718 Chap. 34, An Evpafrtion upon the Eookof J o B Verf. 28. and requite them. If the Lord thus confiideretla the wayesof men, even thofe filthy and crooked wayes of men ; should not men confider the holy the ruff and righteous wayes of God ? And that God confiders all the wayes, the worft of wayes of the fons men appeares further in the next vetfe. Verf. 28. So that they cattle the cry of the poore to come up to him, andhe heareth thecry of the afflicted. If the wayes of mencome up to God, then furely God confi- ders the wayes of men,even their vile and bate wayes, their wic- ked and unworthywayes ; howcanhe but confider thofe wayes, the cry of which cotateth up to him ? So that they camp the cry ofthepoore to came up to him. Effeffum hum Here Elihuexpounds to us or gives us more particularly what malúiæ p/fe- thofe wayes of God were which thofe men would notconfider, A q endtt, asalto what the fin of thole mighty ones was , which provoked God, toftrike themas wicked men in the openfight of others. The wayes of God which they would not confider, were the wayes of his righteoulneffe and juflice, of his compaffion to and care for the Poore, they went quite crone to thofewayes of God. For they tattled the cryof the poore to come up to him. But doe ungodly men bring the cryof the pooreup to God? Certainly they have no fuch purpofe, and therefore thofe words, So that they caute the cry of the poore to come up unto him, Note only a conCequent, of what thofe men did, not theintent of thofe men; theyaymnedat no fuch thing by their oppreffing the poore , as that God fhould heare the cry of the poore, yea they hoped the cry of the poore fhould never come up toGod. They would willingly have flopt the mouches of the poore, that they fhould not have cryed toGod, and prefumed the Bares of God would be flopt agamfl their cry, let them cry as long as they would: they doe not fay to the poore, goe and appeale to God, goe make your tnoane to God, ( yet fome have been thus impu- dently blafphemous, when they have opprefi the poore, to bid them, goe cry to their God) but here we are to underhand it as the ifliue of the opprefìon, not as the defire of the oppreflors. Their cruel and unrighteous dealing with the poore.( like that of Pharaoh
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