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If he is pleased to contend with him, He can`t answer him one time in a thousand.
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An Unwinnable Case
Commentators explain that Job uses legal imagery to make a powerful point. If God were to bring a person to trial, they could not successfully defend themselves against even one charge out of a thousand. This highlights the inability of any human to be declared 'just' before God based on their own merits.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
If he will contend with him - That is, if God enters into a controversy with man. If God chooses to charge him with a crime and to …
19th Century
Anglican
If he will contend with him. — If man chooses to contend with God, he cannot answer Him one question of …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
If he will contend with him If God will contend with man, so Sephorno; enter into a controversy with him, litigate a…
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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…
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…
