Chapter 33:
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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 33
Concise Complete
Elihu offers to reason with Job. (1-7) Elihu blames Job for
reflecting upon God. (8-13) God calls men to repentance. (14-18) God sends
afflictions for good. (19-28) Elihu entreats Job's attention. (29-33)
Verses 1-7 Job had
desired a judge to decide his appeal. Elihu was one according to his wish, a man
like himself. If we would rightly convince men, it must be by reason, not by
terror; by fair argument, not by a heavy hand.
Verses 8-13 Elihu
charges Job with reflecting upon the justice and goodness of God. When we hear
any thing said to God's dishonour, we ought to bear our testimony against it.
Job had represented God as severe in marking what he did amiss. Elihu urges that
he had spoken wrong, and that he ought to humble himself before God, and by
repentance to unsay it. God is not accountable to us. It is unreasonable for
weak, sinful creatures, to strive with a God of infinite wisdom, power, and
goodness. He acts with perfect justice, wisdom, and goodness, where we cannot
perceive it.
Verses 14-18 God
speaks to us by conscience, by providences, and by ministers; of all these Elihu
discourses. There was not then, that we know of, any Divine revelation in
writing, though now it is our principal guide. When God designs men's good, by
the convictions and dictates of their own consciences, he opens the heart, as
Lydia's, and opens the ears, so that conviction finds or forces its way in. The
end and design of these admonitions are to keep men from sin, particularly the
sin of pride. While sinners are pursuing evil purposes, and indulging their
pride, their souls are hastening to destruction. That which turns men from sin,
saves them from hell. What a mercy it is to be under the restraints of an
awakened conscience!
Verses 19-28 Job
complained of his diseases, and judged by them that God was angry with him; his
friends did so too: but Elihu shows that God often afflicts the body for good to
the soul. This thought will be of great use for our getting good from sickness,
in and by which God speaks to men. Pain is the fruit of sin; yet, by the grace
of God, the pain of the body is often made a means of good to the soul. When
afflictions have done their work, they shall be removed. A ransom or
propitiation is found. Jesus Christ is the Messenger and the Ransom, so Elihu
calls him, as Job had called him his Redeemer, for he is both the Purchaser and
the Price, the Priest and the sacrifice. So high was the value of souls, that
nothing less would redeem them; and so great the hurt done by sin, that nothing
less would atone for it, than the blood of the Son of God, who gave his life a
ransom for many. A blessed change follows. Recovery from sickness is a mercy
indeed, when it proceeds from the remission of sin. All that truly repent of
their sins, shall find mercy with God. The works of darkness are unfruitful
works; all the gains of sin will come far short of the damage. We must, with a
broken and
1 john confess
the fact of sin; and not try to justify or excuse ourselves. We must confess the
fault of sin; I have perverted that which was right. We must confess the folly
of sin; So foolish have I been and ignorant. Is there not good reason why we
should make such a confession?
Verses 29-33 Elihu
shows that God's great and gracious design toward the children of men, is, to
save them from being for ever miserable, and to bring them to be for ever happy.
By whatever means we are kept back from the we shall bless the Lord for them at
least, and should bless him for them though they be painful and distressing.
Those that perish for ever are without excuse, for they would not be healed.
Chapter 33:
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