Job 17
1
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
2
Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
3
Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?
4
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
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He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
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He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
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Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
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Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
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The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
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But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.
11
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
12
They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.
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If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
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I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou are my mother, and my sister.
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And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
16
They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
The Lord # 27
27. The Lord is called the Son of Humanity when the subject is redemption, salvation, reformation, and regeneration, as we can tell from the following:
The Son of Humanity came to give his life as a redemption for many. (Matthew 20:28; Mark 10:45)
The Son of Humanity has come to save and not to destroy. (Matthew 18:11; Luke 9:56)
The Son of Humanity has come to seek and to save that which was lost. (Luke 19:10)
The Son of Humanity came so that the world would be saved through him. (John 3:17)
The one who sows good seed is the Son of Humanity. (Matthew 13:37)
Here the subject is redemption and salvation; and since they are effected by the Lord through the Word, he refers to himself as the Son of Humanity.
The Lord said that the Son of Humanity has power to forgive sins (Mark 2:10; Luke 5:24)-that is, power to save. He also said that he was Lord of the Sabbath because he was the Son of Humanity (Matthew 12:8; Mark 2:28; Luke 6:5)-because he himself is the very Word that he is then teaching.
He also says in John,
Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Humanity will give you. (John 6:27)
Food means everything true and good in the teaching drawn from the Word and therefore from the Lord. This is also the meaning of the manna and of the bread that comes down from heaven, as well as the meaning of these words in the same chapter:
Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Humanity and drink his blood, you will not have life within you. (John 6:53)
The flesh or bread is good actions done from love as a result of the Word, and the blood or wine is good actions done from faith as a result of the Word, both of which come from the Lord.
[2] “The Son of Humanity” means much the same in various other passages where it is found, such as the following:
Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Humanity has nowhere to lay his head. (Matthew 8:20; Luke 9:58)
This means that the Word had no place among the Jews, as the Lord also says in John 8:37, and that the Word was not abiding in them, because they did not acknowledge him (John 5:38).
The Son of Humanity means the Lord as the Word in Revelation as well:
In the midst of seven lampstands I saw one like the Son of Humanity, clothed with a garment down to the feet and girded about the chest with a golden band. (Revelation 1:13 and following)
In this passage various images are used to represent the Lord as the Word, so he is also called “the Son of Humanity.” In David:
Let your hand be with the man of your right hand, with the Son of Humanity whom you have strengthened for yourself. Then we will not turn back from you. Bring us to life. (Psalms 80:17-19)
The man of your right hand in this passage is also the Lord as the Word, and so is the Son of Humanity. He is called “the man of your right hand” because the Lord has power from divine truth, which is also the Word; and he gained divine power when he fulfilled the whole Word. That is why he also said that they would see the Son of Humanity sitting at the right hand of the Father with power (Mark 14:62).
