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" The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant, even the watem forgotten
of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men."
Perhaps we are tD see a flood of error and false doctrine, in this allegorical
language, which the Revised Version seems to make even more
intricate. Naturally the flood breaketh out where we least expect it,
and drieth up as suddenly, and blessed be God His dealings in grace'
are analogous, when the enemy, the old serpent the devil, "cast out
of his mouth water as a flood after the woman (the church of the living
God) that he might cause her to be carried away (Eph. iv. 14) of the
flood. And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her
mouth and swallowed up the flood, which the dragon cast out of his
mouth" (Rev. xii. 15, 16). These verses, which occur in our chapter
of daily reading; seem to be a commentary on Job's words. Even the
political disturbances of this earth oftentimes have "helped the
woman."
" As for the earth out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up
as it were fire." Surely the earth yieldeth us bread, so does the Scriptine
furnish with the bread of life; as the land must needs be tilled
(Prov. xii. 11) to supply us with bread, so we must also" labour for
that bread that endureth to everlasting life." Happy shall we be if,
diving into its depths, we find under it as it were fire, to warm our
hearts and kindle coals, to radiate and warm other hearts with
heavenly fire. "The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath
dust of gold." If men must needs search the stones of the earth for
sapphires and take pains and dig for gold dust, how much more eagerly
must we "search the Scriptures" for these heavenly truths, more
precious than the sapphire blue and than most fine gold, and be
enriched to all eternity! "There is a path which no fowl knoweth and
which the vulture's eye hath not seen. The lion's whelps have not
trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it." Job is dealing with secret
things, only revealed to babes. The path: "This is the path of life,
the path of the just, the highway of holiness, no fowl of the earth
lmoweth it, the vulture's eye hath not seen it; the unclean birds of
the earth, they who follow after the flesh, know nothing about the
narrow path that leadeth unto life; the fierce lion hath not trodden it ;
but when their natures are changed their hearts are renewed like Saul
of Tarsus, roaring after the prey the lion is changed into a lamb, and is
found in the narrow way that leadeth unto life, the calf and the young
lion and the fatling together."
"He putteth forth His hand upon the rock; He overturneth the
mountains by the roots." Job turns, as his wont, to speak of the
displays of Omnipotence. The smiting of the rock in Horeb was but
a type of that greater work of the Almighty when He put forth the
hand of His justice, taking vengeance for our sins, when He caused the
Rock of Ages to be smitten of God and afflicted, that water and blood
might flow out for the pardon and cleansing of all our transgression.
He overturned the mountains by the roots. "Is there anything too
hard for the Lord ~" We still believe He can and does do this; and .
therefore we continually set our mountains before the Lord, and