5God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.
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Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.
Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD.
And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)Job’s discourse here is called a parable (mashal ), the title of Solomon’s proverbs, because it was grave and weighty, and very instructive, and he spoke as one having authority. It comes from a word that signifies to rule , or have dominion ; and some think it intimates that Job now triumphed over his opponents, and spoke as one that had baffled them. We say of an excellent preacher that he knows…
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