The Book of Job
Book of Job, 23
A Song and a Solace
Job 10:12-13
Pastor’s Opening
JOB’S misery was extreme, and it seemed as if he could never forget it. He never did forget the fact of it, but he did forget the pain of it. That he had been utterly miserable, would always remain recorded upon the tablets of his memory; but the wretchedness itself would not remain. It would be so entirely removed that it should be as a thing that has been altogether forgotten. Nothing better can happen to our misery than that it should be forgotten in the sense referred to in our text; for then, evidently, it will be clean gone from us.
Scripture Citation and Verse(s)
Job 11:16
“Thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away.”
Main Theme(s)
I. First, WITH REFERENCE TO THE COMMON TROUBLES OF LIFE WHICH AFFECT BELIEVING MEN AND WOMEN,
II. A CHEERING WORD TO POOR SOULS UNDER DISTRESS ON ACCOUNT OF SIN,
III. HOW SWEETLY GOD CAN MAKE A SINNER FORGET HIS MISERY, and
IV. THIS TEXT WILL COME TRUE TO THE SICKENING, DECLINING, SOON DEPARTING BELIEVER.
