JOB CHAPTER 25 Bildad's answer: God's majesty and purity is such as
that man cannot be justified before God: before him the heavenly
lights lose their lustre and purity. BILDAD ANSWERED, not to that
which Job spoke last, but to that which stuck most in Bildad's mind,
and which seemed most reprovable... [ Continue Reading ]
DOMINION, i.e. absolute and sovereign power over all persons and
things, with whom to contend is both rebellion and madness. FEAR,
actively understood, or _terror_, i.e. that which justly makes him
dreadful to all men, and especially to all that shall undertake to
dispute with him; awful majesty, in... [ Continue Reading ]
OF HIS ARMIES; of the angels, and stars, and other creatures, all
which are his hosts, wholly submitting themselves to his will, to be
and do what God would have them; and therefore how insolent and
unreasonable a thing is it for thee to quarrel with him! He spoke
before of God's making peace, and h... [ Continue Reading ]
MAN: the word signifies man that is miserable, which supposeth him to
be sinful; and that such a creature should quarrel with that dominion
of God, to which the sinless, and happy, and glorious angels willingly
submit, is most absurd and impious. WITH GOD i.e. before God's
tribunal, to which thou do... [ Continue Reading ]
The moon, though a bright and glorious creature, JOB 31:26 SONG OF
SOLOMON 6:10, if compared with the splendour of the Divine majesty, is
but as a dark and earthy lump, without any lustre or glory. He names
the MOON and the STARS rather than the _sun_, because they many times
are eclipsed or disappe... [ Continue Reading ]
A WORM, to wit, mean, and vile, and impotent; proceeding from
corruption, and returning to it; and withal filthy and loathsome, and
so every way a very unfit person to appear before the high and holy
God, and much more to contend with him. The same thing is repeated in
other words; only for _miserab... [ Continue Reading ]