28This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.
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If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant, …
For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.
And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.
That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 24-32)Four articles more of Job’s protestation we have in these verses, which, as all the rest, not only assure us what he was and did, but teach us what we should be and do:— I. He protests that he never set his heart upon the wealth of this world, nor took the things of it for his portions and happiness. He had gold; he had fine gold. His wealth was great , and he had gotten much . Our wealth is eithe…
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