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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand. The man would escape from God if he could. It was Job’s glory, as we read just now, that he was in God’s hand; but the hypocrite would fain flee out of God’s hand, yet that is altogether impossible.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place. Such ignominy shall be poured upon the hypocrite at last that all mankind shall endorse the sentence of God which condemns him; and shame and everlasting contempt shall be his portion. The Lord save all of us from such an awful doom, for Christ’s sake! Amen.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherefore, Job, I pray thee, hear my speeches, and hearken to all my words. “I am but a young man, but I speak because I cannot be quiet. An impulse moves me; I am as a vessel wanting vent. I desire to speak impartially; therefore, hear me, but hear all that I have to say; do not listen merely here and there to a part of my speech, but hearken to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue hath spoken in my mouth. That is to say, “I speak with much solemnity, not as one who chatters without sense, or without due consideration, but I have opened my mouth deliberately, as one who has something to say; and I speak with my best powers of speech, as one who wishes to persuade those who hear...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly. What a lesson this is to those of us who preach to others, — that we speak out of the uprightness of our heart, and feel that, however others may judge us, we are sincere before God in what we say! How necessary also is it, especially in these days, that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life. That is to say, “I am as much the creature of God as these three old gentlemen are, these three wise friends who have spoken so tartly. I am as much endowed with the Spirit of God as thou art, O Job, and therefore I speak to thee in his name.” Should not this be a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
If thou canst answer me, set thy words in order before me, stand up. He who speaks reason is ready to hear reason. It is only the unreasonable talker who will not allow others to have a word to say in reply. “If thou canst answer me,” says Elihu to Job, “set thy words in order before me, stand up.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, I am according to thy wish in God’s stead: I also am formed out of the clay. Job had wished that someone would stand up and speak for God, someone without the terror that seemed inseparable from the Infinite, someone without the power of Omnipotence, someone who would be more nearly his equal, with whom he could debate the questions which...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, I am according to thy wish in God’s stead: I also am formed out of the clay. Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, neither shall my hand be heavy upon thee. Job had wished that he could argue his case with the Lord himself. If God would only withdraw the terror of his presence from him, he would like to come even to his seat, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, neither shall my hand be heavy upon thee. Surely thou hast spoken in mine hearing and I have heard the voice of thy words, saying, I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me. Behold, he findeth occasions against me, he counteth me for his enemy, he putteth my feet...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Surely thou hast spoken in mine hearing, and I have heard the voice of thy words, saying I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me. Behold, he findeth occasions against me, he counteth me for his enemy. Elihu puts the case very plainly. “There, Job, you have said that you are perfectly innocent, and yet you...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths. Behold, in this thou art not just: I will answer thee, that God is greater than man. Here is the core of the whole matter. Whenever you and I begin to impugn the justice of God, we ought to remember who we are, and what he is. There is no comparison between us and the great God over all,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, in this thou art not just: I will answer thee, that God is greater than man. Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters. This man seems to have the very spirit that rested upon the apostle Paul when he was arguing with an objector against the Lord’s way of working, “Nay but, O man, who art thou that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters. It is not for us to summon God to appear before us, as if he were our servant, and we were his master, or to arraign him before our judgment seat, and to sit there as if the Holy One of Israel were a felon, who must answer for his crimes. It is high treason, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction, that he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man. It is ever one great object of the divine dealings to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction, that he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man. He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword. He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain: Pain of body is usually looked upon as a great evil, and doubtless it is so in some respects; but it wraps up within itself great mercy. There are some who can scarcely be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat. His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out. Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers. If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show unto man his uprightness: then he is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand to show unto man his uprightness: Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom. Oh, what precious words! There is One with God, One of a thousand, the Chief among ten thousand, the Messenger of the covenant, the Mediator...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s: he shall return to the days of his youth: He shall pray unto God, and he will be favourable unto him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render unto man his righteousness. He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not; He will...