3Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
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Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.
Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. …
If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-12)Job here warmly expresses his resentment of the unkindness of his friends. I. He comes up with them as one that understood the matter in dispute as well as they, and did not need to be taught by them, Job 13:1 , 2 . They compelled him, as the Corinthians did Paul, to commend himself and his own knowledge, yet not in a way of self-applause, but of self-justification. All he had before said his eye…
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