29Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.
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But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.
Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.
My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit. …
But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 22-30)Poor Job goes on here to upbraid his friends with their unkindness and the hard usage they gave him. He here appeals to themselves concerning several things which tended both to justify him and to condemn them. If they would but think impartially, and speak as they thought, they could not but own, I. That, though he was necessitous, yet he was not craving, nor burdensome to his friends. Those that…
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