Job 23:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

There At that throne of grace, where God lays aside his majesty and power, and judges according to his wonted grace and clemency; the righteous Such as I trust I am in sincerity and truth; might dispute with him Humbly and modestly propound the grounds of their confidence and the evidences of their righteousness. So Upon such a fair and equal hearing; should I be delivered from my judge From the severe censures of all corrupt and partial judges, such as my friends are, or rather, from the condemnatory sentence of God; for he is supposed to be pleading, not only before God, but with him. This and some such expressions of Job cannot be excused from irreverence toward God, and too great confidence in himself; for which, therefore, God afterward reproves him, and Job abhors himself.