Then I would speak, and not fear him - I would then be able to maintain my cause on equal terms and with equal advantages.

But it …

It is not so with me. —Literally, I am not so with me. The words are variously understood:

[Then] would I speak, and not fear him
With a servile fear, though with reverence and godly fear; meaning either at …

How little need we have of pastimes, and how great our need is to redeem time, when it runs so quickly toward eternity! How vain are the enjoyments…

After ble ed Job has shown that it is not his intention to argue with God, he proposes the principal i ue in dispute between him and his adversarie…