Job 17 - Introduction
* Job appeals from man to God. (1-9) His hope is not in life, but in death. (10-16)... [ Continue Reading ]
* Job appeals from man to God. (1-9) His hope is not in life, but in death. (10-16)... [ Continue Reading ]
1-9 Job reflects upon the harsh censures his friends had passed upon him, and, looking on himself as a dying man, he appeals to God. Our time is ending. It concerns us carefully to redeem the days of time, and to spend them in getting ready for eternity. We see the good use the righteous should make... [ Continue Reading ]
10-16 Job's friends had pretended to comfort him with the hope of his return to a prosperous estate; he here shows that those do not go wisely about the work of comforting the afflicted, who fetch their comforts from the possibility of recovery in this world. It is our wisdom to comfort ourselves, a... [ Continue Reading ]