Job 35

These two things — the success and sweetness of duty — are as dear to a Christian as his two eyes, and both of these must necessarily be lost if the heart is lost in duty. Job 35:13: 'Surely God hears not vanity, neither does the Almighty regard it.' The promise is made to a hea…

When they never desire God to move the hearts of those whose favor they court, as though providence were a useless and unnecessary thing in the world. It was the case of those Elihu speaks of (Job 35:9-10): they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty, but none says, where is…

Which makes the matter yet plainer. How uncomfortably do men live in this world, by reason of their distance from God, and unacquaintedness with him (Job 35:10): But no one says, where is God my maker, who gives songs in the night. They choose rather to groan under their burdens…

Wherefore, God charges it on men, that in their Obedience to him they did not answer that instinct which is in other Creatures towards their Lords and Benefactors, Isa. 1. 3. and which they cordially observe, Jerem. 8. 7. But herein God teaches us more than the Beasts of the Ear…

Or if his transgressions be multiplied what does he against him? That is to his disadvantage: if he be righteous what gives he to him, or what receives he at his hand (Job 35:6, 7)? Nothing but infinite condescension and grace is the fountain of all God's regard to us.

He has it all in infinite perfection from himself and his own nature; our goodness extends not to him; a man cannot profit God, as he may profit his neighbor. If you sin, what do you against him? and if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you to him? (God loses nothing o…

Our goodness extends not to him. Though our love is fixed on him immediately, yet no fruit of our love reaches him immediately, though he requires our love, he is not benefited by it, Job 35:5-8, Romans 11:35. Our love to God is made up of four things: rest, delight, reverence,…

The question is proposed, (Job 22:2) Can a man be profitable to God, as he that is wise may be profitable to himself? See the answer, (Job 35:7) If you be righteous, what do you give him? or what does he receive of your hand? and wherein is God profited, if a man's ways be perfe…

First; What is meant by Heaven. There are three heavens in the reckoning of the Scripture: There is, first, the lowest heaven, that where the fowls of the air are, from where the rain descends; therefore the fowls are called the fowls of heaven (Job 35:11). And (James 5:18), Eli…

He gives us Night-Mercies, he Rocks us every Night asleep, Psalm 127:2. So he gives his beloved Sleep: and if we chance to wake he gives us Songs in the Night, Job 35:10. If God be thinking of us Day and Night, shall not we think of his Name?

Let the People of God stand and Wonder. 1. At Gods Condescension, that he who is so high in the praises and acclamations of the Angels, should stoop so low, as to listen to the lispings of his children. The Lord listened and heard: Alas, God has no need of our Services; he is in…

Job 22:2: "Can a man be profitable to God, as he that is wise is profitable to himself?" Job 35:7: "If you are righteous, what do you give him? or what does he receive at your hand?" Whatever God does for creatures, he does it freely, because he cannot be obliged or pre-engaged…

4. It is not unseasonable. In the night without distraction we can more freely command our thoughts, for the senses being exercised scatter the mind to several objects (Job 35:10). "None says where is God my maker, who gives songs in the night?" — that is matter of rejoicing and…

Sin is the Devil's image; as when God made man, he made him in his own image; so when the Devil made man sin, he thereby made him his own image and likeness: and so I conceive the Devil meant that phrase, "You shall be like Gods, Elohim" (Genesis 3:5). He did not say, nor mean,…

4. Hence God cannot, in propriety of speech, be said to know one thing more than another; or to observe one thing more intensely than another: if we consider this observation as it is in God, it cannot be more or less, intended or remitted; for God does all things like himself,…

It is not he therefore but you that will be sufferers; Paul is a sweet savor of God (2 Corinthians 2:15-16). Your fruitfulness will be your profit, it will turn to your account; God is not advantaged in himself by your righteousness (Job 35:6). If you be righteous, what do you p…

To take his declarative glory from God, is no loss to him, no more than it is loss to the Sun, that you hinder it to shine upon the wall, when yet you take no light from the Sun, for it shines upon an interposed body. (Job 35:8) Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are, and you…

He has it all in infinite perfection from himself and his own nature; our goodness extends not unto him; a man cannot profit God, as he may profit his neighbor. "If you sin, what do you do against him? and if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do unto him? and if yo…

Those things that are nauseous to our senses do not affect him: darkness is uncomfortable to us, but the darkness and the light are all one to him. Wickedness may hurt a man, or the son of man; but if we multiply our transgressions, we do nothing to God, as Elihu speaks (Job 35:…

You have made him little lower than the Angels, and has crowned him with glory and honor. And this advantage of our nature above other creatures, we ought thankfully to acknowledge; though most men are so stupid, as to overlook it, as Elihu complains (Job 35:10, 11). None says,…

We are very apt to forget the blessings of God, not so much from a bad memory, as from a bad nature; to forget the greatest blessings, the continuance whereof should continually put us in mind of them; the blessings of our beings. So God complains of his people (Deuteronomy 32):…

Indeed the prayers of Britain are not heard, nor their solemn fasts accepted; for iniquity has separated between God and us (Isaiah 59:2). 3. God hears not when there is a heart-love to vanity (Psalm 66:18, Job 35:15). 4. God hears not malignants, nor us, when many are heart-ene…

(2) Because, by one offering, he has perfected for ever, them that are sanctified; (Hebrews 10:14). (3) Because, human satisfactions, being finite, can never satisfy in part or in whole, the infinite justice of God, for the punishment of sin; (Job 35:6). (4) Because, he has blot…