Job 27:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

He confirms the truth and sincerity of his expressions by an oath, because he found them very hard to believe all his professions. My judgment, or my right, or my cause, i.e. who, though he knows my integrity and piety towards him, yet doth not plead my cause against my friends, nor will admit me to plead my cause with him before them, as I have so oft and earnestly desired, nor doth deal with me according to those terms of grace and mercy wherewith he treateth other men and saints; but useth me with great rigour, and by his sovereign power punisheth me sorely, without discovering to me what singular cause I have given him to do so.

Job 27:2

2 As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexedb my soul;