This deliberate purpose expresses what was really the character of the man, though occasionally, when he became impatient, he gave utterance to different sentiments and feelings. This was spoken in Job's better moments, and was his deliberate and prevailing intention. Such was the extent of his sufferings, that he had reason to suppose that they would terminate in death and yet notwithstanding this, it was his fixed purpose to confide in God compare the notes at Job 19:25-27. It means merely that Job was determined to maintain his cause and defend his character, though his sufferings should be so increased that life would be the forfeit. It has no reference to punishment in the future world, or to the death of the soul. If in maintaining my own cause, and showing that I am not a hypocrite Job 13:16, it should so happen that my sufferings should be so increased that I should die, yet I will do it.' The word 'slay,' or 'kill,' here refers to temporal death. I see that I may be exposed to increased calamities, yet I am willing to meet them. Before him - Hebrew, אל פניו, el panaiv, before his face, in his presence, or before his tribunal, for I desire no other judge but him.īarnes' Notes on the BibleThough he slay me - 'God may so multiply my sorrows and pains that I cannot survive them. And, what I have done amiss, I will as freely confess, and make supplication to my Judge for the pardon of it.

Hebrew, I will argue, prove, or demonstrate my ways that is, I will make a free and full confession of the whole course of my life, and I will boldly, though submissively, assert my own integrity, which he also, I doubt not, will acknowledge. But I will maintain mine own ways - Though I trust in him, yet I will humbly expostulate the matter with him. Though he slay me - But though God should yet more and more increase my torments, so that I could bear them no longer, but should perceive myself to be at the point of death, without any hope of recovery yet will I trust in him - Or, more exactly according to the Hebrew text, Shall I not trust in him? Shall I despair? No I will not, I know he is a just, a faithful, and merciful God and he knows that my heart is upright before him, and that I am no hypocrite.

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