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Job 13
Job sharply reproves his friends, ver. 1-13. Professes his
faith, ver. 14-16. Desires to be heard, ver. 17-19. Expostulates
with God, ver. 20-28.
Verse 1. Lo - All this which either you or I have discoursed concerning
the infinite power and wisdom of God. I know, both by seeing it,
by my own observation and experience, and by hearing it from
my ancestors.
Verse 3. Surely - I had rather debate the matter with God than with you.
I am not afraid of presenting my person and cause before him,
who is a witness of my integrity.
Verse 8. Accept - Not judging according to the right of the cause, but the
quality or the person.
Verse 12. Remembrance - Mouldering and coming to nothing. And the
consideration of our mortality should make us afraid of offending
God. Your mementos are like unto ashes, contemptible and
unprofitable.
Verse 14. Wherefore - And this may be a reason of his desire of liberty
of speech, because he could hold his tongue no longer, but must
needs tear himself to pieces, if he had not some vent for his grief.
The phrase having his life in his hand, denotes a condition
extremely dangerous.
Verse 17. Hear - He now comes more closely to his business, the
foregoing verses being mostly in way of preface.
Verse 18. Behold - I have seriously considered the state of my case, and
am ready to plead my cause.
Verse 19. The ghost - My grief would break my heart, if I should not
give it vent.
Verse 21. Withdraw - Suspend my torments during the time of my
pleading with thee, that my mind may be at liberty. Do not present
thyself to me in terrible majesty, neither deal with me in rigorous
justice.
Verse 22. Then - This proposal savoured of self-confidence, and of
irreverence towards God; for which, and the like speeches, he is
reproved by God, chap. xxxviii, 2, 3; xl, 2.
Verse 23. My sin - That I am a sinner, I confess; but not that I am guilty
of such crimes as my friends suppose, if it be so, do thou, O Lord,
discover it.
Verse 25. Leaf - One that can no more resist thy power, than a leaf, or a
little dry straw can resist the wind or fire.
Verse 26. Writest - Thou appointest or inflictest. A metaphor from
princes or Judges, who anciently used to write their sentences.
Verse 28. He - He speaks of himself in the third person, as is usual in
this and other sacred books. So the sense is, he, this poor frail
creature, this body of mine; which possibly he pointed at with his
finger, consumeth or pineth away.
Chapter 13:
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