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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Will he plead against me with his great power? “If I were to go to God, and urge my suit with him, would he crush me with the might of his majesty? Would he overwhelm me with his omnipotence?” Job_23:6. no; but he would put strength in me. Such was Job’s faith in God, that he was sure he would rather help him than hinder him: “He would put...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wilt he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me. He has confidence in the Lord that, if he could have an audience with him, God would not use his power against him; but, on the contrary, would strengthen him in order that he might state his case. Do I speak to a troubled heart here? Come to God with your burden....
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
There the righteous might dispute with him,.... That is, at his seat, either at his mercy seat, where even God allows sinners to come and reason with him, for pardoning grace and mercy, upon the foot of his own declarations and promises, and the blood and sacrifice of his son, Isaiah 1:18; or at his judgment seat, pleading the righteousness of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge. Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him: On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him: But he knoweth the way that I take: “If I cannot...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
there the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge. Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; “I look to the future, I try to forecast the clays that are yet to come, but I cannot see God there.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge. Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him: On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him. Job had done his best to find his God. Forward,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Behold, I go forward, but he [is] not [there],.... Job here returns to what he had said before, Job 23:3; as Jarchi observes, where he expresses his earnest desire after God, that he might know where he was, and come up to his seat; here he relates the various ways he took to find him, and his fruitless search of him. Cocceius thinks, by these...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And backward, but I cannot perceive him: “I remembered the days of old; I turned over the pages of my diary; but I could not find him there.” there are cases in which one who is a true child of God cannot for a while find his father. do not condemn yourself because you are in the dark; on the contrary, recollect then that there are many who fear...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold [him],.... The northern part of the world, where his seat is, or the circle of the earth, says Bar Tzemach, and who has stretched out the north over the empty place, Job 26:7. Jarchi's note is, when he created it, he did not make it the place of his throne: God works everywhere in a way of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him: If this is the case with you, be thankful that you want to see your God. Let your very desires after him, your anxiety because you miss him, and the sorrow of your spirit when you are, apparently, deserted by him, encourage...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But he knoweth the way that I take,.... This he seems to say in a way of solace to himself, comforting and contenting himself, that though he could not find God, nor knew where he was, or what way he took, nor the reasons of his ways and dispensations with the children of men, and with himself, yet God knew where he was, and what way he took; by...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. This is beautiful faith on the part of Job. It is very easy for us to read these lines, and to say, “No doubt, tried men do come out of the furnace purified like gold;” but it is quite another thing to be ourselves in the crucible, and to read such a passage as this by the light of the fire, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But he knoweth the way that I take: Oh, what a mercy that is! “I cannot see him, but he can see me; my grief hath blinded mine eyes with floods of tears, but nothing blinds his eyes. Like as a father pitieth his children, so does he pity me, and regards me with the full observation of his gigantic mind: ‘ He knoweth the way that I take.’”...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But he knoweth the way that I take: If I do not know his way, he knows mine. If I cannot find him, he can find me. Here is my comfort: “He knoweth the way that I take.” Job_23:10. When he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. Here the true Job comes to the front. You get the gracious man once more on his feet. He staggered a little; but he...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
My foot hath held his steps,.... Trod in the steps he has walked in; he followed God closely, imitated him in acts of holiness and righteousness, of mercy, kindness, and beneficence; and he continued therein; as he set his foot in the steps of God, which were to him for an example, he persisted therein; as he followed on to know him, so to imitate...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined. It is a great thing to be able to say that, as Job truly could, for we have the witness of the Spirit of God that Job was “perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.” It was not self-righteousness that made him speak as he did; he had the right to say it, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined. You cannot talk like that in the time of trouble if you have not led a sincere, and upright, and gracious life. those battles into which men come in the Valley of Humiliation, are often brought about by their tripping when they are going down the hill. Our sins find us out at...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined. Happy Job, to be able to say that, and to speak the truth; but there is a touch of self about it which we cannot quite commend. Be holy; but do not claim to be holy. Be thou steadfast before God, firm in thine obedience to him; but do not mention it; for thy hope lies somewhere...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips,.... From any of the commandments his lips had uttered; meaning not the ten commandments given to Israel, which perhaps as yet were not given, or had not come to the knowledge of Job; some speak of the seven commandments, given to the sons of Noah; [See comments on Genesis 9:4]. It seems to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food. But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? “His mind is made up to chasten me; he means to afflict me again and again; so what can I do but yield to his will?”