CONTENTS The Book opens with an account of Job, his piety, riches, integrity, and religious care of his children. Next follows, an account of Satan's malice against Job, and his permission to tempt him. The Chapter closes with the melancholy relation of the death of his children, and the calmness o... [ Continue Reading ]
(2) And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters. (3) His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east. Here foll... [ Continue Reading ]
(4) В¶ And his sons went and feasted in their houses, everyone his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them. Though I am very ready to allow, that in those feasts of Job's children, there are certain amiable qualities worth remarking; such as the love which, as... [ Continue Reading ]
(5) And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job con... [ Continue Reading ]
(6) В¶ Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them. I cannot detain the Reader of this humble Commentary with a large and circumstantial account of what the scripture relates concerning the great enemy of souls, neither of the w... [ Continue Reading ]
(7) And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. (8) And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upri... [ Continue Reading ]
(13) В¶ And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house: (14) And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them: (15) And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they... [ Continue Reading ]
(20) В¶ Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped, (21) And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD. Job's renting his mant... [ Continue Reading ]
(22) In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly. See what a seal God the Holy Ghost hath put to the faith of Jobadiah Oh! who would not with Job rejoice in tribulations, if the issue of every trial had this blessed earnest of the Spirit? REFLECTIONS BEHOLD, Reader! that a reverse of cir... [ Continue Reading ]