Then answered — How hard is it, to preserve calmness, in the heat of disputation! Eliphaz began modestly: Bildad was a little rougher: But Zophar falls upon Job without mercy. "Those that have a mind to fall out with their brethren, and to fall foul upon them, find it necessary, to put the worst col... [ Continue Reading ]
Answered — Truly, sometimes it should not. Silence is the best confutation of impertinence, and puts the greatest contempt upon it.... [ Continue Reading ]
Lies — Both concerning thy own innocency, and concerning the counsels and ways of God. Mockest — Our friendly and faithful counsels, Job 6:14, Job 6:25.... [ Continue Reading ]
Doctrine — Concerning God and his providence. Clean — I am innocent before God; I have not sinned either by my former actions, or by my present expressions. But Zophar perverts Job's words, for he did not deny that he was a sinner, but only that he was an hypocrite.... [ Continue Reading ]
Speak — Plead with thee according to thy desire: he would soon put thee to silence. We are commonly ready with great assurance to interest God in our quarrels. But they are not always in the right, who are most forward, to appeal to his judgment, and prejudge it against their antagonists.... [ Continue Reading ]
Secrets — The unsearchable depths of God's wisdom in dealing with his creatures. Double — That they are far greater (the word double being used indefinitely for manifold, or plentiful) than that which is manifested. The secret wisdom of God is infinitely greater than that which is revealed to us by... [ Continue Reading ]
Find out — Discover all the depths of his wisdom, and the reasons of his actions?... [ Continue Reading ]
Cut off — A person or family. Shut — Its a prison, or in the hands of an enemy. Gather — Whether it pleaseth God to scatter a family, or to gather them together from their dispersions. Hinder — Or, who can contradict him, charge him with injustice in such proceedings?... [ Continue Reading ]
Knoweth — Though men know but little of God, yet God knows man exactly. He knoweth that every man in the world is guilty of much vanity and folly, and therefore seeth sufficient reason for his severity against the best men. Wickedness — He perceiveth the wickedness of evil men, though it be covered... [ Continue Reading ]
Man — That since the fall is void of all true wisdom, pretends to be wise, and able to pass a censure upon all God's ways and works. Colt — Ignorant, and dull, and stupid, as to divine things, and yet heady and untractable.... [ Continue Reading ]
Heart — To seek God; turning thy bold contentions with God into humble supplications.... [ Continue Reading ]
Lift up — Which denotes chearfulness, and holy boldness. Without spot — Having a clear and unspotted conscience. Steadfast — Shall have a strong and comfortable assurance of God's favour.... [ Continue Reading ]
As waters — Thou shalt remember it no more, than men remember a land — flood, which as it comes, so it goes away suddenly.... [ Continue Reading ]
Shine — Light in scripture commonly signifies prosperity and glory. Thy comfort, like the morning — light shall shine brighter and brighter, until the perfect day.... [ Continue Reading ]
Secure — Thy mind shall be quiet and free from terrors, because thou shalt have a firm and well — grounded confidence in God. Dig — Either to fix thy tents, which after the manner of the Arabians were removed from place to place: or to plough the ground, as he had done, Job 1:14, or to make a fence... [ Continue Reading ]
Fail — Either with grief and tears for their sore calamities: or with long looking for what they shall never attain. Their hope — They shall never obtain deliverance out of their distresses, but shall perish in them. Ghost — Shall be as vain and desperate as the hope of life is in a man, when he is... [ Continue Reading ]