...Hab. ii, 20. 'Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him ?? How just was the reply ! ' Behold I am vile ! what shall I answer thee ? I will lay my hand upon my mouth :' Job xl, 2, 4. This silent submission under trying dispensations. is variously...

...abasement, acknowledging his sinfulncss, his ignorance, his presumptuous selfsufficiency : — •• Behold I am vile ; what shall I answer thee ? I will lay my hand upon my mouth. Once have I spoken, but I will not answer ; yea, twice, but I will proceed no...

...abhorrency, he betakes himself unto sovereign grace and mercy. For ' then Job answered the Lord, and said, Behold I am vile ; what shall I answer thee ? I will...will not answer ; yea, twice ; but I will proceed no farther ;' Job xl. 3 — 5. And again, ' Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak ; I will demand of...

...uttered things which I understood not: things too wonderful for me, which I know not." " I will lay my hand upon my mouth. Once have I spoken, but I will not answer ; yea, twice, but I will proceed no farther." Yea, truly, " every mouth shall be stopped, and all the world shall appear guilty before...

...Self Abasement of Job. JOB XL. VER. 3 — 6. 3 ^f Then Job answered the LORD, and said, AC 2130. 4 Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee ? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth. 5 Once have I spoken ; but I will not answer : yea, twice ; but I will proceed no further. SECTION...

...things come of Thee, and of thine own have we given Thee." The afflicted Job mourned, "Behold, I atn vile; what shall I answer Thee ? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth." The seraphic Isaiah confessed, " Woe is me, for I am undone ; because I am a man of unclean lips."...

...Hezekiah." Job, indeed, cursed the day of his birth, but he afterwards was grieved for it, and said, " Behold, I am vile, what shall I answer thee? I will lay my hand upon my mouth ; once have I spoken, but I will not answer, yea, twice, but I will proceed no...

...humility, and submission to the will of God. He had heard of the wisdom, the power, and the 468 " I am Thee ? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth. Once have I spoken, but I will not answer again ; yea twice, but I will proceed no further:" — but "he answered the Lord, and said, I know...

...helplessness, so that they are constrained to cry out like Job, after his long scene of (roubles, " behold I am vile ; what shall I answer thee ? I will lay my hand upon ray mouth." And are enabled to ascribe salvation wholly to the Lord. A TRIED SAINT. (To...

...Almighty instruct him ? he that reproveth God, let him answer it. Then Job answered the Lord, and said, Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee ? I will lay my hand upon my mouth. Once have I spoken ; but I will not answer : yea, twice ; but I will proceed...