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“Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard:
I cry for help, but there is no judgment....
He hath stripped me of my glory,
And taken the crown from my head....
My kinsfolk have failed,
And my familiar friends have forgotten me....
They whom I loved are turned against me....
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my
friends;
For the hand of God hath touched me.”
“Oh that I knew where I might find Him,
That I might come even to His seat!...
Behold, I go forward, but He is not there;
And backward, but I cannot perceive Him:
On the left hand, where He doth work, but I cannot
behold Him:
He hideth Himself on the right hand, that I cannot
see
Him.
But He knoweth the way that I take;
When He hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.”
“Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him.”
“I know that my Redeemer liveth,
And that He shall stand up at the last upon the
earth:
And after my skin hath been destroyed, this shall be,
Even from my flesh shall I see God:
Whom I shall see for myself,
And mine eyes shall behold, and not as a stranger.”
Job 19:7-21
, R.V.;
23:3-10
, R.V.;
13:15
;
19:25-27
, R.V.,
margin.
According to his faith, so was it unto Job. “When He hath tried
me,” he said, “I shall come forth as gold.”
Job 23:10
. So it came to
pass. By his patient endurance he vindicated his own character, and
thus the character of Him whose representative he was. And “the Lord