Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 15. In him. Hebrew lu is read, though lo, “not,” is written in the Hebrew text. Bible.—Protestants, and so forth follow the sense of the Vulgate, and Junius comes to the same, as he reads lo with an interrogation: “Should I not hope in him?” Luther and the Belgic version go astray: “Behold he shall kill me, and I cannot expect,” or hope; I am resolved to die: which words indicate “extreme impatience.” Amama.—Septuagint “If the powerful (or Lord) lay [not] hands on me, since it is commenced? No: but I shall speak and arraign [you] before him,” and so forth The words not and you are thus placed in Grabe’s edition. Bible.—Ways. I do not pretend that I am quite blameless. Calmet.—Prot. “I will maintain (Marg. prove or argue) mine own ways before him.” Bible.—I will hope, like Abraham, even against hope, to shew that I am not actuated by despair: yet I will continue to declare my innocence, verse 16. Tirinus.