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Job 23:4
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2 “Even today my acomplaint is bitter;
1My hand is listless because of my groaning. 
3 aOh, that I knew where I might find Him,
That I might come to His seat! 
4 I would present my case before Him,
And fill my mouth with arguments.
5 I would know the words which He would answer me,
And understand what He would say to me.
6 aWould He contend with me in His great power?
No! But He would take note of me. 
7 There the upright could reason with Him,
And I would be delivered forever from my Judge.
8 “Look,a I go forward, but He is not there,
And backward, but I cannot perceive Him; 
9 When He works on the left hand, I cannot behold Him;
When He turns to the right hand, I cannot see Him.
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Job 23:4

I would order my cause before him - Compare the notes at Isaiah 43:26. That is, I would arrange my arguments, or plead my cause, as one does in a court of justice. I would suggest the considerations which would show that I am not guilty in the sense charged by my friends, and that notwithstanding my calamities, I am the real friend of God.

And fill my mouth with arguments - Probably he means that he would appeal to the evidence furnished by a life of benevolence and justice, that he was not a hypocrite or a man of distinguished wickedness, as his friends maintained.




Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Job 23:4:

Psalms 17:2
Daniel 9:15

 

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