Chap,. 1I e4n .expofition upon the Boob, ofJ.O B. Vert'. r 3; 0 B Chap. a i . Vert. 13, 14; II `;i, f thou prepare thine heart-, , and'retch out thine hands towards him. if iniquity be in thine hand it far away , and let not wickednes dwellin thy tabernacles. 'N the former part of this Chapter Zophar confuted the opi. ; f par+wtefis, aion of Tòb ; and reproved him for afferting and flandingfo qua Yobam clofely to ir. In this he gives him counfell and dir$tion ; his hortatur, ut ad counfell is contained in thefe two verfes. Toward the receiving redeat of which he propofeth not a fewencouragements in the words tiffsma , P P benipokúens, which follow. The whole maybe formed up thus. Mere, thou oughtefl willingly to hear , and chearfally to obey that counfel in the hearing andobeying whereof, thou(halt befreedfromevil, and enjoy all delrabic bleffings andgood things. But ifthou hear andobey my counfel,if thoseprepare thine heart , andflretch out thine hands towards God, ifthouput the iniquity ofthy hand far away from thee, thouAlitbe freed from all evil ,and enjoy all defirable blefngs andgood things. Therefore thououghtell willingly tohear, andchearfully toobey ray tour:fel. The concluiron of t'ass fyalogifine is delivered in the. 13. and 14. verfes. The affumpti.In, (namely that, in preparing his heart, and praying unto Gad , he should be blefl'ed) is laid down , in the is, r 6,17,I8, and 19th verfes ; which is illuflrated by the op- pofite and contrary condition of the wicked, at the loth verfe, But the eyes of thewicked(hallfail and theyfhall not efcape, and their hope(hall be as thegiving up oftheghoff. If thou prepare thine heart. The words are an hortatory fuppofation, and (as was toucht before) we may obferve that the three friends of rob, call their difcourfes in the fame mould, and inGí} in the fame method. Their fpeeches are all ofone frame and piece , as if they had fpoken by content, or had before-hand refolved upon a.joynt- mannaging, of
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