Job 6

After Satan's fiery darts, comes the White Stone; no better balm to heal a tempted soul than the oil of gladness: as after Christ was tempted, then came an angel to comfort him. 4th Season. After desertion: desertion is a poisoned arrow shot to the heart (Job 6:4). God is called…

The tongue is made almost in the fashion of a sword; and the tongue is sharp as a sword (Psalm 57:4). Their tongue is a sharp sword. Kind, loving words should be spoken to such as are of a heavy heart (Job 6:14). To him that is afflicted, pity should be shown. Healing words are…

Holiness is the most sparkling jewel of his crown; it's the name by which God is known (Psalm 111:9): "Holy and reverend is his name." He is the holy one (Job 6:10). Seraphims cry, "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts, the whole earth is full of his glory" (Isaiah 6:3).

(3.) God being a Father, if he desert and hide his face from his child, it is in love. Desertion is sad in itself, a short Hell (Job 6:9). When the light is withdrawn, dew falls: yet we may see a rainbow in the cloud, the love of a Father in all this.

There is a great power and efficacy in good discourse. (Job 6:25) How forcible are right words! By holy conference on a Sabbath, one Christian helps to warm another when he is frozen, to strengthen another when he is weak.

The allusion is to the poisoned darts which the Scythians of old, and other nations now, use in war, dipped in the blood and gall of asps and vipers, the venomous heat of which, like a fire in their flesh, killed the wounded with torments most like to hell of any other. Job also…

Now this first kind of temptations, by outward Judgments, is most grievous; when the Lord lays his own hand upon his servants so heavily, as they shall think themselves to be quite forsaken. In this temptation was David as we may read at large: Psalm the 6: and Psalm 38: and Job…

No, but hope when there is no hope, keep faith when there is no feeling. And to strengthen us herein, remember the faith of Job (tried and sifted, so as few have been) who though the arrows of the almighty stuck in him, and the venom thereof drunk up his spirits, Job 6:4. Yet ev…

If so be you have tasted the Lord is gracious. Time was, when they found comfort in drawing nigh to God; His Word was as the dropping honey, very delicious to the palate of their soul: but now it is otherwise, they can taste no more sweetness in spiritual things, than in the whi…

But it is a sad dispensation, when God cleaves a saint with a wedge of his own timber; and links one sinful misjudging of God, in this fever of soul-desertion, to another: and justice sews (in a permissive providence) one sin to another, to lengthen the chain, if free grace, a l…

Error 3. When we see we must suffer, we tacitly are offended that Christ will not give us the first vote in our own jury, and that he would not seek our own advice in this kind of cross, not this; except to one man, David, God never referred the choice of a cross, but then grace…

He that walks with the wise shall be wise, but a companion of fools shall be destroyed. 3. Such as are most likely to be faithful (Job 6:15-16). My brethren have dealt deceitfully with me as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away.

It is nothing by way of comparison with God, nothing by way of exclusion of God, nothing in opposition to God. It should be nothing in our esteem, so far as it would be something separate from God, or in co-ordination with God (Isaiah 40:17): All nations before him are as nothin…

He may express his just displeasure, and correct us for our sins for a while; but he takes off his punishing hand again, because he knows we are soon apt to faint and fail, being but a little enlivened dust, of a weak constitution, not able to endure long troubles and vexations.…

And we find it in Scripture referred in diverse ways. First, it is put for unsavory meat without salt or sauce, as (Job 6:6): Can that which is unsavory be eaten without salt? The word [unsavory] there is the same as this here rendered folly or foolishly.

