4For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.
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Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.
Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?
I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? …
But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)It is sad to see what intemperate passions even wise and good men are sometimes betrayed into by the heat of disputation, of which Zophar here is an instance. Eliphaz began with a very modest preface, Job 4:2. Bildad was a little more rough upon Job, Job 8:2. But Zophar falls upon him without mercy, and gives him very bad language: Should a man full of talk be justified? And should thy lies make m…
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