Job 4

Job 4:6

Is not this thy fear, thy confidence?

Is not this thy storming and fretting at the hand of God, a plain argument, that all thy religion or pretended fear of God, was only upon a confidence that he would still bless and prosper thee?

Job 4:8

Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.

I have well seen and observed, that men speed according to their actions, and reap the fruit of their evil doings in evil sufferings.

Job 4:11

The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion’s whelps are scattered abroad.

The tyrants and oppressors of the earth, which are as strong and roaring lions, however they may prevail with men, yet they are by the just and powerful God disappointed of their purposed prey, and distressed with just want.

Job 4:12

Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine car received a little thereof.

If you think not fit to believe me, yet believe the revelation, which I lately had concerning thee: for I had a secret intimation from God, wherein it pleased him to make known to me, what he judgeth of thine estate.

Job 4:13

In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men.

When I was most seriously thinking of thee, in the very deep of the night, at such time as other men are overtaken and possessed with their dead sleep,

Job 4:14

Fear came upon me, &c.

There came a great fear and trembling on a sudden upon me, as a harbinger of that vision, which soon followed after it.

Job 4:15

Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up.

Then a spirit appeared before me, the presence whereof made my hair to stand upright.

Job 4:16

But I could not discern the form thereof.

It stood still by me, but I could not discern what manner of visage it had.

Job 4:18

Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly.

If the best and most glorious creatures be compared with him, alas, what are they? Behold: he finds not any such stability or absoluteness in his very angels, as that, setting aside his own gracious endowments of them, and his firm decree concerning them, they can stand out in the challenge of any perfection in themselves.

Job 4:19

How much less on them that dwell in houses of clay, &c.?

How much less can miserable man stand upon such points with his Maker!