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Also recommended: The Argument of the Book of Job Unfolded by William Henry Green. Quote: |
This volume is not a detailed commentary; rather it furnishes an overview of the principal persons and themes in the book of Job: Job's happy estate, Satan, Job in affliction, Job's three friends, Job's conflict, Job's triumph, Job's refutation of his friends, Elihu, the Lord, and the place of the book of Job in the scheme of holy scripture. William Henry Green (1825-1900) was a professor at Princeton Seminary. His volume about the book of Job was originally published in 1874.
| Job's friends essentially assumed that Job was to blame for the suffering he was going through. Many of their words were true in the abstract, but misapplied. They were of no real comfort to Job in light of his actual situation. One can say to a suffering friend that "you are getting what you deserve" and it may in fact be true, but are those words fitly spoken (Prov. 25.11)?
See also this study.
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"Let your Morning Thoughts, and your last Evening Thoughts, be what shall become of you to all Eternity." -- Matthew Poole
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