Job 32

Job 32:2

Accept - Not judging according to the right of the cause, but the quality or the person.

Job 32:6

Remembrance - Mouldering and coming to nothing. And the consideration of our mortality should make us afraid of offending God. Your mementos are like unto ashes, contemptible and unprofitable.

Job 32:8

Wherefore - And this may be a reason of his desire of liberty of speech, because he could hold his tongue no longer, but must needs tear himself to pieces, if he had not some vent for his grief. The phrase having his life in his hand, denotes a condition extremely dangerous.

Job 32:11

Hear - He now comes more closely to his business, the foregoing verses being mostly in way of preface.

Job 32:12

Behold - I have seriously considered the state of my case, and am ready to plead my cause.

Job 32:13

The ghost - My grief would break my heart, if I should not give it vent.

Job 32:15

Withdraw - Suspend my torments during the time of my pleading with thee, that my mind may be at liberty. Do not present thyself to me in terrible majesty, neither deal with me in rigorous justice.

Job 32:16

Then - This proposal savoured of self - confidence, and of irreverence towards God; for which, and the like speeches, he is reproved by God, chap.38:2,3 40:2.

Job 32:17

My sin - That I am a sinner, I confess; but not that I am guilty of such crimes as my friends suppose, if it be so, do thou, O Lord, discover it.

Job 32:19

Leaf - One that can no more resist thy power, than a leaf, or a little dry straw can resist the wind or fire.

Job 32:20

Writest - Thou appointest or inflictest. A metaphor from princes or judges, who anciently used to write their sentences.

Job 32:22

He - He speaks of himself in the third person, as is usual in this and other sacred books. So the sense is, he, this poor frail creature, this body of mine; which possibly he pointed at with his finger, consumeth or pineth away.