Whom, though I were righteous — That is, if I felt the utmost confidence that I was righteous, yet, if God judged otherwise and regarded me …

Though I were righteous. —He now puts the alternative case: that he were actually righteous; yet even then supplication, and not assertion…

Whom, though I were righteous, [yet] would I not answer
This is not to be understood of the righteousness of his cau…

Job is still righteous in his own eyes (Job 32:1), and his answer, though it sets forth the power and majesty of God, implies that the …

Since the ble ed Job wished to affirm that he did not desire to argue with God, he first showed the depth of God's wisdom in natural things by usin…