28I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
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My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments.
If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse. …
And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.
I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 25-35)Job here grows more and more querulous, and does not conclude this chapter with such reverent expressions of God’s wisdom and justice as he began with. Those that indulge a complaining humour know not to what indecencies, nay, to what impieties, it will hurry them. The beginning of that strife with God is as the letting forth of water; therefore leave it off before it be meddled with . When we are…
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