22 Then summon me and I will answer, or let me speak, and you reply to me.
22 Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.
22 Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and you reply to me.
22 Second, address me directly so I can answer you, or let me speak and then you answer me.
22 Then call, and I will answer; Or let me speak, then You respond to me.
22 Now summon me, and I will answer! Or let me speak to you, and you reply.
23 "Oh, that my words were recorded, that they were written on a scroll,
23 Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
23 "Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
23 "If only my words were written in a book -
23 "Oh, that my words were written! Oh, that they were inscribed in a book!
23 "Oh, that my words could be recorded. Oh, that they could be inscribed on a monument,
(Read Job 19:23-29)
The Spirit of God, at this time, seems to have powerfully wrought on the mind of Job. Here he witnessed a good confession; declared the soundness of his faith, and the assurance of his hope. Here is much of Christ and heaven; and he that said such things are these, declared plainly that he sought the better country, that is, the heavenly. Job was taught of God to believe in a living Redeemer; to look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come; he comforted himself with the expectation of these. Job was assured, that this Redeemer of sinners from the yoke of Satan and the condemnation of sin, was his Redeemer, and expected salvation through him; and that he was a living Redeemer, though not yet come in the flesh; and that at the last day he would appear as the Judge of the world, to raise the dead, and complete the redemption of his people. With what pleasure holy Job enlarges upon this! May these faithful sayings be engraved by the Holy Spirit upon our hearts. We are all concerned to see that the root of the matter be in us. A living, quickening, commanding principle of grace in the heart, is the root of the matter; as necessary to our religion as the root of the tree, to which it owes both its fixedness and its fruitfulness. Job and his friends differed concerning the methods of Providence, but they agreed in the root of the matter, the belief of another world.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 13:22
Commentary on Job 13:13-22
(Read Job 13:13-22)
Job resolved to cleave to the testimony his own conscience gave of his uprightness. He depended upon God for justification and salvation, the two great things we hope for through Christ. Temporal salvation he little expected, but of his eternal salvation he was very confident; that God would not only be his Saviour to make him happy, but his salvation, in the sight and enjoyment of whom he should be happy. He knew himself not to be a hypocrite, and concluded that he should not be rejected. We should be well pleased with God as a Friend, even when he seems against us as an enemy. We must believe that all shall work for good to us, even when all seems to make against us. We must cleave to God, yea, though we cannot for the present find comfort in him. In a dying hour, we must derive from him living comforts; and this is to trust in him, though he slay us.