Chapter 16:
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Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 Esther Psalms
Job 16
Concise Complete
Job reproves his friends. (1-5) He represents his case as
deplorable. (6-16) Job maintains his innocency. (17-22)
Verses 1-5 Eliphaz
had represented Job's discourses as unprofitable, and nothing to the purpose;
Job here gives his the same character. Those who pass censures, must expect to
have them retorted; it is easy, it is endless, but what good does it do? Angry
answers stir up men's passions, but never convince their judgments, nor set
truth in a clear light. What Job says of his friends is true of all creatures,
in comparison with God; one time or other we shall be made to see and own that
miserable comforters are they all. When under convictions of sin, terrors of
conscience, or the arrests of death, only the blessed Spirit can comfort
effectually; all others, without him, do it miserably, and to no purpose.
Whatever our brethren's sorrows are, we ought by sympathy to make them our own;
they may soon be so.
Verses 6-16 Here is
a doleful representation of Job's grievances. What reason we have to bless God,
that we are not making such complaints! Even good men, when in great troubles,
have much ado not to entertain hard thoughts of God. Eliphaz had represented Job
as unhumbled under his affliction: No, says Job, I know better things; the dust
is now the fittest place for me. In this he reminds us of Christ, who was a man
of sorrows, and pronounced those blessed that mourn, for they shall be
comforted.
Verses 17-22 Job's
condition was very deplorable; but he had the testimony of his conscience for
him, that he never allowed himself in any gross sin. No one was ever more ready
to acknowledge sins of infirmity. Eliphaz had charged him with hypocrisy in
religion, but he specifies prayer, the great act of religion, and professes that
in this he was pure, though not from all infirmity. He had a God to go to, who
he doubted not took full notice of all his sorrows. Those who pour out tears
before God, though they cannot plead for themselves, by reason of their defects,
have a Friend to plead for them, even the Son of man, and on him we must ground
all our hopes of acceptance with God. To die, is to go the way whence we shall
not return. We must all of us, very certainly, and very shortly, go this
journey. Should not then the Saviour be precious to our souls? And ought we not
to be ready to obey and to suffer for his sake? If our consciences are sprinkled
with his atoning blood, and testify that we are not living in sin or hypocrisy,
when we go the way whence we shall not return, it will be a release from prison,
and an entrance into everlasting happiness.
Chapter 16:
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Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 Esther Psalms
Genesis
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Numbers
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