(1) В¶ Then Job answered and said, (2) Even today is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning. (3) Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat! (4) I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. (5) I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me. (6) Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.
If we read these words of Job with an eye to the gospel, (and after what we have reviewed of Job's strong faith, in his kinsman Redeemer, chap. 19:25-27. we surely may safely do it;) they contain the sweet and gracious breathings of a pious soul, after fellowship with GOD in CHRIST. And I beg the Reader to observe yet further with me, how ardent that faith in CHRIST was, when the suffering Believer took confidence, that GOD would put strength in him, and not put forth that strength against him. For, Reader! what is GOD'S strength, as it concerns a poor awakened sinner, but JESUS, and his salvation? That beautiful passage, in the Prophet, fully confirms it: Let him take hold of my strength (saith JEHOVAH) to make peace with me, and he shall make peace with me. Isaiah 27:5.-What is the strength of JEHOVAH but CHRIST? Hence GOD commands Zion to put it on, Isaiah 2:1. And, in reference to former manifestations of it, GOD himself, by the Prophet, calls upon his strength, to awake, as the arm of the LORD. Isaiah 51:9.