3 But I will speak to the Almighty, and will find pleasure in reasoning with ùGod;
Produce your cause, saith Jehovah; bring forward your arguments, saith the King of Jacob.
If he shall choose to strive with him, he cannot answer him one thing of a thousand.
Oh that I had one to hear me! Behold my signature: let the Almighty answer me! And let mine opponent write an accusation!
How much less shall I answer him, choose out my words [to strive] with him? Whom, though I were righteous, [yet] would I not answer; I would make supplication to my judge.
But oh that +God would speak, and open his lips against thee;
Behold, if he slay me, yet would I trust in him; but I will defend mine own ways before him.
Oh that I knew where I might find him, that I might come to his seat! I would order the cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments; I would know the words he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me. Would he plead against me with [his] great power? Nay; but he would give heed unto me. There would an upright man reason with him; and I should be delivered for ever from my judge.
Come now, let us reason together, saith Jehovah: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. If ye be willing and hearken, ye shall eat the good of the land; but if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken.
Righteous art thou, Jehovah, when I plead with thee; yet will I speak with thee of [thy] judgments. Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? [wherefore] are all they at ease that deal very treacherously? Thou hast planted them, they also have taken root: they advance, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, but far from their reins.
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Commentary on Job 13 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 13
Job here comes to make application of what he had said in the foregoing chapter; and now we have him not in so good a temper as he was in then: for,
Job 13:1-12
Job here warmly expresses his resentment of the unkindness of his friends.
Job 13:13-22
Job here takes fresh hold, fast hold, of his integrity, as one that was resolved not to let it go, nor suffer it to be wrested from him. His firmness in this matter is commendable and his warmth excusable.
Job 13:23-28
Here,