The Book of Job
Book of Job, 59
Concerning Death
Job 30:23
Pastor’s Opening
JOB suffered from a terrible sickness, which filled him with pain both day and night. It is supposed that, in addition to his grievous eruptions upon the skin, he endured great difficulty in breathing. He says in the eighteenth verse, “By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.” His clothes were sodden, and clung to him: his skin was blackened, and seemed to be tightened. He was like a man whose tunic strangles him; the collar of his garment seemed to be fast bound about his throat.
Scripture Citation and Verse(s)
Job 30:23
“For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.”
Main Theme(s)
I. First, then, very solemnly under the teaching of God’s Spirit, I call your attention to a piece of PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE: “I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living,”
II. Having thus discoursed upon a piece of personal knowledge, I now beg you to see in my text the shining of HOLY INTELLIGENCE.
III. I pass on to notice the QUIET EXPECTATION which breathes in this text.
