1393. Job's Despair

Job's Despair

"I cry unto Thee, and Thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and Thou regardest me not" (Job_30:20).

There came, in the days of Job's darkness, a despair that almost overwhelmed him. He cried; "Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: * * my soul is poured out upon me: * * my bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest. * * I am become like dust and ashes."

Job, in his anguish, felt that God was against him. He said, "Thou opposest Thyself against me. Thou liftest me up to the wind; * * and dissolvest my substance. * * When I waited for the light, there came darkness. My bowels boiled, and rested not."

The Lord Jesus Christ, as He passed on to His Cross, cried out unto the Father in words quite similar to Job's.

This is the language of the Cross: "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me? Why art Thou so far from helping Me, and from the words of My roaring?"

"O My God, I cry in the daytime, but Thou hearest not; * * I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people" (Selections from Psalms 22).

The Lord Jesus Christ, in the anguish of His soul felt like one overcome with the waters. He said: "I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow Me. I am weary of My crying: My throat is dried: Mine eyes fail while I wait for My God" (Quotations from Psalms 69).

Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR