Job 41

Fifthly, God remembers all our deeds of charity, and takes them kindly at our hands. Hebrews 6:10. God is not unrighteous to forget your labor of love which you have shown toward his name, in that you have ministered to the saints. The chief butler may forget Joseph's kindness,…

The pleasure of sin does more delight him than the threatenings affright him. He, like the Leviathan, laughs at the shaking of a spear (Job 41:29). Indeed, he derides God's threatenings.

It is not affliction without, but sin within creates fear; 'tis the wind within the bowels of the earth, makes an Earthquake; but Religion is the best antidote against these heart-killing fears. The fear of God drives out all other fear; missa triumphalem non tangunt fulmina lau…

How is TRUTH in these days forsaken, and CHARITY forgotten! We may say of many they are miserable rich, their affections towards public advancements and disbursements, are like the scales of the Leviathan, shut up together, as with a close seal, Job 41:15. Saint Ambrose says tha…

(1 Kings 22:34) A certain man drew a bow, ⟨ in non-Latin alphabet ⟩. (Job 41:1) Will you draw Leviathan with your hook? (John 21:11) Simon Peter, ⟨ in non-Latin alphabet ⟩, drew a net to land.

This weak word preaching Christ crucified, sets upon this mighty and terrible adversary. Behemoth feeling the divine power of this word, stirs up all his members, shakes his tail, and makes the depth of the sea to boil like a pot (Job 41). Hereof come all these tumults, all thes…

The same reason is given, why that dreadful fish is called Leviathan. His description clears this (Job 41:15): His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal, one is so near to another that no air can come between them, they are joined one to another, they stick…

The Godly fear and sin not, the wicked sin and fear not. They are like the Leviathan, who is made without Fear, Job 41:33. Want of the fear of God is the innate Cause of all Wickedness, Romans 3:14.

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 all the horrors of war, when the quiver rattles against him, the glittering spear and the shield (Job 39:22). And so it is said of the…

True my weaknesses are many but that's not all, nor yet the worst, the waywardness and perverseness of my own heart adds the greatest weight to my misery and wretchedness — not only destitute of any spiritual good, but not willing to be made better, my brow as brass and my neck…

If there be a heaven upon earth, you have it. O Christian, you may triumph over your troubles, and with the Leviathan laugh at the shaking of a spear (Job 41:29). What shall I say? you are a crown to your profession; you do hold it out to all the world, that there is virtue enou…

Use 2: If this is the mark of a good man, that he is of a merciful disposition, then it sharply reproves those who are far from this temper. Their hearts are like the scales of the Leviathan, shut up together as with a close seal (Job 41:15). They move only within their own circ…

Here is a thundering Scripture, but sinners fear not this thunder. Let a minister come clothed with the spirit of Elijah and denounce all the curses of God against men's sins — they regard it not, they can laugh at the shaking of a spear (Job 41:29). This is to regard iniquity a…

Isaiah 66:2: To this man will I look, even to him who trembles at my word. A wicked man like the Leviathan is made without fear (Job 41:33). He neither believes the promises nor dreads the threatenings.

Holding the mystery of faith in a pure conscience. A good conscience will abide the fiery trial; this made the martyrs' flames, beds of roses; a good conscience is a wall of bronze; with the leviathan, it laughs at the shaking of a spear (Job 41:29). Let one be in prison, a good…

Tertullian calls Athanasius an invincible adamant; grace makes a Christian not only bear suffering but glory in it (Romans 5:3). A soul steeled and animated with grace can tread upon the lion and adder (Psalm 91:13) and with Leviathan can laugh at the shaking of a spear (Job 41:…

Happy is he that fears alwaies. A sinner is like the Leviathan, who is made without fear, Job 41. 29. A repenting person fears and sins not, a graceless person sins and fears not.

When Moses's rod was turned into a Serpent, he was afraid and fled from it: Sin will prove a stinging Serpent, O fly from it. Most people are like the Leviathan, made without fear, Job 41:33. They play upon the hole of the Asp.

The arrow cannot make him fly; sling-stones are turned with him into stubble. Darts are counted as stubble; he laughs at the shaking of a spear.” (Job 41:26-29). What can a man do in this case?

The Lord has made him whom you have crucified, a Lord for greatness, a Christ for goodness. Now that the knowledge of sin against the greatness of the Lord, does so pierce the heart, it is evident by the pains that God takes to pull down the heart of Job, when he would have him…