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[1] {Wherefore I abhor \\myself\\}
The problem, of which the book of Job is the profound discussion, finds
here its solution. Brought into the presence of God, Job is revealed to
himself. In no sense a hypocrite, but godly and possessing a faith which
all his afflictions could not shake, Job was yet self-righteous and
lacking in humility. Chapter 29 fully discloses this. But in the
presence of God he anticipates, as it were, the experience of Paul.
# Php 3:4-9
and the problem is solved. \\The godly are afflicted that they\\
\\may be brought to self-knowledge and self-judgment.\\ Such afflictions
are not penal for their sins, but remedial and purifying. The book of
Job affords a sublime illustration of the truth announced in
# 1Co 11:31,32 Heb 12:7-11
Best of all, such self-knowledge and self-judgment is the prelude
to greater fruitfulness.
# Job 42:7-17 Joh 15:2
Cf.
# Jos 5:13,14 Eze 1:28 2:1-3 Da 10:5-11 Re 1:17-19
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Scofield Reference Notes [1917] Book Introductions The Book of Psalms
The simplest description of the five books of Psalms is that they
were the inspired prayer-and-praise book of Israel. They are
revelations of truth, not abstractly, but in the terms of human
experience. The truth revealed is wrought into the emotions,
desires, and sufferings of the people of God by the circumstances
through which they pass. But those circumstances are such as to
constitute an anticipation of analogous conditions through which
Christ in His incarnation, and the Jewish remnant in the tribulation
(Is 10.21, refs), should pass; so then many Psalms are prophetic of
the sufferings, the faith, and the victory of both. Psalms 22. and
50. are examples. The former--the holy of holies of the
Bible--reveals all that was in the mind of Christ when He uttered the
desolate cry, "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?" The latter
is an anticipation of what will be in the heart of Israel when she
shall turn to Jehovah again (Deu 30.1, 2). Other Psalms are directly
prophetic of "the sufferings of Christ, and the glories which should
follow" (Lu 24.25-27, 44). Psa 2. is a notable instance, presenting
Jehovah's Anointed as rejected and crucified (vs. 1-3; Ac 4.24-28)
but afterward set as King in Zion.
The great themes of the Psalms are, Christ, Jehovah, the Law,
Creation, the future of Israel, and the exercises of the renewed
heart in suffering, in joy, in perplexity. The promises of the
Psalms are primarily Jewish, and suited to a people under the law,
but are spiritually true in Christian experience also, in the sense
that they disclose the mind of God, and the exercises of His heart
toward those who are perplexed, afflicted, or cast down.
The imprecatory Psalms are the cry of the oppressed in Israel for
\\justice\\--a cry appropriate and right in the earthly people of
God, and based upon a distinct promise in the Abrahamic Covenant (Ge
15.18, refs.); but a cry unsuited to the church, a heavenly people
who have taken their place with a rejected and crucified Christ. (Lu
9.52-55).
The Psalms are in five books, each ending in a doxology: I. Psalms
1.-41. II. Psalms 42.-72. III. Psalms 73.-89. IV. Psalms
90.-106. V. Psalms 107.-150.