152 Chap. 3 3. An Expofition upan: the Boob, of J o B. Verf.3. lk... Hence note. Judicious and wife men will tali and try what they intend to fpeake ;before they cotter, it. The fpeaker prefents his words to the tan of the hearer ; For .as this Scripture hash it, at the 3d' verfe of the next Chapter, The care tryeth words, -as the mouth teeth meat ; now he that ventures his words to the raft and cenfure of others, had need take a raft of them befo:e he loth it, cMy tongue bath fpoken. in ,y mouth. Secondly , From the fco,-,e of Elihu in adding this, namely., to gaine attention, Note. There irgreat reafon roe fhould beare that carefully, wh:°ch the fpeaker bath prepared with care. They who regard not what they fpeake, deferve no regard when they fpeake ; but aweighing fpeaker, fhould have aweigh- ing hearer.Andwhat anymans tongue(in the fenceof Elthu) bath fpoken in hismouth, that we should heare,not onlywith.our eare, but with our heart. This a ftrong argument to quicken attenti- on,,yet Eloim gives -in another, and a fironger in the next verfe. Verf. 3. Mywords (hall be of the uprightneffe ofmy heart, my lips (hall utter knowledge clearly. In the former verfe Elihu called for an,openease;becaufe he' opened his mouth, and wasabout to (peak, or had fpoken what he had well rafted. In this'verfe he preflèth the fame duty, by pro- felling all manner - of Ingenuity and Integrity in what he was a- bout to fpeake. He -would fpeake not only ferioufly, but honeft- ly, not only from his underftanding, but his confcience. Mywords !ball be ofthe uprightneffeof myheart, &c. The meaning is not,that the uprightneffe of his heart lhould be the fübjeef upon which he would treat, though that-be a'blef- fed andmolt ufefuil fubject, yet it was not the poynt he intend- ed to difcuffe : but when he faith, -c,Tty words(hall be of thersp- . rightneffeofmyheart, his meaning is, my words (hall flow from the
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