PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
The Pulpit Commentary — Job
George Rawlinson [1812-1902] · 615,689 words · 663 reading sections
The Pulpit Commentary — Job — Section 301
HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. Vere. 1-21.-Renewed rebukea and warnings. Bildad again replies, mentioning that the pas~ionate outbreaks of Job are useles~. He holds fast to bis original principle, that, according to the La"w of Go<l, the hardened sinner will suddenly meet his doom. And some secret ein, he persists, m…
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Vers. 6-14.-Thefruits of impiety. Again Bildad speaks. He is not the sufferer, but the judge. He who came as a comforter utters but miserable words in the ears of the afflicted one. His words are true in themselves, but wrongly applied. Justly he descril>cs the fruits of impiety. _ I. To TBB IMPIOUS TBE LIGHT OF PROS…
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the family, right principlen exert a beneficent influence. The absence of them is the precursor or evil of nil kinds, The wall is broken down; protection is wanting. The home is a prey to evil. II. IT LACKS THE PBOMIBE OJ!' TIIE DIVINE PBO'l'EOTION AND BLESSING. It is a.s a. field unwatered. '!'here is no spring of ho…
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Innumerable bltlll8inga desoend upon them in re11ponse to the prayer of fa.itb. Thi■ will in the end be proved to be true of Job. IV. 'fhrl!I! judgments STAND AB A WARNING TO ALL PARENTS. They make the duty of parental piety more and more obvious. They illustrate the solemn reaponsiblllt:, of beads of houses, 11ino…
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111oro than once in his harangue (e.g. ver. 18). As usual, we may here follow the imagery of the Shuhite without applying it to Job. Wickedness extinguishes light. I. 'f1rn LIGIIT 01!' KNOWl,EDGE. Bad men may be learned and good men may be ignorant in regard to the knowle<lge of the schools and the world. But there is…
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the difference between this man and the good man. There are snares about the path of the man of God; but a Divine light revenls them, and a Divine hand draws him back from hie gre&t peril. It ie otherwise with the godless man. Note the reasons why his feet go ~treight for the snare. 1. Da1·kness. His light is put ou…
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tmne!ent exyerlence, At the worst it is R dRrk door to be passed through. The Ohriethm wil never dwell in the kingdom of death. To him death is " That golden key ThBt opee the palace of eternity." There is a triumph over deBth for those who, sleeping in Christ, wake to the life eternal. For them the king of terrors h…
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CHAPTER XIX. insist on m11,gnirying yonrselve1 ngnlnat mo, 11,nd bringing up agninst me my" reproach;" Vere. 1-29.-Job bcgine liie anewer to then let me make appool to your pity. Bilrlrul'e eeoond speech by an expoetnlation Oonsider my whole condition-how I st11,n,t agsinet the unkindneee of hie friends, who with G…
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do not wenr, but e. metaphor for dignity or the similar woe of Job's great Antitype honour. (John vii. 5, "For neither did his brethren Ver. 10.-He he.th destroyed me on every believe on him "). And mine aoquaintanae aide, and I e.m gone ; or, broken me dOW11. are verily eatranged from me (oomp. Ps. Job compnree himse…
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iheir abhonnoe of me. And they whom I nothing tha.t·~s,vorJ remarkable in th111 pie- loved are turned ~wt me (comp. Pe. xli. oeding worcts, wheroe.s the latter are among 8; Iv. 12-14; Jer. x.x. 10). The t<(l,inta ot the most striking in the .book, the general God in all e.gea, and however different1y opinion lie.a U…
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eome on(! to &(lt, in thllt,oapaoity." Arter pervades the paese.ge. .&lld mine eyes 1hall a.II this, it ie not taking e. very long step in behold, e.nd not another ; i.e. " not the eyea adve.nce to see e.nd acknowledge in God his of e.nother." I myself, retaining my penvmal Goel, or "Redeemer." And the.t he she.It iden…
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-maied that o~ who ol&imed to be • friend of hla ehould to l:lo'lnpletely ehow himaelfto 'be • • • • A lttony advlll'sal:'y, al'l inhnrnan 'Vri!toh Uncapable or pity, void 1tnd empty •- From any dram of mercy." (' The Merchant of Venioe,' aot iv. ao. I.) l. Urinece.uary croe'lty. (Ver. 4.) There was no "6.rm reas…
