Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 35:2

2. Thinkest thou this to be right , that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than Gods ?

Canst thou in thy Conscience upon second Thoughts approve of what thou hast said?

Not that Iob said this in express terms, but he said those things from which this might seem to follow, as that God punished him more than he deserved or expected, all things considered; and that if he might be admitted to debate his cause with or before God he did not doubt to carry it, and to obtain that ease and favour from God which otherwise God would not afford him. But this charge against Iob he proves in the next Ve[illegible: 1+ letters]e.