Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 13:15

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

Though God should yet more and more encrease my torments, so that I could bear them no longer, but should perceive my self to be at the point of Death, and without all hopes of Recovery in this World.

Or, shall I not trust in him? Should I despair? No, I will not. I know he is a just, and a faithful, and merciful God, and he knows that mine Heart is upright before him, and that I am no Hypocrite.

Though I will trust in him, yet I will humbly expostulate the matter with him.

I will argue, or prove, or demonstrate my ways, i. e. I will make a full free Confession of the whole course of my Life, and I will boldly, though submissively, assert mine own Integrity, which he also will▪ I doubt not acknowledge. And what I have done amiss I will as freely confess; and make Supplication to my judge for the pardon of it.

Before his Tribunal: for I desire no other Judge but him.

Marginal references: Psa. 23. 4. Prov. 14. 32.; Heb. prove, or argue.