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~ 7), never doclines to aid them in distress (lea, xii. 10; :xliii, 2; 2 Cur. xii. 9), auu eertainly ne\i~t denies them justice unless to give them mercy. 2. PwniBhing him as a convice. • ·(V«iril, 8-10.) . 'And that by: (1) Consigning him to prison (ver. 8). The image that of a cell, or na,rrow spoce, bounded by a hig…
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Vers. 23--29.--Job to Bildad : 2. The inscriptwn on the ro,;Je I o/, J~b',Jp,ith .in.~ retkemer. I. THE PREFACE TO TBE INSCRIPTION; OR, THE FERVEl!!T. WISH OF A Dfl.~G JU...K. 1. Tli.e culture of Job's time&. The origin of writio,g is lost in the mists of antiquity. The earliest known mode of writing was by means of a …
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might beoome m&11.'B Advooate againBt himaelf (God}; the fifth, ihe preaent pueage, !leems to gather a.11 the preceding up into one triumphant shout of faith in a. living, perBOnal, divinely human Golil, or Redeemer, who should appear in the end of time to vindicate and save Job, and,all who, like him, should h~ve d…
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phrase," in my flesh rtiterally, 'from, or out of! my flesh') shall I see God" (ver. 26), may mean DO more th11n that after Job's "skm" or body was destroyed, i.e. after be bad passed into the Hadean world, he would enjoy a. spiritual vision of God, an<l it may readily be granted that such a rendering accords with the …
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HOMILIES BY VARIOUS A'IJTHORS. Ver~. 1-29.-Unconquerable eonvictioM. Job feels bitterly hurt by the speeches of Eli11haz and Bildad, and pleads, in face of their harsh constructions,· for ootnpa'ssidn in hi~ unntterable suffi>iings. At the 1111.me time, he raises· himself to bolder ccmfidence in God's help than eve…
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R!)tll~t diiilreee; tMy are eummer-bird!!, o:nd p08il' away whffl'l the eolder weather sets in. Men are Hare, fickle as the wind. Their aliena.tion is ascribed tC> God', because he has ea.used the distress; it he bad' not caused 'the distress, they would have remained. Here, again, we ate reminded that the child elf Go…
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wrath overtakes them. " That ye may know there is a judgment,1 " They. knew this already, and upon this expectation their own warnmgs had bern found·eq. Du♦ Job gives the thought an application to themselves. h That you may kn11w that .God exercises judgment on all the offences of the sword, which you do not own nor fe…
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rominds bis friends (ver, 29). Ai present he is the accused one; and all appearances go to condemn him, True, his "record is on high." He knows that he he.e held f8 st hie intcgrHy. But he looks forward to a final vindication, He would, therefore, hBve his words "written," "printed in e. book," "gre.ven with an iron p…
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Ve!'I, ~6.= 7'le erring eC>Yl mid it, God.. Job replies to •the inti'ueive oeheurea of laie friende with the indignation of outrBged privacy. Granted that .he h118 errod, &11 hie friende Aesume, thBt is hie own bll6iness, not thein--tit is a malter,botween himself and God only; they have no occasion to meddle ill it…
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o/Other m1111,,, Tho prayer ort~e selfish is not heard. Every t,i1ne we repeat the Lord's l>rayer we romii;ifl. .ourselves that ou,: brespl!sses a.re (orgi ven in proportion a.s we forgi v11 those 'fhO ,tr~po.sa against, us, 1l'hfa is' the one, the only thing in the pra.yer that Obrist soleot~d. for ernplmtic comment, …
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service than any the path that has been stopped pointed to. Meanwhile let us not CQ-onplsin thst our way is hopelessly fenced up till we are quite brought to 11, standstiU. Our fears are premnt,ure. The Norwegisn fiord seems to be completely locked in by the mountains, and the ship appeam to be making straight for the …
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is 11, permanent boon to mankind. These trutbA should be carerully treasured and transmitted. 8. Craving for j'ustice. Job ie concerned with a personal feeling in hie desire. If what he says makes no impression on his immediate circle, it may brina 0 conviction to 11, wider area of less prejudiced persons, or to a late…
