God has delivered me to unjust men; He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked. Sermons
I. AS A DELIVERING OVER TO THE UNGODLY. He is cast into the hands of the evil-doer. II. As A DESTRUCTION OF EXTERNAL PROSPERITY. "I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder." III. As AN INFLICTION OF SEVERE PAINS. "He cleaveth my reins asunder." IV. As A SUCCESSION OF REPEATED INFLICTIONS. "He breaketh me with breach upon breach." These judgments evoke from Job: 1. The lowliest humiliation. He bows in "sackcloth," and lays his "horn in the dust." 2. He pours out his soul in penitence, and his face is even "foul with weeping." 3. Over him hangs the gloom "the shadow" - "of death." 4. In the consciousness of integrity he makes his "pure" prayer to God. The interest of these few lines is very great in the general working out of the plot of the history. Happy he who in the midst of his sorrows can bow in lowly penitence under the severities of the Divine judgments, still retaining the assurance of his sincerity, and waiting the final award. - R.G.
God hath delivered me to the ungodly. But Job gets some notion of the reality of things when he traces all to God, saving, "God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked." I begin to feel that even the devil is but a black servant in God's house. There is a sense, perhaps hardly open to a definition in words, in which the devil belongs to God as certainly as does the first archangel. There is no separate province of God's universe: hell burns at the very footstool of His throne. We must not allow ourselves to believe that there are rival powers and competing dynasties in any sense which diminishes the almightiness of God. If you say, as some distinguished philosophers have lately said, God cannot be almighty because there is evil in the world, you are limiting the discussion within too narrow a boundary. We must await the explanation. Give God time. Let Him work in His eternity. We are not called upon now to answer questions. Oh! could we hold our peace, and say, We do not know; do not press us for answers; let patience have her perfect work: this is the time for labour, for education, for study, for prayer, for sacrifice: this poor. twilight scene is neither fair enough nor large enough to admit the whole of God's explanation: we must carry forward our study to the place which is as lofty as heaven, to the time which is as endless as eternity. We all have suffering. Every man is struck at some point. Let not him who is capable of using some strength speak contemptuously of his weak brother. It is easy for a man who has no temptation in a certain direction to lecture another upon going in that direction. What we want is a juster comprehension of one another. We should say, This, my brother, cannot stand such and such a fire; therefore we try to come between him and the flame: this other brother can stand that fire perfectly well, but there is another fire which he dare not approach; therefore we should interpose ourselves between him and the dread furnace, knowing that we all have some weakness, some point of failure, some signature of the dust. Blessed are they who have great, generous, royal, Divine hearts! The more a man can forgive, the more does he resemble God.(Joseph Parker, D. D.) People Job, RuffiansPlaces UzTopics Casteth, Casts, Clutches, Delivered, Delivereth, Delivers, Evil-doers, Gives, Hands, Hurled, Iniquitous, Perverse, Power, Ruffians, Sending, Shutteth, Sinners, Thrown, Tosses, Turneth, Ungodly, Violently, WickedOutline 1. Job reproves his friends for unmercifulness17. He maintains his innocence Dictionary of Bible Themes Job 16:10 5141 cheeks Library Epistle Xlv. To Theoctista, Patrician . To Theoctista, Patrician [153] . Gregory to Theoctista, &c. We ought to give great thanks to Almighty God, that our most pious and most benignant Emperors have near them kinsfolk of their race, whose life and conversation is such as to give us all great joy. Hence too we should continually pray for these our lords, that their life, with that of all who belong to them, may by the protection of heavenly grace be preserved through long and tranquil times. I have to inform you, however, that I have … Saint Gregory the Great—the Epistles of Saint Gregory the Great The Case of the Christian under the Hiding of God's Face. The Work of Jesus Christ as an Advocate, The Birth of Jesus Proclaimed by Angels to the Shepherds. Mr. Bunyan's Last Sermon: Job Links Job 16:11 NIVJob 16:11 NLT Job 16:11 ESV Job 16:11 NASB Job 16:11 KJV Job 16:11 Bible Apps Job 16:11 Parallel Job 16:11 Biblia Paralela Job 16:11 Chinese Bible Job 16:11 French Bible Job 16:11 German Bible Job 16:11 Commentaries Bible Hub |
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