Job 8

Their hope was not an anchor, but a spider's web. Now at Death they lose their hopes, they see they did but flatter themselves into Hell (Job 8:14). Whose hope shall be cut off.

God forbid. (Job 8:3). Does the Almighty pervert justice? 1. God is not bound to give an account of his actions to his creatures.

They who lose the Heavenly Kingdom lose the society of angels, and what sweeter music than to hear them praise God in consort. They lose all their treasure, their white robes, their sparkling crowns; they lose their hopes, (Job 8:14) Whose hope shall be cut off. Their hope is no…

This way that many take, is not to draw the evidences of believing from works of holiness, which is warrantable, but the founding of faith, or their hope of heaven on works, and the use they make of their faith, is to ward off challenges for the imperfection of their works, and…

Why does David complain that he was as a bottle in the smoke, and pray so often that God would quicken him, if under a dead disposition we were not to pray? 4. If often the saints beginning to pray do speak words of unbelief and from a principle of nature, and if words flowing f…

The blossom of childhood hopes to come to the budding of youth; and the bud of youth hopes to come to the flower of age; and the flower of age hopes to come to old age; and old age hopes to renew its strength as the eagle. But if we measure life by a pair of Scripture compasses,…

Godly men, though never so poor, are to look upon those who are carnal, as base and vile, especially to think to take satisfaction in eating, and drinking, and playing with them, when as there are such holy Ordinances, and high priviledges with Gods people, to satisfy yourselves…

Their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost (Job 11:20). The hypocrite's hope shall perish, and his trust is but as a spider's web; he shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand; he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure (Job 8:13-15). Where will the hope of hy…

There is nothing more common than to see men big with groundless hopes of heaven. 1. A man may have great hope that has no grace; you read of the hope of hypocrites (Job 8:13-14). The performance of duties is a proof of their hope; the foolish virgins would never have done what…

A wicked man's hope is as far from being good as his heart; the Hebrew word for hope signifies both confidence and folly — it is fitly applied to a wicked man's hope, for his confidence is folly. The hope of a godly man is compared to an anchor (Hebrews 6:19); the hope of a wick…

Psalm 112:10: "The desire of the wicked shall perish." Job 8:13-14: The hypocrite's hope shall perish: whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web. Proverbs 10:28: The expectation of the wicked shall perish.

You may then go to the promises boldly, and take your own Christ into the arms of your faith, and say, 'My beloved is mine, and I am his.' Yes, you may be confident it shall be well with you in the judgment of the great day, for 'God will not cast away the upright man' (Job 8:20…