...There was silence (deep and solemn, all around, while the spirit spake) ; and I heard a voice, saying, shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his Maker ? Or, as others render it, shall mortal man (a) Job iv. 13, &c. be just before God ? shall man be pure...

...scripture. " Who art thou that " repliest against God ? Shall not the Judge of all " the earth do right ? Shall mortal man be more " just than God ? Shall a man be more pure than "his Maker?"1 Let us rather submit to his righteousness, and seek that relief which his gospel proposes...

...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...

...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 of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth ?"• Frail man is crushed as with...

...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...how much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust?' Job iv. 18, 19. 'Fury is not in me ; who would set the briers and...

...eyes; there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall man be more pure than his Maker? Behold he put no...his servants, and his angels he charged with folly. But this was seen by Eliphaz, one of Job's friends, and they were reproved, and he justified; and they...

...may speak to us upon this subject, and inform us how God regards his various intelligent creatures. Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly. How much less in them who dwell in houses of clay; whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth. Nothing...

...vision, with the manner of it, this he affirms to be the revelation that by voice was made unto him ; ' Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his Maker? Behold he puts no trust in his servants, and his angels he chargeth with folly. How much less on them that dwell...

...before mine eyes, § there was silence, i °r; /*<w<i and I heard a voice, saying, «•••** 17 Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker ? 18 Behold, he "put no trust in his servants ; |j and his »<*•«• isangels he charged with folly...

...the form thereof: an image *>as before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, 17 eth upon the ? 8 18 Behold, he put no trust in his servants ; and his angels he charged with folly : 19 How much...