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If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?
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God's Unaffected Sovereignty
Commentators explain that this verse highlights God's transcendence. Our sins, even when numerous and severe, do not harm or diminish God's essential being, power, or happiness. As one scholar notes, trying to harm God with sin is like trying to stop the sun's course. His essential glory remains untarnished and He is eternally secure.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? - This should not be interpreted as designed to justify sin, or as saying that there …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
If you sin, what do you against him ? &c.] Sin is expressly said to be against God, (Psalms 51:4); it is…
Elihu reproves Job for justifying himself more than God, and called his attention to the heavens. They are far above us, and God is far above them;…
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13th Century
Catholic
After Eliud had rejected Job's words—because in his estimation Job attributed evil to divine judgment—he now intends to rebuke him for saying that …
