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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work: So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me. If that is the case with any of you, dear friends, you ought to be comforted by the thought that a better man than you are underwent just what you are enduring, and underwent it so as to glorify God by it....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day. My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome. Such was the dreadful disease under which this man of God laboured, for the worst of pain may happen to the best of men....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope. His spirits are sunk so low that he had not any hope at all left; — at least, there was none apparent just then. O you poor tried children of God, I beseech you once again to see that you are only walking where others have gone before you! Mark their footprints, and take...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good. The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not. As if God only looked at him, and the very look withered him; or as if there was only time for God just to look at him, and then he disappeared as though, he had been but a dream, an...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more. He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more. Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint; Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions: So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life. Were you ever in this terrible place, dear friend? Some of us have been there, and we have used the very language of Job; and yet, for all...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity. What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him? Job seems to say, “I am too little for God to notice me; why does he make so much of me as to chasten me so sorely?”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And their thou shouldest visit him every ,morning, and try him every moment? How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle? Blow followed blow in quick succession. Pain came fast upon the heels of pain till Job seems to have had no rest from his anguish. This is the mournful moaning of a man on a sick-bed,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? We did not expect him to call God by that name; yet sorrow hath a quick memory to recall anything by which it may be cheered. “Thou Preserver of men,” says Job, “I have sinned: what shall I do?” Job_7:20. Why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, “Drawing thy bow, and directing...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust;and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be. Speaking after the manner of man, he seems to think that, if God does not pardon him soon, the pardon will come too late; for if God comes in mercy by-and-by, he will be dead and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified? Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed? This was a very bitter and cruel speech, and Zophar was not using the language of friendship, or even of common...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes. Job did not say that; at least, he did not say it in so many words. He did endeavor to prove his own innocence of the false charges that were brought against him; but he never said that he was clean in God’s eyes.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee; And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, that they are double to that which is! Oh, that God would enable you, dear friends, to see your sin, and make you perceive that there is a double meaning in his law, — a deep, underlying, spiritual meaning, as well as that which is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Know therefore that God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth. That was a hard thing for Zophar to say to Job; but, still, it was true, and it is true in the case of all of us: “He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.” Even when a man sits down among the ashes, robbed of all his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection! What wonderful questions these are! How they ought to convict those who glibly talk of God as if they could measure him with a foot rule, and understood exactly what he ought to do and ought to be. We are constantly meeting with statements that such-and-such a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know! The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea. God is incomprehensible by any finite mind; and he is omnipotent, too.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him! If he sees fit to destroy men, or for a while to make them prisoners; or if he pleases to gather them together, and multiply them like the hosts of heaven, who can hinder him?
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For he knoweth vain men he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it? Wickedness hidden under the vail of night, God sees as clearly as in the blaze of noon. Wickedness which never comes out of the heart, but tarries there, and does not lead into overt action, God sees it: “Will he not then consider it?” Of course he will.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For vain man — That is just what man is by nature; the best of men are vanity — emptiness: “For vain man” — Job_11:12. Would be wise,- He pretends to wisdom; he wishes to be thought wise; he likes to wear a wise man’s title: “Vain man would be wise,” — Job_11:12. Though man be born like a wild ass’s colt. As untamed, as ignorant, as willful as a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him; If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles. For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear: Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away: And...