約伯的弟兄、姊妹,和以先所認識的人都來見他,在他家裏一同吃飯;又論到耶和華所降與他的一切災禍,都為他悲傷安慰他。每人也送他一塊銀子和一個金環。 11 All his brothers and sisters and everyone who had known him before came and ate with him in his house. They comforted and consoled him over all the trouble the LORD had brought upon him, and each one gave him a piece of silver 42:11 Hebrew ((him a kesitah)); a kesitah was a unit of money of unknown weight and value. and a gold ring.
January 7 "I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content." (Phil. 4:11.) PAUL, denied of every comfort, wrote the above words in his dungeon. A story is told of a king who went into his garden one morning, and found everything withered and dying. He asked the oak that stood near the gate what the trouble was. He found it was sick of life and determined to die because it was not tall and beautiful like the pine. The pine was all out of heart because it could not bear grapes, like the vine. The vine was going to throw its life away because it could not stand erect and have as fine fruit as the peach tree. The geranium was fretting because it was not tall and fragrant like the lilac; and so on all through the garden. Coming to a heart's-ease, he found its bright face lifted as cheery as ever. "Well, heart's-ease, I'm glad, amidst all this discouragement, to find one brave little flower. You do not seem to be the least disheartened." "No, I am not of much account, but I thought that if you wanted an oak, or a pine, or a peach tree, or a lilac, you would have planted one; but as I know you wanted a heart's-ease, I am determined to be the best little heart's-ease that I can." "Others may do a greater work, But you have your part to do; And no one in all God's heritage Can do it so well as you." They who are God's without reserve, are in every state content; for they will only what He wills, and desire to do for Him whatever He desires them to do; they strip themselves of everything, and in this nakedness find all things restored an hundredfold.