Chap. 34. An Expofition upon the Book of j o 1. Verf. 29. 725 JOB. Chap. 34. Verf. 29. When hegivethquietnefs, who canmake trouble? and when he hideth hisface, who then can behold him? whether it be done agains? a Nation, or again. a manonly. ersHis verfe is anargument or proof of what Elihu affirmed in I the former , that, God heareth the cryof the poor : He doubt- lefs heareth the cry of the poor, when he flops or takes away the cry of the poor, when he fets the poor ina quiet Bate, or fettles them in peace, in fuch a peace, as their proud and wrathful op pref ors (hall not be able todifturb. Thus theLord dealethgra- cioufly in reference both toperlons, and Nations, that cry unto him ; and that's anundeniable argument,:_that he heareth their cry, the cry of diftreffed perlons, the cry of diffre(lled Nations. Verf.29. when hegiveth quietnefs, who thencan maketrou- ble ? and when hehideth hisface,who thencan behold him? whether it be done againfi a Nation, or againfi aman only. The firft part of the fentencë, rendred, when he giveth quiet- nefs, is but one word in the Hebrew, we had it before (chap. 3. 13.) where Job fuppofeth if he had died in his infancy, thenfhould hehave been fill, and been,quiet, he fhouldhaveflept, andbeen at refi. The grave is a filent and quiet abiding place, the dead are quittedofall worldly unquietnels. And at the 26th:verfe of the fame chapter, Job faith, I wou not in fafety, neither war I quiet ( that is; fecure) yet trouble came. So then, as this word notes, thequietnefsof the dead who have no fenfeof trouble,fo it notes fuch a quietnefs of the livingas hath no fear of trouble. when be giveth quietnefs, or as Mailer Broughton tranllates, when he mak,eth refi, who &c. The Italianverfion is, if he fendeth home in peace, in Hipbtt, qus. &c. As if it had been Paid, If he by hisfoveraigne fentencefreeth efcerefeat: out of flavery andoppreffion, as he did the children ofIfrael out of thebondage of Egypt &c. If he commandeth refi and quiet, then, . as it followeth, Wbe
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