3If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth God, let him answer it.
For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment. …
Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat! …
Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book. …
Commentary
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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