(1) В¶ Then Job answered and said, (2) I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? (3) If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand. (4) He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?
What a blessed evidence is here, that Job takes shame to himself, in the consciousness of man's sin, and GOD'S righteousness. How very strong and conclusive is the question, How should man be just with GOD? There are a thousand sins, and ten thousand transgressions, which pass away over our unthinking minds, into the gulph of forgetfulness, everyone of which, if GOD were to bring forward, would be enough to prove guilt. And though we forget them, yet GOD doth not; our secret sins are in the light of his countenance. Psalms 90:8. What a thought is this to convince the soul of sin! What a motive is it, or ought it to be, to seek redemption in the blood of JESUS?