1.! 4c$ Chap. 6. tience. The affumption or fecond Propotiition ofthis argument, is touched in the fecond verle, 0 that my griefe were througbly weighed, and that my calamity were laid in the ballances together ! _ As if he hadPaid, I had never received finch harfh cenfures,fuch a judgement or reproofe, if thou hadit duly weighedmy farrows if thou hadfl faithfully audited my cafe, thouhadit never rebuked me thus. The weight ofhis calamity, himfelfexpreffeth two wages. Firft, Comparatively, at the third verfe, by putting it into the ballance with the fand ofthe fea ; For now ( faithhe) it would be heavier then thefandof the fea. Secondly,He lets forth the greatnefsofhis calamity,demonftra- tively,by declaring in what manner he had been aftliled,My af- fliaion is not an ordinary afllióion ;Iam woundedwith the arrows ofthe A'mighty,and thofepoifonedarrows,and thofe arrows drinking up myfpirits. I have not onely force tingle great affliction, or many fmall ones upon me ; but, I have terrour, and terrours, yeti Ihave an army ofterrours,yea an army of terrours alwayes incamp- ingabout me, andchargingme continually ; why Eliphaz thou didit never clearly confider there things, much lefs haft thou had a fy-mpa- thyor fellowfeeling ofthem. Thou haft not been aflieled in my af- flittions : Thou bait not furrowedmyforrowes, nor wept my tears Therefore it is, that thou haft fo fharply reproved me, andput fo much gall and wormwood into thy difcourfe. So then, the fumme of thisfirft part may be thus given, taking it out of thofe high and hyperbolical! (trains, in which his paftîon was carried ; as ifjob had thus anfwered Elipbaz, It is an eafie matter toflight that which a man doth not know, and to think o- thers complain too much, when we ourJelves feel nothing; but is itany wonder to hear a man groane, that bath a burtben upon his Backe, as heavy as thefandofthe Sea ? Is it any wonder to heare aman cryout, whofe flefh isfilled with poyfcned arrows, fhot from a bow, bent anddrawn by the armeof omnipotency ? If it any won- der, if that man feare, who is incompaft about with terrours? Is it any wonder, i fthat man be troubled, who bath the terrours of the Almighty incamping about him? Why Eliphaz, thou wouldit ,not think, that an Oxe or an Afs were reproveable, ifthe one fhould low whenhe bath no grafs,and the other bray when he bath nefodder; ifit be fo, that the very irrational creaturesdoe according to rcafen, when they complain upontheir wants, doeft thou tbinkme defperate or An Expofition upon theBookof J O B. Verf. r.,
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