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Job 9:16

The Pulpit Commentary on Job 9:16

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

If I had called, and he had answered me. "It," that is, "I had challenged God to a controversy, and he had granted it, and bidden me to plead my cause at his bar, yet could I not suppose that he had really hearkened to me, and would allow me boldly to stand up before him and freely to challenge his doings.

Such condescension on his part, such an abnegation of his supremacy, is inconceivable, and! could not have acted on it." Yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice; rather, yet could I not believe.

It was not that he would not have wished, but that he would not have been able, to believe.

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