18 Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
18 Now that I have prepared my case, I know I will be vindicated.
18 Behold, I have prepared my case; I know that I shall be in the right.
18 Now that I've laid out my defense, I'm sure that I'll be acquitted.
18 See now, I have prepared my case, I know that I shall be vindicated.
18 I have prepared my case; I will be proved innocent.
26 Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.
26 Review the past for me, let us argue the matter together; state the case for your innocence.
26 Put me in remembrance; let us argue together; set forth your case, that you may be proved right.
26 "So, make your case against me. Let's have this out. Make your arguments. Prove you're in the right.
26 Put Me in remembrance; Let us contend together; State your case, that you may be acquitted.
26 Let us review the situation together, and you can present your case to prove your innocence.
(Read Isaiah 43:22-28)
Those who neglect to call upon God, are weary of him. The Master tired not the servants with his commands, but they tired him with disobedience. What were the riches of God's mercy toward them? I, even I, am he who yet blotteth out thy transgressions. This encourages us to repent, because there is forgiveness with God, and shows the freeness of Divine mercy. When God forgives, he forgets. It is not for any thing in us, but for his mercies' sake, his promise' sake; especially for his Son's sake. He is pleased to reckon it his honour. Would man justify himself before God? The attempt is desperate: our first father broke the covenant, and we all have copied his example. We have no reason to expect pardon, except we seek it by faith in Christ; and that is always attended by true repentance, and followed by newness of life, by hatred of sin, and love to God. Let us then put him in remembrance of the promises he has made to the penitent, and the satisfaction his Son has made for them. Plead these with him in wrestling for pardon; and declare these things, that thou mayest be justified freely by his grace. This is the only way, and it is a sure way to peace.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 13:18
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.