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Ver. 28.-" The root qf the matter." ,Tob's friends think that the explanation of tbe patriarch's singular experience lies in himself. It is not to be explained by the laws of the universe, by the opposition of a foe, etc. j it is to be explained by Job's own character and conduct. The root of this matter, bis afflictio…
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CHAPTER XX. words scarcely "imply cognizance of the record (of the creation of man) in Genesis," Vere. 1-29,-:Zophe.r's second speech is e.s Canon Cook suggests; but they do imply even moie harsh than.his first (eh. xi.). He belief in a creation of man, not an evolu- adds coarseness and rudeness to his former tion; a…
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to the heave1111. "Though he reaob " i.e. in hill month; i.e. though tha ·wiokcd man "the highest pitch of prosperity" ( comp'. delight in his wiokedneSB, aud gloat over it, Pa. lxxiii. 9). And hia head re&oh unto the and keep the thought of it in his mind, as olouda (oomp. Dan. iv. 22, "Thou, 0 king, 11, gourme.nd …
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blessings whioh he would naturally have Revised Version). For his oppression for enjoyed but for his wiokednese. Zophar his violence, for his insatiable greed°, he here threatens him with the loss of thoee she.II be punished by retaining nothing or po.rooieiaoo.l delights which tho Orientals all thoso delightful things…
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Egyp\,' vol. i. p. 605). That they are not 110 one &hul eVlll'flnd-solheofthe retributiOQ more ~ommon is aooouMed for by the rapid laid up for him by God, whioh will be 11loh oxidimtion of iron by exposure to the air, and d&rkness aa Job deBCribea in eh, :a:. 21, 22. ite rapid deoay in the nitrous iloil of Egypt. A …
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combat in hopes of utterly confounding his antagoni.st. His appearance, ma.Jl.ner, a,;id addr~ are c4&1"acterized by : I. BoU defi=u. "Therefore," i.e. in view. of what you have j11St spoken; nay," nevertheless," i.e. in spite of all your grandiloquent talk a.bout a sword. Zophar had been unmoved, equally br Job's path…
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concealed_ gue~ Zophe.r _repeats t~e popular dogma of the day, the.t "th triutnphlng of the wicked 1s near [hterally, '11 from near'], and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment," Bd.ding that " though his excellency," or exaltation, "mount up into heaven, yet she.II he perish for ever;" words suggestive of (1) t…
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lZ-18,) (1) The wicked man's estimate or sin. He regards it as a dainty which communicates to his soul the same gratification that delicions viands do to the palate. A melancholy proof of the degradation into which man has sunk, that that which God pronounces e.n 11bomination he should contemplate with approbation ; th…
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i. 29; 1 Cor. v. 11; Eph. v. 3, 6; Heh. Ji.iii, 6; Jas. v. 1~; ,2 ,Pet. ii., 3). {~) The doom prodioted as hie portion is exhibited as: (a) Deceiving prGSperity•.. llo shru,1 not be able to escape with thllt to which hie soul clings ae its dearest treaeµre (vcr. ~9). Calamity ehall overtake his aocumulated spoil in …
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HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS, Vers. l-29.---:-Godless prosperity.short-lived. Here we have a new variation on the favourite theme of the friends-,-the inconstancy of godless prosperity. " The jubila- .tion of the wicked is but of short duration, and the joy of the profligate but a moment-." The wicked man· is specia…
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JlOOUl d88Cribe the golden ago these figures occur : "streallls of milk, etrelln1il of nectar flowed" (Ovid, 'Mct11m.,' i. 111, sqq.; Theocr., 'Id.,' v.124, sqq.; Virg., • Eel.,' iv. 30; Hor., • Epod.,' rn. 47). "He gh,es back what he hR.S gained, and enjoys it not; aooord- ing to the property of his barter he is no…
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Christ the sine of the penitent ind believing are "covered," and that hie blood cleaneeth from all sin ?-J, Vera. 6-20.-Tlie tempora1·y triumph of the wicked. Zophar now comes forth with wiso words; but they are as arrows, slander, strong, and sharp, which, though drawn upon e. strong bow, yet miss their mark. Only to…
