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Difficulties of translation very great. We prefer a candid reading to one
which might be obtained by pious fraud. It would seem that Job, driven
to desperation, fell back upon the truth and justice of God. He declared
that he should be vindicated somehow or other, and even if he died
there would certainly come a rectification after death. He could not
believe that he would be left to remain under the slanderous
accusations which had been heaped upon him He was driven by his
solemn assurance of the justice and faithfulness of God to believe in a
future state, and in a Vindicator who would one day or other set crooked
things straight. We may use the words in the most complete evangelical
sense, and not be guilty of straining them; indeed, no other sense will
fairly set forth the patriarch's meaning. From what other hope could he
obtain consolation but from that of future life and glory?