Chap. 3 5 eAf fn Expotioar slog theBook of Jo s. Verf. t tt5 JOB, Chap. 35. Verf.15, 16. 15. Batt now becaufe it is not fo, he bath vi f teed in his anger, yet he knoweth it not ingreat extre- mity. a6. Therefore doth job open his month in vain he multiplieth words without knowledge. IN thedoleof the former verle, Elihu called upon and exhor- ted fob to a patient reliance, and eruti on God, fadgeuaert is before him, therefore trufl thou in him ; here in the t sth verte he thews, that, the reafon why God vifited him fo forely , and yet continued his vifitation upon him, was becaufe he did not, as he ought, patienrly cruet in, and rely upon him. Thereare feveral readings of this verfe, but I (hall only men- tion one, betides our own, and having Bayed a little aboutchat, go on to the explication of theText, as it lyes in order before us. Some render thus; But knownow, hie anger bath vifited thee but a little, (Hebt: Nuncaurem 'ei- nething) a'eeither kath hemade any great ingaiftion. The fence of to iiiod pith. the verfe,according to this rendring, rifeth thus; As if Elihahad hunts V;frvie laid, God bath dealt with thee o Job,far better than thou hall dealt iraipfraa,neque with him or then thouball caufe to expell;he bath rot la:d his hand a aid adrrodurn. foheavy upon thee, as thy iniquity bath deferved, andyet thoucorn- Merce plainefi muchofbisfeverity ; whereas indeed he barb notflrillly in- said perexi- quired into the multitude ofthy fns, which ifhe had done, he would guurltß, quo certainly have brought upon thee, a greater multitude of alifions, rl;fu ñt file_ Es would have afflibled thee Much mare ; hors art too well ufed to vitèr in re in: complain thews; That's the fumnie of this rendring, which the Lear- qui ere i.zsti,if ned Authors ofit make fairly out from the Original, to whom 1 J . Erz. refer the Reader, and (hailonly offer two notes from it, for itt- flru&ion. Firfi , The frefl afflitlions that fall upon /inners in this life are little or nothing to what God might lay upoà them. There it nocondition here a6lually fo bad,but pofibly it might be where.; though the darknefs of night be uponut, yet it may be Q. 2 darker
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