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Ver. 5.-The short triumphing of the ttncW. Zophar'a superfioial view has truth In it u fur as it goes. He is a man of the world, and he has kept hie eyes open, ·What he has seen has been no illusion. It is not enough to explain the deeper mysl.eries of Job's experience. Yet it has an obvious truth in it. . I. THERE…
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btlmilinUon, but in heaven Christians are called to the-joy d 'rietory-to be "m01e than oon~uorors ''; (Ilom. viii. 37).-W. It', A. Vers. 12-17.-The sweet taste of sin and iJs 'lntter afte'1'-ta&te. I. 'l'HE SWEET TABTB OI!' BIN. How can we account for the fact that if sin is essentially an evil thing it should ever …
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them down, they e.re being robbed. With us the swe11,ting system takes the place of the old territ-0rial oppreBSion. 2. Its inva1·iable wickedness. le the modern commerci11,l oppression one whit Iese guilty th11,n the old lordly tyr11,nny? The evil is more dis- guised with us; it is more difficult to bring it home t…
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to more spiritual atrnira. The spiritual nature, once arotteed, feels cramped and oppreRsed by the very fulness of earthly sufficiency. 3. This sh<iuld drive us eo the wells of living water. We are tempted to neglect those sources of spiritual life when the streams of earthly blessings How in fulness, Yet nothing but t…
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attain to grea.t power,. ba.ve a numerous a.nd tba.t be ha.a a rifht to be impa.tient, if Go4 lonrllhing offspring, proaper, grow rich, . does not vouohlla.fe hiln l!.'n a.n~er, lpend their time in feaeting and jollity- Vera. S,. 6.-HeN! we hne ll.n o.brupt nay, openly renounoe God and decline to tt-a.neition. Job 'i…
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children BS the righteous, e.nd often esle.b- them to account for these exceptions (see liahed them in posts of honour e.nd emolu- ver. 7). ment. And their oft'spring befora their Ver. 14,-Therefore they aay unto God, eyes. A pleonasl.io repetition. Depe.rt from na. It is this impunity which , Ver. 0.-Their houses are…
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prosperous mRn 11. compt1?"Rtivoly rare oocnr- ohilrlren and daeoendanta? •• :Ap~s mol lo rencc 7 How oft oometh their destruction deluge" 'le tM selfish thought of bad men upon them ! When the problem here pro- generally, when tlley ea.et a gle.noe e.t the pounded CR.me before Asaph, he seems t.o times ·which are t…
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eateth with pleasure; rather, and never Butler (among Qtbers); and the conc\nsion tastcth of good (see the Revised Version). reached by co.Im inveatigo.tion o.nd phik,: Ver. 26.-They ■hall lie doWP alike in sophio thonght, is that, on the wh()\e, even the dust, and the worms shall ~over them. in tbis life, the ba\1t…
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HOIDLETIOS. Ve!"B. 1-34.~ob lo Zophar: Audi alteram partem. I. THE BPIB.IT OP Jon's Bli:Pi,~. 1. 1ntense earnestness. Indicated by the respectful invitation addressed to his Jriend11 to attend t.o his discourse, the nervous reduplication. of the verb "hear," and the assur- ance that such behaviour on their part wou…
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do not eee or do not e,teadily look a;t the difficulties by which' earneet eeekere after truth are perplexed, nnd accordingly withhold from these All expression of sympathy for thair doubt, nnd ,tnfeeTingly condemn them for their: unbPlief; whereas could good people only eoe tho difficulties which stand in the way of t…
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against God. (b) The wickedness of it. The prosperous sa.y to God, "Depart from us," not R8 Peter said to Christ (Luke v. 8), but rather as the Gadarenee besought him (Luke viii. 37), desiring that God would lesve them to the enjoyment of their lusts, aa these letter wished to hsve their swine, not troubling them wi…
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looking down upon it In monunaental effigy; (5) that even in the grave they suffer no disadvantage in comparison with other men, "the clods of the valley" bein" aR "sweet h unto them (ver. 83) as to the pious, which may be true so far as the insen"sate dust is concerned, though of course it is only an imagination tha…
