Verse 6
6. My heart shall not reproach My heart reproaches not one of my days. (Hitzig.) Job’s heart, rendered by Luther “conscience,” was, like the apostle’s, “void of offence.” “Friends” had charged him with secret sins as the source of his woes. He assures them, in the language of the Septuagint, “I am not conscious of having done wrong, ατοπα .” See sermon of Sydney Smith in loc., on “The Reproaches of the Heart.”
b. As an incidental confirmation of his righteousness, Job adduces his triumphant religious experience, and reasons that he who possesses such, cannot be as the wicked, Job 27:7-10.
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