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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; — Like wild asses, their work consists in going forth to do mischief. Job_24:5. Rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children. For there are some so hard that they would skin a flint, and out of the wilderness would manage to get food. Yet...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They reap everyone his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked. They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold. They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter. They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor. They cause...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof. The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief. The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face. In the dark they dig through...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: There was no curse upon Job, and no curse can come near the true child of God; his scanty portion is still blest. But the large portion of the ungodly is cursed even while he is in the earth.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He beholdeth not the way of the vineyards. Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned. The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; What a sarcastic utterance! This man, who lorded it over others, — how glad the worm shall be to get at him! This fat worldling shall be a rich feast for the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree. It shall snap off, and be brought to an ignominious end.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow. He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life. Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways. They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth? Job challenges all men to contradict what he affirms, — that the righteous may be greater sufferers, and the wicked may for awhile prosper, but that God will, in the end, overthrow the ungodly, and establish the righteous. This exposition consisted of readings from...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Moreover Job continued his parable, and said, As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul; all the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils, my tips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit. He felt that; it would be wicked for him to confess to what he had never...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
God forbid that I should you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me. We are bound to keep to the truth. No man is permitted, with mock humility, to make himself out to be what he is not. Job was right, so far, in standing up, for the integrity of his character, for he was a man of such uprightness that even the devil could not find...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live. There he went too far, for he had not yet seen God as he afterwards saw him. Before man, there was nothing with which he needed to reproach himself; but how he changed his tone when God drew near to him! Then he said, “I have heard of thee by...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous. For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his so. That is a very solemn, searching question; if a man does try to play fast and loose with God, if he be a hypocrite, and if he should gain by his hypocrisy all that he tries...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him? That is one of the tests of the hypocrite: “Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?” Will the hypocrite cry to God at all? Will he not give up even his profession of religion when he loses his prosperity? And if he does cry, will God hear the double-tongued man?
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Will he delight himself in the Almighty? Will he always call upon God? These questions, while they condemn those who are hypocrites, are comforting to many a sincere heart. Dear friend, do you delight yourself in God? Do you really admire him, love him, and seek to glorify him? Then you are no hypocrite, for no hypocrite ever found delight in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will teach you by the hand of God: Or, better, as the margin runs, “I will teach you being in the hand of God.” Being himself chastened, and experiencing the teaching of God, Job says to his friends, “I will teach you.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That which is with the Almighty will I not conceal. Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain? This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty. If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep. Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay; he may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver. He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh. “He buildeth his house as a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The rich man shalt lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he is not. He has grown rich by oppression, he has become great in the land by his hypocrisy; but he speedily goes down to the grave. God looks at him, and he is gone.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night. This is a parallel passage to that word of our Lord, “But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place. These are your great ones, your proud ones, your strong men that fear nothing, and would insure their own lives to a certainty for the next twenty years; see how they go. Shadows are not more evanescent, a poor moth is not more easily crushed.