Post by gsmithb on Dec 10, 2014 5:12:17 GMT
Bro. C C Walker has a pamplet that is titled Job. This is a section of that book.
At this crisis Job's three friends appear upon the scene and in turn join with the Adversary, who is henceforth impersonated in them. And Job's physical misery is aggravated by their cruelly unsympathetic thrashings out of his case. At first they sat down with him in silence for seven days at the end of which Job, in his extremity, "opened his mouth and cursed his day".
The third chapter of his book contains this lamentation, which may be epitomized in the single expression, "Oh, that I had never been born!". Natural enough, in all conscience. But foolish notwithstanding, and in reality reproaching God, and giving the adversary occasion to blaspheme. For why was Job suffering?And how could he be saved if he had never bee "born unto trouble"?
Chapters 4 to 31, inclusive, are occupied by the arguments and replies of Job and his friends. Broadly stated, the case stands thus" Eliphaz, Bildad, andZophar contended more and more strenuously, through out their successive speeches that Job's unexampled sufferings were the divine chastisement for his hidden iniquities that had at last been found out. Whereas Job, on the other had, agonizingly refuted their insinuations, and maintained his integrity, sometimes even to the point of reflecting upon the righteousness and mercy of God though, at other times, he most emphatically justified God in His dealings, and fervently hoped for resurrection to eternal life in "the latter day".
At this crisis Job's three friends appear upon the scene and in turn join with the Adversary, who is henceforth impersonated in them. And Job's physical misery is aggravated by their cruelly unsympathetic thrashings out of his case. At first they sat down with him in silence for seven days at the end of which Job, in his extremity, "opened his mouth and cursed his day".
The third chapter of his book contains this lamentation, which may be epitomized in the single expression, "Oh, that I had never been born!". Natural enough, in all conscience. But foolish notwithstanding, and in reality reproaching God, and giving the adversary occasion to blaspheme. For why was Job suffering?And how could he be saved if he had never bee "born unto trouble"?
Chapters 4 to 31, inclusive, are occupied by the arguments and replies of Job and his friends. Broadly stated, the case stands thus" Eliphaz, Bildad, andZophar contended more and more strenuously, through out their successive speeches that Job's unexampled sufferings were the divine chastisement for his hidden iniquities that had at last been found out. Whereas Job, on the other had, agonizingly refuted their insinuations, and maintained his integrity, sometimes even to the point of reflecting upon the righteousness and mercy of God though, at other times, he most emphatically justified God in His dealings, and fervently hoped for resurrection to eternal life in "the latter day".