Job 9:21

This is one thing,.... Or "one thing there is" (x) in the world, as Jarchi adds; or "one measure", as the Targum, to good and bad men; one event alike to the righteous, and to the wicked, Ecc 9:2; so…

Though I were perfect - The same mode of expression occurs here again. “I perfect! I would not know it, or recognize it. If this were my view, and God judged otherwise, I would seem to be ignorant of…

What Job had said of man's utter inability to contend with God he here applies to himself, and in effect despairs of gaining his favour, which (some think) arises from the hard thoughts he had of God,…

I am perfect! I regard not myself,

I despise my life.

The speaker in Job 9:9 is God, at least it is He who uses the words, "Here I am," and "Who will set me a time?" The rest may be words of Job, in…