Chapter 19:
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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 19
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Job complains of unkind usage. (1-7) God was the Author of
his afflictions. (8-22) Job's belief in the resurrection. (23-29)
Verses 1-7 Job's
friends blamed him as a wicked man, because he was so afflicted; here he
describes their unkindness, showing that what they condemned was capable of
excuse. Harsh language from friends, greatly adds to the weight of afflictions:
yet it is best not to lay it to heart, lest we harbour resentment. Rather let us
look to Him who endured the contradiction of sinners against himself, and was
treated with far more cruelty than Job was, or we can be.
Verses 8-22 How
doleful are Job's complaints! What is the fire of hell but the wrath of God!
Seared consciences will feel it hereafter, but do not fear it now: enlightened
consciences fear it now, but shall not feel it hereafter. It is a very common
mistake to think that those whom God afflicts he treats as his enemies. Every
creature is that to us which God makes it to be; yet this does not excuse Job's
relations and friends. How uncertain is the friendship of men! but if God be our
Friend, he will not fail us in time of need. What little reason we have to
indulge the body, which, after all our care, is consumed by diseases it has in
itself. Job recommends himself to the compassion of his friends, and justly
blames their harshness. It is very distressing to one who loves God, to be
bereaved at once of outward comfort and of inward consolation; yet if this, and
more, come upon a believer, it does not weaken the proof of his being a child of
God and heir of glory.
Verses 23-29 The
Spirit of God, at this time, seems to have powerfully wrought on the mind of
Job. Here he witnessed a good confession; declared the soundness of his faith,
and the assurance of his hope. Here is much of Christ and heaven; and he that
said such things are these, declared plainly that he sought the better country,
that is, the heavenly. Job was taught of God to believe in a living Redeemer; to
look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come; he
comforted himself with the expectation of these. Job was assured, that this
Redeemer of sinners from the yoke of Satan and the condemnation of sin, was his
Redeemer, and expected salvation through him; and that he was a living Redeemer,
though not yet come in the flesh; and that at the last day he would appear as
the Judge of the world, to raise the dead, and complete the redemption of his
people. With what pleasure holy Job enlarges upon this! May these faithful
sayings be engraved by the Holy Spirit upon our hearts. We are all concerned to
see that the root of the matter be in us. A living, quickening, commanding
principle of grace in the heart, is the root of the matter; as necessary to our
religion as the root of the tree, to which it owes both its fixedness and its
fruitfulness. Job and his friends differed concerning the methods of Providence,
but they agreed in the root of the matter, the belief of another world.
Chapter 19:
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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
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