18Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
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I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? …
Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. …
For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-22)Job here takes fresh hold, fast hold, of his integrity, as one that was resolved not to let it go, nor suffer it to be wrested from him. His firmness in this matter is commendable and his warmth excusable. I. He entreats his friends and all the company to let him alone, and not interrupt him in what he was about to say (Job 13:13), but diligently to hearken to it, Job 13:17. He would have his own…
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