3. from afar--not trite commonplaces, but drawn from God's mighty
works.
ascribe righteousness--whereas Job ascribed unrighteousness
(Job 34:10, 12).
A man, in enquiring into God's ways, should at the outset
presume they are all just, be willing to find them so,
and expect that the result of investigation will prove them to
be so; such a one will never be disappointed [BARNES].
JFB.
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