Chap. 6. AnExpofition upon the Book of J QB. Verde. i,. 485, not thefirength offlans ; there is no help in me, and they who fhouldhelp me aredepartedfrom me ; I was once an eye to the blind, and a foot to the lame (Chap. 29. I 5. ) When aman bath no help inbimfelf,he may have it in another ; Ifa man want aneye he may have an eye ofhis neighbour, and ifhe want a hand, his friend may be a hand to him ; but ( faith fob ) they that fhould be eyes andhands, helpers unto me, are gone and departed from me. There is yet another rendering, which makes a very clear fence; What though Ihave no help in me, is rrifdome driven quite from me?Though I have no firength, and fo no help in my felt, wifdom is not therefore driven quite fromme. As if he had laid, will you conclude. that I am a wicked man, an hypocrite anda fool, be- caufe I am not able to help and deliver my'felf out of thefe trou- bles ? Fiftly, confider the words as we tranflate them, with which= moll of the Rabbins and Jewi(h writers concur, only they ufual- ly exprefs the text affirmatively, we interrogatively, yet both e- quivalent, and meet in the fame meaning. Our Q,uellion, Is not my help in me ? is to be refol ved into this affirmation, my help is in in non aumi- me; and the latter branch, Is wifdome departedfrom me? into this fiummearn!' um is negation, wifdome is not departedfromme: my help it in rne,andmy me,quo me to wifdome is not departed from me: jobs fence may be taken thus ; eri poJfum ac Have I not that in me, which is, and will be a help unto me, defendersun- notwitbftanding all the objeelions and affaults which you make a. nunrnnocenri. gainft me? Have not I that in me, which may furnifh me with art l tt oc ri wifdome `do toanfwer all the exceptions whichyou have taken at my. totem qua nun complaints? Mailer Broughtons tranflation favours this fence very quam deßitu much, have not&I my defence ? and it judgement driven , cw frarionem fromme ? Though I thus complain and defire death, & fapie:u,am, my defìre ? Have not I my defence ? have I nothing to fay, nhy quam poßea I made that requcft ? have I no argument to help my Pelf, Tufandppel: andbear up my fpirit under the weight ofthefe calamities ? is wif- lot Druf. dome quite departedfromme ? Doe you take me for a man defer.. '" íudúiO fedofGod, deferted of his fpirit, and deferted o m own wi dame r1f'orce delis 4. f y f or ut iguofca- and underftanding too, becaufe I am deferted of the world, and re nequeom de(titute of outward comforts.? And fo the help which job kneel recta ab inful+ he had in fiore, was the Innocency and integrity of hisheart, fr,qualiafuns Is not my help inme ? I have no help, no firength, no comfort in verbaveßra, my fle(h `what is keila. ; my e nonfuns meA; Y t my y fl fh is not ofbrafat but hays wimps.
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