Delbert Cornish

Pleased by what the Cross has done

Isaiah gives us an unequalled picture of grace in this passage. No other literature among the great religions of the world comes near such a description of a holy God. Israel, as a nation, turned its…

Isaiah 55:1 (NKJV)

God is in control

God used Isaiah to give His people a proper perspective of the world events that seemed to victimize them. By this time they had been conquered by God's own decree and deported to Babylon. God had allowed…

Isaiah 41:10 (NKJV), Romans 8:28 (NKJV), Hebrews 13:5 (NKJV), Hebrews 13:6 (NKJV)

Winning the Battle of Faith

"And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it; and Hezekiah went up to the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD." Isaiah 37:14 Hezekiah's response to the…

Isaiah 37:14 (NKJV)

Faith will be tested

Chapter 36 returns to the events contemporary to Isaiah's own time. Chapter 35 concluded a parenthetical section that described the judgment of humanity and Christ's righteous rule at His return. There…

Isaiah 36:4 (NKJV)

Strength to go through it all

Solomon's description of the obvious tension between the positive and negative events in life captures this beautifully. The vivid contrasts are an honest portrayal of life that the vast majority of us…

иов 40:15

Бог отличается от слабости человека с бегемот, который был физически сильным. Некоторые учёные считают, что Бегемот был Бегемот. Однако по описанию, данному, он может относиться к животным, сейчас исчезли,…

Иов 40:15 (RSZ)

Grasping for the Wind

"Whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them. I did not withhold my heart from any pleasure, For my heart rejoiced in all my labor; And this was my reward from all my labor." Ecclesiastes 2:10…

Ecclesiastes 2:10 (NKJV), Ecclesiastes 2:17 (NKJV)

Seeing God changes everything

God's voice and presence brought Job to an entirely new place in both his relationship with God and with himself. Job came face to face with his sin and the wretchedness that resides in even the most…

Job 42:5 (NKJV)

Humble pursuit of Light

The time has come for God to speak. This whole process of Job and his friends trying to explain God's relationship to Job's suffering has provided a backdrop for God's clear and precise truth about this…

Job 38:4 (NKJV)

Eat the meat, Spit out the bones

Elihu's declaration that he is speaking for God is an example of what we all must guard against. Elihu will state things about God to Job that contain some glorious descriptions of God. But they are also…

Job 36:1 (NKJV), Job 36:2 (NKJV), Job 36:3 (NKJV)

Who can know the heart?

Elihu continues in his interpretation of Job's suffering with a mix of both true and false statements. There is much that he says that can be proven to be true. Elihu exalts the justice of God. He shows…

Job 34:7 (NKJV), Job 34:8 (NKJV), Job 34:11 (NKJV)

False Assumptions lead to False Conclusions

Elihu is introduced for the first time as he attempts to explain to Job why he is suffering and what in his life has caused this trouble. Elihu, a much younger man, is fully confident he will convince…

Job 32:2 (NKJV), Job 32:3 (NKJV)

Finding the Anchor of Hope

Here in chapters 29-31, Job gives his friends a summary of what he believed his life was before and what it is now. He then expresses what he sees as justified confusion in trying to understand why all…

Job 29:1 (NKJV), Job 29:2 (NKJV)

Practical Essence of Wisdom

In chapter 26, Bildad contrasted the greatness of God with humanity born in sin. Job's response in chapters 26-28 calls his friends to catch a glimpse of the unsearchable riches and glory found in God's…

Job 28:27 (NKJV), Job 28:28 (NKJV)

Gold Worthy of the Crucible

From the ashes of Job's dismay at all that has fallen upon him, a spark of hope begins to be fanned within his heart. As Job pours out his heart before God, a growing confidence that God will help him…

Job 23:10 (NKJV)

Who are the Blessed?

A chief selling point in attempts to reach the ungodly often states that if they choose the ways of God He will greatly prosper them. However, throughout the ages, it has been the honest observation of…

Job 21:7 (NKJV), Job 21:14 (NKJV), Job 21:15 (NKJV), Romans 8:18 (NKJV), 2 Corinthians 4:4 (NKJV), Ephesians 2:1 (NKJV), Ephesians 2:2 (NKJV), Ephesians 2:3 (NKJV), Colossians 1:13 (NKJV)

Faith Rooted, Tested, and Appraised

Like Eliphaz before him, Bildad takes Job's rejection of their counsel very personally. Bildad accuses Job of treating them as beasts who are "stupid" in his sight. Bildad then goes on the attack, (as…

Job 19:25 (NKJV), Job 19:26 (NKJV), Job 19:27 (NKJV)

Where our tears must fall

Eliphaz is insulted by Job's position that his friends have misunderstood both God and Job's life. In response to Job's rejection of their counsel, Eliphaz unloads a barrage of slanderous accusations…

Job 16:18 (NKJV), Job 16:19 (NKJV), Job 16:20 (NKJV)

Anchor in the Storm

Zophar, the last of Job's three "friends," completed his assault upon Job in chapter 11. It's amazing that Job had anything left in himself after losing everything and enduring the unmerciful verbal assaults…

Job 13:15 (NKJV), Job 13:16 (NKJV)

Honest Agony

Here in chapter 10, we pick up Job's response to Bildad's judgment and advice concerning Job's overwhelming suffering. Job's unvarnished honesty is obviously very troubling to his friends. His words sound…

Job 10:15 (NKJV)

The Cry for a Mediator

Job's plea for kindness from his friends is denied completely by the second of the three friends who had come to "comfort" him. Like Eliphaz, Bildad believed the only help Job really needed was a forced…

Job 9:32 (NKJV), Job 9:33 (NKJV)

Overwhelmed and Frustrated

Job's answer to the counsel of his friend, Eliphaz, expresses a heartfelt frustration common to humanity: the weight of our sojourn through a fallen world seems to be more than we can bear. The vast…

Job 6:2 (NKJV), Job 6:3 (NKJV)

Help that only makes things Worse

In the passage above Eliphaz is the first of Job's three friends to begin to offer Job advice on how to deal with the horrible calamities in his life. He, along with two others, had travelled long distances…

Job 5:2 (NKJV), Job 5:3 (NKJV)

Our Guide through Suffering

"And he said: 'Naked I came from my mother's womb, And naked shall I return there. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; Blessed be the name of the LORD.'" Job 1:21 The account of Job's life has…

Job 1:21 (NKJV), Romans 8:28 (NKJV), Romans 8:29 (NKJV), Romans 8:30 (NKJV), Romans 8:31 (NKJV), Romans 8:32 (NKJV), Romans 8:33 (NKJV), Romans 8:34 (NKJV), Romans 8:35 (NKJV), Romans 8:36 (NKJV), Romans 8:37 (NKJV), Romans 8:38 (NKJV), Romans 8:39 (NKJV)

Empowered by our Great Shepherd

God alone provides enables us to live out the challenging truths of this letter including the closing exhortations of this last chapter. The original readers were not able to provide themselves with godly…

Hebrews 13:20 (NKJV), Hebrews 13:21 (NKJV)