Job 42:6

     6. myself—rather "I abhor," and retract the rash speeches I made against thee (Job 42:3, 4) [UMBREIT].

     Job 42:7-17. EPILOGUE, in prose.

Ezekiel 20:43

     43. there—not merely in exile when suffering punishment which makes even reprobates sorry for sin, but when received into favor in your own land.

      remember— (Eze 16:61, 63). The humiliation of Judah (Ne 9:1-38) is a type of the future penitence of the whole nation (Ho 5:15; 6:1; Zec 12:10-14). God's goodness realized by the sinner is the only thing that leads to true repentance (Ho 3:5; Lu 7:37, 38).

Ezekiel 36:31

     31. remember your . . . evil ways—with shame and loathing. The unexpected grace and love of God, manifested in Christ to Israel, shall melt the people into true repentance, which mere legal fear could not (Eze 16:61, 63; Ps 130:4; Zec 12:10; compare Jer 33:8, 9).

1 Corinthians 11:31

     31. if we would judge ourselves—Most of the oldest manuscripts, read "But," not "For." Translate also literally "If we duly judged ourselves, we should not be (or not have been) judged," that is, we should escape (or have escaped) our present judgments. In order to duly judge or "discern [appreciate] the Lord's body," we need to "duly judge ourselves." A prescient warning against the dogma of priestly absolution after full confession, as the necessary preliminary to receiving the Lord's Supper.

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