Should I lie against my right? my wound [is] incurable without transgression.
Ver. 6. Should I lie against my right?] Ut meam causam prodam, so as to betray my cause, and yield myself guilty when I know myself innocent (R. Levi). This I will never do, said Job; no more would that peerless Lady Elizabeth, when as a traitor she was laid up in the Tower, and pressed to appeach herself. Better die than lie.
My wound is incurable without transgression] These last words, "without transgression," Elihu spitefully thrusteth in, saith Beza. Others think they may be gathered out of Job 9:17; Job 16:17. Without presumptuous sin (which David calleth the great transgression, the wickedness with a witness) Job might truly say, it may be; for all men are sinners, yet not all alike; though all have a discrasy, yet every man hath not a fever; and though none are without ill humours, yet some have not a leprosy upon them.