“ For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me: ”
For God maketh my heart soft - That is, “faint.” He takes away my strength; compare the notes at Isaiah 7:4 . This effect was produced on Job by the contemplation of the eternal plan and the pow...
For (k) God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me: (k) That I should not be without fear.
But God follows His own will and does what He pleases. Therefore Job is afraid. In Job 23:13 a read with Duhm, But he has decreed. Job 23:14 points out that Job's case does not stand alone....
GOD. Hebrew El. App-4. soft . faint, or unnerved. Compare Deuteronomy 20:3 . Isaiah 7:4 . THE ALMIGHTY. Hebrew Shaddai. App-4.
For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me: For God maketh my heart soft - Prostrates my strength, deprives me of courage, so that I sink beneath my burden, and I am troubled at the...
For God maketh my heart soft, &c.— For God causeth my heart to melt; the Almighty terrifieth me; Job 23:17 , Yet so, that my mind doth not despond for that darkness, even that thick darknes...
For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me: Soft - faint. Hath melted my courage. Here again Job's language is that of Jesus Christ ( Psalms 22:14 , "My heart is like wax: it...
Job's Seventh Speech (Job 23, 24) Job makes but slight reference to the remarks of Eliphaz, but continues to brood over the mysteries of God's dealings with himself ( Job 23 ), and with mankind (...
For God maketh my heart soft. — That is, “He has made it full of apprehension and fear, and the Almighty hath troubled me in these two respects: that He did not cut me off before the darkness, so t...
XX. WHERE IS ELOAH? Job 23:1-17 ; Job 24:1-25 Job SPEAKS THE obscure couplet with which Job begins appears to involve some reference to his whole condition alike of body and mind. "Again to...
“He Knoweth the Way That I Take” Job 23:1-17 This chapter is threaded by a sublime faith. Job admitted that his complaint seemed rebellious, but God's hand had been heavy on him. From the misun...
In answer to Eliphaz, ob took no notice of the terrible charges made against him. That is postponed to a later speech. Rather, he discussed Eliphai conception of his view of God as being absent from...
(13) В¶ But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth. (14) For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him. (15)...
For God maketh my heart soft ,.... Not tender as Josiah's was, 2 Kings 22:19 , or as the heart of every penitent is, when God makes it humble and contrite by his spirit and grace, or takes away th...
For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me: Ver. 16. For God maketh my heart soft ] Methinks I feel it fall asunder in my bosom like drops of water, and dissolved with manifold af...
For God maketh my heart soft Or, tender; he hath bruised and broken, or melted it, so that I have no spirit, or courage, or strength in me: so this, or the like phrase, frequently signifies. Ther...
HE LONGS TO LAY HIS CASE BEFORE GOD (vv.1-9) What Eliphaz has said to Job was hardly worth an answer, so that Job practically ignores this and lays before his friends the actual distresses that...
Job's Comfort in His Integrity. B. C. 1520. 13 But he is in one mind, and who can...
Soft, or tender . He hath bruised, and broken, or melted it, so that I have no spirit, nor courage, nor strength in me, as this or the like phrase is used, Deuteronomy 20:3 Psalms 39:11 Isai...
JOB’S THIRD REPLY TO ELIPHAZ Ceases directly to address his friends. His present speech rather a soliloquy. Takes no notice of the charges laid against him by Eliphaz. Laments the want of access...
We shall read, this evening, in the Book of Job. May the good Spirit instruct us during our reading! Here we shall see Job in a very melancholy plight, grievously distressed in mind, and yet, for al...
Job 23:3 . Oh that I knew where I might find him. Job sighs for the favours conferred on certain patriarchs, whom God had met. The living oracle was with Noah after the flood; it was with Abraham...
God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me. God the softener of the heart This is not a Jewish idea. The dispensation of Moses was a religious state, in which the harder features o...
EXPOSITION Verses 1-24:25 Job replies to Eliphaz in a speech of no great length, which, though it occupies two chapters, runs to only forty-two verses. He begins by justifying the vehemence o...
Job Despairs of Finding Vindication in this Life
Isaiah 57:16 ; Isaiah 6:5 ; Job 27:2 ; Joel 1:15 ; Psalms 22:14 ; Psalms 88:16 ; Ruth 1:20
Job Challenged by Satan Job 1:1 - Job 23:1-17 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We begin today a series of studies on one of the most interesting characters of the Bible. He is Job, the man of patience....
Soft — He hath bruised, and broken, or melted it, so that I have no spirit in me.