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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? Job looks at his grief, and says concerning it, “It is according to God’s mind that I should have this grief, and who can turn him?” there may be times when God wills that his...
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. Job was a happy man to be able to say that. I hope that many of you could say the same. If you were tried with great bodily pain and depression of spirit, you could say, through divine grace, “I have not turned away from...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But he [is] in one [mind],.... Either with respect to his commandments, every precept remains in full force, he never alters the thing that is gone out of his lips, or delivers out other commandments different from, or contrary to what he has given; and therefore Job thought it his duty to abide by them, and not decline from them; which is the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And what his soul desireth, even that he doeth. There is, on Job’s part, a reverential bowing before the supreme power an acknowledgment of God’s right to do with him as he wills.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And what his soul desireth, even that he doeth. For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him. Therefore am f troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him. Yet he longed for him. So, sometimes, we long for the presence of God, yet that presence strikes us with a solemn awe whenever We are...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? God has one mind, and he will carry out what he wills. It is vain for any man to think of turning him from his eternal purpose.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And what his soul desireth, even that he doth. For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him. You will find that men who are much tried fall back upon the granite foundation of the divine decree. God has ordained it, so they yield to it; they acquiesce in it because it is according to the eternal purpose...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For he performeth [the thing that] is appointed for me,.... The same word is used as at the end of Job 23:12; where it is rendered, "my necessary food"; or appointed food a certain portion of it; food convenient, daily bread; and this has led some interpreters to take it in the same sense here, and render it, "he performeth my necessary things"...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him. “More arrows to pierce me, more sorrows to grieve me.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Therefore am I troubled at his presence,.... Not at his gracious presence, which he wanted, and every good man desires; but at his appearance as an enemy, as he apprehended him, laying and continuing his afflictive hand upon him, and indeed at his appearance as a Judge to try his cause; for though he had most earnestly desired it, yet when he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him. For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me: Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face. He wished that he had died before those evil days had come upon him; and that is the way that a good man, an...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For God maketh my heart soft,.... Not tender as Josiah's was, 2 Kings 22:19, or as the heart of every penitent is, when God makes it humble and contrite by his spirit and grace, or takes away the stony heart, and gives an heart of flesh; though Job had such an heart, and God made it so; but he means a weak, feeble, fearful heart, pressed and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
for God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me: Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face. Now you see where you might be if you had Job’s experience. If you are not there, be very grateful; and if you are there, say, there is a better man than I am who has been this way before...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me: Are you saying that tonight? If so, I am glad you are here. I have, for many years, been compassed about with a large number of persons who come from the ends of England and Scotland, and from longer distances, too, in despair of soul, and seeking comfort; but I think that never in my...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Because I was not cut off before the darkness,.... That is, it was amazing to him, and troubled him when he thought of it, that he was not cut off by death, before the darkness of afflictions, or this dark dispensation came upon him; as sometimes righteous ones are taken from the evil to come, as Methuselah was before the flood, Genesis 5:27; and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face. He wished he had died before he came to such trouble, or that by some means such trouble had been turned away from him. May the Lord, if he sends you Job’s trouble, send you Job’s consolation! May he glorify himself by your patient endurance, if he...