Job 18:4,5

(4) He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place? (5) В¶ Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

What an unnecessary question or two, doth the Shuhite make use of here. Surely Job in desiring quietness and a deliverance from trouble and pain, had never intimated that he wished miracles to be wrought, in the accomplishment of the mercy he implored. But Reader! we shall lose the whole design and drift of what those three visitors of poor Job upon his dunghill, were intended for, if we lose sight of the LORD'S grace towards Job in the permission of those exercises, and the discomfiture of Satan, as was all along determined to be accomplished, in the issue of the attack. This the Reader should continue to recollect, as he passeth through the perusal of Job's history. The very outset of the business, from the charge of Satan, was to prove Job an hypocrite. And when the enemy's more immediate attack upon Job, on account of his substance and children was over; through the means of those mistaken friends, the enemy assaults him in those afflictions.