Job 30

We see the mother earth, out of which we came. The earth is the most ignoble element (Job 30:8). You are viler than the earth.

Alas, what are all our worldly enjoyments without the enjoying of God? What is it to enjoy a great deal of health, a brave estate, and not to enjoy God: (Job 30:28). I went mourning without the sun.

Quest. 7. How may deserted souls be comforted, who are cast down for want of Assurance? They have the day-star of grace risen in their souls; but as Job complains, I went mourning without the sun, (Job 30:28). They go mourning for want of the sunlight of God's face: their joy is…

What can all worldly comforts do, when once God is absent? It is like a funeral banquet, where there is much meat, but no cheer (Job 30:28). I went mourning without the sun.

Though the wisdom of Providence has ordered you a lower, and poorer condition than others, yet (1.) Consider how many there be that are lower than you in the world: you have but little of the world; yet others have less. Read the description of those persons, Job 30. 4, &c. (2.)…

Then again, (that we may keep in this clause to the exposition given in the last, of the desolate places,) we may understand by the houses that these princes filled with treasure, the graves, the tombs wherein they were buried; and it is the language of Scripture, to call the gr…

The first effect is, my bowels were moved for him; which, in short, holds forth the kindly exercise of serious repentance, affecting and stinging (as it were) the very inward bowels, for slighting Christ so long: which will be cleared by considering, 1. What is meant by bowels.…

That God takes special Notice of of the Good which he sees in his People. The Children of God may perhaps think that God does not regard them, Job 30:20. I cry to you, and you dost not hear me.

2. A bottle in the smoke is blacked and smutched, whereby is meant that his beauty was wasted, as well as his strength; and as he was withered, so he was black with extreme misery. Job 30:30. My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burnt with heat. So Lamentations 5:10. Our s…

Come they will, that's certain; but when they will come, that's uncertain: think, and ever be musing how to prevent those evils, that you are never able to avoid, nor bear. Job compares fear to an army of mighty force, that commands where it comes (Job 30:15): "Terrors are turne…

Let us take heed of all these hindrances of holy tears. Let our harp be turned into mourning, and our organ into the voice of them that weep (Job 30:31).

Suppose it were, yet, -- gutta cavat lapidem, -- the continual dropping of sickness would in time wear away this stone. There is no such thing as an earthly eternity; death is called the house appointed for all living, Job 30. 23. But though death be in itself necessary, to Sain…

It is a Coal that not only blackens but burns. Sin runs men into the briars, Job 30.7. Among the bushes they brayed.

For the disciples do afterward complain that she cries so after them: was Christ so difficult to be entreated? The reasons for crying are: 1. Want cannot blush; the pinching necessity of the saints is not tied to the law of modesty: hunger cannot be ashamed (Psalm 55:2). I mourn…