7There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
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Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Will he reserve his anger for ever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done evil things as thou couldest.
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.
Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. …
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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