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Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer. I would make supplication to my judge.
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Humility Before the Judge
Commentators agree that Job is expressing a profound truth: even if a person were perfectly righteous by human standards, the proper posture before God is not to argue or demand, but to humbly plead for mercy. Job recognizes God as the ultimate and infallible Judge. This act of choosing supplication over self-defense is seen by scholars like Albert Barnes as a sign of true piety and trust in God's superior wisdom.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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 …
19th Century
Anglican
Though I were righteous. —He now puts the alternative case: that he were actually righteous; yet even then supplication, and not assertion…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Whom, though I were righteous, [yet] would I not answer This is not to be understood of the righteousness of his cau…
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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 …
13th Century
Catholic
Since the blessed 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 usi…
