A STUDY FROM THE BOOK OF JOB JOB 8:13-14 8:13 - “So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrites hope shall perish:” So are the paths of all that forget God; they take the same way that the rush does, for the hypocrites hope shall perish. Forgetfulness of God is at the bottom of mens hypocrisy, and of the vain hopes with which they flatter and deceive themselves in their hypocrisy. Men would not be hypocrites if they did not forget that the God with whom they have to do searches the heart and requires truth there, that he is a Spirit and has his eye on our spirits; and hypocrites would have no hope if they did not forget that God is righteous, and will not be mocked with the torn and the lame. The hope of hypocrites is a great cheat upon themselves, and, though it may flourish for a while, it will certainly perish at last, and they with it. 8:14 - “Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spiders web.” They are here compared to a spiders web, or a spiders house (as it is in the margin), a cobweb - 8:14,15. The hope of the hypocrite is woven out of his own bowels; it is the creature of his own fancy, and arises merely from a conceit of his own merit and sufficiency. There is a great deal of difference between the work of the bee and that of the spider. A diligent Christian, like the laborious bee, fetches in all his comfort from the heavenly dews of Gods word; but the hypocrite, like the subtle spider, weaves his out of a false hypothesis of his own concerning God, as if he were altogether such a one as himself.
Posted on: Sun, 07 Sep 2014 13:34:07 +0000
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