BRAGADAYJAH
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Job’s Reply to Eliphaz.
In
his reply Job said, Oh that my grief be thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid
in the balances together! For now it
would be heavier than the sand of the sea, therefore my words are swallowed up.
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drink up my
spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me. Doth the wild
ass bray when he has grass? Or loweth the ox over its fodder? Can that which is
unsavory be eaten without salt, or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
The things that my soul refuses to touch are as my sorrowful meat. O that I might
have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I hope for. Even
that it would please God to destroy me; that He would let loose his hand and
cut me off. Then should I yet have comfort; yea I would harden myself, in
sorrows; let him not spare for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One. What
is my strength, that I should hope? And what is mine end that I should prolong
my life. In my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of brass? Is not
my help in me? And is wisdom driven quite from me? To him that is afflicted
pity should be shewn, from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the
Almighty. Job’s Reply to Eliphaz.
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