Job 16:1-3 Then Job answered and said,… He comes and says, "Why, this is what you ought to have expected. The laws of nature must have their way"; and then they get eloquent over something they have seen in post-mortem examinations. Now, away with all human philosophy at such times! What difference does it make to that father and mother what disease their son died of? He is dead, and it makes no difference whether the trouble was in the epigastric or hypogastric region. If the philosopher be of the stoical school, he will come and say, You ought to control your feelings. You must not cry so. You must cultivate a cooler temperament. You must have self-reliance, self-government, self-control" — an iceberg reproving a hyacinth for having a drop of dew in its eye. (T. De Witt Talmage.) Parallel Verses KJV: Then Job answered and said,WEB: Then Job answered, |
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