7 For God do ye speak perverseness? And for Him do ye speak deceit?
For, truly, my words `are' not false, The perfect in knowledge `is' with thee.
Remember, I pray thee, Who, being innocent, hath perished? And where have the upright been cut off?
For a portion he sheweth friendship, And the eyes of his sons are consumed.
My lips do not speak perverseness, And my tongue doth not utter deceit.
out of the synagogues they will put you; but an hour doth come, that every one who hath killed you, may think to offer service unto God;
And, if our unrighteousness God's righteousness doth establish, what shall we say? is God unrighteous who is inflicting the wrath? (after the manner of a man I speak) let it not be! since how shall God judge the world? for if the truth of God in my falsehood did more abound to His glory, why yet am I also as a sinner judged? and not, as we are evil spoken of, and as certain affirm us to say -- `We may do the evil things, that the good ones may come?' whose judgment is righteous.
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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,