Job 9:16 If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had listened to my voice. It is hard to believe in that, some faint earnest of which we do not find in our own souls. A man cannot believe facts which are in the very teeth of his instinctive affinities and dispositions. The head hunters of Borneo would necessarily treat as fables the thousand and one humane institutions which are the products of Christian civilisation. A race of colour-blind barbarians, if such a race existed, would ridicule the idea of finding out the elements of which distant stars are fashioned by observing the bands and lines of colours disclosed by the spectroscope. There must be the beginning of vision in us if we are to receive the fairy tales of the microscopist and the astronomer. God can be made known to us only in these aspects in which we desire, however faintly, to be like Him. (T. G. Selby.) Parallel Verses KJV: If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.WEB: If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn't believe that he listened to my voice. |
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