4How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
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Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? …
Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker? …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)Bildad is to be commended here for two things:—1. For speaking no more on the subject about which Job and he differed. Perhaps he began to think Job was in the right, and then it was justice to say no more concerning it, as one that contended for truth, not for victory, and therefore, for the finding of truth, would be content to lose the victory; or, if he still thought himself in the right, yet…
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