(1) В¶ My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me. (2) Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation? (3) Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?
Was not Job a type of JESUS in the very great sufferings, with which he was exercised; and especially in those exercises when despised and afflicted of men? It should seem indeed, that with an eye to the LORD JESUS, the great enemy of souls was permitted to make his attack upon Job; because it is not only suitable that the Son of GOD, in his own person should triumph over the foe, but in his members also, JESUS as the surety of his people, first entered the field of battle with Satan, and conquered him; but all whom GOD did foreknow, are said to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the first born among many brethren. Romans 8:29. Oh! what a blessedness in this point of view, is there in the afflictions of the righteous!