gg© Chap. 42..Án Expofition upon tbc Bock of J o B. Verf.. 8 thew how ready he wasto forgive them,and pray that they might be forgiven. Fifthly, God would have them to go to Job, that they might know thatfob ;vas reconciled to them as well as himfetf. Sixthly, Godwould have them go to fob,that this might hum- ble them, or that they might thew their humility and fubmiflion. It was a great piece of felf-denial, for them to go tofob, after fuch a contea ; and entreat him to fpeak for them, of whom they had fpoken fo hardly, and with whom they had long con- tended fobitterly,. Thus theLord tried both Job and them ; the Lord tried fobs charity, and their humility. We are hardly brought to confers that we have wronged others,or have been out and mitlaken our felves. 'ris no cafe matter for a man to ac- knowledgehimfetf overcome ; 'cis extream hard to become a fuppliant to one, whom we lately defpifed and trampled upon. All this is his hard meat, and not eafly digeffed yet Eliphae. and his two friends muff digefl all this, before they could acceptably obey the Lords command, in going to his fervant Nor was it an eafie matter, for fob to forget fo manyaffronts and unkindneffes, as he had received from his friends. 'fig hard foa a man that hath been wrongedand reproached, yea, condemn- ed, to pats all by, and not only etr;b ace his oppofers and re- proachers ,. but pray and folicire for them. Thus the Lord, in fending them to Job, cook tryal bothof Job and them. The Lord commanding them to fupplicate him, whom theyhad offended, and expeeting that he íhould make fuit and fupplication for them who had offended him ; put both their graces to ir, and in a molt fweet and gracious way, at once healed the breach, which had been between fob and them, as alfo that between them and him- felt. Who ever took up a difference more fweetly, or reunited 'aditfenting brethren thus wifely ? Go to my fervant Job, And offer up for your fettlesa burntof offering. That is, thofe fevenbullocks, and feven rams. Here (as was faid before) was the facrifice ; but who was the Prieff ? The text faith, Offer áp {or your felves, which may in- timate that, that as theyWere, to offer a facrifice for themfelves, fo, that they themfelves offered ir. But as Interpreters gene- rally
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