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John Gill's Exposition on Job 16:17
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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Not for [any] injustice in my hands, etc.] Came all those afflictions and calamities upon him, which occasioned so much sorrow, weeping, mourning, and humiliation; he does not say there was no sin in him, not any in his heart, nor in his life, nor any iniquity done by him, he had acknowledged these things before, (<180720>Job 7:20 9:20,30,31); but that there was nothing in his hands gotten in an unjust manner; he had taken away no man’s property, nor injured him in the least in a private way; nor had he perverted justice as a public magistrate, by taking bribes or accepting persons, and could challenge any to prove he had, as Samuel did, (<091203>1 Samuel 12:3); also my prayer [is] pure: he prayed, which disproves the calumny of Eliphaz, (<181504>Job 15:4); and his prayer was pure too; not that it was free from failings and infirmities, which attend the best, but from hypocrisy and deceit; it came not out of feigned lips, but was put up in sincerity and truth; it sprang from an heart purified by the grace of God, and sprinkled from an evil conscience; it was put up in the faith of Christ, and as a pure offering through him; Job lifted up pure and holy hands, and with these a pure and holy heart, and for pure and holy things; so that it was not for want of doing justice to men, nor for want of devotion towards God, that be was thus afflicted by him; compare with this what is said of his antitype, (<235309>Isaiah 53:9).
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