Verse 2To - day - Even at this time, notwithstanding all your pretended consolations. Stroke - The hand or stroke of God upon me. Groaning - Doth exceed my complaints. Verse 5Know - If he should discover to me any secret sins, for which he contendeth with me, I would humble myself before him, and accept of the punishment of mine iniquity. Verse 6No - He would not use his power against me, but for me; by enabling me to plead my cause, and giving sentence according to that clemency, which he uses towards his children. Verse 7There - At that throne of grace, where God lays aside his majesty, and judges according to his wonted clemency. Dispute - Humbly propounding the grounds of their confidence. So - Upon such a fair and equal hearing. Delivered - From the damnatory sentence of God. This and some such expressions of Job cannot be excused from irreverence towards God, for which God afterwards reproves him, and Job abhorreth himself. Verse 8Is not - As a judge to hear and determine my causes, otherwise he knew God was essentially present in all places. Verse 10Gold - Which comes out of the furnace pure from all dross. Verse 11Steps - The steps or paths which God hath appointed men to walk in. Verse 14Performeth - Those calamities which he hath allotted to me. And - There are many such examples of God's proceeding with men. Verse 16Soft - He hath bruised, and broken, or melted it, so that I have no spirit in me. Verse 17Because - God did not cut me off by death. Before - These miseries came upon me. Covered - By hiding me in the grave.