Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Job 23:6

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Job 23:6 - 23:6

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Job 23:6 - 23:6

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23:1 - 23:1
23:2 - 23:2
23:3 - 23:3
23:4 - 23:4
23:5 - 23:5
23:6 - 23:6
23:7 - 23:7
23:8 - 23:8
23:9 - 23:9
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23:13 - 23:13
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23:16 - 23:16
23:17 - 23:17

An objection suggests itself, while he utters the wish (Job 23:5). Do I hereby wish that He should plead against me with His omnipotence? Far from it! (Job 9:19, Job 9:34; Job 13:21; Job 30:18).

strength - so as to prevail with Him: as in Jacob’s case (Hos 12:3, Hos 12:4). Umbreit and Maurer better translate as in Job 4:20 (I only wish that He) “would attend to me,” that is, give me a patient hearing as an ordinary judge, not using His omnipotence, but only His divine knowledge of my innocence.