And Christ is to the believer, not what idols are to the men of the world, but what a most loving husband is to his wife, being the object of her heart-contenting and satisfying love: wherever these properties of true love to Christ are, there may the soul lay claim to him as it…

In this may I resemble them, and come among the people of the Lord, in the fullness of the blessing of the Gospel of Christ (Romans 15:29). Oh let not those thirsty souls that wait for me as for the rain (Job 29:23), return like the Troops of Tema, ashamed with their heads cover…

Hear me speedily, O Lord, for my spirit fails; hide not your face from me, lest I be like those that go down into the pit; q. d. Lord, make haste and recover my languishing soul; otherwise, whereas you have now a sick child, you will shortly have a dead child. And in like manner…

Spiritual Terrors, as well as spiritual Consolations, are not known till felt. O when the Arrows of the Almighty are shot into the Spirit, and the Terrors of God set themselves in array against the Soul; when the Venome of those Arrows drink up the Spirits, and those Armies of T…

Thus he is said (Hebrews 1:3) to uphold all things by the word of his power: As a weighty thing is upheld in the hand of a man, when he loosens his hand all falls to the ground: So it is said (Job 12:10), In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all man…

God is faithful who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able. God knows our frame, that we are imbecil and weak; our flesh is not as brass, Job 6 12. And the Lord will not try us above our strength, he will not lay a Giants burden upon a Childs back. God will not…

If you broach a Vessel that which is within will come out; by that which comes out of the Mouth, you may Guess what is within in the Heart, Luke 6 45. Out of the abundance of the Heart the mouth speaks. 6. Good discourse is beneficial, Job 6:23. How forcible are rights words?

Now if God does but loosen his hand, his almighty grasp, all comes to nothing. (Job 6:9) Let him loose his hand, and cut me off. Life, and the comforts of life, depend upon God in every kind.

As their joys are unspeakable and glorious, so their sorrows are sometimes above expression: A wounded spirit who can bear? (Proverbs 18:14). Common natural courage will carry a man through other afflictions — but when the arrows of the Almighty stick in their heart (Job 6:3), t…

As now he begs God in mercy to do for him: the equity of my cause being known, let them join themselves to me. As Job to his friends (Job 6:29): Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; indeed, return again, my righteousness is in it. That is, in this matter, every good man w…

And for why are these passionate requests? He tells us, The arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison of which drinks up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me (Job 6:9). And therefore though he could patiently bear all that the rage of the De…

Secondly, be convinced of the misery and desperate danger of a natural condition, for until we see the plague of our hearts, and the misery of our state by nature, we shall never be brought out of ourselves, to seek help in another. Thirdly, be convinced of the utter insufficien…

So Eli spoke to Samuel (1 Samuel 3:17), hide nothing from me. Job (Job 6:24), teach me and I will hold my tongue — he will quietly hear all, and attend that most, which may carry the cause to his conscience. If yet the evidence of the truth be such that he cannot gainsay, his mo…

In desertion God rains hell out of heaven (to use Calvin's expression). The arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison of which drinks up my spirits (Job 6:4). This is the poisoned arrow that wounds to the heart.

The grammarian who declines all other nouns, knows not how to decline death. Is my strength (said Job) the strength of stones? Job 6. 12. Suppose it were, yet, -- gutta cavat lapidem, -- the continual dropping of sickness would in time wear away this stone.

Desertion is the arrow of God, shot into the soul. Job 6.4. The arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my Spirit. The Scythians in their Wars did use to dip their Arrows in the blood and gall of Asps, that the venomous heat of them might the more to…

The tempering of the wheels and motions of a distempered conscience is so high, and supernatural a work, that Christ had to have the Spirit of the Lord on him above his fellows, and must be sent with a special commission to apply the sweet hands, the soft merciful fingers of the…

2. Consider that Christ loves you with the truest love: There is little true love in the world, you have many that truly hate you, few that truly love you: and there is much dissimulation in the pretended love and affection of some; all that flatter you do not truly love you; lo…

So that suppose, that taken severally, they be the smallest and least of your sins, yet their multitude makes them more and heavier than all your other. Nothing smaller than a grain of sand, but if there be a heap of them, there is nothing heavier (Job 6:3) — my grief is heavier…

So our near friends are more committed to our care than others, and our near neighbors than those that live at a great distance; and the people of our land and nation are more in some sense committed to our care than the people of China, and we ought to pray more for them and to…

Now we know there is a kind of all-sufficiency in a fountain; whatever water a man wants, he may have his supply at the fountain; whereas cisterns and broken pits will be presently exhausted. We may observe in many fountains that to the eye they seem to have far less water in th…