Job
Job has no mention of the ancient patriarchs or old Jews.
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62 NOTES FROM MY BIBLE.
1: 1. Job is called “perfect” here: in last chapter, verse 6, he “abhors himself.7’ The more one, grows in grace, the meaner he is in his own eyes.
8. “There is none like him in all the earth.” Job was so like God that there was none like him.
12. Men and devils can only give what God prescribes: they cannot themselves appoint our physic.
21. Affliction is like the wind that blows one vessel
into port, another to destruction. “How much did he leave?” said a man when the death of a wealthy friend was mentioned. “He left it all.”
2: 3. Job was a perfect man, but needing correction.
3: 3. Instead of cursing the sin in which he was born,
Job cursed the day in which he was born.
5: 17. By chastening, the Lord separates the sin that he hates, from Uie sinner whom he loves.
7: 13. God sometimes puts his children to bed in the dark.
14:14. “If a man die, shall he live again?” Answered by Christ at Lazarus’s grave. They looked for resurrection before Christ’s time. See Acts 23: 6; 24:14, 15; 2 Sam. 12:23; Acts 26:6, 7; 28:20.
18: 14. Death may be the king of terrors, but Jesus is King of kings.
19: 25, 28. Redemption — Resurrection.
23:10. God’s furnaces are still burning: e. g., physical suffering, mental distress. Gold comes forth pure, precious. Cf. Mai. 3:3.
29: Job says “I,” twenty times. Cf. Chap. 42: 6.
Some nftm write the letter small — “i” — but no one can get rid altogether of the self-life. One cannot jump from his shadow; but if he turns toward the sun, it is cast behind; and if he stands beneath it at its zenith his shadow is beneath his feet.
33: 4. “The spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.” You have but one arrow to shoot at the mark. If it be shot at random, God may never put another into your bow.
V. 24. Ruin, Ransom.
V. 25. Regeneration.
V. 26. Reconciliation, Righteousness.
V. 28. Resurrection.
34: 21-24. Hiding from the presence of God. See Gen.
3:8, 10; Matt. 10:26. Hiding under false hopes. See Ps. 10:11; Job 8:
13, 16. Hiding under false peace. 1 Thess. 5:3; Matt.
25:44, 46. Hiding under self-righteousness. Luke 18: 11, 12;
Rom. 10:1-4; Job 29. Hiding under God’s works. Acts 8: 9-13. Hiding under a lie. Acts 5:1-11; 2 Kings 5:25;
Isa. 28:17. Hiding desired at judgment time. Rev. 6: 12-17.
23. A lxpy received a number of parcels from his father, to carry. His brother said, “You have got too many-.” “Never mind,” he replied, “father knows how many I can carry.”
38:7. “The morning stars sang together” — vibrated. Light is produced by motion.
42: 2. The Lord’s doing and thoughts. — Margin.
6. “I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.” Moses hid his face at the burning bush. Ex. 3: 6. Peter realized his sinfulness. Luke 5: 8. Paul fell to the earth. Acts 9: 4. John “fell at His feet as dead.” Rev. 1: 17.
13. God doubled Job’s family. He had ten children
on earth and ten in heaven.
14. Jemima — dove.
Kezia — cassia.
Keren-happuch — horn of paint.
Three names signifying beauty j so that Job’s leprosy left no taint