Job 13:3
13:3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire {a} to
     reason with God.

     (a) For although he knew that God was just, which was
         revealed in his ordinary working and another in his
         secret counsel, yet he uttered his affection to God,
         because he was not able to understand the reason he
         punished him.

Job 13:4
13:4 But ye [are] forgers of lies, ye [are] all {b} physicians
     of no value.

     (b) You do not well apply your medicine to the disease.

Job 13:7
13:7 Will ye speak {c} wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully
     for him?

     (c) He condemns their zeal, who did not have knowledge, nor
         regarded they to comfort him, but always granted on
         God's justice, as though it was not evidently seen in
         Job, unless they had undertaken the probation of it.

Job 13:12
13:12 Your {d} remembrances [are] like unto ashes, your bodies
      to bodies of clay.

      (d) Your fame will come to nothing.

Job 13:14
13:14 Wherefore do I {e} take my flesh in my teeth, and put my
      life in mine hand?

      (e) Is not this a revealed sign of my affliction and that
          I do not complain without cause, seeing that I am thus
          tormented as though I should tear my own flesh, and
          put my life in danger?

Job 13:16
13:16 He also [shall be] my salvation: for an {f} hypocrite
      shall not come before him.

      (f) By which he declares that he is not a hypocrite as
          they charged him.

Job 13:18
13:18 Behold now, I have ordered [my] cause; I know that I shall
      be {g} justified.

      (g) That is, cleared and not cut off for my sins, as you
          think.

Job 13:19
13:19 Who [is] he [that] will plead {h} with me? for now, if I
      hold my tongue, I shall {i} give up the ghost.

      (h) To prove that God punishes me for my sins.
      (i) If I do not defend my cause, every man will condemn
          me.

Job 13:21
13:21 {k} Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread
      make me afraid.

      (k) He shows what these two things are.

Job 13:23
13:23 How many [are] {l} mine iniquities and sins? make me to
      know my transgression and my sin.

      (l) His pangs move him to reason with God, not denying
          that he had sinned: but he desired to understand what
          his great sins were that he deserved such rigor, in
          which he sinned by demanding a reason from God why he
          punished him.

Job 13:26
13:26 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me
      to possess {m} the iniquities of my youth.

      (m) You punish me now for the sins that I committed in my
          youth.

Job 13:27
13:27 Thou puttest my feet also in the {n} stocks, and lookest
      narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the
      heels of my feet.

      (n) You make me your prisoner, and so press me that I
          cannot stir hand or foot.



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