Chap. to. An Expoftionupon the Boot of J O B. VerC 8. 489 the Prophet (in a holy zeal) contends with him abrr.it what he was doing, vet!: 15. Loot(, damn from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy i olinefs, and of thy glory ; where is thy zeal, and thy Jfrengtb, the founding of thy bowels, andof thy mercies towards me, Are they r li.`rained r Doubtlefi thou art our Father, though .Abraham be ignorant of us, &c. As if he had laid, That great fea of thy goodnefs bath font out abundant fireams of good things heretofore, and are all thofe (imams now dried up, and the fprings exhauied? What's become of thy zeal and flrength and compaffïons { Are they all (pent and gone ? Thus lob feems to plead here, dune hands have made ite,thou haft done taus and Et f,r repent thus for me, and n.ilt thou npw detiroy me ? According to this praripiraa mc. interpretation tl.e latter claufe of the verfe is rendred by an inter- vulg. rogation, Thine hands hare made me, and faffiioned me, and duff 64 t;rt am" thatyet Affray me ? What; thou my maker deltroy me ! Remem- fliQasaoruet,i,t ber, .1 befeech thee (fo in the next verfe) that thou haft made me as fe d dominotoI.. the clay, and wilt thou bring me into the daft again ? Thus by a tatorum, ez'g< fpecification of the treat outward benefits whichhe had received g" iron quo from the hand of God,he fetes to aggravate his prefent forrows, fritaf fft and to folicite future mercies, over, ' albur Thine bangs. eaagitorur.)ut Handsare often aferibed to God, as was fhewed,verf, 3. Many things arc made with the hand ; The maker ofall things is with- out hánds,and yet he is all laand.Hence all things that were made, are laid to be made by the hands of God ; not only the forming ofman, but the forming of the Heavens and of the Earth, is the work of his hand(Pfal. 10 2.25. Pfal. 95. 5. ( both are put toge- ther.) 1fa..}8. 13.) Mine band alfo hatb laid thefoundation of the earth, andmy right band bath foanned the Heavens. Wherefocver the great works of God are expreft, a hand ufually is exprca as the in firument working them, yet his hand wrought the Icalt as well as the greaten, a wormof the earth, as well as man upon the earth, or the Angels in Heaven. The heads of men have run intogreat varietyofopinion,about thefe hands form ng man. lira, Many of the Anciants underhand by the han ds of God, Ambrol. in The Son of God, the fécond Perfon in the Trinity, and the holyfri- !Plan. lim04 rit of God, who is the Third, Thinehands have made me,thatis,the ra.eafal' &c, Son and the holy Spirit, who were affifianc to, and of counfel with ty
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