231 And Job answereth and saith:— 2 Also—to-day 'is' my complaint bitter, My hand hath been heavy because of my sighing. 3 O that I had known—and I find Him, I come in unto His seat, 4 I arrange before Him the cause, And my mouth fill 'with' arguments. 5 I know the words He doth answer me, And understand what He saith to me. 6 In the abundance of power doth He strive with me? No! surely He putteth 'it' in me. 7 There the upright doth reason with Him, And I escape for ever from my judge.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 23:1-7
Commentary on Job 23:1-7
(Read Job 23:1-7)
Job appeals from his friends to the just judgement of God. He wants to have his cause tried quickly. Blessed be God, we may know where to find him. He is in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself; and upon a mercy-seat, waiting to be gracious. Thither the sinner may go; and there the believer may order his cause before Him, with arguments taken from his promises, his covenant, and his glory. A patient waiting for death and judgment is our wisdom and duty, and it cannot be without a holy fear and trembling. A passionate wishing for death or judgement is our sin and folly, and ill becomes us, as it did Job.