Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will defend my own ways before him.
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Ephrem The Syrian
AD 373
These words mean, “Even if he kills me, I will support myself with my hope and faith in him.” O admirable man, who, being destined to be killed, praises his killer and looks at him. Indeed Job knew that if he had taken away his life, the same one who is the Lord of Abraham, would have given it back to him. He believed that God was able to make alive those who had died. - "Commentary on Job 13.15"
In him. Hebrew lu is read, though lo, "not "is written in the Hebrew text. (Haydock)
Protestants, follow the sense of the Vulgate, and Junius comes to the same, as he reads lo with an interrogation: "Should I not hope in him? "Luther and the Belgic version go astray: "Behold he shall kill me, and I cannot expect "or hope; I am resolved to die: which words indicate "extreme impatience. "(Amama)
Septuagint, "If the powerful (or Lord) lay before him "The words not and you are thus placed in Grabe's edition. (Haydock)
Ways. I do not pretend that I am quite blameless. (Calmet)
Protestants, "I will maintain (Marginal note: prove, or argue) mine own ways before him. "(Haydock)
I will hope, like Abraham, even against hope, to show that I am not actuated by despair: yet I will continue to declare my innocence, ver. 16. (Tirinus)
48. Whereas Paul the Apostle saith; For, if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged, [1 Cor. 11, 31] the Lord is found to be our ‘Salvation’ Then, in proportion as our sin is now rebuked by ourselves, from fear of God. Whence the Elect are used never to spare their own sins, that they may find the Judge of sin rendered propitious; and they look to find Him hereafter truly their ‘Salvation,’ Whom they now strictly fear as their Judge. For, he that spareth himself now in sin, is not spared hereafter in punishment, So let him say, But I will rebuke mine own ways before Him. And what use and advantage results from such rebuking.
