Job 21:2
Hear, &c. — If you have no other comfort to administer, at least afford me this. And it will be a comfort to yourselves in the reflection, to have dealt tenderly with your afflicted friend.... [ Continue Reading ]
Hear, &c. — If you have no other comfort to administer, at least afford me this. And it will be a comfort to yourselves in the reflection, to have dealt tenderly with your afflicted friend.... [ Continue Reading ]
Speak — without interruption. Mock — If I do not defend my cause with solid arguments, go on in your scoffs.... [ Continue Reading ]
Is — I do not make my complaint to, or expect relief from you, or from any men, hut from God only: I am pouring forth my complaints to God. If — If my complaint were to man, have I not cause?... [ Continue Reading ]
Mark — Consider what I am about to say concerning the prosperity of the worst of men, and the pressures of some good men, and it is able to fill you with astonishment. Lay, &c. — Be silent.... [ Continue Reading ]
Remember — The very remembrance of what is past, fills me with dread and horror.... [ Continue Reading ]
Moment — They do not die of a lingering and tormenting disease.... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore — Because of their constant prosperity. Say — Sometimes in words, but commonly in their thoughts and the language of their lives.... [ Continue Reading ]
Lo — But wicked men have no reason to reject God, because of their prosperity, for their wealth, is not in their hand; neither obtained, nor kept by their own might, but only by God's power and favour. Therefore I am far from approving their opinion, or following their course.... [ Continue Reading ]
Often — I grant that this happens often though not constantly, as you affirm. Lamp — Their glory and outward happiness.... [ Continue Reading ]
Layeth up — In his treasures, Romans 2:5. Iniquity — The punishment of his iniquity; he will punish him both in his person and in his posterity.... [ Continue Reading ]
See — He shall be destroyed; as to see death, is to die.... [ Continue Reading ]
For, &c. — What delight can ye take in the thoughts of his posterity, when he is dying an untimely death? When that number of months, which by the course of nature, he might have lived, is cut off by violence.... [ Continue Reading ]
Teach — How to govern the world? For so you do, while you tell him that he must not afflict the godly, nor give the wicked prosperity. That he must invariably punish the wicked, and reward the righteous in this world. No: he will act as sovereign, and with great variety in his providential dispensat... [ Continue Reading ]
Another — Another wicked man. So there is a great variety of God's dispensations; he distributes great prosperity to one, and great afflictions to another, according to his wise but secret counsel.... [ Continue Reading ]
Alike — All these worldly differences are ended by death, and they lie in the grave without any distinction. So that no man can tell who is good, and who is bad by events which befall them in this life. And if one wicked man die in a palace, and another in a dungeon, they will meet in the congregati... [ Continue Reading ]
Me — I know that your discourses, though they be of wicked, men in general, yet are particularly levelled at me.... [ Continue Reading ]
Them — Any person that passes along the high — way, every one you meet with. It is so vulgar a thing, that no man of common sense is ignorant of it. Tokens — The examples, or evidences, of this truth, which they that go by the way can produce.... [ Continue Reading ]
They — He speaks of the same person; only the singular number is changed into the plural, possibly to intimate, that altho' for the present only some wicked men were punished, yet then all of them should suffer. Brought — As malefactors are brought forth from prison to execution.... [ Continue Reading ]
Declare — His power and splendor are so great, that scarce any man dare reprove him.... [ Continue Reading ]
And — The pomp of his death shall be suitable to the glory of his life. Brought — With pomp and state, as the word signifies. Grave — Heb. to the graves; to an honourable and eminent grave: the plural number being used emphatically to denote eminency. He shall not die a violent but a natural death.... [ Continue Reading ]
Valley — Of the grave, which is low and deep like a valley. Sweet — He shall sweetly rest in his grave. Draw — Heb. he shall draw every man after him, into the grave, all that live after him, whether good or bad, shall follow him to the grave, shall die as he did. So he fares no worse herein than al... [ Continue Reading ]
How — Why then do you seek to comfort me with vain hopes of recovering my prosperity, seeing your grounds are false, and experience shews, that good men are often in great tribulation, while the vilest of men prosper.... [ Continue Reading ]