27o Chap. g. six E'xpofttion upon the Bookof J OB. " VerC16. But all thefe afperfions are unworthily call uponjab,aman full Judaicum con- ofhumility and fubmiffion to the will of God:his frequent prayers ¡lento:,atq; and applications ofhimfelf to God do abundantly confute all fuch ndbi nfl itme unfavoury conjeEfures. But the Jewifh Commentatours carry on Ymcd, their former (train, being all along very rigid towards this holy man, very apt to put the worft conttruaions upon doubtfull paf fages, and fotnetimes ill ones upon thofe which are plainly good. Morediftine tly. There isa:diffculty about the Grammaticali meaning of one word in the text, whichcarries the fenfe twowayes. IfIbad called, andbe badanfzvered me. Nip The Hebrew word which we tranflate [call] fignifies fome- Atïj,, invocere, timestopray, and fometimes topleadorchallenge : An a ofin- atii provocare ,vocation, or an ad of provocation : it is rendred -both wayes verrunr, here.By mo(t,as we,lfIhadcalled upon bim;that is,ifI had prayed ormade myCute unto him. By force, IfIbad fent inmyplea (as to begin a Cute of lawwith him) or my challenge, as to enter the combate with him, ere. As it is taken fora challenge, fo the fenfe lies thus, If! fhould Rand upon terms with God,and call him toan account to make goodwhat he hath done; And be hadanfweredme ; that is, ifhe had condefcended to give me an account ofhis wayes,yetj would not beleive that he had hearkned untomy voice, that is, that he had yielded to tne,or acknowledged that he had done me wrong, Shall I,who ambut dull and afhes, prevail inmy fute and -get the day bypleading andcontending with the great God of heaven and earth ? Take the word as it fgnifes invocation, or calling-by way of petition (Pfal. 50. 15.) Call upon me in theday of trouble, and I will deliver thee. And fo two or three interpretations areoffe- red. Fir(l, Some in favour ofJobconceive that he (peaks this only 7'avt infirme through the infirmityof his flefh,_that it was fin within him that [! raro u fpake, and nor fob ; according to that of the Aponte, Rom. 9. divinír prumif-Not I, butfin that dweleth in me : So Job fpeaksas if he did not fiucibusnofn beleive that God would hear him when he pray'd, but whole credere. voice was this?Not Job's, but his fins, the corruption, the in- lfidar. Clar. firmitie crfJob save out fuch language, not he As we may fay in rcfer-
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