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,…

In Job 11:12 we have mention of this creature: For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild Ass's Colt. And in Job 39:5, Who has sent out the wild Ass free? or who has loosed the bands of the wild Ass? And in Jeremiah 2:24, to name no more: A wild Ass used to the w…

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…

S. 6. 7. (Job 39:37) Among so many, so huge volumes as the infinite pains of Saint Augustine has brought forth, what one has gotten him greater love, commendation, and honor, than the book wherein he carefully collects his own oversights, and sincerely condemns them? Many speech…

Send an East-wind to blow in heaven, and by his power bring a South-wind (Psalm 78:26). Loose the bands of the wild Ass, and cause him to dwell in the barren wilderness (Job 39:5, 6). Causes the Hawk, by his wisdom, to stretch his wings toward the North rather than the South, an…

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…

And because prayer is a means to move God to give his Spirit, and thereby to open man's heart to receive the word into it, and to make his word powerful and effectual, he must also as well as he can, pray to God for his Spirit, and for his blessing on his word. For a natural man…

Jerome then was injurious to his providence, and cast a blemish on his absolute perfection, while he thought to have cleared his Majesty, from being defiled with the knowledge and care of the smallest reptiles and vermin every moment; and Saint Augustine is express to the contra…

Q. 5. Does the providence of God extend itself to every small thing? A. The least grass of the field, hair of our heads, or worm of the earth, is not exempted from his knowledge and care (Job 39; Psalm 104:21; Psalm 145:15; Jonah 4:7; Matthew 6:26, 27, 28, 29; Matthew 10:29, 30)…

Q. 5. Does the providence of God extend itself to every small thing? A. The least grass of the field, hair of our heads, or worm of the earth, is not exempted from his knowledge and care (Job 39; Psalm 104:21 & 145:15; Jonah 4:7; Matthew 6:26, 27, 28, 29 & 10:29, 30). CHAP. 7. O…