Job 39

1 Corinthians 12:14: They lay up, and lay out for their children. They are not like the raven or ostrich (Job 39:14), which are cruel to their young. Parents sometimes do impoverish themselves to enrich their children.

The first to make all his subjects to humble themselves, and as it were to go crooked and buckle under their offences committed against his majesty in times past. Thus Job after the Lord had long afflicted him, and laid his hand sore upon him, says, Behold I am vile: and again,…

It is very plain in some places, in the texts themselves, that by hardness of heart is meant a heart void of affection. So to signify the Ostrich's being without natural affection to her young, it is said, Job 39:16. She hardeneth her heart against her young ones, as though they…

The voice of an oppressor is a terrible voice; and therefore Job puts this in, as a special privilege that the poor prisoners shall have in the grave, they shall not hear the voice of the oppressor; who can rest where they speak, or hear their words and not be troubled? Therefor…

Ans. They expect for foode at Gods hand: Job 39. 3. The birds crie unto God, wandring for lacke of meate.

Wash me throughly from mine iniquitie, hee confesses himselfe to be so deeply stained with the filth of sinne, that a little washing will not serve. So when the Lord had spoken unto Job, and made him see and know himselfe, he cries out, Behold, I am vile, Job. 39, 37. and againe…

First, verse 9, he sets out her stateliness, strength and courage, by a similitude taken from horses: are (says he) horses stately and strong? For so in Job is the horse described (Job 39:19-20, etc.), and is not a company of them much more stately, especially a company of Egypt…

Contrary is the practice of such lewd and unnatural women, as leave their newborn children under stalls, at men's doors, in church porches, indeed many times in open field. It is noted as a point of unnaturalness in the ostrich, to leave her eggs in the earth, and in the dust: i…

Secondly, mocking may be taken for slighting, and making no account of, looking upon things or persons, as trivial and inconsiderable. And thus it is used in Job, where the horse is said to mock at fear, when he rushes into the battle, and is not terrified; but rather enraged by…

Desire is the weight of the soul, which sets it going. As the eagle which desires its prey makes haste to it (Job 39, last verse) — the eagle has sharpness of sight to discover its prey, and swiftness of wing to fly to it — so the soul that hungers after righteousness is carried…

And so he may say, God is so merciful and just today, as he may be no merciful, no just, tomorrow; and God is infinitely merciful and just, and yet he is less merciful and more merciful essentially according to his good pleasure, which are speaking contradictions. Indeed this is…

And: I abhor myself, and I repent in dust and ashes. Of the publican: who standing far off would not lift up so much as his eyes to heaven, but struck his breast saying, Lord be merciful to me a sinner (Daniel 9:7; Job 39:36; Job 42:6; Luke 18:13). As for confession of sin to me…

He swallows the ground with fierceness and rage; neither believes he that it is the sound of the trumpet. He says among the trumpets, Ha, ha! and he smells the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shoutings.” (Job 39:19-25). But for such footmen as you and I are…

Proverbs 24:9 — the thought of foolishness is sin. And therefore a man is to be humbled for a proud thought (Proverbs 30:32), for so laying hand on the mouth is taken (as Job 39:37) for being vile in a man's own eyes. And because this is the sense I chiefly must insist on, in ha…

Having nothing to say, not to plead and excuse, that thoughts are free, and it is impossible to be rid of them, etc., but as Ezekiel 16:65 — to remember and to be confounded, and never to open your mouth more! To be vile, and not to answer again, as Job 39:27-28 — this is to lay…