Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Job 13:28
REFLECTIONS READER! let you and I pause over this view of Job's confidence, and ask our own hearts whether, in our approaches now in ordinances, and looking forward to our appearance shortly before the judgment seat, when we shall stand before the throne, we have this well grounded assurance of acceptance in JESUS. It is a grand question, and of all others the most important to be rightly known. Some are for postponing this enquiry, as if it could not be fully known until the last day. But let... read more
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Job 13:18-19
(18) Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified. (19) Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost. One might have thought, had we not known otherwise, that Job had read Paul's challenge, Romans 8:33 . or that he had humbly borrowed those sweet words which the prophet useth in reference, as we may suppose, to the person of Jesus. Isaiah 50:7-8 . But, indeed, what Job had said before, that though GOD should slay him, yet... read more