Job 25

2. Armies of them are employed upon this occasion. There are great multitudes of them, as Bildad speaks (Job 25:3): Is there any number of his armies? That is, of his angels: when Joel speaks of the heathens gathering together; there says he, Lord, cause your mighty ones to come…

Yes, they are as the fat of lambs, in Psalms 37:20. They are as a worm, in Job 25:6. They are vanity, lighter than vanity, altogether in their best estate vanity (Psalms 39:5).

We can forget nothing more perniciously than what we are. Man is a worm, says Bildad, and the Son of man is but a worm, Job 25:6. And therefore sayes Job himself, I have said to corruption, you art my father, and to the worm, you art my mother and my sister, chap.

Our Savior has pronounced the blessing of adoption upon the peace-makers (Matthew 5:9), [non-Latin text], those that are for peace, as David professes himself to be (Psalm 120:7), in opposition (such an opposition as meekness is capable of) to those that delight in war (Psalm 68…

'Twas an act of heroical zeal in David, who employed his time waking to the honor of God, which others spent in sleeping: and we read that Paul and Silas sang praises at midnight (Acts 16:25), though then in the stocks, and they had been scourged the day before. And it is said (…

There is none good but one, and that is God. That goodness which we have in participation from him, will appear no goodness in comparison of him; the heavens themselves are not clean in his sight (Job 25:5-6): Behold even to the Moon, and it shines not; indeed the stars are not…

1 To set forth all mankind in general, and so it comprises under it every son of Adam, every mother's child (as we speak). In which sense Bildad uses it, where comparing mankind with the celestial bodies, he says, How much less man a worm, even the Son of Man, a worm? (Job 25:6)…