267 Chap,?. do Expofition upon tbeBookofj OB. Verf. bow long wilt thou not depart from me > his meaning is, How Vfque quo non long wilt thou not with draw thine af1u ing hand from me, We parcii oahi. may expound it by that of David, Pafl. 39. i o. Remove thy firoke Iramdliocon- away from me, I am col:fumed by the blow of thine band, Hence venejun. tome tranfate, Row long theft thou . not [pare me ? And another gloffes, Turn thine anger away, fromme. Or, as himfe,f fpeakts ofa third perfon ( Chap. 14. 6.) Turn from him, that be may rt 1, till heJhall accompl-Jh as a hireling bit dale, This fence is given as-fully in the next claulr ofthe verfe. Nor let me alone, till Imayrwallow downmy fpittle. This is not a rcfufal fupport from God in the way of pro'; Accinimfa vidence, by w-hiçh he upholds every creature : For the truth is, tF d-8íóú1d fo let its alone, we ofour felvesare not able to fwal t' w.down our fpit\le. We are inlutiicient barely of our felvcs, eurnte, not only for fpirttua,l\ac s, but allo for natural. We can, not only not pray, and heare add beleive, and repent without the llrength ofChrifl, bu t we cannot gòe;nor walke, nor eat, nor drink, nor fpit, nor Iwaliow down our fpittle without an afíiüance ( futable to thole ads from him,) for in him we live, move, and have our being. This letting alone, is like the departing bffor e fpoken, ìu the firff claufe of the verfe. As we ufe to fay to a man affaulting or (miring us, Pray let me alone ; Such is Jobs meaning, pray give over thofe bitter chaftnings, leavc off to wound or finite me any more. . The word liignifies to loofenor untie that which is bound or Ditamere illud ftraightened, and fo to deal more gently and tenderly, thenbefore. quod tenet ligo The word is ufed fometimes in a good fence, to note, that the Lend Eft, keeps dole and firaight tohis people, as being knitand hound to fui Iol+sud0,foivere them, by the tie and knot of his love and free-grace. { Jofh. 1. S . ),I will never lease thee,or, let thee loofe fromme. And,as it is, applied in the negative to the clofc- keepingofGod to us in love fo in the affirmative, to our departure from God by unbeleif, Prev. 24 to. Ifthou fainteft in the day of adaerfity, or art loo- fened from God, by fear and want of faith, tby Jfrengtb k [mail. If thou fainteft thus in the time offtraightsand poverty, it argues, thou hail a very flraight,narrow, poore fpirit, That's the elegancy of the orignial. When job defires to be let alone or loofened, his meaning is, loofen cite bonds ofmy afiliaion, take me off from the rack of thefe ratio" Sire tißutfui- fli die angu angu- rtntudo tua
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