Chap:9. An.1;xpoftion upon tb BookofJ O B. V..eiÇi7. 277 are no evidence tint prayer is not heard,yet ufitally it is very it;e- vident to anal-aided pcrfon, that his prayer is heard. I thalln ow examine the 16, and 17. verfe, as holding a rcafon why jobs faithwas thus weakned. Vert. 17. For he bred,, eth me, with a ter pefi, and multiplieth my wounds without taufe. Job's furrows put him to-his..rhetorick f ill,i e bbreaketh-.me with ' Te/ho. a termtneJi. An expretlion raitting^Eris aafli ions to the height, yet, notbeyon; tbaeality of them, He bre keth -ree fritha tempeti. The word we tranllate L break) lignifies an utter contul.ion, or the totall ruiningofa;tuhingor :perlon, the dafhing of either to BIttj pieces. The word is.ufed.reciprocall.y of Chritl and thedevil, in Contudit,Nn- OgOgg akd #ìríí pxmtrtife df Chrift, the feed of the woman. nivit,oinniríu- (Gen. 3, r6.) It 'hall bruife-thy head, and thou ¡halt bruife hlr heel. it' Çhrilt having infinite power, utterlydeftroyed theSerpents pow- er ; he Ipoyld and ruin'd him for ever: the Apoftle phrafes it Co ( Colon'. 2. 15.)He#oyledprincipalities andpowers;he rook away the prey or bootyof fouls,. which they had got,atid led thermdii- arm'dlikeptifoizersofwar..; And thedevil did what he could to ruine and (p,oyl Chrilt, to break Chriff to pieces. Thus Cheift acid Satan (rove and contended one with another. And the word (Shuph) bath an elegant near>.aefs in found to 'our Englifh. We call that noife which is made by the :ruder motion of the feet, fneffling,and when men.contend:much, we hear the fhul ing of their feet. job was (hiving and.fhufil.ing with God. inprayer,and God was ftriving and fhultling with job in formsand tempefis. He breaketh me with a tempeft. The word fignifies not onlyfivrrrl,eand tempe», but likewife A little hair or tn' ned threed. So the Chaldee Paraphraft translates it Chaldæutlagit, here, He disputes or contends with me to a hair, or to a ihreed;tna- ufq; adfiler king the fenfe out thus, I will not beleive that God hash anfwered lineum,'el ad m,e;why?Hefiaradetb with me upon the fmallefj matters;he difputer ipilorum with me toa hair, anddebates every thing to a threed. As Abraham fubtiliterdifpu faid to the KingofSodome, (Gen. 14.23) Iwill not take any thing tat rrerurn. that it thine from a threed even to a thee-latchet ; that is, I will ,ÿfl not make the fmallefi gain by thee : So to difpute to a hair, or cort;uÌi to a threed, notes contending upon or about the finallefl dif- fertnces. B!-It
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