The Book of Job
Book of Job, 40
Not Now, But Hereafter
Job 21:29-31
Pastor’s Opening
THE sermon which I preached two Lord’s days ago upon the accidents, has caused considerable consternation among pious people with weak heads. Their idea that all calamities are judgments, is so inveterate a prejudice, and so favourite a dogma, that our exposure of its absurdity is, in their opinion, eminently calculated to encourage sin and quiet the consciences of offenders.
Scripture Citation and Verse(s)
Job 21:29-31
“Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens, that the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath. Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?”
Main Theme(s)
I. First, then, by way of affirmation — THERE MUST BE A PUNISHMENT FOR SIN.
II. I turn now to the second portion of the discourse: THE NATURE OF THIS PUNISHMENT by way of explanation.
III. I close now by offering SOME FEW WORDS OF EXPOSTULATION.
