Ghag. 3 5. an Expofitionupon the Bookof Jo D. Verf. 1o. cludes,(v. t 3.) And thouFayefl , How loth God know?can he judge through the dark Cloud ? David in prayer, fpeaks the fame of his oppreffors, ( Pfe1, 86. 14. ) OGod, theproud are rifen againfi me, and theuffemblies ofviolent menhave fought after myfoul,und have not fee thee before them. (Pfal. 94. g, 6.) They break in pieces O Lord thy people, andofl t thine heritage ;7heyflay the widow, and thefranger, and murder the fatberlefs : Yet they fay,the Lord loth not fee it, neither pall theGod of Jacob regard it. Ml thefe Scriptures-may be refolved into the Text ; 7heyfay not , Where is God my maker ? They who do all they can tounmake andundo- their fellow-creatures, care not to remember him,who is the ma- ker and creator of us all. But Secondly, I conceive, thole words, Nonefaith, Where is God . my maker ? are rather tobe referred ro the oppreffed, than to the oppreffors: The oppreffed cry indeed, but not unto God their maker. Asfobfaid, ( fob 24. t z. ) c.Nengroan fromout of the City, and thefoul of thewounded cryerh out, yet God layeth it not to heart ; fo here Elibu faith, mengroan andcry,yet themfelves lay not God to heart ; Nonefaith, Where is God my maker ? Thus our tranflation feems to carry ir, and thus 'tis mofi generally un- der(food ; None of the oppreffed fay, &c. Taking this fenfe, El'hu herebegins to aflìnethe reafon why the oppreffed are not delivered. As if he had faid , 'Tis true, there are amultitude of preffures and opprefïìons, and they eranf port all manner of men with palïion ; the oppreffed cry,theymake much ado, when they fuffer, ag,ainff them, under whom they fuf- fer : But few or none are fo wife, in fuch a cafe , as to recolléec themfelves, and make ferious applicationtoGod, putting him in mind of his own gracious nature towards the work of his hands; tohave mercy upon ir, and in faith to feek to him for remedy and comfort, as beingonly able to relieve and glad the heart in great extremities ; they look not to the hand of God , when they cry out by reafon ofthe arme of the mighty : they only toyle and reare themfelves with complaints, they cry out of this and that man, of this and that inllrument ; but, alas, they find neither redrefs nor deliverance, becaufe they fay not, where is god my maker ? That is, they are more forward to complain of wrong done them by men, than to remember what good, or what favours God hash done them ; Theydonot particularly and fpecially apply them- felves 63
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