Chap. 34. An Expoftion upon the Book.of J o B. Verf. 47' 707 As iii this former part of the 27thverfe, we have had the firí caufe opened why God flriketh the mighty as wicked men in the open fight ofothers , namely, their apoilacy fromGod, Becaufe they turned backfrom him. So in the latter part of this verfe we have another reafon affigned why God Both it, and that is , be- caufe They would not Confider any ofbit reaps. Theword which we render Cenfder,fignifies alto to underffand or know, which is an adt precedent to confideration ; Confiderati- 1"(F1 irteCue on is a contemplative ael ; by confideration we become more it rognev6 fs- knowing, but we cannot confider any thing till we have force un- temptatur eff.l derflanding or knowledgeof it. And this word is often (in ano- Hine Mafchil, ther Conjugation) ufed in the title of force fpeciall Pfalmes. carmen,erudi- The 32d Pfalme, as alfo the 42d Pfalme, is called Mafchil ,. asens ode Aidaf- much as to fay, a teaching, or an infiruc`fing Pfalme, b Palme P I t- catak 3z lif;, fig, ving underflanding and requirnig deep and ferrous confideratton. Thus in the text, they would not confider,nor underfland, nor know, nor contemplate any of h,s wayes. TheHebrew is,al his wayes that is, none at all of them. The wayesof G©d inScripture are taken in a two-fold notion ; Firfi, for thole whereinhe would have us walk ; fuch are the wayes of his commandements : they are called the wayes of God, becaufe he direels us to walke in them. A holy life fontíls in our walk- ing with God, and we cannot walke with God any further,or any longer, then we keep in the wayes of his commandements. It is fayd of the children of Ifrael, after the death of 7ofhua(fudg; 2. 17. ) they turned quickly out ofthe way, which theirfathers walks- ed in, obeying the commandements of the Lord ; but they did notfo. To obey thecommandements, is to walke in the way of them. Taking the wayesof God in this fence, whenElihu faith , They would not confider any of his .wayes, his meaning is, they did not intend nor had anyheart to let themfelves to learne the mindof God revealed in his wor'd concerningtheir duty, or what they ought todoe ; they knownot the wayes of God praelically. The wordproperly denotes the wifdorne and prudence, which flayeth not in notion, but proceeds to a&ion. Thefe men livedas if they Xxxxa had
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