Job

This chapter brings us to the close of Job’s history, in which we find the Holy Spirit’s testimony by His servant James to be quite true: the...

Having given an example, in the last chapter, of the sovereignty of His power in the creation and government of the largest of land creatures;...

After the Lord had heaped many hard questions upon Job, in order to show him – by his obvious ignorance in the works of nature – what an...

This whole chapter, like the former, contains the Lord’s solemn but tender expostulation with Job. In a very beautiful manner, He sent His...

In most disputes, the strife is over who shall have the last word. In this controversy, the three friends had tamely yielded this to Job; and...

Elihu concluded his sermon in this chapter, and what a noble sermon it was! Having shown the goodness, righteousness, wisdom, and mercy of the...

Having particularly reproved Job for some of his unadvised speeches (which Job had nothing to say in the vindication of), Elihu now endeavored...

Job still remained silent; and Elihu, for the third time, undertook to show him that he had spoken amiss, and that he ought to recant. He began...

Job not only listened patiently to all of Elihu’s words, but he also took them kindly, because he saw that Elihu meant well. And while his...

Pompous prefaces often introduce poor performances, but Elihu’s discourse did not disappoint the expectations which his preface had raised. It...

The controversy between Job and his friends was now at an end. They had failed to make out their case; but before God Himself took up the...

During the debate that had been going on throughout the majority of this Book, Job had often protested his integrity in general; but here he...

It is a melancholy “But now” with which this chapter opens. Having pointed out the height of the day of his prosperity and honor in the...

After Job’s excellent discourse concerning wisdom in the foregoing chapter, he sat down and paused awhile – not because he had talked himself...

Job and his friends had been speaking about the dealings of God’s Providence toward the wicked and the righteous. Job had shown that some...

Job had sometimes complained that his friends were so eager in disputing, that they would scarcely let him put in a word. “Suffer me that I may...

This chapter is Job’s short reply to Bildad’s short discourse in chapter 25. And here he was so far from contradicting Bildad, that he actually...

Bildad made a very short reply to Job’s words in the previous chapter, as if he was beginning to be tired of the discussion. He dropped the...

Having given vent to his passion by his complaints in the foregoing chapter, and thereby gained some ease; Job now broke off his complaints...

Job continued to make his defense in this chapter. Here he did not make a direct reply to Eliphaz; but rather, he now appealed to God. He...