Homilist Job 30:23 For I know that you will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living. The text suggests some thoughts of Job concerning his own death. I. There will be nothing UNNATURAL in my death. It is "appointed" as the death of every other kind of organised life on earth: it is the natural law of all organised bodies to wear out, decay, dissolve. As the earth takes back to itself all the elements that have entered into the composition of vegetables and animals, why should I refuse or dread the demand? I may rest assured that kind nature will make a benign and beneficent use of all the elements that have entered into my corporeal existence. Let me be ready to yield them up unreluctantly, ungrudgingly, thanking the Infinite for their use. 1. It is dishonest for me to object to this; for my body was only borrowed property, a temporary loan, nothing more. 2. It is ungrateful for me to object to this. Though I never had a claim to such a boon, it has been of great service to my spiritual nature. 3. It is unphilosophic for me to object to this. Whatever my objections and resistance, it must come. II. There will he nothing UNCOMMON in my death. "The house appointed for all living." Were I one of a few, amongst the millions of the race, singled out for such a destiny, I might complain; but since all, without any exception, must die, who am I that I should complain? III. There will be nothing ACCIDENTAL in my death. "I know that Thou wilt bring me to death." (Homilist.) Parallel Verses KJV: For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.WEB: For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living. |
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