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Job (Smyth & Helwys Bible Commentary) (Book & CD-ROM)

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While I haven't read the commentary from cover to cover at this point, I am far enough along to point to let you know my favorable reaction to this resource. Just the art work alone would make this a valued resource in any library.

When a man serves God as devotedly as Dr. Balentine has with this book (trusting Him through the struggle itself), yes, Eliphaz, he can be of real use to the Almighty.

At the end, the edge of creation (Antarctica 1915), with his ship sunk and his shipmates stranded on an ice floe facing polar night, Ernest Shackleton ordered abandonment of all non essential possessions. He threw away his gold sovereigns and watch, and the ship's Bible (given to him by the Queen Mother). Each man was allowed to keep his own pocket diary and only two pounds of survival gear. Shackleton chose to keep some of the expedition photographs and a page from the book of Job.

Should scholars and explorers of the Bible who own a copy of Dr. Balentine's commentary ever face a dire paring of their possessions, they will likewise throw away gold and even necessities before they part with this particular "page" of Job.