Job 40

Job sends a challenge to all creatures in Heaven and earth, Who is he that did ever take up the bucklers against God, and came off conqueror? For a person to go on daringly in any sin, is to harden his heart against God, and as it were to raise a war against Heaven; and let him…

That stone cut out of the mountains without hands, which smote the image (Daniel 2:34), was an emblem (says Austin) of Christ's monarchical power conquering and triumphing over his enemies. If we are on God's side we are on the strongest side; he can with a word destroy his enem…

Avarice is a dry drunkenness, a horseleech that is never satisfied. The covetous man is like Behemoth (Job 40:23): Behold he drinks up a river, and yet his thirst is not allayed. The covetous miser hoards up corn; and if he hears the price of corn begins to fall, then he is trou…

Covetousness is a dry dropsy. Austin defines covetousness, plus velle quam sat est; to desire more than enough: to aim at a great estate: to be like the daughters of the horseleech, crying, Give, give (Proverbs 30:15), or like Behemoth (Job 40:23), He trusts that he can draw up…

Shall finite contend with infinite? (Job 40:9.) Have you an arm like God? 2. God's wrath is terrible.

Shall we engage the great God against us? God strikes slow, but heavy (Job 40:9): "Have you an arm like God? Can you strike such a blow?"

If we do not obey him we cannot resist him: (1 Corinthians 10:2) Are we stronger than he? (Job 40:9) Have you an arm like God? Can you measure arms with him?

2. The new creature knows himself better than he did. When the sun shines into a room, it discovers all the dust and cobwebs in it; so, when the light of the Spirit shines into the heart, it discovers that corruption which before lay hid; it shows a man his own vileness and noth…

Only he would (to say so) have your consent to, and your approbation of what he does for the greater peace and tranquility of your own minds. Surely therefore it is meet, meekly and submissively to be said to God, whenever and however he chastises, I have borne chastisement, I w…

2. Silence, the soul not daring to quarrel with God. 3. The stooping to the dust, and putting clay in the mouth, for fear that it speak against God's dispensation, as (Job 40:4-5). (4) A willing accepting of buffets on the cheeks, and reproaches — so (Micah 7:9), "I will bear th…

Object. But the church in (Song of Solomon 3:1) she wanted Christ, and yet earnestly desired him, therefore a soul may have a strong desire to Christ, and yet be without him, how can she be said not to find Christ, and yet to have him? She could neither have loved him nor have s…

And this is an infallible token, that the doctrine which we profess is of God. For else (as it is said in Job 40) that Behemoth would lie hid under the trees in the covert of the reed and fens. But now, that he ranges about like a roaring Lion and stirs up such hurly-burlies, it…

When Christ spoke of the servant who gave himself to riotousness in his Masters absence, he calls him the evil servant. There are swarms of all manner of evils in sensual hearts; they are the fennish grounds, that breed filthy poysonsom creatures; so all venemous-lusts are bred…

The Wicked do as Caligula, who challenged Iupiter to a duel: but who ever hardened himself against God and prospered? will men go to measure Arms with God? Job 40:9. Hast you an Arm like God?

I will speak of the Honor and Majesty of your wondrous works. Every Creature sets forth Gods Majesty; we may see the Majesty of God Blazing in the Sun, Twinkling in the Stars: Gods Majesty is discernable in those two Wonders of nature Behemoth and Leviathan, Job 40:18. chap. 41:…

I answer then, that the godly man's witness against sin is still true, good and firm; for 1 As he abhors to commit sin, so he abhors sin committed, and himself for committing it (Job 40:4, 40:6). Sin is the burden of every good man's soul: when the author of Psalm 73 had sinned,…

The more he opposes it, the more he is under guilt, and so the strength of the convicting truth; his sins waylay him in every place; he sees his sins dished out before him on the table where he eats, lie down with him in the bed where he rests, when he dreams they terrify him, w…

Indeed, but justified Job says (Job 9:30-31): "If I wash myself with snow-water, and make my hands never so clean; yet shall you plunge me in the ditch, and my own clothes shall abhor me." (Job 40:4): "Behold, I am vile, what shall I answer you?" This Job, after he was by God's…

But sorrow and care, these most pierce; but these affections never pierce the heart, till first hatred and loathing of sin be wrought in a man (Romans 7:15). And this springs from a change wrought in the will, which makes us loathe ourselves for our sins (Job 40:3-4) and (Job 42…