9I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me.
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Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.
Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-13)In these verses, I. Elihu particularly charges Job with some indecent expressions that had dropped from him, reflecting upon the justice and goodness of God in his dealings with him. He does not ground the charge upon report, but was himself an ear-witness of what he here reproves him for (Job 33:8): “ Thou hast spoken it in my hearing , and in the hearing of all this company.” He had it not at se…
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