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The Gospel in the Book of Job

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 2, 1906

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 83, No. 31.

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The Gospel in the Book of Job

AN Englishman said, to me, “Mr. Moody, did you ever study the life of Job?”
I said, “No, I never did.”
He said, “If you get a key to Job, you get a key to the whole Bible.”
“What has Job to do with the Bible?”
He said, “I will tell you. I will divide the subject into five heads. First, Job, before he was tried, was a perfect man untried. He was like Adam in Eden before Satan came in. Secondly, he was tried by adversity. Thirdly, the wisdom of the world is represented by Job’s friends trying to restore him. See what language they used. They were wonderfully wise men, but they could not help Job out of his difficulties. Men are miserable comforters when they do not understand the grace of God. Job could stand his scolding wife and his boils better than these men’s arguments; they made him worse instead of better. Fourthly, God speaks, and Job humbles himself in the dust. God, before he saves a man, brings him down into the dust. He does not talk about how he has fed the hungry and clothed the naked; but he says, I am vile. Fifthly, God restored him, and the latter end of Job was better than the first.”—Selected.