04/15/2022 – Day 047 – Job 13 -14 – See 13:15 – 13:16 : “Job is distinguishing between temporal grace and eternal salvation.”
I needed John Gill to get me through these two verses. In verse 16, Job notes that “no godless man would dare come before him!” John Gill posits that Job recognizes this is eternal judgment and Job is falling back on his faith in His Savior, roughly 1,500 years before his birth. Here is John Gill’s commentary:
“Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him. Even so, I will defend my own ways before Him. He also shall be my salvation.” Job 13: 15 – 16
https://www.biblestudytools.com/commentaries/gills-exposition-of-the-bible/job-13-15.html
The footnote on “The Evidence Study Bible – NKJV” reads:
Despite his misery and pain, Job did trust God’s judgments. This kind of faith is a wonderful light in the midst of terrible darkness. Spurgeon said that faith may swim, where reason may only paddle. If you are going though a dark time of testing, let faith lift your head above the waves. Hold onto His mighty hand and thank Him that He is working all this out for your eternal goo (see Romans 8:28).”
Soli Deo Gloria!