An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of…

The Septuagint read it without any comparison at all, which makes the meaning much more easy; they say not, My righteousness ⟨p. 10⟩is more than Gods, but, I shall be found righteous before God, or in the sight of God. This Job had said, and therefore made so many appeals to God.¹ I am just before God, that is, My cause will be found right and just in the sight of God. And as Job had said this often equivalently, so once in terms, (Chap. 23.10.) When he hath tried m•, I shall come forth as gold, or appear innocent before God; which he spake especially with an eye to those heavy accusations which his Friends brought against him, and laid upon him: And even for this Job might well be condemned of rashness by Elihu, who aimed at the throwing down of all self-righteousness, at the stopping of every mouth, at the eclipsing of all humane glory, in the presence, and before the brightness of the Most Glorious, High and Holy God.

The Septuagint read it without any comparison at all, which makes the meaning much more easie; they say not, My righteousness ⟨p. 10⟩is more than Gods, but, I shall be found righteous before God, or in the sight of God. This Job had said, and therefore made so many appeals to God.¹ I am just before God, that is, My cause will be found right and just in the sight of God. And as Job had said this often equivalently, so once in terms, (Chap. 23.10.) When he hath tryed m•, I shall come forth as gold, or appear innocent before God; which he spake especially with an eye to those heavy accusations which his Friends brought against him, and laid upon him: And even for this Job might well be condemned of rashnesse by Elihu, who aimed at the throwing down of all self-righteousness, at the stopping of every mouth, at the eclipsing of all humane glory, in the presence, and before the brightnesse of the Most Glorious, High and Holy God.

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