Job 10:18-22 Why then have you brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!… This passage teaches — 1. Saints' highest fits of passion will not last, but mercy will reclaim them, and give them a cool of that fever. 2. As the fevers and distempers of saints may come to a very great height, so, ordinarily, that height or excess of them proves the step next to their cool. 3. Humble, sober prayer is a notable evidence and mean in calming distempered spirits; it is as the shower to allay that poisonous wind. 4. As man's life is but uncertain and short, so the thoughts of this should make men employ their time well, and to be very needy and pressing after God, and proofs of Him. 5. Such as are excited with much trouble, and have their exercises blessed to them, will be sober, and esteem much of little ease, to get leave to breathe, or to comfort and refresh themselves a little, with a sight of God, or of His grace in them, and not their own passions which they ought to abhor. 6. The least ease, breathing, or comfort, under trouble, cannot be had but of God's indulgence. 7. It is the duty of men to acquaint themselves with death beforehand; and especially in times of trouble they should study it in its true colours. 8. Death and the grave in themselves, and when Christ's victory over them is not studied, and men are hurried away to them in a tempest of trouble, are very terrible, and an ugly sight, as bringing an irreparable loss as to any restitution in this life. 9. The consideration of the ugliness of death and the grave, doth call upon all to provide somewhat before they lie down in that cold bed, wherein they will continue so long, and somewhat that may light them through that dark passage. (George Hutcheson.) Parallel Verses KJV: Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me! |
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