14How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?
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But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?
How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-21)What Job had said of man’s utter inability to contend with God he here applies to himself, and in effect despairs of gaining his favour, which (some think) arises from the hard thoughts he had of God, as one who, having set himself against him, right or wrong, would be too hard for him. I rather think it arises from the sense he had of the imperfection of his own righteousness, and the dark and cl…
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