Job 9:15 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁵Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.

Job 9:15 —

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Cross-References

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Job 10:15
If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;
Job 8:5
If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;
Job 10:2
I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
1 Peter 2:23
Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:
Job 5:8
I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:

Topics

Atheism Attributes of God Fasting Gentleness God Guidance Humiliation and Self-Affliction Humility

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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 15)

15. (Job 10:15). Though I were conscious of no sin, yet I would not dare to say so, but leave it to His judgment and mercy to justify me (1Co 4:4).