He also [shall be] my salvation
Job, though he asserted the integrity of his heart and life, yet
did not depend on his ways and works for salvation, but only on
the Lord himself; this is to be understood not of temporal
salvation, though God is the author of that, and it is only to be
had of him, yet Job had no hope concerning that; but of spiritual
and eternal salvation, which God the Father has contrived,
determined, and resolved on, and sent his Son to effect; which
Christ being sent is the author of by his obedience, sufferings,
and death; and in him, and in his name alone, is salvation; and
every soul, sensible of the insufficiency of himself and others
to save him, will resolve, as Job here, that he, and he only,
shall be his Saviour, who is an able, willing, and complete one;
see ( Hosea
14:3 ) ; and the words are expressive of faith of interest in
him. Job knew him to be his Saviour, and living Redeemer, and
would acknowledge no other; but claim his interest in him, now
and hereafter, and which was his greatest support under all his
troubles; see ( Job 19:26 Job 19:27 ) ( Psalms 27:1 ) ;
for an hypocrite shall not come before him;
a hypocrite may come into the house of God, and worship him
externally, and seem to be very devout and religious; and he
shall come before the tribunal of God, and stand at his bar, to
be tried and judged; but he shall not continue in the presence of
God, nor enjoy his favour, or he shall not be able to make his
cause good before him; and indeed he does not care to have
himself examined by him, nor shall he be saved everlastingly, but
undergo the most severe punishment, ( Matthew
24:51 ) . Job here either has respect to his friends, whom he
censures as hypocrites, and retorts the charge upon they brought
on him; or he has reference to that charge, and by this means
clears himself of it, since there was nothing he was more
desirous of than to refer his case to the decision of the
omniscient God, and righteous Judge; which if he was an hypocrite
he would never have done, since such can never stand so strict
and severe an examination.