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"Truly I know that it is so, But how can man be just with God?
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Job agrees with his friends that God is just. He then pivots to what commentators call the most important question ever asked: "How can man be just with God?" This isn't a challenge to God's fairness but a deep acknowledgment of the vast gap between human sinfulness and God's perfect holiness.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
I know this is true – Job here refers, undoubtedly, to something that had been said before; but whether it is to the general line of reasoni…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
I know [it is] so of a truth That is, that God is just, and does not pervert justice and judgment, as Bildad had obs…
In this answer Job declared that he did not doubt the justice of God, when he denied being a hypocrite; for how should man be just with God? Before…
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13th Century
Catholic
In his previous answer to Eliphaz, blessed Job seemed to have overlooked one argument Eliphaz had proposed about God’s justice when he asked, W…