INSIGHTS & NOTES FROM
CHAPTER 21
"Job here recommends himself, both his case & his discourse, both what he suffered & what he said, to the compassionate consideration of his friends." "'Is my complaint to man?'" "...my complaint is to God, & to him do I appeal. Let him be Judge between you & me." "It is worthwhile to enquire into the reasons of the outward prosperity of wicked people." "Sensual pleasures are all the delights of carnal people, & as men are themselves so they breed their children." "God suffers them to prosper; but let us not wonder at it, for the prospering of fools destroys them, by hardening them in sin. Proverbs 1:32; Psalms 73:7-9." "The eyes that have been willfully shut against the grace of God shall be opened to see his destruction." "Dare we arraign God's proceedings or blame his conduct? Shall we take upon us to tell God how he should govern the world, what sinner he should spare & whom he should punish?" "He is the Judge of all the earth, & therefore no doubt he will do right. Genesis 18:25. Romans 3:6." "Let us... be always ready." "The prosperity of fools destroys them, by setting them (in their own conceit) above reproofs, by which they might be brought to that repentance which alone will prevent their ruin." "...there is a day coming when those shall be told of their faults who now would not bear to hear of them, those shall have their sins set in order before them, & their way declared to their face, to their everlasting confusion, who would not have it done here" "Death is the way of all the earth" "Every one must go in his own order, the order appointed of God." "Where there is not truth there is little comfort to be expected." CHAPTER 22 "...when God does us good, it is not because he is indebted to us;" "Can the light of a candle be profitable to the sun or the drop of the bucket to the ocean?" "God needs not us nor our services." "...nothing is infinite but God;" "Sin, being committed against Infinite Majesty, has in it a kind of infinite malignity." "Those that have not shown mercy may justly be denied the comfortable hope that they shall find mercy;" "Those who build upon the sand choose a foundation which will be overflown when the rains descend & the floods come (Mat. 7:27), & then their building must needs fall & they perish in the ruins of it, & repent of their folly when it is too late." "...it is strange that out of the same mouth, & almost in the same breath, both sweet & bitter should proceed." "Do not only turn from sin, but turn to God & thy duty." "Family reformation is needful reformation; we & our house must serve the Lord." "The way to have our heart's desire is to make God our heart's delight. Psalms 37:4. If God give us himself to be our joy, he will deny us nothing that is good for us." "Under all thy burdens, in all thy wants, cares & fears, thou shalt send to heaven for guidance & strength, wisdom, comfort & good success." "God's wisdom shall be thy guide, his favour thy comfort, & thy ways shall be so under both those lights that thou shalt have a comfortable prospect of what is future. Psalms 90:17." "Those that humble themselves shall be exalted, not only in honour, but in comfort." CHAPTER 23 "It is of great use to us, in every thing wherein we have to do with God, to keep up good thoughts of him." "He was quite at a loss to know what God designed to do with him; & whatever conjecture he advanced, still something or other appeared against it." "Those that keep the way of the Lord... when they are sufficiently tried, they shall come forth out of the furnace, & not be left to consume in it as dross or reprobate silver. The trial will have an end." "Good people are followers of God." "He governed himself by the commandment of God's lips, & would not go back from that, but go forward according to it." "The word of God is to our souls what our necessary food is to our bodies; it sustains the spiritual life & strengthens us for the actions of life; it is that which we cannot subsist without, & which nothing else can make up the want of; & we ought therefore so to esteem it, to take pains for it, hunger after it, feed upon it with delight & nourish our souls with it; & this will be our rejoicing in the day of evil, as it was Job's here." "God has an incontestable sovereinty;" CHAPTER 24 "Those who show no mercy to such as lie at their mercy shall themselves have judgment without mercy." "Sinful works are therefore called works of darkness, because he that does evil hates the light (John 3:20), knows not the ways thereof, that is, keeps out of the way of it, or, if he happen to be seen, abides not where he thinks he is known." "Let the sinner change his heart, & then he needs not disguise his face, but may lift it up without spot." "Shame came in with sin, & everlasting shame is at the end of it." "That honour which is got by sin will soon turn into shame." "...those that speak the words of truth & soberness need not fear having what they say brought to the test, but can cheerfully submit it to a fair examination, as Job does here." Matthew Henry's Commentary: Job To Song Of Solomon, Mac Donald, pgs. 116 - 138.
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September 2023
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