Job 30:23 For I know that you will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living. What were the definite grounds on which Job formed this conclusion? 1. What he saw around him on every side. 2. Job's bodily sufferings intimated also the same result. These increased and accumulated, and plainly tended, unless arrested, in the providence of God, to dissolution. 3. Creation around him impressed on him the same conclusion. 4. Job learned the lesson from Divine teaching. Learn who is the dispenser of death. We are prone to attribute all to second causes. Notice Job's personal application and appropriation to the truth in the text. We must translate Christianity from the impersonal to the personal. We have a description of that change of which the patriarch was thus personally assured. He calls it "death," and the "house appointed for all living." Death is the child of sin, though grace has made it the servant of Jesus. It is not annihilation. There is nothing natural or desirable in death itself. This is the only house that may be called the house of humanity. It is a dark house, a solitary house, a silent house, an ancient house. Even this house has a sunlit side. It is not an eternal prison house, but a resting place, a cemetery or sleeping place. (John Cumming, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.WEB: For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living. |
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