35Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.
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Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid. …
Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth. …
Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said, …
Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat! …
Behold, I am according to thy wish in God's stead: I also am formed out of the clay.
Commentary
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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