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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment. Now Job carries the war into the enemy’s camp; and he says, “You charge me with all sorts of sin, und yet you cannot deny that the root of the matter is in me. Would it not be much wiser for you to be yourselves afraid lest God should...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then Job answered and said, Even today is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning. “Although my groaning is heavy, yet it is not so burdensome as my griefs might warrant.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
then Job answered and said, Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning. Job admitted that he groaned, but he claimed that he had good reason for doing so; that, indeed, the source of his grief was greater than the streams of his grief, so that he could not, even with his groans and tears, express half the anguish...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then Job answered and said, Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning. He could not express all his pain. He felt that he did not complain too much. His stroke was heavier than his groaning. His words had bitterness in them; but he thought that they were justified by his affliction.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him. It is a bad sign when a man of God becomes afraid of God. Yet is there a holy awe which may degenerate into a servile fear which hath bondage; but even this may be the foundation of a holy confidence which will keep us in obedience to the Lord.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat! “To his judgment-seat, that I might plead my cause, and vindicate my character even there.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat! I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. Good men are washed towards God even by the rough waves of their grief; and when their sorrows are deepest, their highest desire is not to escape from them, but to get at their God. “Oh that I knew where I...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Oh that I knew where I might find him! Job longed to find his God; he wanted to come to him. He had been slandered by men; so he turns from the court of injustice below to the divine Court of King’s Bench above, where he is sure of a righteous verdict: “Oh that I knew where I might find him!” Job_23:3. That I might come even to his seat! To his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me. Will he plead against me with his great power? “Being the great God, will he silence me by a display of his omnipotence? Oh, no! he is too just to do that.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. He felt that he dared plead before God. He was not guilty of the things laid to his charge; so he would be bold to speak even before God’s judgment-seat. If Job had known a little more of God, as he did before his life ended, he might not have talked so glibly about ordering his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me. I am not sure that Job would know and understand all that God said. the Lord says a great deal, even to men like Job, that they do not easily understand, and it is not for us to require that God should explain everything to us. He giveth not account of any...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I would know the words, which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me. He was willing to hear God’s side of the argument, patient and anxious to understand the mind of God with whom he desired to plead. So far so good. There are some who do not wish to know what God would say unto them; so long as they may express their own...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
No; but he would put strength in me. “He would help me to argue my case; he would deal fairly with me; he would not be like you so-called friends of mine, who sit there, and exult over my weakness and my griefs, and torture me with your cruel words.”
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....
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,...
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...
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...