The Pulpit Commentary on Job 6:30

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Is there iniquity in my tongue? (see Job 6:26). Job now justifies his words, which previously he had admitted to have been "rash" (verse 3). Perhaps he intends to distinguish between rashness and actual wickedness. Cannot my taste discern perverse things? i.e. I see no perversity or wickedness in what I have said. If there were any, I think I should discern it The reasoning is somewhat dangerous, since men are not infallible judges, not being unprejudiced judges, in their own case. Job's ultimate verdict on himself is that he has "uttered that which he understood not" (Job 42:3)—wherefore he "abhors himself, and repents in dust and ashes" (Job 42:6).

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