“Even today my complaint is bitter. His hand is heavy despite my groaning.
Job is confident that he has wrong done him by his friends, and therefore, ill as he is, he will not give up the cause, nor let them have the last word. Here, I. He justifies his own resentments of his trouble (Job 23:2): Even to day, I own, my complaint is bitter; for the affliction, the cause of the complaint, is so.
Commenting on Job 23:1-7
O that I knew where I might find him,.... That is, God, who is understood, though not expressed, a relative without an antecedent, as in Psa 87:1; Jarchi supplies, and interprets it, "my Judge", from Job 23:7; and certain it is Job did desire to find God as a judge sitting on his throne, doing right, that he might have justice done to him: indeed...
Even to day [is] my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning. (a) He shows the just cause of his complaining and concerning that Eliphaz had exhorted him to return to God, he declares that he desires nothing more, but it seems that God would not be found of him.