An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…

So here, to show how impossible a thing it is for creatures in their own strength to contend with God, he puts a supposition upon that ⟨p. 261⟩which is most probable to carry us through it, Righteousness, Though I were righteous, I were not able to answer him, no not I.

So here, to shew how impossible a thing it is for creatures in their own strength to contend with God, he puts a supposition upon that ⟨p. 261⟩which is most probable to carry us thorow it, Righteousnesse, Though I were righteous, I were not able to answer him, no not I.

Though I were righteous.

It is, as if Job had further expressed himself to this sense, I am so far from justifying my self in all my complainings (which was the thing his friends taxed him with) as if God could find nothing amiss in what I have spoken, that I freely confess there is not the most considerate, righteous or holy action that ever I did in my life, which I durst bring to the touchstone, to the balance, to justify my self before God by, no, but in stead of that I would fall down and abase my self, as knowing I am before him, whose eyes (being ten thousand times brighter then the Sun) are able to see unrighteousness, where I see nothing but righteousness: Do not think I am justifying my self as a righteous man in what I have spoken or done, for though I were righteous, yet I would not (upon that ground) go about to plead my cause or stand it out with God. Or thus, I know I am unrighteous and unclean, but if I were righteous, I would not answer him.