Job 19:3
Ten — Many times. A certain number for an uncertain. Strange — That you carry yourselves like strangers to me, and condemn me as if you had never known my integrity.... [ Continue Reading ]
Ten — Many times. A certain number for an uncertain. Strange — That you carry yourselves like strangers to me, and condemn me as if you had never known my integrity.... [ Continue Reading ]
Erred — If I have sinned, I myself suffer for my sins, and therefore deserve your pity rather than reproaches.... [ Continue Reading ]
Cry — Unto God. Wrong — That I am oppressed by my friends.... [ Continue Reading ]
Glory — Of my estate, children, authority, and all my comforts. Crown — All my power, and laid my honour in the dust.... [ Continue Reading ]
Every side — In all respects, my person, and family, and estate. Gone — I am a lost and dead man. Hope — All my hopes of the present life, but not of the life to come. Tree — Which being once plucked up by the roots, never grows again. Hope in this life is a perishing thing. But the hope of good men... [ Continue Reading ]
Troops — My afflictions, which are God's soldiers marching under his conduct. Raise — Cast up a trench round about me.... [ Continue Reading ]
Estranged — As we must eye the hand of God, in all the injuries we receive from our enemies, so likewise in all the slights and unkindnesses we receive from our friends.... [ Continue Reading ]
Maids — Who by reason of their sex, commonly have more compassionate hearts than men.... [ Continue Reading ]
Arose — From my seat, to shew my respect to them, though they were my inferiors.... [ Continue Reading ]
Inward — My intimates and confidants, to whom I imparted all my thoughts and counsels.... [ Continue Reading ]
Skin — Immediately, the fat and flesh next to the skin being consumed. As — As closely as it doth to these remainders of flesh which are left in my inward parts.... [ Continue Reading ]
Touched me — My spirit is touched with a sense of his wrath, a calamity of all others the most grievous.... [ Continue Reading ]
As God — As if you had the same infinite knowledge which God hath, whereby you can search my heart and know my hypocrisy, and the same sovereign authority to say and do what you please with me. Not satisfied — Are like wolves or lions that are not contented with devouring the flesh of their prey, bu... [ Continue Reading ]
My words — The words which I am now about to speak. And that which Job wished for, God granted him. His words are written in God's book; so that wherever that book is read, there shall this glorious confession be declared, for a memorial of him.... [ Continue Reading ]
Lead — Anciently they used to grave the letters in a stone with an iron tool, and then to fill up the cuts with lead, that the words might be more plainly seen.... [ Continue Reading ]
For — This is the reason of his confidence in the goodness of his cause, and his willingness to have the matter depending between him and his friends, published and submitted to any trial, because he had a living and powerful Redeemer to plead his cause, and to give sentence for him. My Redeemer — I... [ Continue Reading ]
Though — Though my skin is now in a great measure consumed, and the rest of it, together with this body, shall be devoured by the worms, which may seem to make my case desperate. Flesh — Or with bodily eyes; my flesh or body being raised from the grave, and re — united to my soul. God — The same who... [ Continue Reading ]
See — No wonder he repeats it again, because the meditation of it was most sweet to him. For — For my own benefit and comfort. Another — For me or in my stead. I shall not see God by another's eyes, but by my own, and by these self — same eyes, in this same body which now I have. Though — This I do... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore — Because my faith and hope are in God. The root — The root denotes, a root of true religion. And the root of all true religion is living faith.... [ Continue Reading ]
Sword — Of some considerable judgment to be inflicted on you which is called the sword, as Deuteronomy 32:41, and elsewhere. That — This admonition I give you, that you may know it in time, and prevent it. A judgment — God sees and observes, and will judge all your words and actions.... [ Continue Reading ]