Job 42
Treated in 25 passages across the library.
The verses these writers stop at
- 42:5 I had heard of you by what my ears were told, but now my own eyes have seen you. 15
- 42:6 So I take back what I said, and I repent in dust and ashes. 3
- 42:2 I know that you can do everything; no purpose of yours can be stopped. 2
- 42:8 So now take seven bulls and seven rams, go to my servant Job, and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer and not deal with you as your folly deserves. For you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has." 2
- 42:10 When Job prayed for his friends, the LORD restored his fortunes, and the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before. 2
- 42:7 After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My anger burns against you and against your two friends, because you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has. 1
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Where it is preached
- Communion with God ·
Digression II: all solid wisdom laid up in Christ cites Job xlii. 5
…Hath it not been so with the “choicest of his saints?” Hab. iii. 16; Isa. vi. 5; Job xlii. 5, 6. Whence, then, should we take to ourselves this boldness, to walk with God? This the…
- Divine Healing ·
Job’s Sickness and Healing cites Job 42:6
…Lord appeared to him that he came to say, “I abhor myself and repent in dust and ashes” (Job 42:6). To him sickness became a signal blessing in bringing him to know God in quite a new…
- The Key Teachings of John Calvin ·
The Knowledge of God and of Ourselves cites JOB 42:5–6
Mine eye seeth thee. Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes. JOB 42:5–6 The Institutes of the Christian Religion is one of the longest and most demanding books…
- Portraits of Courage – Watchman Nee ·
The Breaking of the Outer Man cites Job 42:5
…his ordeal, “I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear; but now mine eye seeth thee” (Job 42:5, ASV). The difference is not that Job's earlier theology was entirely false. He knew true…
- All Things for Good ·
The best things work for good to the godly cites Job xlii. 8
…for forgiveness of sin. “My servant Job shall pray for you, for him will I accept” (Job xlii. 8). Thus the prayers of the saints work for good to the body mystical. And this is no small…
- All Things for Good ·
The worst things work for good to the godly cites Job xlii. 10
…integrity, and did compensate his loss by giving him twice as much as ever he had before (Job xlii. 10). Paul was smitten with blindness. This was uncomfortable, but it turned to his good. God…
- The Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Faith ·
The Christian Conception of God—The Infinite Perfection and Unity of God cites Job 42:2
…says: "Behold, I am Jehovah, the God of all flesh: is there anything too hard for me?" In Job 42:2 we read these words of Job, when at last he has been brought to see and to recognise the…
- The Pilgrim's Progress ·
The Fifth Stage cites Job 42:5
…person may do, but by a practical subjection in faith and love to the power of the word. Job 42:5,6; Psa. 50:23; Ezek. 20:43; Matt. 5:8; John 14:15; Rom. 10:10; Ezek. 36:25; Phil. 1:27…
- The Key Teachings of A. W. Tozer ·
Holy, Holy, Holy cites JOB 42:5–6
…ear: but now mine eye seeth thee. Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes. JOB 42:5–6 Holiness and wrath Tozer did not flinch from the hard corollary. The holiness of God is…
- The Key Teachings of Elisabeth Elliot ·
On Asking God Why cites JOB 42:5
…JOB 38:4 I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee. JOB 42:5 That, for her, was the pattern. God does not owe us explanations, and He seldom gives…
- Days of Heaven Upon Earth ·
July cites Job xlii. 5
…that always causeth us to triumph in Christ Jesus.” July 26 “Now mine eye seeth Thee” (Job xlii. 5). We must recognize the true character of our self-life and its real virulence and…
- The Key Teachings of John Owen ·
Think Greatly of God cites JOB 42:5–6
…ear: but now mine eye seeth thee. Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes. JOB 42:5–6 In the middle of a practical manual on fighting sin, Owen does something unexpected. He…
- The Master’s Indwelling ·
Carnal Christians cites Job 42:5
…he begins to cry: “I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you” Job 42:5. God comes near him. Job, the righteous man, whom God trusted, saw in himself the deep…
- Real Questions – Book 2 ·
Is It Okay to Be Angry with God? cites Job 42:7
…said to the friends, “you have not spoken about Me accurately, as My servant Job has” (Job 42:7). God preferred Job’s raw honesty to their polished theology. Anger brought to God is a…
- Humility ·
Humility and Holiness cites Job 42: 5
…self-abasement which cannot but be the mark of the soul that has seen the glory of God (Job 42: 5, 6; Isa.6:5). It reveals itself, not only in words or thoughts but in a tone, a way of…
- The Key Teachings of Hudson Taylor ·
Blessed Adversity cites JOB 42:5
…by hearsay. I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee. JOB 42:5 “Light out of darkness is God’s order,” Taylor writes, and he ends with a promise: that…
- The Key Teachings of Charles G. Finney ·
Confess and Forsake cites JOB 42:5–6
…ear: but now mine eye seeth thee. Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes. JOB 42:5–6 Where care is needed Finney’s teaching on repentance is bracing and mostly biblical, but…
- The Key Teachings of Jonathan Edwards ·
Signs of Gracious Affections cites JOB 42:5–6
…ear: but now mine eye seeth thee. Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes. JOB 42:5–6 The temper of Christ The eighth sign is the character of Jesus reproduced — what Edwards…
- The Big Story ·
Songs and Wisdom cites Job 42:5
…he suffered, came out saying, “My ears had heard of You, but now my eyes have seen You” (Job 42:5). Then a twist. God said to the friends, “you have not spoken about Me accurately, as My…
- The Mortification of Sin in Believers ·
Thoughtfulness of the excellency of the majesty of God cites Job xlii. 5
…the excellency of God, he is filled with self-abhorrence and is pressed to humiliation, Job xlii. 5, 6. And in what state doth the prophet Habakkuk affirm himself to be cast, upon the…
- The Mortification of Sin in Believers ·
When the heart is disquieted by sin, speak no peace to it until God speak it cites Job xlii. 6
…folly in them. When Job comes up to a thorough healing, he cries, “Now I abhor myself,” Job xlii. 6; and until he did so, he had no abiding peace. He might perhaps have made up himself with…
- Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners ·
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners; Or, a Brief Relation of the Exceeding Mercy of God in Christ, to His Poor Servant John Bunyan cites Job 42.10
…When Job had passed through his captivity, he had ‘twice as much as he had before’ (Job 42.10). Blessed be God for Jesus Christ our Lord. Many other things I might here make…
- Freedom of the Will ·
Section XI. The Evidence of Gods Certain Foreknowledge of the Volitions of Moral Agents cites Job xlii. 2
…disannul,” (Isa. xiv. 27.) And that he cannot be frustrated in one design or thought, (Job xlii. 2.) And “that which God doth, it shall be for ever, that nothing can be put to it, or taken…
- A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections ·
VI. Gracious affections are attended with evangelical humiliation cites Job 42:6
…thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord.” Job 42:6, “I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.” As we would therefore make the holy…
- A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life ·
Of the necessity and benefit of intercession, considered as an exercise of universal love. How all orders of men are to pray and intercede with God for one another. How naturally such intercession amends and reforms the hearts of those that use it cites Job xlii. 8
…how he said of Job, "And my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept." [Job xlii. 8] From these passages Ouranius justly concludes, that the prayers of men eminent for…