Charles Ellicott Commentary Job 23:7

"There the upright might reason with him; So should I be delivered for ever from my judge." — Job 23:7 (ASV)

There the righteous might dispute. —He has learned this marvelous truth, which the Gospel has so effectually brought to light: that it is God the Savior who is Himself the refuge from God the Judge (John 12:47).

Then, in the solemn conviction of His presence, he makes use of the most sublime language expressive of it, assured that though He may hide Himself with the express purpose of not interfering in his cause, yet all things work together for good to them that love Him (Romans 8:28), and that when his time of trial is over, he himself will come forth like gold.

Job’s case teaches us that if an innocent man is falsely accused, God's honor is vindicated and maintained by his holding fast his conviction of innocence rather than by his yielding to the pressure of adversity and confessing sins he has not committed, or relaxing his hold on innocence by yielding to irritability.