Job 23:14

“For he performeth [the thing that] is appointed for me, etc.] The same word is used as at the end of (<182312>Job 23:12); where it is rendered, “my necessary food”; or appointed food a certain portion of it; food convenient, daily bread; and this has led some interpreters to take it in the same sense here, and render it, “he performeth my necessary things” f886, or things necessary for me; supplies me with the necessaries of life, to which agrees the Targum, and so Mr. Broughton; “because he hath furnished me with my daily bread, and many such graces are with him;” and which he did according to his unchangeable purposes and decrees, and according as his soul desired, and it pleased him; and…”

“many such--He has yet many more such ills in store for me, though hidden in His breast (Job 10:13).”

“For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me - “I am now meeting only what has been determined by his eternal plan. I know not what is the “reason” why it was appointed; but I see that God had resolved to do it, and that it is vain to resist him.” So when we suffer, we may say the same thing. It is not by chance or hap-hazard that we are afflicted; it is because “God” has “appointed” that it should be so. It is not by passion or caprice on his part; not by sudden anger or wrath; but it is because he had determined to do it as a part of his eternal plan. It is much, when we are afflicted, to be able to make this reflection. I had rather be afflicted, feeling that it is “the…”

“Performeth - Those calamities which he hath allotted to me. And - There are many such examples of God's proceeding with men. Job 23:16”

“appointed: Job 7:3; Mic 6:9; Th1 3:3, Th1 5:9; Pe1 2:8 many such: Psa 77:19, Psa 97:2; Isa 40:27, Isa 40:28; Rom 11:33 Job 23:15”

“14 For He accomplisheth that which is appointed for me, And much of a like kind is with Him. 15 Therefore I am troubled at His presence; If I consider it, I am afraid of Him. 16 And God hath caused my heart to be dejected, And the Almighty hath put me to confusion; 17 For I have not been destroyed before darkness, And before my countenance, which thick darkness covereth. Now it is the will of God, the absolute, which has all at once turned against him, the innocent ( Job 23:13); for what He has decreed against him (חקּי) He also brings to a complete fulfilment (השׁלים, as e.g., Isa 44:26); and the same troubles as those which he already suffers, God has still more abundantly decreed for him,…”