4I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
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Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies. …
Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
Teach us what we shall say unto him; for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness.
O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies! …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)Job is confident that he has wrong done him by his friends, and therefore, ill as he is, he will not give up the cause, nor let them have the last word. Here, I. He justifies his own resentments of his trouble (Job 23:2): Even to day , I own, my complaint is bitter ; for the affliction, the cause of the complaint, is so. There are wormwood and gall in the affliction and misery; my soul has them st…
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