S58 ChaP.4z. n Expofition ispon the Bookof o s. Vetf. y; Mywrath is kindled. There words are ufed by Eliha (Chap. 32. 2, 3.) Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu, thefon of Barachel the Buzite; againfb jobwas hid wrath kindled, awl againft his three friends was his wrath kindled. Here the Lord taketh up the fame words con- cerningEliphaz,My wrath is kindledagainfi tbee& thy twofriends, gfiba's wrath was kindled, not only again(t fobs friends, buta- gainft fob himfelf ; but the Lords wrath was kindled only againft Jobs three friends, not againft fob. He indeed difpleafedGod, andwas sharply reproved by him ; but the wrath of God was not kindled against him. 'Tis ufeful to confider the difference be- tween Gods judgement and mans, both as to things and perfons. Elihts thought fob was as faulty as his friends, and therefore his wrath was kindled, as againft his three. friends, fo againft him too; but the Lord thought otherwife, and therefore faid to Eliphaz., My wrath is kindled againft thee and thy two friends ; he faid not fo to fob. Again, confider the Lord fpake much with fob, but he fpake little with his friends, he did not vouchfafe them any longdi[- courfe; and the words he spike to them,were very hot words ; he in fewwords (as angry men tire to do) told them their own. Once more confider, the difference of the Lords dealing with him and them. The Lord fetcht a great compafs to reprove Job, as Nathan the Prophet did to reprove King `David ; but he told his friends at firfi word, My wrath is kindled againft yoio.Though they were good men, yet not fo dear to God as fob,and therefore he dealt in a more fatherly and favourable way with fob, than ¡TrEx4rp with them ; they had only hot words,My wrath is kindledagai4 inesnfus,in. yore, &c. I am more than angry. As the coals of fpi:itual love ,ammatusefl. (fpoken of, Cant. 8.6.) fo the coals of divine wrath are coals infer frpreni of fire, which bath a molt veheme,,tßameThere are fevers words vocu(ar He in the Hebrew language which fignifie anger, and this notes the graovum ryua n a a o f Tram jgnifi molt vehement of tb.m all. giant, has omnium y wrath is kirslled. girl gral;mo. The Latine words tea and Irafco, Teem tobe derived from ir; Scutt. The word is fometimes applied to grief(there is a kind of fire in grief.) Thus'tis faid (e Bars. 15. II.) Itgrieved Samuel, and he
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