Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
The command of His lips, and I depart not. Above my allotted portion I have laid up The sayings of His mouth.
New American Standard Bible
I have treasured the
King James Version
Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
Holman Bible
I have treasured
more than my daily food.
International Standard Version
I haven't wandered away from the commands that he has spoken; I've treasured what he has said more than my own meals."
A Conservative Version
I have not gone back from the commandment of his lips, I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
American Standard Version
I have not gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
Amplified
“I have not departed from the commandment of His lips;
I have kept the words of His mouth more than my necessary food.
Bible in Basic English
I have never gone against the orders of his lips; the words of his mouth have been stored up in my heart.
Darby Translation
Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have laid up the words of his mouth more than the purpose of my own heart.
Julia Smith Translation
From the command of his lips and I will not waver; from his law I hid the words of his mouth.
King James 2000
Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
Lexham Expanded Bible
[From] the commandment of his lips, indeed I have not departed; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my daily food.
Modern King James verseion
nor have I gone back from the commandment of His lips; I treasured the words of His mouth more than my portion.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
I have not forsaken the commandment of his lips; but look, what he charged me with his mouth, that have I shut up in my heart.
NET Bible
I have not departed from the commands of his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my allotted portion.
New Heart English Bible
I haven't gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
The Emphasized Bible
The command of his lips, and would not go back, and, in my bosom, have I treasured the words of his lips.
Webster
Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
World English Bible
I haven't gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
Themes
Being Devoted to God » A characteristic of saints
The scriptures » Saints » Esteem, above all things
The word of God » Despised by the foolish » Food for the soul
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 23:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Eighth Speech: A Response To Eliphaz
11 On His step hath my foot laid hold, His way I have kept, and turn not aside, 12 The command of His lips, and I depart not. Above my allotted portion I have laid up The sayings of His mouth. 13 And He is in one mind, And who doth turn Him back? And His soul hath desired -- and He doth it.
Names
Cross References
John 4:32
and he said to them, 'I have food to eat that ye have not known.'
John 4:34
Jesus saith to them, 'My food is, that I may do the will of Him who sent me, and may finish His work;
Job 22:22
Receive, I pray thee, from His mouth a law, And set His sayings in thy heart.
Psalm 119:11
In my heart I have hid Thy saying, That I sin not before Thee.
Psalm 119:103
How sweet to my palate hath been Thy saying, Above honey to my mouth.
Job 6:10
And yet it is my comfort, (And I exult in pain -- He doth not spare,) That I have not hidden The sayings of the Holy One.
Psalm 19:9-10
The fear of Jehovah is clean, standing to the age, The judgments of Jehovah are true, They have been righteous -- together.
Psalm 119:127
Therefore I have loved Thy commands Above gold -- even fine gold.
Jeremiah 15:16
Thy words have been found, and I eat them, And Thy word is to me for a joy, And for the rejoicing of my heart, For Thy name is called on me, O Jehovah, God of Hosts.
Luke 12:42
And the Lord said, 'Who, then, is the faithful and prudent steward whom the lord shall set over his household, to give in season the wheat measure?
Luke 12:46
the lord of that servant will come in a day in which he doth not look for him, and in an hour that he doth not know, and will cut him off, and his portion with the unfaithful he will appoint.
John 6:66-69
From this time many of his disciples went away backward, and were no more walking with him,
John 8:31
Jesus, therefore, said unto the Jews who believed in him, 'If ye may remain in my word, truly my disciples ye are, and ye shall know the truth,
Acts 14:22
confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting to remain in the faith, and that through many tribulations it behoveth us to enter into the reign of God,
Hebrews 10:38-39
and 'the righteous by faith shall live,' and 'if he may draw back, My soul hath no pleasure in him,'
1 Peter 2:2
as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow,
1 John 2:19
out of us they went forth, but they were not of us, for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but -- that they might be manifested that they are not all of us.