0i4 Chap. 9. .An'Expofation upon the Bok, of J OB. Verf42. lone Will not unctcrtáke him; fo neither there any D tyesiman be- twix: tes, that might lay his hand tapon ets both. Iu the two left verses Job makes a petition to the Lord, deli- ring a favourable condefcention, that he would be pleated töa- sate of the prefent height and extremity ofhis pain, and then he hoped yet, that he might aufwer him,though lie would not con- tend with him ; answer him in reference to hisown integrity, a- boutwhich his friends had charged and wounded him, though not in reference to his-own righteousness, about which the Lord ntight;,tharge and condemn him, Let him tame his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrifie me, then would Ifpeak,and nat fear him, but it ie not fo withme. He'concludes with the difference of his slate, for what he defired of God it might be : And he be. gins with the difference ofhis person, from what God himfelf is. It is not with fut as I could wifh,aud God is not (Itch an one, nor can be, as I am, and muff be. Verfe 3 a. For he is not a mana I am, &c. He doth not fay, God is not filch a man as I am, but God is not a min as I am. One trim may fay unto another man,Thou art not fuch a man as I am: Every different degree or endowment among men, may bear a man out in faÿing fò, and pride will prompt a man to fay fo, when he is not in degree better, but in kind worfi then other men. Such was the language of the Pha- rifee (Luk IS. z 1.)God, I thankthee, I am not as other men are,ex= tortioners, unjuft,adulterers, or even as this Publican : yet no man can fay, to another man,Thou art not a man as L am. But feeing God is not a man at all, what is there in this a%rti- on offob ? He is not a man as ! am. The words import a double difference. Firft, a difference in qualification. Secondly, in nature t here job chiefly intends the difference of qúality (whichyet in God is his nature) that' he Nsntam le* was not wife, and jufl, and holy,aud pure as God: ha. ad e_Alti- Mofes in his long (Exod. 15. 3'.) after the overthrow of the am, quaur qua- Egyptian: in tfae red fea, (peaks thus, The Lord it a man of .1 ar; litaatt ad quo- e. f t,wtea, i. e. thatphrafe intends not a humane nature to God ; whenhe faith, fes ad drowns God is a man ofWar , he meaneth only this,, `God is agreat War- p:rit.tem col- rioter. we callaShip of War,' .4'manofWar. As a mane tvórdt JtiO notat lit . BoIJ.- ibnifies'an eloquent man, though with foine'only'á talkative man : So a man ofWar lignifies afamorsa Warriour, or one train- ed
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