...naked shall I return thither : the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away, blessed, &c. — Job i. 21. Behold, he put no trust in his servants, and his angels he charged with folly ; how much less on them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the...

...some just cause. Others think it is only a reproof to Job for his unreasonable speeches. " Verse 18. ' Behold, he put no trust in his servants ; and his angels he charged with folly. " Eliphaz having laid the dignity of man in the dust by these humbling questions in the former verse....

...discern are these, " shall mortal man be more just than God ? shall a man be more pure than his Maker. Behold he put no trust in his servants ; and his angels...how much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, &c." A Divine Revelation could not be necessary to instruct us, that man cannot be more just than God,...

...uncertainty of human life : " Behold he putteth no trust in his servants ; and his angels he chargeth with folly : How much less in them that dwell in houses...is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth ?"• Frail man is crushed as with a moth ; in secrecy and silence he sinks into the grave. The same...

...the frailest materials, built upon the heap of similar dwelling places, now reduced to rubbish — How much less in them that dwell, in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust !" — ( Jowett's Christian Researches, pp. 131 , 132.) — In one place, says the same intelligent...

...hireling a ? We are but of yesterday, and know nothing; because our days upon earth are a shadow b. We dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the mothc. Wise men also die, and perish together, as well as the ignorant and foolish, and leave their...

...immutable purity of the Godhead — is conveyed in terms of loftiness worthy of the theme : verse 18 — "Behold he put no trust in his servants ; and his angels he charged with folly." So stand his words in our received version — in the past tense ; from which it would appear as if...

.../lave a building of dir/, d an house not made with hands, eternal iu </»' heaven». а How much lees in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, whwh are crushed before the moth? Job iv. 19. Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle,...

...defection. 19. What then are the dwellers in tenements of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust .' 20. They are crushed before the moth, They are destroyed from morning to evening; 21. They are for ever perishing unnoticed, Their fluttering round is soon over; They die, quite destitute...

...judgment with thy servant, for in thy sight shall no man living be justified ;' Psal. cxliii. 2. ' Behold, he put no trust in his servants, and his angels...houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust?' Job iv. 18, 19. 'Fury is not in me ; who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would...