33If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:
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He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
And Peter answered unto her, Tell me whether ye sold the land for so much? And she said, Yea, for so much.
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 33-40)We have here Job’s protestation against three more sins, together with his general appeal to God’s bar and his petition for a hearing there, which, it is likely, was intended to conclude his discourse (and therefore we will consider it last), but that another particular sin occurred, from which he thought it requisite to acquit himself. He clears himself from the charge, I. Of dissimulation and hy…
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