No more pruning or digging or watering. Many discouraged children of God wish the Lord would stop pruning, stop digging, stop watering. B. Woe to the nation ripe for judgment. Accordingly, he describes the feelings of those who never have enough, and whom no wealth can satisfy. Covetous persons are of the dragon s temper, who, they say, is so thirsty, that no water can quench his thirst.
Covetousness is a dry drunkenness, saith one, an insatiable dropsy, and like hell itself.
When men are covetous after the things of this world, God has a way of making them to be filled with disappointment and with bitterness. Woe to those who party endlessly, and celebrate everything but God. But they do not regard the work of the Lord, nor consider the operation of His hands . Simply put, it forgets about God. Though they may claim to remember Him in some way, they do not regard the work of the Lord, nor consider the operation of His hands .