Chapter 2:
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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 2
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Satan obtains leave to try Job. (1-6) Job's sufferings.
(7-10) His friends come to comfort him. (11-13)
1-6. How well is it for us, that neither men nor devils are to
be our judges! but all our judgment comes from the Lord, who never errs. Job
holds fast his integrity still, as his weapon. God speaks with pleasure of the
power of his own grace. Self-love and self-preservation are powerful in the
hearts of men. But Satan accuses Job, representing him as wholly selfish, and
minding nothing but his own ease and safety. Thus are the ways and people of God
often falsely blamed by the devil and his agents. Permission is granted to Satan
to make trial, but with a limit. If God did not chain up the roaring lion, how
soon would he devour us! Job, thus slandered by Satan, was a type of Christ, the
first prophecy of whom was, that Satan should bruise his heel, and be foiled.
Verses 7-10 The devil
tempts his own children, and draws them to sin, and afterwards torments, when he
has brought them to ruin; but this child of God he tormented with affliction,
and then tempted to make a bad use of his affliction. He provoked Job to curse
God. The disease was very grievous. If at any time we are tried with sore and
grievous distempers, let us not think ourselves dealt with otherwise than as God
sometimes deals with the best of his saints and servants. Job humbled himself
under the mighty hand of God, and brought his mind to his condition. His wife
was spared to him, to be a troubler and tempter to him. Satan still endeavours
to draw men from God, as he did our first parents, by suggesting hard thoughts
of Him, than which nothing is more false. But Job resisted and overcame the
temptation. Shall we, guilty, polluted, worthless creatures, receive so many
unmerited blessings from a just and holy God, and shall we refuse to accept the
punishment of our sins, when we suffer so much less than we deserve? Let
murmuring, as well as boasting, be for ever done away. Thus far Job stood the
trial, and appeared brightest in the furnace of affliction. There might be
risings of corruption in his heart, but grace had the upper hand.
Verses 11-13 The
friends of Job seem noted for their rank, as well as for wisdom and piety. Much
of the comfort of this life lies in friendship with the prudent and virtuous.
Coming to mourn with him, they vented grief which they really felt. Coming to
comfort him, they sat down with him. It would appear that they suspected his
unexampled troubles were judgments for some crimes, which he had vailed under
his professions of godliness. Many look upon it only as a compliment to visit
their friends in sorrow; we must look life. And if the example of Job's friends
is not enough to lead us to pity the afflicted, let us seek the mind that was in
Christ.
Chapter 2:
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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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