Is not this a grievous state of things?  Must it not make my life painful?  I have at all events one consolation in my troubles, my bodily infirmity.  This I am sure will not suffer me to remain much longer in this miserable life.  No more on this point.  You too I exhort, in your bodily infirmity, to bear yourself bravely and worthy of the God Who has called us.  If He sees us accepting our present circumstances with thanksgiving, He will either put away our troubles as He did Job’s, or will requite us with the glorious crowns of patience in the life to come.