Job 38:31 Can you bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? My text called Job and calls us to consider "the sweet influences." We put too much emphasis upon the acidities of life, upon the irritations of life, upon the disappointments of life. Ammianus Marcellinus said that Chaldea was, in olden times, overrun with lions, but many of them lost their power because the great swamps produced many gnats, that would get into the eyes of the lions, and the lions, to free themselves of the gnats, would claw their own eyes out, and then starve. And in our time many a lion has been over. come by a gnat. The little, stinging annoyances of life keep us from appreciating the sweet influences. And how many of these last there are t Sweet influences of home, sweet influences of the wife of friendship, of our holy religion. Of all the sweet influences that have ever blessed the earth those that radiate from Christ are the sweetest. (T. De Witt Talmage.) Parallel Verses KJV: Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?WEB: "Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loosen the cords of Orion? |
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