,os- Verf."Y'g An Expoftion upon the Bookof J pB. Chap. 2.> called it his friends vifit. In which vifit you may;here obfervO; Firti the number of the vifitants; They were three Now when Jobs three friends. Secondly,We have here thenames ofthefevifitantsi Eliphaz the Tenianite , and Bildad the Shuhite , and Zopha.r the Naatrra- thite. Thirdly, We have the .occafïón of their vifit: And that was the report of all theevil that was come upon lob. Now when Jobs threefriends heard ofall t his evil that was c0.me uponhim, then they, came. Fourthly, We have the ground of this vifit. It was .a mutual . agreement, or a compact made between them ; fo faith theText, For they had made an appointment together to come.. Fifthly, We have the end or .the intendmentof their coming,, what theyaimed at, in ví.fiting Job And the end is expreff in the; Text to be two-fold. r. 'Fo communicate with him in his forrows. . 2. To communicate unto him their comforts. First, To mourn with him. And tècondly, To comfort him. The former ofthefe two ends, viz. their mourning with him, we have largely let down in the two latter verfes they put that end into ad- prefently, as loon as they came, they fell a mourning with him. And we may obferve five ditlind asof Jobs friends, folemnly condoling or mourning with him.. The lira at is this theywept : And to thew that it was no or -. dinary weeping,the Text faith,They lift up their voice and'wept. The fecond ad of their mourning wis, their renting of their Mantles, And they rent every one hin Mantle. The thirdat was, thefprinkling of daft upon their beads, and thefprink/ing ofduff towards Heaven, which was another aggrava- tingcircumílance ofth it forrow. The fourth ad was, theirfatting downwith himupon theground, feven days, andfeven nights. The fifth ad of their mourning with him, was their filence, Andnonefpake a word unto him. The or the realonof this folemnity in their mourning,the regon of thrfe five Ads, but elpecially of the laft, of their faience, is.kivenús iii the latter words ofthe verre : For theyfaw that his griefwas verygreat, and therefore it mutt have great furrow, and great.filenee to wait the fitteft feafon forthe. adiiníftring of counfel.
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