444 Chap. 3. .An E.xpefition on the Book çf j o B. erf.27, J l B. Chap. 33. Verf. 27, 28, 29, 30. ¡Je looketh upon men,, and ifany fay, I have finned, andperverted that which was right, and it pro f tech me not : He will deliver his fonde from going into the pit,, and his life 'hall fee the light. Jo, all tb.efe things. worl;eth God oftentimes with man: to bring bitch his foule from thepit, and'to-be'en- lightned with the light of the living. WE had the bleffed iffue of the Lords dealing with the lick finner in the former verte. Now, -in the two ,firft vetfes of this context, we have the fame tafeand iifueput in ge- serail with referenceto any man. And in the two latter , Elihu recapitulatesor fummes up the whole matter, and then applyeth it to'ob perfonally and particularly in the three Taft verfes of the Chapter. Ile looketh open :men ,;86c. 'Vt. a radice The word notes a ftrie} beholding and fixing both of the out- -"/ hig'exit, 'ward and inward eye, that of the mind, with that of the body. ó rxlss intuem it is here, after the manner ofmen, attributed to God ; He marks egg, and animadverts uponmen,how it iswith them,or how they fland difpofed andaifeeied._ Yet there is a difference among interpreters, who is the ante- cedent to theword He. He looketh uponmen. The doubt or que- flion is to whom this relative.pronowne, He bath refpeel ; whe- ther to God or to the fick man lately fpoken of. Some underfiand it chiefly of the lick man recovered. He look- eth upon men That is, the Fick man looketh upon thofe about üt io rsedo him ; and faith , I havefinned andperverted that which it right. fen `; As if being raifed from his Fick bed, he f1 ould raite himfelfe up, tuetur homing( to give glory to God by confeflïng and acknowledging before et dither. men, thathe had finned in perverting the rule of righteoufnefs /In& given him to walke by,and had foundby dear-bought experience, that itprofited him not. The Italiantranilater faith, Heafterwards fhail.
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