19If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment. …
He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?
Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him? …
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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