19Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
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For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed. …
If thou hast any thing to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify thee.
Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.
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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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