An Englishman said to me, “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 until 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 last end of Job was better than the first. So the last state of man is better than the first. It is better than the state of Adam, because Adam might have lived ten thousand years and then fallen; therefore it is better for us to be outside of Eden with Christ than that we should be in Eden without him. God gave Job double as much wealth as he had before, but he only gave him ten children. He had ten before his calamity came upon him. That is worthy of notice. God would not admit that Job had lost any children. He gave him ten here and ten in Heaven.”