21O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!
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That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it is man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.
Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-22)Job’s condition was very deplorable; but had he nothing to support him, nothing to comfort him? Yes, and he here tells us what it was. I. He had the testimony of his conscience for him that he had walked uprightly, and had never allowed himself in any gross sin. None was ever more ready than he to acknowledge his sins of infirmity; but, upon search, he could not charge himself with any enormous cr…
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