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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 10, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 23.

NOTE.

By Editor

Evidently Job obtained some light out of what seemed in his bitterness an unprofitable discussion. He learned from his three friends the littleness of human wisdom, and he had learned that affliction was not a punishment for sin. Elihu had emphasized the thought that these afflictions were disciplinary. (See chapter 37.) But these did not satisfy the despairing Job; he wanted to hear God, and so God spoke to him, not in a direct reply to the arguments advanced, but, nevertheless, a solution of the problem. He shows that all nature proves his goodness, love, and tender care for all his works, and Job sees it, and bows in sweet submission to the divine will, which he can now trust, though he cannot understand.