“Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.”
Job asserts that even if he were righteous, he could not answer God; he would have to plead for mercy, suggesting that even innocence provides no standing before divine power. The distinction between righteousness and mercy reveals that before God, even the righteous are dependent upon unmerited favor. The impossibility of argumentation even from a position of innocence becomes clear.
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