Job 13:18
If I shall be judged, I know that I shall be found just.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Si fuero judicatus, scio quod justus inveniar.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ ἐγγύς εἰμι τοῦ κρίματός μου, ⸂⸆⸃ οἶδα ἐγὼ ὅτι δίκαιος ἀναφανοῦμαι.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- הִנֵּה נָ֭א עָרַ֣כְתִּי מִשְׁפָּ֑ט יָ֝דַ֗עְתִּי כִּֽי אֲנִ֥י אֶצְדָּֽק
Haydock's commentary
Just. He was in extreme anguish, yet still trusted in God. (Worthington)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine A Treatise Concerning Man’s Perfection in Righteousness, To Be Without Sin, and to Be Without Blame, How Differing
The same thing is affirmed in another passage, which he has quoted immediately afterwards, as spoken by the same Job: “Behold, I am very near my judgment, and I know that I shall be found righteous.” Now this is the judgment of which it is said in another scripture: “And He shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.” But he does not say, I am already there; but, “I am very near.” If, indeed, the judgment of his which he meant was not that which he would himself exercise, but that whereby he was to be judged at the last day, then in such judgment all will be found righteous who with sincerity pray: “Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.” For it is through this forgiveness that they will be found righteous; on this account that whatever sins they have here incurred, they have blotted out by their deeds of charity. …