Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?
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Gill's Exposition
Wilt thou also disannul my judgment?.... The decrees and purposes of God concerning his dealings with men, particularly the afflictions of them, which are framed with the highest wisdom and reason,…
Barnes' Notes
Wilt thou disannul my judgment? - Wilt thou “reverse” the judgment which I have formed, and show that it should have been different from what it is? This was implied in what Job had undertaken. He had…
Adam Clarke
Wilt thou condemn me - Rather than submit to be thought in the wrong, wilt thou condemn My conduct, in order to justify thyself? Some men will never acknowledge themselves in the wrong. "God may err,…
Job was greatly humbled for what God had already said, but not sufficiently; he was brought low, but not low enough; and therefore God here proceeds to reason with him in the same manner and to the…
Cambridge Bible
The verse reads,
Wilt thou even disannul my right?
Wilt thou condemn me that thou mayest be righteous?
To disannul Jehovah's "right" does not seem to mean, to depose Him from His place as Supreme,…
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