2I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
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Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-13)Bildad began with a rebuke to Job for talking so much, Job 8:2. Job makes no answer to that, though it would have been easy enough to retort it upon himself; but in what he next lays down as his principle, that God never perverts judgment, Job agrees with him: I know it is so of a truth , Job 9:2. Note, We should be ready to own how far we agree with those with whom we dispute, and should not slig…
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