Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 34:5

5. For Job hath said, I am righteous : and my God hath taken away my judgment .

Either 1. I am perfectly righteous. But this Iob did not say, but the contrary, Iob 9. 2, 3. & 14. 4. Or 2. I am a sincere Person, no Hypocrite, as my Friends make me. But this Elibu doth not deny. or 3. I am so far righteous, and have been so holy and blameless in my life, that I have not deserved, not had any reason to expect such hard usage from God. And this Iob had oft intimated, and Elihu doth justly blame him for it, that he blazoned his own righteousness with tacit reflections upon God for dealing so severely with him.

For so Iob had said, Ch. 27. 2. i. e. He denies me that which is but just and equal, to give me a fair hearing, to suffer me to plead my Cause with or before him, to shew me the reasons of his contending with me, and what sins besides common infirmities, I have been guilty of whereby I have deserved such extraordinary judgments. Which Elihu justly taxeth him with as a very irreverent and presumptuous expression.

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