Job 7

1. By opening some Scripture phrases. 1. To forgive sin is to take away iniquity (Job 7:21): "Why do you not take away mine iniquity?" The Hebrew word Vethagnabir signifies to lift off.

O discover it now to me, and recover me now from it. And having found the root and cause of their troubles, ingenuous souls will shame themselves for it, and give glory to God by a humble submission, and vindication of the equity of his proceedings (Job 7:20), I have sinned, wha…

Daniel, in his captivity; Ezra, when the people were under wrath; Esther and her maids, when the church's destruction is warped, and in weaving, by prayer loose the captive bands, and break death's jaws. So low a man as Job (Job 7:20) was, What shall I say to you, O preserver of…

Or does he not seek the effectual pardon of his numbering the people? (Job 7:21), "And why do you not pardon my iniquity, and take away my transgression?" (Isaiah 27:9), "This is all the fruit, to take away his sin" — this cannot be the potential and ineffectual removing of sin,…

Also from God's Providence who permits this, that we may not be careless and secure after temptation, though we have gotten the victory. For our life is a continual warfare (Job 7:1): Is there not an appointed time for man upon earth? The same word signifies also a warfare.

He speaks expressly of the multitude, because they were a great people; and therefore boasted of it as if they had been invincible. Where he adds that the remnant shall be feeble, he means, there shall be such a change, that there shall be great odds between their former and lat…

We obtain peace with God, when he begins to be gracious to us, by taking away our guilt, and “not imputing to us our trespasses,” (2 Corinthians 5:19;) and when we, relying on his fatherly love, address him with full confidence, and boldly praise him for the salvation which he h…

It certainly argues the great esteem God has of a man, when he thus follows him with sanctified Providences (whether they be comforts or crosses) for his good. And so much is plain, from Job 7:18 Lord what is man, that you shouldst visit him every morning, and try him every mome…

Oh how quietly will you then behave your selves under the changes of Providence? It may be, two or three days have made a sad change in your condition: the death of a dear relation has turned all things upside down: that place is empty where lately they were, as it is, Job 7:10…

THus you see what care Providence has had over your souls, in preventing the spiritual dangers and miseries that else would have befallen you in the way of temptations: in the next place I will shew you, that it has been no less careful for your bodies,and with how great tendern…

He comes nigh in mercies also, Psalm 145:18 The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him, &c. Yea, he is said to visit us by his Providence when he corrects, Hosea 9:7 and when he saves and delivers, Psalm 106:4 These visitations of God preserve our spirits, Job. 10:12 And…

We use to say, a light burden is heavy, if the journey be long; a man may bear anything for a brunt, or for a spurt, but to have a sad load continued upon the shoulders all the day, pinches sore. Job's load lay upon him day and night, day after day, indeed month after month (Job…

1. Not only Afflctions in general, but great and manifold Afflictions, and those attended with all sorts of aggravating circumstances, are alwaies consistent with the pardon of sin, after signal tokens and pledges of it, and of the love of God therein, Job 7:17, 18. What is man…

For look, as these blessed spirits did exceedingly rejoice at their conversion (Luke 15:10) and thought it no dishonor to minister to them while they stood in the field (Hebrews 1:14), so when they are cut down by death, they will rejoice to be their convoy to heaven. When the c…

The Poem. Observe in summer's sultry heat, how in the hottest day: the husbandman does toil and sweat about his corn and hay. (Job 7:2, Genesis 3:19) If then he should not reap and mow, and gather in his store; how should he live, when for the snow he can't move out of door? (Pr…

Your days will consume like smoke, while your heart is smitten and withered like grass (Psalm 102:3-4). Your months will be months of vanity, they will fly away and see no good (Job 7:3). If he will but quicken you again, then you must call upon his name (Psalm 80:18).

(3.) From the peevishness of fond and doting love (2 Samuel 18:33): And the King was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: as he went, thus he said, O Absolom, my son, would God I had died for you, O Absolom, my son, my son — like the wives of the East-…

It is but as a vapor (James 4:14). A little warm breath turned in and out by the nostrils (Job 7:1). Is there not an appointed time for man upon earth?

All are yours, for you are Christ's, and Christ is God's. If they look to heaven, they can rejoice and say, Glory be to you, O Lord, who have prepared this for our everlasting dwelling-place: if they look to the earth, Glory be to you, O Lord, who do not leave us destitute in th…

Mere crosses and troubles are not an argument of God's displeasure, but acts of his faithfulness; so that we have reason to give thanks for his discipline, rather than question his love. In the book of Job 'tis made a mark of his love, as in those words which are so frequent, (J…

The Scriptures are so pregnant, reasons so plain, arguments so strong, that though before they did not see, they could not think it, or be brought to believe, that their sins were so heinous or their condition so miserable, yet they now know not how to gainsay it. Thus [illegibl…

God's rod is Sceptrum Regale, a scepter of dignity. Job calls God's afflicting of us his magnifying of us (Job 7:17). Some men's prosperity has been their shame, when others' affliction has been their crown.

2. Do we endure no pain at all in our life? Job felt so many miseries, that he did choose rather to die than live, Job 7. 5 and 15. My flesh is clothed with worms, my skin is broken and become loathsome, so that my soul chooses strangling and death, rather than life; the life of…

By Thomas Watson Minister of Stephens Walbrook in the City of London. I would not live always, Job 7:16. In this we groan earnestly, desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven, 2 Corinthians 5:2.

For my part, I know not whether it is best to live thus, or to die out of hand. My soul chooses strangling rather than life, and the grave is more easy for me than this dungeon (Job 7:15). Shall we be ruled by the giant?

And it is a merciful condescension of the Lord to poor creatures thus to concern himself for their safety and benefit. 'What is man, that you should magnify him, and that you should set your heart upon him, that you should visit him every morning, and try him every moment?' (Job…

2. Where the believer is willing, that his pain, and his hell, may be matter of praising of God (Psalm 77:13): Who is so great a God as our God: the church was then deserted, as the Psalm makes clear. 6. She puts Christ in his chair of state, and adores him: the deserted soul sa…

(Isaiah 59:12): For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us. (Job 7:20): I have sinned against you, O preserver of man. (Psalm 40:12): My sins are more in number than the hairs of my head.

How do thoughts trouble the Belshazzars and Nebuchadnezzars of the world (Daniel 4:19)? So Proverbs 4:16 — they sleep not unless they have done mischief; if their desires remain unsatisfied, they do disturb their thoughts, like froward children by their crying: so as, often, the…