6My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
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And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.
For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. …
And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.
Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.
I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.
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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