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He makes Job sensible of his nothingness. Job confesses himself to be vile, and declares that he will be silent before God. The Lord resumes the discourse, and Job acknowledges that he has darkened counsel by speaking of that which he understood not. But now, still more submissively, he declares openly his real condition. Formerly he had heard of God by the hearing of the ear; now his eye had seen Him, wherefore he abhors himself and repents in dust and ashes. This is the effect of having seen God, and of finding himself in His presence. The work of God was accomplished-the work of His perfect goodness, which would not leave Job without causing him to know himself, without bringing him into God's own presence. The object of discipline was attained, and Job is surrounded with more blessings than before.<p>We learn two things here; first, that man cannot stand in the presence of God; and secondly, the ways of God for the instruction of the inner man. It is also a picture of God's dealings with the Jews on the earth.<p>The Book of Job plainly sets before us also the teaching of the Spirit, as to the place which Satan occupies in the dealings of God and His government, with respect to man on the earth. We may also remark the perfect and faithful care of God, from whom (whatever may have been the malice of Satan) all this proceeded, because He saw that Job needed it. We observe that it is God who sets the case of Job before Satan, and that the latter disappears from the scene; because here it is a question of his doings on the earth, and not of his inward temptations. Further, if God had stopped short in the outward afflictions, Job would have had fresh cause for self-complacency. Man might have judged that those afflictions were ample. But the evil of Job's heart consisted in his resting on the fruits of grace in himself, and this would have only increased the good opinion he had already entertained of himself: kind in prosperity, he would have been also patient in adversity. God therefore carries on His work, that Job may know himself.<p>Either the sympathy of his friends (for we can bear alone, and from God in His presence, that which we cannot bear when we have the opportunity of making our complaint before man), or the pride which is not roused while we are alone but which is wounded when others witness our misery, or perhaps the two together, upset the mind of Job; and he curses the day of his birth. The depths of his heart. are displayed. It was this that he needed.<p>We have thus, man standing between Satan, the accuser, and God, the question being not God's revelation of everlasting righteousness, but His ways with the soul of man in this world. The godly man comes into trouble. This has to be accounted for, the friends insisting that this world is an adequate expression of God's righteous government, and that consequently as Job had made great profession of piety he was a hypocrite. This he stoutly denies, but his will unbroken rises up against God. God has chosen to do it, and he cannot help it. Only he is sure if he could find Him, He would put words in his mouth. He spoke well of Him though in rebellion, and thinking of his goodness as his own. Still he affirms that though there was a government, this world did not shew it as his friends said; but he is not broken down before God. Elihu comes in, the interpreter, one among a thousand (and practically how rare they are!) and he shews God's discipline with man and with the righteous, and rebukes both sides with intelligence. Then God comes in and puts Job in his place by the revelation of Himself; but owns Job's right feeling as to Him, and puts the friends in their true place, and Job is to intercede for them. Job, humbled, can be fully blessed. This knowledge of self in God's sight is of all importance; we are never humble nor distrustful of self till then. <p></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/job/42-2.htm">Job 42:2</a></div><div class="verse">I know that thou canst do every <i>thing</i>, and <i>that</i> no thought can be withholden from thee.</div><div class="comm"><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/job/42-3.htm">Job 42:3</a></div><div class="verse">Who <i>is</i> he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.</div><div class="comm"><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/job/42-4.htm">Job 42:4</a></div><div class="verse">Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.</div><div class="comm"><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/job/42-5.htm">Job 42:5</a></div><div class="verse">I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.</div><div class="comm"><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/job/42-6.htm">Job 42:6</a></div><div class="verse">Wherefore I abhor <i>myself</i>, and repent in dust and ashes.</div><div class="comm"><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/job/42-7.htm">Job 42:7</a></div><div class="verse">And it was <i>so</i>, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me <i>the thing that is</i> right, as my servant Job <i>hath</i>.</div><div class="comm"><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/job/42-8.htm">Job 42:8</a></div><div class="verse">Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you <i>after your</i> folly, in that ye have not spoken of me <i>the thing which is</i> right, like my servant Job.</div><div class="comm"><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/job/42-9.htm">Job 42:9</a></div><div class="verse">So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite <i>and</i> Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the LORD commanded them: the LORD also accepted Job.</div><div class="comm"><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/job/42-10.htm">Job 42:10</a></div><div class="verse">And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.</div><div class="comm"><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/job/42-11.htm">Job 42:11</a></div><div class="verse">Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.</div><div class="comm"><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/job/42-12.htm">Job 42:12</a></div><div class="verse">So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.</div><div class="comm"><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/job/42-13.htm">Job 42:13</a></div><div class="verse">He had also seven sons and three daughters.</div><div class="comm"><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/job/42-14.htm">Job 42:14</a></div><div class="verse">And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Kerenhappuch.</div><div class="comm"><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/job/42-15.htm">Job 42:15</a></div><div class="verse">And in all the land were no women found <i>so</i> fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.</div><div class="comm"><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/job/42-16.htm">Job 42:16</a></div><div class="verse">After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, <i>even</i> four generations.</div><div class="comm"><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/job/42-17.htm">Job 42:17</a></div><div class="verse">So Job died, <i>being</i> old and full of days.</div><div class="comm"><div class="comm"></div></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Synopsis of the Books of the Bible, by John Nelson Darby [1857-62].<br>Text Courtesy of Internet Sacred Texts Archive.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../job/41.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Job 41"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Job 41" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../psalms/1.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Psalm 1"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Psalm 1" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpc/job/42-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><br /><br /></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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