Chap. 7. einExpofition upon theBookof j OB. Vert: t y. 641 J O B Chap. 7. Verfe 17, t ó, t g, What is man that thoufhouldeff magnifie him ? and that thoufhoulel.. elf fee thine heart uponbim? Ind that thou fhouldeff vifit him every morning : and try him every moment? Hem long milt thou not depart fromme, nor let me alone, till I may fwallew down my fpittle, THefe three verts contain a farther argument, whereby ,fob firengthcns his complaint. The Cum of the argument is taken from a companion of the powe r, majetty and greatners of God, with the rneannefs and mifery, with the lownets and po- verty of man ; What is man that thou thou ldeff magnifie him, audthat thou fhouldeff fit thine heart upon him ? Why fhould the great, the wife, the powerful, the gloriou's God, contend or pm, parilus have todo withweak, miferable vaine man. How unequal is this songaudent. match ? What is man? ] The word is,what ismiferable man?Enofh, man 2.211g110 encompafl about with forrowes. What is this forrowful miferable man ? fob concluded in the former verte, man is vanity. And yet here he queflions, What is man ? The queflion relifheth ofcontempt, rather then of ignorance: and carries with ita low eflimation of man, ht him-be. what he will, not a want of information what man is : is man ? As we ufe to fay to, or of tho fe we flight, who areyou ? or what's be? It imports the vanityand deficiency of the creature.Or the words are a diminitive admiration : He admires the fmallnefs , the littlenefs, the tneannefs, the nothingnefs-of man. Quetlions in Scripture, often abate the fcnfe, Zech. q.. 7, Who art thouO great mountain ? thöu lookeft very big and very great, but who art thou ? tell we who thou art,or I will cell thee, thou art now but a molehill, thou (halt be a nothing fhortly. Before Zerubba- bel thou (halt become a plain : it is a contemptuous undervaluing queflion againfl the proud oppofcrs of theChurch. (Whe am I O Lord, and what is my houfe (faith David, 2 Sate: 7. IS)' His quefiionextenuates. On the other fide quefiions often in- create the fenfe, and ralle it to the highefl, Exod t 5, ¡I. Who is a God like unto thee ? where is them fucha Godas thou art ?,So Micb°
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