Job 23:10
New International Version
But he knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I will come forth as gold.

New Living Translation
“But he knows where I am going. And when he tests me, I will come out as pure as gold.

English Standard Version
But he knows the way that I take; when he has tried me, I shall come out as gold.

Berean Standard Bible
Yet He knows the way I have taken; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold.

King James Bible
But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

New King James Version
But He knows the way that I take; When He has tested me, I shall come forth as gold.

New American Standard Bible
“But He knows the way I take; When He has put me to the test, I will come out as gold.

NASB 1995
“But He knows the way I take; When He has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

NASB 1977
“But He knows the way I take; When He has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

Legacy Standard Bible
But He knows the way I take; When He has tested me, I shall come forth as gold.

Amplified Bible
“But He knows the way that I take [and He pays attention to it]. When He has tried me, I will come forth as [refined] gold [pure and luminous].

Christian Standard Bible
Yet he knows the way I have taken; when he has tested me, I will emerge as pure gold.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Yet He knows the way I have taken; when He has tested me, I will emerge as pure gold.

American Standard Version
But he knoweth the way that I take; When he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
He has known my way and my existence and he has tested me as gold, and I came forth

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For he knows already my way; and he has tried me as gold.

Contemporary English Version
But he knows what I am doing, and when he tests me, I will be pure as gold. *

Douay-Rheims Bible
But he knoweth my way, and has tried me as gold that passeth through the fire:

English Revised Version
But he knoweth the way that I take; when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
[I can't find him] because he knows the road I take. When he tests me, I'll come out as pure as gold.

Good News Translation
Yet God knows every step I take; if he tests me, he will find me pure.

International Standard Version
Because he knows the road on which I travel, when he had tested me, I'll come out like gold.

JPS Tanakh 1917
For He knoweth the way that I take; When He hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

Literal Standard Version
For He has known the way with me, | He has tried me—I go forth as gold.

Majority Standard Bible
Yet He knows the way I have taken; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold.

New American Bible
Yet he knows my way; if he tested me, I should come forth like gold.

NET Bible
But he knows the pathway that I take; if he tested me, I would come forth like gold.

New Revised Standard Version
But he knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I shall come out like gold.

New Heart English Bible
But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I shall come forth like gold.

Webster's Bible Translation
But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

World English Bible
But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.

Young's Literal Translation
For He hath known the way with me, He hath tried me -- as gold I go forth.

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Context
Job Longs for God
9When He is at work in the north, I cannot behold Him; when He turns to the south, I cannot see Him. 10Yet He knows the way I have taken; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold. 11My feet have followed in His tracks; I have kept His way without turning aside.…

Cross References
1 Corinthians 3:15
If it is burned up, he will suffer loss. He himself will be saved, but only as if through the flames.

1 Peter 1:7
so that the proven character of your faith--more precious than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire--may result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Job 6:29
Reconsider; do not be unjust. Reconsider, for my righteousness is at stake.

Job 7:18
that You attend to him every morning, and test him every moment?

Job 23:7
Then an upright man could reason with Him, and I would be delivered forever from my Judge.

Job 23:9
When He is at work in the north, I cannot behold Him; when He turns to the south, I cannot see Him.

Job 31:6
let God weigh me with honest scales, that He may know my integrity.


Treasury of Scripture

But he knows the way that I take: when he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

he knoweth

Genesis 18:19
For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.

2 Kings 20:3
I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.

Psalm 1:6
For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

the way that I take.

Job 1:11,12
But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face…

Job 2:5,6
But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face…

Deuteronomy 8:2
And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.

I shall

Job 42:5-8
I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee…

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Verse 10. - But he knoweth the way that I take; or, the way that is with me. My inability to find God does not in any way interfere with his perfect knowledge of me. God knows both "the way of the righteous" (Psalm 1:6) "and "the way of the wicked," which" he turns upside down "(Psalm 146:9). He is "about our path, and about our bed, and spieth out all our ways" (Psalm 139:2). When he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold; i.e. as gold from the furnace, I shall come forth purified, when my trial is over (comp. Psalm 12:6; Isaiah 1:25; Jeremiah 6:29, 30; Jeremiah 9:7, etc.). Job seems at last to have woke up to the conception that there is a purifying power in affliction.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Yet
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

He knows
יָ֭דַע (yā·ḏa‘)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3045: To know

the way I have taken;
דֶּ֣רֶךְ (de·reḵ)
Noun - common singular
Strong's 1870: A road, a course of life, mode of action

when He has tested me,
בְּ֝חָנַ֗נִי (bə·ḥā·na·nî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular | first person common singular
Strong's 974: To test, to investigate

I will come forth
אֵצֵֽא׃ (’ê·ṣê)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 3318: To go, bring, out, direct and proxim

as gold.
כַּזָּהָ֥ב (kaz·zā·hāḇ)
Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2091: Gold, something gold-colored, as oil, a clear sky


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