A Commentary on the Book of Job: With a Translation |
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... justice or the kindness of God in exposing him to what seems so cruel an experiment . The path of danger is the path of honour . Could Job have known , as Jehovah did know , that he was being put to the proof in order both that all the ...
... justice or the kindness of God in exposing him to what seems so cruel an experiment . The path of danger is the path of honour . Could Job have known , as Jehovah did know , that he was being put to the proof in order both that all the ...
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... justice , gave counsel in emer- gencies , his lightest word or look being eagerly caught up and deferred to , we may be sure that his estate lay in the immediate vicinity of a populous city , if it did not include it . Verse 4. - Job ...
... justice , gave counsel in emer- gencies , his lightest word or look being eagerly caught up and deferred to , we may be sure that his estate lay in the immediate vicinity of a populous city , if it did not include it . Verse 4. - Job ...
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... justice of God , to question the integrity of Job is the only alternative left them . So that Job's third and severest trial consists , not in any new bereavement or loss , but in the interpretation put on his former losses and sorrows ...
... justice of God , to question the integrity of Job is the only alternative left them . So that Job's third and severest trial consists , not in any new bereavement or loss , but in the interpretation put on his former losses and sorrows ...
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... justice of God , we can see that his patience is beginning to give way , that his woe is heavier than he can bear . He feels that it is God who has SECTION III . THE FIRST COLLOQUY . CHAPTERS IV . 72 [ CHAP . III . THE CURSE .
... justice of God , we can see that his patience is beginning to give way , that his woe is heavier than he can bear . He feels that it is God who has SECTION III . THE FIRST COLLOQUY . CHAPTERS IV . 72 [ CHAP . III . THE CURSE .
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... justice both of man and of God ; for it is these general charges , these covert and undefined insinuations of some " occulted guilt , " which , because it is impossible to meet them , most of all vex and perturb the soul . But as , in ...
... justice both of man and of God ; for it is these general charges , these covert and undefined insinuations of some " occulted guilt , " which , because it is impossible to meet them , most of all vex and perturb the soul . But as , in ...
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admit affirms afflicted allusion Almighty ancient answer appeal Arab argument Barachel Bildad Book of Job calamities Chap Chapter charge Cheaper Edition Chokmah cloth Colloquy conclusion condemn confess conviction darkness death Demy 8vo despair Divine Divine Providence doubt earth Elihu Eliphaz evil eyes facts fear Friends give God's guilt Hadean Hades hand hath Hauran heart heaven Hebrew hope human Illustrations iniquity innocent integrity Jehovah Job's Judge justice kesitah light lips look Lord mind misery moral mouth mystery natural noble once passion phrase Poem Poet post 8vo price 35 proverbs punishment rendered reply resentment retributive righteousness Satan Second Edition sense shew simply sinner sins Small crown 8vo soul speak spirit suffer sure Temanite tempest thee Theophany thou thought tion tone touch Translated true truth utter Verse 13 vindicate whole wicked wisdom words wrong Zophar
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