Job 27

What preserved him? It was his sincerity (Job 27:6). My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go; my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.

He prefers sanctity before safety, and had rather keep his conscience pure than his skin whole. He says as Job, my integrity I will hold fast, and not let it go (Job 27:6). He will rather part with his life than his conscience.

1. To God; The righteous are said to be gathered (Isaiah 57:1). A [reconstructed: sinner] is carried away in a [reconstructed: storm] (Job 27:20). The righteous is gathered as we gather precious fruit and candy it; so greatly does God value the death of a saint, that he makes in…

But 4. positive despair, rancor, and malice against the holy Majesty of God; when the soul shall wish, and die of burning desire, to be above and beyond the spotless essence of the infinite Majesty of God; and shall burn in a fire of wrath against the very existence of God, and…

He that does evil has not seen God, a serious sight of God certainly works some change in us. (2.) In prayer a strong love to God is acted, for it is the expression of our delight in him (Job 27:10). Will he delight himself in the Almighty?

A man never gets any thing with Satan, but he shall lose that which is more precious: he never makes a proffer to our advantage, but to our loss and hurt. Follow the world as hard as you can, lie, deceive, cheat, and you shall be rich; put the case it is so, but I must lose my s…

Without this worship of God we cannot keep up our service to him. Not without delight, witness these Scriptures, (Job 27:10) "Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?" (Isaiah 43:22) "But you have not called upon me, O Jacob, but you have been weary…

1. Answer. It is possible a carnal man may pray in secret, but with these differences: 1. He is urged to it by the challenges of an accusing conscience, he is (as it were) dogged to it, he dare not but do it; but a child of God has a gracious principle, inclining him to it, from…

The Ways of the Lord are right, and the Just shall walk in them; but the Transgressors shall fall therein. Job 27:8, 9, 10. What is the Hope of the Hypocrite?—Will he delight himself in the Almighty?

No; the matter is plain, his religion is measured by his secular interest, and he will only be so long religious as will serve that purpose. And the reason is plainly assigned in the foregoing words, Will he delight himself in the Almighty? (Job 27:10) His religion has no deligh…

2. Prudence and moderation in discourse, and so dropping is opposed to floods, that with violence overflow. 3. This phrase signifies a continuance in seasonable, prudent and edifying discourse, as Job 27:22, My words dropped on them, and Deuteronomy 31:2, My doctrine shall drop…

4. A treasure makes holy duties constant and perpetual, though there may be some temporary intermissions, yet never a total cessation in acts of religion; Will a hypocrite pray always? (Job 27:10) No, verily: the water rises no higher than the spring, and waters fail that have n…

Will such a spring as this maintain a stream of affections; when carnal motives fail? What will you answer (O my soul) to that question, (Job 27:9-10): Will God hear his cry when trouble comes upon him? Will he delight himself in the Almighty?

Carnal hypocrites will be much in outward worship: they have their qualms, and pray themselves weary, and do something for fashion's sake, when foreign reasons move them; but will they so pray, as to delight themselves in the Almighty? Will they always call upon God (Job 27:10)?…

It is acted; for it is delight in God, which makes us so often converse with him. Thus the hypocrite, (Job 27:10) Will he always call upon the Lord? Will he delight himself in the Almighty? They that love God, cannot be long from him; they that delight in God, will be often unbo…

A wicked man prays himself weary of prayer, and professes himself weary of holiness. A man is judged by the tenor of his life, not by one action, but as he holds on his way to Heaven (Job 27:10). Many run well for a while, but are soon out of breath.

Quite contrary to the hypocrite, he may act from compulsions and urgings of conscience, from legal bondage: it may be a sin-offering, but it is not a thank-offering; he cannot do it with that delight and complacency that God has required. (Job 27:10). it is said, Will he always…

1. The witness of a good conscience, for then this will be matter of great joy and great peace to you (2 Corinthians 1:12): "This is my rejoicing, the testimony of my conscience, etc." If men reproach you, yet let not your hearts reproach you (Job 27:6). The heart has a reproach…

Herod feared John, knowing that he was a just and holy man, and observed him. 2. Because of the sentiments which men have of a holy, sober, godly life, when they come to die, and the disallowance of a dissolute carnal life (Job 27:8). What is the hope of the hypocrite, though he…

We are not so though we want or lose the world; God can repair us here, will at last save us without these things (Luke 10:42): but one thing is needful. Christ is esteemed more excellent; the rarest comforts of the world are but base things to his grace, but dung and dross in c…

1. That's the true riches which can buy and purchase all other things, but all other things cannot buy and purchase it: now all the riches in the world cannot buy and purchase those benefits which the Word offers to us. They cannot purchase the favor of God; For what hope has th…

All the world understands the worth and value of God's love when death comes, then a child of God feels it, Oh says he, I would not for all the world but that I had made sure of the love of God, before this hour, how terrible else would it have been to leave all, and leap out in…

The hypocrite's hope shall perish, and his trust is but as a spider's web; he shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand; he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure (Job 8:13-15). Where will the hope of hypocrites be when God takes away his soul, will God hear his cry…

This is the case of many — male agendo sperant, and sperando pereunt — like the waterman that looks one way and rows another; many have their eyes on heaven whose hearts are in the earth; they hope in God but choose him not for a portion; they hope in God but do not love him as…

It is a notable question Job puts concerning the hypocrite; Will he delight himself in the Almighty? Will he always call upon God (Job 27:10)? He may do much, but these two things he cannot do.

There must be Christian prudence, as well as Christian meekness. It is not mildness, but weakness to part with our integrity (Job 27:6). To be silent when we are slanderously traduced is to make ourselves appear guilty.

For first, this is the very true tenderness and gracious smitings of heart under any guiltiness: As 1 Samuel 24:5; 2 Samuel 24:10. David's heart smote him after he had cut off the lap of Saul's garment, and numbered the people. 1 John 3:20. Job 27:6. And in some it is the natura…

If Doeg will not give himself to God, and act for God, (Psalm 51:2) God shall take you away and pluck you out of your dwelling place, and root you out of the land of the living. (Job 27:21) The east wind of God carries him away, and as a storm hurls him out of his place. You sha…

5 If you would persevere in godliness, labor after integrity; this will be a golden pillar to support you; a tree that is hollow, must needs be blown down; the hypocrite sets up in the trade of religion, but he will soon break, Psalm 78:37. Their heart was not right with Him, ne…

So when we do not come in Christ's Name in prayer, we offer up Incense without a Priest, and what can we expect but to meet with wrath? 9. A spiritual prayer is when we pray out of love to prayer; A wicked man may pray, but he does not love prayer, Job 27 verse 10. Will he delig…

The hypocrite may show some zeal and forwardness in duties for a time, but he will tire and give out at length. 'Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?' (Job 27:10). No, he will not.

"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 avail you though you have gained the world, when God takes away your soul (Job 27:8)? Sixthly, and lastly, as touching your s…