32For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.
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Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it is man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.
And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
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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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