約伯記 23:3-7 RCUVTS

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 23:1-7

Job to Eliphaz: 1. The experience of a seeker after God. I. GREAT SORROW . (Verse 2.) Two wonders. 1 . An afflicted man a seeker after God. Designed to recall men to God ( Job 36:8 , Job 36:9 ; Isaiah 19:22 ; Jeremiah 2:27 ; Hosea 5:15 ), temporal calamity is not always attended by so blessed a result. Unaccompanied by grace, it tends to harden rather than soften the human heart, to repel rather than attract the soul's confidence and love. Happily, however, in Job's case... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Job 23:1-17

Longing for the appearance of the delivering and justifying God. I. EXCLAMATION . ( Job 23:2-5 .) So bitter is his complaint, "his hand is heavy upon his groaning," i.e. he must force groan after groan out of himself. Oh that he knew where to find the judgment-seat of God, and that he might have the opportunity of pleading his cause! ( Job 23:3-5 ). He possesses still "faith and a good conscience," those best jewels of a Christian ( 1 Timothy 1:5 ), and can think of appearing... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Job 23:3

Oh that I knew where I might find him! This is the cry of the desolate human soul, feeling its need of God, and yet not knowing how to approach him. God seems to be very far removed from us. He is in heaven, and we are on earth; nay, he is in the highest heaven, or outside it, walking on its circumference ( Job 22:14 ). How are we to approach near to him, so near as to be sure that he can hear us? How are we to "find" him? So, in all ages, has the human heart gone out to God, aspiring... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Job 23:3

A great question answered. I. THE RECORDED QUESTION . "Oh that I knew where I might find him!" 1 . Necessary ; since man does not naturally understand either where or how to find God ( Romans 1:28 ; 1 Corinthians 1:21 ; Ephesians 4:18 ). 2 . Important ; since only in the finding and knowing God lies the secret of true happiness ( Job 22:21 ) and the pathway to eternal life ( John 17:3 ). 3 . Personal ; since no man can find God for his neighbour, but... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Job 23:3

The search for God. I. ITS SOURCE . Job is prompted to seek God by his terrible troubles. The false accusations make him the more anxious to find the just Judge, who can clear up the dreadful misunderstandings and vindicate his injured cause. Thus the innocent man in trouble needs God. Still more does the guilty man; for no one can deliver from sin but he against whom one has sinned. Although it is most evident that many who thus need God are not actively seeking for him, yet, even if... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Job 23:3-13

The true support under deferred judgment. In the bitterness of his complaint and the heaviness of his stroke, Job makes known his desire to appeal directly to God. In the impossibility of this his faith is more and more severely tested; but he reposes in an assurance that the Divine eye is upon him, and he is confident of a just and even merciful sentence. So does conscious integrity uphold the tried and suffering believer, over whom for the present the shadows of suspicion gather, although... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Job 23:4

I would order my cause before him . Job has put away the feelings of shame and diffidence, which were predominant with him when he said, "How should man be just with God? If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand" ( Job 9:2 , Job 9:3 ); and again, "How much less shall I answer him, and cheese out my words to reason with him? Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer; but I would make my supplication to my Judge" ( Job 9:14 , Job 9:15 ). He now... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Job 23:5

I would know the words which he would answer me. It would be a satisfaction to Job in his present mood to know exactly how God would answer him, what reply he would make to his "arguments." The tone of thought is too bold for a creature, and would certainly not be becoming in Christians. And understand what he would say unto me . Here we have another of the redundant second clauses, which merely echo the idea contained in the previous clause. read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Job 23:6

Will he plead against me with his great power? rather, Would he contend against me in the greatness of his power? (see the Revised Version). That is, "Would he crush me by mere strength and force? Would he use against me that overwhelming might which he possesses? No, Job answers, certainly not; but he would put strength in me; or, rather, but he would give heed to me ' he would pay attention to my cause (comp. Job 4:20 , ad fin; where the same verb is used). read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Job 23:7

There the righteous might dispute with him . There, before his high tribunal ( Job 23:3 ), the upright man ( ישׁר ) might argue or reason with him, appealing from his justice to his mercy—from God the Judge to God the Saviour (Loathes), vindicating his integrity, acknowledging his transgressions, and pleading that they were sins of infirmity-and at last obtaining from God the acquittal anticipated in the second clause of the verse. In the absence of any revelation of an Advocate who... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 23:1-7

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 23:1-17

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 23:3

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 23:3

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 23:3

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 23:3-13

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 23:4

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 23:5

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 23:6

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 23:7

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