Job’s Friends Are No Help

      1Then Job answered,

2“Oh that my grief were actually weighed
         And laid in the balances together with my calamity!

3“For then it would be heavier than the sand of the seas;
         Therefore my words have been rash.

4“For the arrows of the Almighty are within me,
         Their poison my spirit drinks;
         The terrors of God are arrayed against me.

5“Does the wild donkey bray over his grass,
         Or does the ox low over his fodder?

6“Can something tasteless be eaten without salt,
         Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

7“My soul refuses to touch them;
         They are like loathsome food to me.

8“Oh that my request might come to pass,
         And that God would grant my longing!

9“Would that God were willing to crush me,
         That He would loose His hand and cut me off!

10“But it is still my consolation,
         And I rejoice in unsparing pain,
         That I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

11“What is my strength, that I should wait?
         And what is my end, that I should endure?

12“Is my strength the strength of stones,
         Or is my flesh bronze?

13“Is it that my help is not within me,
         And that deliverance is driven from me?

14“For the despairing man there should be kindness from his friend;
         So that he does not forsake the fear of the Almighty.

15“My brothers have acted deceitfully like a wadi,
         Like the torrents of wadis which vanish,

16Which are turbid because of ice
         And into which the snow melts.

17“When they become waterless, they are silent,
         When it is hot, they vanish from their place.

18“The paths of their course wind along,
         They go up into nothing and perish.

19“The caravans of Tema looked,
         The travelers of Sheba hoped for them.

20“They were disappointed for they had trusted,
         They came there and were confounded.

21“Indeed, you have now become such,
         You see a terror and are afraid.

22“Have I said, ‘Give me something,’
         Or, ‘Offer a bribe for me from your wealth,’

23Or, ‘Deliver me from the hand of the adversary,’
         Or, ‘Redeem me from the hand of the tyrants’?

24“Teach me, and I will be silent;
         And show me how I have erred.

25“How painful are honest words!
         But what does your argument prove?

26“Do you intend to reprove my words,
         When the words of one in despair belong to the wind?

27“You would even cast lots for the orphans
         And barter over your friend.

28“Now please look at me,
         And see if I lie to your face.

29“Desist now, let there be no injustice;
         Even desist, my righteousness is yet in it.

30“Is there injustice on my tongue?
         Cannot my palate discern calamities?

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And Job answereth and saith: -- July 12 Evening
Let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works.--HEB. 10:24. How forcible are right words!--I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance. They that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name.--If two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. …
Anonymous—Daily Light on the Daily Path

Of Sufferings
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Madame Guyon—A Short and Easy Method of Prayer

"Now the God of Hope Fill You with all Joy and Peace in Believing," &C.
Rom. xv. 13.--"Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing," &c. It is usual for the Lord in his word to turn his precepts unto promises, which shows us, that the commandments of God do not so much import an ability in us, or suppose strength to fulfil them, as declare that obligation which lies upon us, and his purpose and intention to accomplish in some, what he requires of all: and therefore we should accordingly convert all his precepts unto prayers, seeing he hath made …
Hugh Binning—The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning

"Thou Shall Keep Him in Perfect Peace, Whose Mind is Stayed on Thee, Because He Trusteth in Thee. "
Isaiah xxvi. 3.--"Thou shall keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee, because he trusteth in thee." Christ hath left us his peace, as the great and comprehensive legacy, "My peace I leave you," John xiv. 27. And this was not peace in the world that he enjoyed; you know what his life was, a continual warfare; but a peace above the world, that passeth understanding. "In the world you shall have trouble, but in me you shall have peace," saith Christ,--a peace that shall make trouble …
Hugh Binning—The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning

The Holiness of God
The next attribute is God's holiness. Exod 15:51. Glorious in holiness.' Holiness is the most sparkling jewel of his crown; it is the name by which God is known. Psa 111:1. Holy and reverend is his name.' He is the holy One.' Job 6:60. Seraphims cry, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts, the whole earth is full of his glory.' Isa 6:6. His power makes him mighty, his holiness makes him glorious. God's holiness consists in his perfect love of righteousness, and abhorrence of evil. Of purer eyes than …
Thomas Watson—A Body of Divinity

The Sinner Stripped of his Vain Pleas.
1, 2. The vanity of those pleas which sinners may secretly confide in, is so apparent that they will be ashamed at last to mention them before God.--3. Such as, that they descended from pious us parents.--4. That they had attended to the speculative part of religion.--5. That they had entertained sound notion..--6, 7. That they had expressed a zealous regard to religion, and attended the outward forms of worship with those they apprehended the purest churches.--8. That they had been free from gross …
Philip Doddridge—The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul

Joy
'The fruit of the Spirit is joy.' Gal 5:52. The third fruit of justification, adoption, and sanctification, is joy in the Holy Ghost. Joy is setting the soul upon the top of a pinnacle - it is the cream of the sincere milk of the word. Spiritual joy is a sweet and delightful passion, arising from the apprehension and feeling of some good, whereby the soul is supported under present troubles, and fenced against future fear. I. It is a delightful passion. It is contrary to sorrow, which is a perturbation …
Thomas Watson—A Body of Divinity

A Solemn Address to those who Will not be Persuaded to Fall in with the Design of the Gospel.
1. Universal success not to be expected.--2-4. Yet, as unwilling absolutely to give up any, the author addresses thou who doubt the truth of Christianity, urging an inquiry into its evidences, and directing to prayer methods for that purpose.--5 Those who determine to give it up without further examination.--6. And presume to set themselves to oppose it.--7, 8. Those who speculatively assent to Christianity as true, and yet will sit down without any practical regard to its most important and acknowledged …
Philip Doddridge—The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul

"And we all do Fade as a Leaf, and Our Iniquities, Like the Wind, have Taken us Away. "
Isaiah lxiv. 6.--"And we all do fade as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away." Here they join the punishment with the deserving cause, their uncleanness and their iniquities, and so take it upon them, and subscribe to the righteousness of God's dealing. We would say this much in general--First, Nobody needeth to quarrel God for his dealing. He will always be justified when he is judged. If the Lord deal more sharply with you than with others, you may judge there is a difference …
Hugh Binning—The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning

Job
The book of Job is one of the great masterpieces of the world's literature, if not indeed the greatest. The author was a man of superb literary genius, and of rich, daring, and original mind. The problem with which he deals is one of inexhaustible interest, and his treatment of it is everywhere characterized by a psychological insight, an intellectual courage, and a fertility and brilliance of resource which are nothing less than astonishing. Opinion has been divided as to how the book should be …
John Edgar McFadyen—Introduction to the Old Testament

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