Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 9:2
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Job9:2
2. I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God ?
To wit, as you say, that God is just in all his waies, that he doth ordinarily bless the Righteous, and punish the Wicked.
Heb. and how, &c. i. e. And I know that no man is absolutely just, or can defend his righteousness, if God be severe to mark what is amiss in him.
Either 1. being compared with God: Or, 2. before God as the same Phrase is taken, 1 Sam. 2. 26. Psalm 130. 3 if he be brought before God's Tribunal to debate the matter with him.
Marginal references: Psal. 143. 2.; Or, b[illegible: 1+ letters]fore God.
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