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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 38 › Verse 24-27
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He will not let the senseless ground suffer hunger and thirst overlong, that shall have food after its kind, or proper for it.
Secondly, Note; Even the Earth knows when it hath enough.
It is satisfied. And this may be a great reproof upon the insatiableness of many men; they in this are much worse than the desolate and wast ground, that may be satisfied, that will crave no more. But whereas Solomon saith, there are four things that say not it is enough (Prov. 30.15, 16.) Of all things, the desires of man are most unsatiable, and say not it is enough. It was a great word which Esau spake, I have enough my brother (Gen. 33.9.) and I fear he hath but a few brethren in that saying. Among the four things which in Solomons ob ervation say not it is enough, the earth is one, in the place last mentioned. But mark, It is the earth, that is not filled with water. For where God is pleased to fill the earth with water, then as this Text in Job speaks, it is satisfied. He causeth it to rain on the wilderness, to satisfy the desolate and wast ground.
It is satisfied. And this may be a great reproof upon the insatiableness of many men; they in this are much worse than the desolate and wast ground, that may be satisfied, that will crave no more. But whereas Solomon saith, there are four things that say not it is enough (Prov. 30.15, 16.) Of all things, the desires of man are most unsatiable, and say not it is enough. It was a great word which Esau spake, I have enough my brother (