060. Prayer Of Job That God Would Hide Him From His Anger.

Prayer Of Job That God Would Hide Him From His Anger. The Prayer as recorded.—Job 14:13-22.

Job feels that death must soon release him from his suffering; he is willing to wait till the last great change shall come, but he prays that God will hide him till his displeasure pass away. In some verses of the prayer there is much of faith and hope, in others a feeling of deep despondency. “Job seems to have an affecting view of the miseries of human life, and pleads its brevity as a reason why man should be exempted from constant or extraordinary sufferings. Job believed dimly in a future existence, and in the immortality of the soul, but there is no evidence to show that either he or his friends had any distinct ideas of a place of future retribution. The difficulties with which Job labored, having, as he did, contracted views of the Divine plans, and under which the good labored before our blessed Lord brought in a ‘ better hope ’ —these difficulties should teach us properly to appreciate the better conception of the spiritual world which the gospel has enabled us to realize” (Dr. Kitto).