears the Unchangeable Divine Purpose.”
Read Job 23:13–17 together
Why these verses belong together: Job 23:13–23:17 follows the pinned KJV paragraphing and holds together one sustained speech movement: “Job Fears the Unchangeable Divine Purpose.” The next unit begins with a new stanza, question sequence, scene, speaker response, or rhetorical turn.
Verse 13. 13 But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.
Verse 14. 14 For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.
Verse 15. 15 Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.
Verse 16. 16 For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:
Verse 17. 17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Job 23:13–23:17 — Job Fears the Unchangeable Divine PurposeSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Job 23:13–23:17, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Job
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a complete apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Job.xml, OSIS 23:13–23:17
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