_Then answered Bildad the Shuhite._ THE DANGER OF DENOUNCING WICKEDNESS How wonderfully well the three comforters painted the portrait of wickedness! Nothing can be added to their delineation of sin. Every touch is the touch of a master. If you would see what wickedness is, read the speeches which... [ Continue Reading ]
_Shall the earth be forsaken for thee?_ THE FOLLY OF DISCONTENT Some of Job’s friends said to him, “Shall the earth be forsaken for thee, and shall the rock be removed out of its place?” So I may say to every discontented, impatient heart, “What! shall the providence of God change its course for t... [ Continue Reading ]
_The light of the wicked shall be put out._ --The reference is to a lamp that was suspended from the ceiling. The Arabians are fond of this image. Thus they say, “Bad fortune has extinguished my lamp.” Of a man whose hopes are remarkably blasted, they say, “He is like a lamp which is immediately ext... [ Continue Reading ]
_His strength shall be hunger-bitten._ THE HUNGER-BITER I. A curse which will be fulfilled upon the ungodly. It is not said that they are hunger-bitten, but that their strength is so; and if their strength is hunger-bitten, what must their weakness be? When a man’s strength is bitten with hunger,... [ Continue Reading ]
_His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors._ THE CONFIDENCE OF THE WICKED The world understands by the word “wicked” one who offends against the law of conscience,--one who breaks the second table of the law, the only table which it thinks... [ Continue Reading ]