Chapter 39:
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Job 39
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God inquires of Job concerning several animals.
In these questions the Lord continued to humble Job. In this
chapter several animals are spoken of, whose nature or situation particularly
show the power, wisdom, and manifold works of God. The wild ass. It is better to
labour and be good for something, than to ramble and be good for nothing. From
the untameableness of this and other creatures, we may see, how unfit we are to
give law to Providence, who cannot give law even to a wild ass's colt. The
unicorn, a strong, stately, proud creature. He is able to serve, but not
willing; and God challenges Job to force him to it. It is a great mercy if,
where God gives strength for service, he gives a heart; it is what we should
pray for, and reason ourselves into, which the brutes cannot do. Those gifts are
not always the most valuable that make the finest show. Who would not rather
have the voice of the nightingale, than the tail of the peacock; the eye of the
eagle and her soaring wing, and the natural affection of the stork, than the
beautiful feathers of the ostrich, which can never rise above the earth, and is
without natural affection? The description of the war-horse helps to explain the
character of presumptuous sinners. Every one turneth to his course, as the horse
rushes into the battle. When a man's heart is fully set in him to do evil, and
he is carried on in a wicked way, by the violence of his appetites and passions,
there is no making him fear the wrath of God, and the fatal consequences of sin.
Secure sinners think themselves as safe in their sins as the eagle in her nest
on high, in the clefts of the rocks; but I will bring thee down from thence,
saith the Lord,jeremiah 49:16. All
these beautiful references to the works of nature, should teach us a right view
of the riches of the wisdom of Him who made and sustains all things. The want of
right views concerning the wisdom of God, which is ever present in all things,
led Job to think and speak unworthily of Providence.
Chapter 39:
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