656 Chap. 34. An Expofition upon the BookofJ O B Verf. zrm JOB. Chap. 34. Verf. 21, 22. For his eyes areupon thewayes of man, and he feeth all his goings. There is nodarknefs nor fiadoso ofdeath, where the workers of iniquity may hide themfelves. IN the former verfe Eau reported the judgementof Gedboth upon the people and upon the Princes of the earth,In amoment [hall die, &c. In thefe two verfes,he gives usa proof that the Lord is righteous in judgement bothupon Princesandpeople, or he aílìgnes the ground of it. That the words are a reafon of the former,the Caufal Particlein the beginning of the zzthverfeputs it out ofqueftion,. Verf. a a . For his eyes areupon the wayes of men. As if he had faid, Goddoth not thefe things, he troubles not Nations, and Nobles, People, or Princes, by an abfolute and foveraigne power,or becaufe he will, but hefinds jufl caufe to do it ; what men do, is enough tojuffifie God in what they lager : He bath alwayes power enough in his hand to detlroyall men, and to turn this world back into its fiat nothing, but he never ufeth his power, nor puts it forth without caufe. For his eyes areupon thewayesof man, &c. God is a Spirit, the fimplicity of his Efhence is his firft and higheít perfe6tion, he is purely incorporeal ; yet as the paflions of man's minde, fo the members of his body are often in Scri- pture attributedunto God ; we readof the face of God, of the hand of God, of the ear of God, and as in many other places, fo in this, of the eyes of God: NoWasthe ear of God notesonly his power of hearing, and the hand of God his power of working, fo the eye or eyes of God note only his power of feeing, knowing and difcerning the wayes of men. And when Elihu faith, his eyes are upon the wayes of man, his meaning is only this, he clear- lydifcerns and underliands the wayes of man. Thefe words, his eyes are upon the wayes ofman, intimate, Firft,
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