A35538:1678
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second, being the five last, chapters of the book of Job being the substance of fifty-two lectures or meditations / by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. and S. Simmons, 1666
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AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-eighth, T… › Chapter 39 › Verse 13-18
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As if it had been said, Through her carelessness, she is in hazard to lose all that labour, which according to natures course she had taken in laying her eggs. In this sense, that promise is made to the Church (Isa. 65.23.) They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth in trouble, for they are the blessed of the Lord, and their off spring with them. As there of them in the Negative, so here 'tis said of the Ostrich in the affirmative, Her labour is in vain; that is, it is likely to be in vain, and all but lost labour, as to her eggs and young ones.
As if it had been said, Through her carelessness, she is in hazzard to lose all that labour, which according to natures course she had taken in laying her eggs. In this sense, that promise is made to the Church (Isa. 65.23.) They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth in trouble, for they are the blessed of the Lord, and their off spring with them. As there of them in the Negative, so here 'tis said of the Ostrich in the affirmative, Her labour is in vain; that is, it is likely to be in vain, and all but lost labour, as to her eggs and young ones.
Labour is in vain, when it turns to very small account. A Husbandman that ploughs & sows his ground, if it scarce yield him his seed again, is said to labour in vain, because he hath got so little by his labour, though somewhat he hath got. A Student that hath applied himself to his book, and gotten but little knowledge, may be said to have studied in vain; much more is that labour in vain, which turns to no account, or hath no good effect at all; such as is the washing of the Ethiopian or Black-moo•, whom how long soever ye wash, he is never a whit the whiter. But above all vain labour, that labour is in vain, which produceth an effect quite contrary to the intent and purpose of the labourer. Thus Pharaoh and the Egyptians laboured in vain, to diminish the Israelites; for (saith the Scripture,