Chapter 23:
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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 23
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Job complains that God has withdrawn. (1-7) He asserts his
own integrity. (8-12) The Divine terrors. (13-17)
Verses 1-7 Job
appeals from his friends to the just judgement of God. He wants to have his
cause tried quickly. Blessed be God, we may know where to find him. He is in
Christ, reconciling the world unto himself; and upon a mercy-seat, waiting to be
gracious. Thither the sinner may go; and there the believer may order his cause
before Him, with arguments taken from his promises, his covenant, and his glory.
A patient waiting for death and judgment is our wisdom and duty, and it cannot
be without a holy fear and trembling. A passionate wishing for death or
judgement is our sin and folly, and ill becomes us, as it did Job.
Verses 8-12 Job knew
that the Lord was every where present; but his mind was in such confusion, that
he could get no fixed view of God's merciful presence, so as to find comfort by
spreading his case before him. His views were all gloomy. God seemed to stand at
a distance, and frown upon him. Yet Job expressed his assurance that he should
be brought forth, tried, and approved, for he had obeyed the precepts of God. He
had relished and delighted in the truths and commandments of God. Here we should
notice that Job justified himself rather than God, or in opposition to him, ch.
32:2. Job might feel that he was clear from the charges of his friends, but
boldly to assert that, though visited by the hand of God, it was not a
chastisement of sin, was his error. And he is guilty of a second, when he denies
that there are dealings of Providence with men in this present life, wherein the
injured find redress, and the evil are visited for their sins.
Verses 13-17 As Job
does not once question but that his trials are from the hand of God, and that
there is no such thing as chance, how does he account for them? The principle on
which he views them is, that the hope and reward of the faithful servants of God
are only laid up in another life; and he maintains that it is plain to all, that
the wicked are not treated according to their deserts in this life, but often
directly the reverse. But though the obtaining of mercy, the first-fruits of the
Spirit of grace, pledges a God, who will certainly finish the work which he has
began; yet the afflicted believer is not to conclude that all prayer and
entreaty will be in vain, and that he should sink into despair, and faint when
he is reproved of Him. He cannot tell but the intention of God in afflicting him
may be to produce penitence and prayer in his heart. May we learn to obey and
trust the Lord, even in tribulation; to live or die as he pleases: we know not
for what good ends our lives may be shortened or prolonged.
Chapter 23:
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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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