CONTENTS
In the former Chapter we find Satan tempting Job, in some very heavy
and trying afflictions of Job's family and circumstances; and Job
triumphant. In this Chapter we have the adversary making a further
attack, in his violent assault upon Job's person. To add to the poor
man's affliction, h... [ Continue Reading ]
(2) And the LORD said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And Satan
answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and
from walking up and down in it. (3) 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... [ Continue Reading ]
(7) В¶ So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote
Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown. (8) And
he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among
the ashes.
Everything tended to aggravate Job's affliction, because added to the
sores of... [ Continue Reading ]
(9) Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine
integrity? curse God, and die. (10) But he said unto her, Thou
speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive
good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this
did not Job sin with his lips.
The te... [ Continue Reading ]
(11) В¶ Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was
come upon him, they came everyone from his own place; Eliphaz the
Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they
had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to
comfort him.
There is somewha... [ Continue Reading ]
(12) And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not,
they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent everyone his
mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.
What a finished picture of human misery is here drawn! when our Lord
Jesus Christ was in his agony in the g... [ Continue Reading ]
(13) So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven
nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief
was very great.
I venture to suppose that this seventh day here spoken of, in which it
should seem an interruption was given to the long silence, was in
respect to... [ Continue Reading ]