Chap. 2. 4i Expojition upon the Bookef j o B. Verf.7. 863 fhe thing that id right. The Hebrew is but one word, and irmay be taken two ways. 735»com- Firtl, For rightnefs in matter. Secondly, In manner. Our Iran- pte£?irur lluion refers to the matter; yehave not fpokenof me the thing that onvenemr&r id right. Yet they failed (as the word implieth ) in their manner eumofjìcio of fpeaking alto ; they handledGods caufe uthandfomely, they decoro.Signifi- fpake not as they ought, as well as what they ought not, to a poor car igitur & atAi&ed creature ; they fpake not with that tendernefs, pity, and falfaaix;f do compafltonatenefs as became them , CO a man in that pitiful Joboudieie ' cafe. eó animodi- But though the Lord might fay in both theft fenfes, Te have xi, fefivevera, not fpoken of me the thing that it right, yet hefaid not (as the fivepip cf- Septuagint over- rafhly render) Te have not fpokenof me any thing fen, , quodece- that it right ; nor Both the Lord charge them abfol.utely, as not bar. eac Caufanr mean fpeaking right of him, but with a modilcation,or comparatively, iniqueegißi. Te have not fpoken of me the thing that it right, Jun. s my firvant Job bath. As if he had Laid,Yob bath been condemned by you, and yet Sob bath fpoken better than you, righter than you ; though he bath had his faili ig in'p_aking, yet ye have:failed more than he. But it may be quzflioned,what was it that they did not fpeak right, and what was it that yob fpake righter than they. I anfwer, They had not fpoken fo right as he, Fìtfi, About the do&rine of Gods providence, by which he governs all things, and difiribates good and evil, that is, profperi- ry and adverfity,to the fons of men. Secondly, They had not 1ptken fo 'right as he, takingup the figns or tokens of the love and hatred of God from his outward difpenfat ions. Thirdly, They cenfured Yob as a Gnful-doer in former times, and that now his fin had found him our, becaufe at that time he was fogreat a fufFerer. Thefe things were not right. Or thus, Yobs friends didnot fpeak right. Firf+, In judging that God was angry with him, becaufe he af- fli&ed him. Secondly, Nor did they fpeak right in judging y'ob wicked, be- caufe afflieted they fpake many right things about the juilice and potter r
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