638 Chap. 34. An ExpoGtion upon the Book of J 0 B. Verf.zo. their wickednefs and Apoftacy (aswas Chewed from the former reading of the i 8th verfe) but deprives them alfo of their digni- ty, and pulls them from their power ; And he doth it in fuch a manner, that everyman mayunderftand andfee the hand ofGod in ir,becaufe they fee no hands in ic.The lefsof man appears in any work of providence,whc ther is be in a way of mercy orypf judge.- menr,the more of God is tobe acknowledged in it:and where no- thing of man appeareth, all, or the whole mutt be attributed unto God. The judgement which Ehhu (peaks of here,feems (accord- ing to this Interpretation) tohave much of man in it ; yet becaufe . the men fuppofed tobe in it,äre looked upon as fuchas can do lit- tle in it,or ought to do nothing in ir, therefore 'Lis Paid to bedone. without hands. Hiflories have givenmany examples, and dreadful inflances of fuch calamities falling upon Princes by the riling of the people; and then they are laid to be taken away without hand, That is, Without any forefeen appearance of fuch amischief ; a hand which wasnot thought of being lifted up against them. It is laid of wicked Zimrt, who flew his niafter, that when he faw the people confpire again( him, and the City taken, he went in- to the Palace of theKing's houfe, and (in the heat of his rage) Jet it on fire, andburnt the Kings !soapover him, anddied, (iKin. 16. 18.) Mine reports the like conclufion(upona like occafion) of Sardanapalm, that effeminate and voluptuous Monarch of the Aft'yrian Empire. They whoprofecutethisTranllation,conceive Elihu ref;dting upon job in all this, who was very uncivilly treat- ed by his own people, from whom he had deferved highest re- fhedts, as he complained at the 30th chapter, they railed upa- gainfi him the wayes of their deftruition ; they ufed him very rudely, evendefpightfully ; and he was in a pining consuming condition, as a man taken away without hand. But I (hall not infift upon this reading, but take the words according to the fcope before given, as a defcription of a mixt judgement fromGod ; a judgement partlyupon the people, andpartly uponPrinces, a judgement upon the many, and a judgement upon the mighty ; In a moment (hall they die. t'an Pug x., In a moment. roomeotum, The Textis, .a moment they die ; Not, that they (hall die but a amps etctgu- moment,
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTcyMjk=