Job 23:2
To — day — Even at this time, notwithstanding all your pretended consolations. Stroke — The hand or stroke of God upon me. Groaning — Doth exceed my complaints.... [ Continue Reading ]
To — day — Even at this time, notwithstanding all your pretended consolations. Stroke — The hand or stroke of God upon me. Groaning — Doth exceed my complaints.... [ Continue Reading ]
O — I desire nothing more than his acquaintance and presence; but alas, he hides his face from me. Seat — To his throne or judgment — seat to plead my cause before him.... [ Continue Reading ]
Know — If he should discover to me any secret sins, for which he contendeth with me, I would humble myself before him, and accept of the punishment of mine iniquity.... [ Continue Reading ]
No — He would not use his power against me, but for me; by enabling me to plead my cause, and giving sentence according to that clemency, which he uses towards his children.... [ Continue Reading ]
There — At that throne of grace, where God lays aside his majesty, and judges according to his wonted clemency. Dispute — Humbly propounding the grounds of their confidence. So — Upon such a fair and equal hearing. Delivered — From the damnatory sentence of God. This and some such expressions of Job... [ Continue Reading ]
Is not — As a judge to hear and determine my causes, otherwise he knew God was essentially present in all places.... [ Continue Reading ]
Gold — Which comes out of the furnace pure from all dross.... [ Continue Reading ]
Steps — The steps or paths which God hath appointed men to walk in.... [ Continue Reading ]
Performeth — Those calamities which he hath allotted to me. And — There are many such examples of God's proceeding with men.... [ Continue Reading ]
Soft — He hath bruised, and broken, or melted it, so that I have no spirit in me.... [ Continue Reading ]
Because — God did not cut me off by death. Before — These miseries came upon me. Covered — By hiding me in the grave.... [ Continue Reading ]