May 31, 2019

Am I a Sea, or a Whale?   “Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?”— Job vii. 17.   JOB was in great pain when he thus bitterly complained. These moans came from him when his skin was broken and had become loathsome, and he sat upon a dunghill and scraped himself …

Job:7:12

January 11, 2018

The Touchstone of Godly Sincerity   "Will he always call upon God?"—Job 27:10        When Job resumes his address in this chapter, he appeals to God in a very solemn matter as to the truth of all that he had spoken. No less vehemently does he assert his innocence of any signal crime, or his consciousness of …

Job:27:10

January 1, 1970

THE TURNING OF JOB’S CAPTIVITY.   “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.”— Job xlii. 10.   SINCE God is immutable he acts always upon the same principles, and hence his course of action in the olden times to a man of …

Job:42:10

January 1, 1970

Questions Which Ought to be Asked   "But none saith, Where is God my Maker, who giveth songs in the night; who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?"—Job 35:10-11.   Elihu perceived the great ones of the earth oppressing the needy, and he traced their domineering tyranny …

Job:35:10-11

January 1, 1970

Washed to Greater Foulness   “If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean; yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.”— Job ix. 30, 31.   I FEEL certain that I am sent on a special errand at this time. Before my mind’s eye I see …

Job:9:30-31

December 5, 1907

No. 3069A Sermon Published on Thrusday, December 5, 1907, Delivered by C.H. Spurgeon,At The Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington,On Lord’s-Day Evening, May 31, 1874 “If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean; yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.” — Job 9:30, 31. WE are …

Job:9:30-31

January 31, 1907

No. 3025A Sermon Published on Thursday, January 31st, 1907, Delivered by C.H. Spurgeon, At The Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington, On Thursday Evening, February, 11th, 1869. “The LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.” — Job 1:21 OR, as some read it, “The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away; blessed …

Job:1:21

February 27, 1898

Songs in the Night   “But none saith, Where is God my Maker, who giveth songs in the night?” — Job xxxv. 10.   ELIHU was a wise man, exceedingly wise, though not as wise as the all-wise Jehovah, who sees light in the clouds, and finds order in confusion; hence Elihu, being much puzzled at beholding Job so …

Job:35:10

November 30, 1890

"So it is."   “Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.”— Job v. 27.   THUS closed a forcible speech by Eliphaz the Temanite: it may be called his “summing up.” He virtually says, “What I have testified in the name of my friends is no dream of …

Job:5:27

September 14, 1890

Longing to Find God   “Oh that I knew where I might find him!”— Job xxiii. 3.   “OH, that I know where I might find him!” Observe that Job is so taken up with his one great desire, that ho forgets that everybody else is not thinking in the same way; and he uses a pronoun, though he …

Job:23:3