29If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
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Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.
I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me. …
This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity. …
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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