This is the meditation of a soul in great outward perplexity. The natural securities of the righteous, “the foundations” of the social order, kings and judges (see Psa. 82; Rom. 13), are giving way. But God is still in His due place—that is the soul’s relief. “Let God be true, but every man a liar.”
It is the utterance of the afflicted Remnant in the last days. But Jesus was their pattern and forerunner in His sorrows from the hand of man.
How different, we may observe, is the world which faith apprehends, from that which sense or sight converses with. The world seen is here declared to be all out of course—the wicked prospering, the righteous oppressed. But faith apprehends a scene where God is in all the sanctity and calmness and power of a throne and a temple, His soul loving the righteous, hating the wicked, and preparing judgments for them when the trial of the righteous is over. Such were the two scenes or worlds opened at the beginning of Job. In the seen or felt world, the adversary was doing his pleasure; in the unseen place the God of all grace was sovereignly preparing blessing for His saint. Moses walked as “seeing Him who is invisible.”