_Miserable comforters are ye all._ MISERABLE COMFORTERS They are but sorry comforters who, being confounded with the sight of the afflicted’s trouble, do grate upon their (real or supposed) guilt, weaken the testimony of their good conscience that they may stir them up to repent, and let them see... [ Continue Reading ]
_But now He hath made me weary._ WEARINESS UNDER AFFLICTION The word “he” is not in the original. Some understand it of his grief and sorrow, and read thus, “And now it hath made me weary,” or, my pain hath tired me. Others understand it of what had been spoken by his friends; your tedious discour... [ Continue Reading ]
_God hath delivered me to the ungodly._ TRACING ALL TO GOD But Job gets some notion of the reality of things when he traces all to God, saving, “God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.” I begin to feel that even the devil is but a black servant in God’... [ Continue Reading ]
_Not for any injustice in mine hands._ A GOOD MAN’S CONFIDENCE In these words Job delivers us-- 1. The confidence of a godly man. 2. That kind of infirm anguish and indignation, that half-distemper, that expostulation with God, which sometimes comes to an excess even in good and godly men. 3. T... [ Continue Reading ]
_When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return._ THE SHORTNESS OF HUMAN LIFE Doctrine--The coming in of a few new years will set us out of this world, never to return to it. I. In what respects we can have but few years to come. 1. In comparison of the many years t... [ Continue Reading ]