Behold now, I have ordered [my] cause; I know that I shall be justified.
Ver. 18. Behold now, I have ordered my cause] Heb. My judgment. He had spoken before of his declaration, which is conceived to be a term of law; for in law suits, the plaintiff putteth in a declaration of his grievance. Job had his declaration ready drawn, and craved audience; he asketh afterwards, Who will plead with me? and here in the like language he telleth us that he had ordered his cause, he had marshalled and methodized his arguments, he had set and stated the controversy. Lo, here I stand ready prepared to plead, and am confident I shall prevail.
I know that I shall be justified] That is, I am persuaded, or, I am sure, as Romans 8:38, I believe and I know, as John 6:69, sc. with a fiducial knowledge, that I shall be justified, sc. from my sins, by Christ's righteousness imputed (yea, that I am so already, and that for ever; for peccata non redeunt, discharges in justification are not repealed or called in again), and that I shall depart from God's bar acquitted in this particular controversy. And so he did; for God justified Job, and reproved his three friends, Job 42:7-8