Job 4-6 - Come to the Grave in Full Vigor

Eliphaz Says the Innocent Do Not Suffer

The Discipline of the Almighty

Job 5:13 LSB - [13] "He catches the wise by their own craftiness, And the counsel of the twisted is quickly thwarted.

1Co 1:19-20 LSB - [19] For it is written, "I WILL DESTROY THE WISDOM OF THE WISE, AND THE CLEVERNESS OF THE CLEVER I WILL SET ASIDE." [20] Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

Job 5:26 LSB - [26] "You will come to the grave in full vigor, Like the stacking of grain in its season.

The Death of the Christian

Charles Haddon Spurgeon September 9, 1855

ii. Spurgeon preached this sermon on the words “You shall come to the grave at a full age, as a sheaf of grain ripens in its season.” These were his points of development regarding the death of a Christian:

• Death is inevitable (You shall come).
• Death is acceptable (You shall come).
• Death is timely (at a full age).
• Death is honorable (as a sheaf of grain ripens in its season).

iii. “Even as the color of the wheat is golden, so that it looks more beauteous than when the greenness of its verdure is on it, so the gray-headed man has a crown of glory on his head. He is glorious in his weakness, more than the young man in his strength, or the maiden in her beauty. Is not a shock of corn a beautiful picture of the state of man, moreover, because very soon it must be taken home? The reaper is coming.” (Spurgeon)

 

Job Answers Eliphaz

Job 6:10 LSB - [10] "But it is still my comfort, And I rejoice in unsparing pain, That I have not [at all] hidden away the words of the Holy One.

Act 20:27 LSB - [27] "For I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole purpose of God.

Psa 40:9-10 LSB - [9] I proclaim good news of righteousness in the great assembly; Behold, I do not restrain my lips, O Yahweh, You know. [10] I do not conceal Your righteousness within my heart; I speak of Your faithfulness and Your salvation; I do not hide Your lovingkindness and Your truth from the great assembly.

iii. If Job sensed a responsibility to not deny or conceal the words of the Holy One, we have an even greater responsibility. “Did you listen to that splendid sermon? What rhetoric! What oratory! But those poor people in the aisles did not understand a word, or if they did they only comprehended disconnected sentences, and lost the soul of the discourse. Is this right? Is this according to the Scriptural idea of preaching?... If the next generation should become more wicked than the present, and still more ignorant of the gospel, the fact will be chargeable upon those who conceal the words of God today.” (Spurgeon)