Job 8:2
Strong wind — Boisterous and violent.... [ Continue Reading ]
Strong wind — Boisterous and violent.... [ Continue Reading ]
Doth God — Heb. The might God, as this word signifies, the Almighty, or All — sufficient God, as the next name of God implies. These names are emphatically used, to prove that God cannot deal unjustly or falsely with men, because he hath no need of it, nor temptation to it, being self — sufficient f... [ Continue Reading ]
If — If thou wast innocent, thy children, upon whom a great part of these calamities fell, might be guilty; and therefore God is not unrighteous in these proceedings.... [ Continue Reading ]
Betimes — Heb. rise early to seek him, if thou wouldest seek him speedily, early and diligently.... [ Continue Reading ]
Habitation — The concerns of thy house and family; which thou hast got and managed with righteousness.... [ Continue Reading ]
Search — Seriously and industriously search the ancient records.... [ Continue Reading ]
We, &c. — But lately born, and therefore have but little knowledge and experience. We live not so long as they did, to make observations on the methods of Divine Providence.... [ Continue Reading ]
Utter — Not partially, but sincerely, speaking their inward thoughts; not rashly, but from deep consideration; not by hearsay, but their own knowledge.... [ Continue Reading ]
Can, &c. — The hypocrite cannot build his hope, without some false, rotten ground or other, any more than the rush can grow without mire, or the flag without water.... [ Continue Reading ]
Greenness — Whereby it promises long continuance. Tho' no man cut it down, it withers of itself, sooner than other herbs.... [ Continue Reading ]
Paths — Of wicked men. By their paths he doth not understand their manner of living, but the events which befall them, God's manner of dealing with them.... [ Continue Reading ]
Hope — Whose wealth and outward glory, the matter of his hope, and trust, shall be cut off suddenly and violently taken away from him. Web — Which tho' it be formed with great art and industry, is easily swept down, or pulled in pieces.... [ Continue Reading ]
House — He shall trust to the multitude of his children and servants, and to his wealth, all which come under the name of a man's house in scripture. Hold it — To uphold himself by it. But his web, that refuge of lies, will be swept away, and he crushed in it.... [ Continue Reading ]
He — The secure and prosperous sinner may think himself wronged, when he is compared to a rush or flag. Compare him then to a flourishing and well — rooted tree. Yet even then shall he be suddenly cut off. Green — Flourisheth in the world. Before the sun — Publickly and in the view of all men. Branc... [ Continue Reading ]
Heap — Of stones. This circumstance is added, to signify its firmness and strength, that it was not in loose and sandy ground, which a violent wind might overthrow, but in solid ground, within which were many stones, which its numerous and spreading roots embrace, folding and interweaving themselves... [ Continue Reading ]
He — God, who is the saviour of good men, and the destroyer of the wicked. It — The place; to which denying him, and seeing him, are here ascribed figuratively. Not seen — He shall be so utterly extirpated and destroyed, that there shall be no memorial of him left.... [ Continue Reading ]
Behold — This is the issue of the flourishing state. This all his joy comes to. And, &c. — Out of the same earth or place shall another tree grow.... [ Continue Reading ]
Behold — God who will not help the evildoer, will not cast away a good man, tho he may be cast down. Yet it may be, he will not be lifted up in this world: and therefore Bildad could not infer, that if Job was not restored to temporal prosperity, he was not a good man. Let us judge nothing before th... [ Continue Reading ]
'Till, &c. — And what I have said in general of good men, shall be made good to thee, if thou art such: God will not forsake thee, nor desist from doing thee good, 'till he give thee abundant matter of rejoicing.... [ Continue Reading ]