1 Job reproves his friends for partiality
14 He professes his confidence in God; and entreats to know his own sins, and God's purpose in afflicting him

Lo 5:9-16 12:9 *etc: 42:3-6

ear 4:12 5:27 8:8-10 15:17,18 Ps 78:3,4 1Jo 1:3

2 What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.

12:3 15:8,9 34:35 35:16 37:2 40:4,5 42:7 1Co 8:1,2 2Co 11:4,5,16-18 12:11

3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.

Surely 22 9:34,35 11:5 23:3-7 31:35

I desire 9:3,14,15 Isa 1:18-20 41:21 Jer 12:1,2 *marg: Mic 6:2

4 But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.

ye are forgers 4:7-11 5:1-5 8:3,4 18:5 *etc: 21:27-34 22:6 *etc: Ex 20:16 Ps 119:69

physicians 6:21 16:2 Jer 6:14 8:22 30:13 46:11 Eze 34:4 Ho 5:13 Mr 2:17 Mr 5:26

5 O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.

Oh that ye 13 11:3 16:3 18:2 19:2 21:2,3 32:1

and it Pr 17:28 Ec 5:3 Am 5:13 Jas 1:19

6 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.

21:2,3 33:1-3 34:2 Jud 9:7 Pr 8:6,7

7 Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?

4:7 11:2-4 17:5 32:21,22 36:4 Joh 16:2 Ro 3:5-8 2Co 4:2

8 Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?

32:21 34:19 Ex 23:2,3 Pr 24:23 Mal 2:9 *marg:

9 Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?

search 34:36 Ps 44:21 139:23 Jer 17:10 17:2 Isa 28:22 Ga 6:7,8

10 He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.

reprove 42:7,8 Ps 50:21,22 82:2 Jas 2:9

11 Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?

Shall Ps 119:120 Jer 5:22 10:10 Mt 10:28 Re 15:3,4

his dread 21 Ex 15:16 Isa 8:13

12 Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

remembrances 18:17 Ex 17:14 Ps 34:16 102:12 109:15 Pr 10:7 Isa 26:14

ashes Ge 18:27

to bodies 4:19 Ge 2:7 2Co 5:1

13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.

Hold your peace. Heb. Be silent from me. let me. See on 5 7:11 10:1 21:3

and let come 6:9,10 7:15,16

14 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?

I take 18:4 Ec 4:5 Isa 9:20 49:26

and put Jud 12:3 1Sa 19:5 28:21 Ps 119:109

15 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.

he slay me 18 19:25-28 23:10 Ps 23:4 Pr 14:32 Ro 8:38,39

but I will 10:7 16:17,21 23:4-7 27:5 31:31-37 40:2,4,5,8 1Jo 3:20

maintain. Heb. prove, or argue

16 He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.

my salvation Ex 15:2 Ps 27:1 62:6,7 118:14,21 Isa 12:2 Jer 3:23 Ac 13:47

for an hypocrite 8:13 27:8-10 36:13 Isa 33:14

17 Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.

6 33:1

18 Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.

I have ordered 16:21 23:4 40:7

I know 9:2,3,20 40:7,8 Isa 43:26 Ro 8:33,34 2Co 1:12

19 Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.

that will plead 19:5 33:5-7,32 Isa 50:7,8 Ro 8:33

if I hold 13 7:11 Jer 20:9

20 Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.

do not two 9:34,35

hide myself Ge 3:8-10 Ps 139:12 Re 6:15,16

21 Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.

Withdraw 10:20 22:15-17

let not 11

See on 33:7 Ps 119:120

22 Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.

9:32 38:3 40:4,5 42:3-6

23 How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.

many 22:5 Ps 44:20,21

make me 36:8,9 Ps 139:23

24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?

hidest thou 10:2 29:2,3 De 32:20 Ps 10:1 13:1 44:24 77:6-9 88:14 Isa 8:17

holdest me 16:9 19:11 30:21 31:35 33:10 1Sa 28:16 La 2:5 2Th 3:15

25 Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?

break 14:3 1Sa 24:14 Isa 17:13 Mt 12:20

26 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.

writest 3:20 Ru 1:20 Ps 88:3 *etc:

makest 20:11 Ps 25:7 Pr 5:11-13 Jer 31:19 Joh 5:5,14

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

puttest 33:11 2Ch 16:10-12 Pr 7:22 Ac 16:24

and lookest. Heb. and observest 10:6 14:16 16:9

settest 2:7

heels. Heb. roots

28 And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.

And he 30:17-19,29,30 Nu 12:12

as a garment 4:19 Ps 39:11 Ho 5:12