| Job 27:2
| As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment, and the Almighty, who hath brought my soul to bitterness,
| Judgment. Chaldean, "my rule of judging." Septuagint, "Live the Lord, who hath judged me thus." Symmachus, "hath despised my judgment." The expression seems very harsh, and may be one of those which God blames. (Job 40:3.) (Estius) (Calmet) --- Yet we shall examine that point later, (Job 42.) (Haydock) --- He may only mean that he is so well convinced of his innocence, that he calls God to witness it, (Calmet) and adores his ways, (Haydock) in not permitting him to appear before his tribunal, (Calmet) to justify himself; (Menochius) so the he is abandoned to the rash judgments of others, (Job 34:5.) Isaias and Sophonias speak in similar terms. (Isaias 40:27.; and Sophonias 3:15.) (Calmet) --- God deferred passing sentence, for Job's greater trial. (Worthington)
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