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IT. APPEAL To EXPERIENCE: 'l'B:E l'ROSPER!:TY 01/' THE \VtOKED, OONTRA8'l'11:~ W!:'l:'ir THE AFFLICTIONS OF THE B'!G'RTEous, IN '!'HIS LIFE. (Vets. 7-:---26.) 1. Tmit., ~/ godless prosperity. (Vere. 7-16.) (1) 1'he wicked are fortunate in their petsons (vcr. _7)._ l~stead of being cut off by premature d_eath, ~- Zop…
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moral worth ls so different and so contrasted. "With one another they lie on the dust of the grave, and tho worms cover them." "Both, heire to eome six feet of clod arc oquo.l in the earth-Rt laBt" (ver. 28). ' JII, CORREOTION 01!' BIB FRIENDS FOR THEIR PARTIAL JUDOMENT OP' THE OUTWARD 00NDITI0N OF MEN, (Vere. 27-34.)…
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calamity; (6) in their domestic security: (6) in their abund11nce and joy,- Thie mystery Job do011 not imtlmtly unr!l.vel. But what is the effect of all this prospority on the wicked? It does not bumble him nor IUake him thankful. Aa au uneven gla1111 distort.@ the fairest image, so their impnre and ill-regulated mi…
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he that Is linjusUy traduced may abide in hope that one day a Divine judgrnent will bring hidden things to light, o.nd make the ri~hteoueness of the falsely ac.cused shine a.a the light. The Divine judgments being always wise and good and just-the juda- ments of the loving God-they will find their echo of approval i…
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Ver. 4:.-The eomplaint that g068 beyond man. I. THE OOMl'LAIN_T THAT IB OF Jll,ORB TRAN 'IIA~'s DOINGS. Job d.oes not only ~omplain of man's injustice. The.t would be be.rd to bear; and yet e. strong soul should be able to withstand it, trusting in a higher justice that will set all right at le.st. But the mystery, th…
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for. they are not in trouble. They see n,o reason for prayer, for they have all they )v11nt without it. 2. Rejecting God. (Ver. 15.) These prosperous wicked people go further than to live without God. They actually rebel against him. Being self- sufficient, they decline to admit that they are under any obligation to se…
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111\ve to 1et1.rn to tmbmit to the higher knowledge as well as the higher authority of God. Prayer needs to be more simply the trustmg or ourselves to God fut him to do with ne jUBt what he knows to be best.-W. F. A. Ve!'II. 23-26.-The common fate. Job has pointed out t11at the wicked are notalways punished in this li…
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EXPOSITION. point; but perhaps Elipbaz thinks his com- CHAPTER XXII. plo.ints. and expostulations to imply a higher Vera. 1-30.-Eliphaz returns to the value m me.n, e.nd a greater claim to con- attack, but with observations that are at sideration at God's bands, than can rightly be challenged. Certainly God does no…
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'Whioh l,ymns his .praise for e'Vermore. But she brought forth, butter in t\ lordly dish" whe.t is on<' drop ndd<'d to "n OOOl'D? (Judg. v. 25). And thou hut withholden. Ver. 4.-Will he reprove-thee for f8"1" of bread trom the hungry. Later on Job abso- ·11iee 1 rather, I~ ;1 for thy fear of him that lutely denies t…
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doee not ookno'!fledge, Eliphaz Hye, either persons " the old way," either with 111lusion the µmjesty or the ! ornnisoienoe of God. to the seed of Cain before the Flood, who Hero he hl'le, ot ony rate, some to.ngible "corrupted their way" (Gen. vi. 12), or ground for his reproaohes. Job's words ho.ve perhaps with refe…
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mettn "imbetanC<>," but" 11dverenn•." Trane- bC'siilea nmtcriAl cllJ\aider11t1011e 11.rc clearly l ate. Surely they that rMe "l' again8t us (or, taken into 110001mt, nnd the worldly pros•· 011r orif'er3aries) ore <'Ill off; and compare parity which EliphAz pl'Oruiecs forms "11art the Rc\'ised Version. The "adversaries"…
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be, "However rich thou m1tyeet be in the been felt aa obligatory by the natural con- precious motula, thy true l.reaaure-that science. which ihou wilt volue moat-will be the Ver. 28.-Thou shalt alao deoraa a thing Almighty hiineelr." And thou shalt have and it shall be e■tablished nnto thee. What: plenty of ailver ; or…
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