Chapter 3:
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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 3
Concise Complete
Job complains that he was born. (1-10) Job complaining.
(11-19) He complains of his life. (20-26)
Verses 1-10 For seven
days Job's friends sat by him in silence, without offering consolidation: at the
same time Satan assaulted his mind to shake his confidence, and to fill him with
hard thoughts of God. The permission seems to have extended to this, as well as
to torturing the body. Job was an especial type of Christ, whose inward
sufferings, both in the garden and on the cross, were the most dreadful; and
arose in a great degree from the assaults of Satan in that hour of darkness.
These inward trials show the reason of the change that took place in Job's
conduct, from entire submission to the will of God, to the impatience which
appears here, and in other parts of the book. The believer, who knows that a few
drops of this bitter cup are more dreadful than the sharpest outward
afflictions, while he is favoured with a sweet sense of the love and presence of
God, will not be surprised to find that Job proved a man of like passions with
others; but will rejoice that Satan was disappointed, and could not prove him a
hypocrite; for though he cursed the day of his birth, he did not curse his God.
Job doubtless was afterwards ashamed of these wishes, and we may suppose what
must be his judgment of them now he is in everlasting happiness.
Verses 11-19 Job
complained of those present at his birth, for their tender attention to him. No
creature comes into the world so helpless as man. God's power and providence
upheld our frail lives, and his pity and patience spared our forfeited lives.
Natural affection is put into parents' hearts by God. To desire to die that we
may be with Christ, that we may be free from sin, is the effect and evidence of
grace; but to desire to die, only that we may be delivered from the troubles of
this life, savours of corruption. It is our wisdom and duty to make the best of
that which is, be it living or dying; and so to live to the Lord, and die to the
Lord, as in both to be his,
romans 14:8. Observe how
Job describes the repose of the grave; There the wicked cease from troubling.
When persecutors die, they can no longer persecute. There the weary are at rest:
in the grave they rest from all their labours. And a rest from sin, temptation,
conflict, sorrows, and labours, remains in the presence and enjoyment of God.
There believers rest in Jesus, nay, as far as we trust in the Lord Jesus and
obey him, we here find rest to our souls, though in the world we have
tribulation.
Verses 20-26 Job was
like a man who had lost his way, and had no prospect of escape, or hope of
better times. But surely he was in an ill frame for death when so unwilling to
live. Let it be our constant care to get ready for another world, and then leave
it to God to order our removal thither as he thinks fit. Grace teaches us in the
midst of life's greatest comforts, to be willing to die, and in the midst of its
greatest crosses, to be willing to live. Job's way was hid; he knew not
wherefore God contended with him. The afflicted and tempted Christian knows
something of this heaviness; when he has been looking too much at the things
that are seen, some chastisement of his heavenly Father will give him a taste of
this disgust of life, and a glance at these dark regions of despair. Nor is
there any help until God shall restore to him the joys of his salvation. Blessed
be God, the earth is full of his goodness, though full of man's wickedness. This
life may be made tolerable if we attend to our duty. We look for eternal mercy,
if willing to receive Christ as our Saviour.
Chapter 3:
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