| Geneva Study Bible {d} There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge. (d) When he of his mercy has given strength to maintain their cause. Wesley's Notes 23:7 There - At that throne of grace, where God lays aside his majesty, and judges according to his wonted clemency. Dispute - Humbly propounding the grounds of their confidence. So - Upon such a fair and equal hearing. Delivered - From the damnatory sentence of God. This and some such expressions of Job cannot be excused from irreverence towards God, for which God afterwards reproves him, and Job abhorreth himself. Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 7. There-rather, "Then": if God would "attend" to me (Job 23:6). righteous-that is, the result of my dispute would be, He would acknowledge me as righteous. delivered-from suspicion of guilt on the part of my Judge. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 23:1-7 Job appeals from his friends to the just judgement of God. He wants to have his cause tried quickly. Blessed be God, we may know where to find him. He is in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself; and upon a mercy-seat, waiting to be gracious. Thither the sinner may go; and there the believer may order his cause before Him, with arguments taken from his promises, his covenant, and his glory. A patient waiting for death and judgment is our wisdom and duty, and it cannot be without a holy fear and trembling. A passionate wishing for death or judgement is our sin and folly, and ill becomes us, as it did Job. | 
