Job 18

2. Sin is worse than death. Aristotle calls death the terrible of terribles, and Job calls it the king of terrors (Job 18:14), but sin is more deadly than death itself. First, death, though it be painful, yet it were not hurtful but for sin.

The root of the matter was not in them: they wanted depth of earth; the plow had not gone deep enough, and therefore, though the earth were good and the seed good, yet not being well covered it miscarries. Exoriuntur sed Exuruntur: the roots are burnt up, like the wicked (Job 18…

Men quarrel with God's revealed will, and therefore no wonder that they quarrel with his providential will; whereby we deny him his right of governing, and slight his actual exercise of his right. As if God were accountable to us for his dispensations, and must have only a respe…

God has been pleased to deal thus graciously for us, to bring our enemies into snares by their own Counsels. In (Job 18:7) 'tis verified of many that their own Counsels have cast them down. And (Psalm 9) toward the latter end, The wicked is snared in the work of his OWN HANDS: H…

Only he would (to say so) have your consent to, and your approbation of what he does for the greater peace and tranquility of your own minds. Surely therefore it is meet, meekly and submissively to be said to God, whenever and however he chastises, I have borne chastisement, I w…

Princeps, Dominus, Caput familiae; the Prince, Lord, and Head of the family, that has right to the inheritance, and distributes portions to others. Hence [⟨ in non-Latin alphabet ⟩] is used for every thing that excels, and has the preeminence in its own kind (Job 18:10; Isaiah 1…

Neither is the word any where else used in the Scripture, and may as well have something foreign in it, as come from its root. So also v. 17. is no where else used for sobolescet, or pliabit, as it is here rendered; from a Son, which is but three times used in that signification…

To have the arm of divine vengeance up, with the glittering sword of revenging justice, ready to give him the deadly stroke; to have nothing before him but a fearful expectation of fiery indignation which shall devour him, when it lights upon him; in the fullness of his strength…

No doubt but a man may express his displeasure against the miscarriages of another, as much as at any time there is occasion for, without suffering his resentments to recoil upon himself, and to put his own soul into a hurry. What need a man to tear himself (his soul, so it is i…

And to deliver them who through fear of death were all their lives subject to bondage. And in Scripture It's called, the King of terrours, Job 18. 14. Or the black Prince, as some translate.

What is the issue of it? His own counsel shall cast him down (Job 18:7) — first he shall be entangled, then cast down, and all by his own counsel, until he comes to be ashamed of it as Ephraim was (Hosea 10:6). Whenever in trials we consult our own understandings, hearken to sel…

These do but expose themselves to speedy ruin. Bildad said of the wicked, "His own counsel shall cast him down" (Job 18:7). They need no other means to ruin them, than their own brutish course.

Death separates not from the love of God, that sin does (Romans 8:38-39; Isaiah 59:2). 2. Death is terrifying — it is the King of Terrors (Job 18:14) — it is a grim thing, a very sour and tetrical thing: it is ghastly and frightful, for men are not only unwilling but afraid to d…

What a terrible desolation was that on Sodom! In allusion to which, tis said of a wicked man, in Job 18:15: Brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation. Why, there is a dreadful storm of ardent brimstone, ready to fall upon those Houses, where the children are not bringing…

Far less has it any truth that a real mercy can be removed in wrath from Infants in Jesus Christ, in whom the Nations are blessed. And we see in Deuteronomy 28, the blessing of an observed Covenant and the curses of a broken Covenant are extended to the fruit of the body, to the…

You hope to be saved (and so did many thousands that are now in hell) but alas, what ground have you to build your hope upon? "The hypocrite's hope shall perish, whose hope shall be cut off; and whose trust shall be as a spider's web" (Job 18:13-14). Ah, Sir, what will your hope…