22Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.
Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.
For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.
Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth. …
If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.
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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