Chap. i 3. An Expofition upon the Book of JòB. Verf. 26. 529 Secondly, Bitter things are the difpleafure of God, take it abtlraEtedlyfrom thepunifhments whichufually are fent out asterScribere arm- it. Thou writefl bitter thingsagainft me ; that is, thou art angry ?it:dines eit with me.A manof a bitter fpirit,and an angryman are the fame. cum ira dr de (Dan. 8. 7.) In the viton of the hee-goat and the ram, it is faid, ¿'q t oeztrí that the heegoat came clofe onto the ram, and he was moved with frspplicij feat_ choler againjl him , fo we tranflate : it is the fame word in the tentiam. Cbaldee, which we have here in the Hebrew : he was moved Amaritudo withbitternefs, that is, he was very angry. So (Hab. a; ó. )rape Pon ¿tut pro theChaldeans are defcribed to be a bitter and an hafly nation , tracttndia. that is, an angry natión. Anger is bitter both to thofe who are angry, and to thofe with whomwe are angry. Again (Pro. a7.11.) An evil man feekethonly rebellion, it is this word, he feekethonly bitternefs, which we tranflate rebellion, becaufe they who indeed rebel' are full ofwrath, rage, and bitternefs. The word is ufed in the fame fence upon the furprife of Davids car- riages by the Amalekites at Zihlag, 'tis faid, thefoul of all the dmarituda per.. ,people wasgrieved, or bitter (a Sam. 3o. 6.) that grief was pro- tinetad concepd perly anger, as we may collea by the effefl of it, for they fpake biliofa i>r of Boning him, (toning is an high aEl: of angry revenge. The digaantis animi learnedPhyltians tell us that bitter things are naturally very hot; commreonem. anger and difpleafuaie are the heat of a mans fpirit ; anger is the Amara pro boyling of the blondabout theheart, asPhilofophers teach. So that biliofis accipi_ bitternefs beingcaufed by heat, we may well exprefs bitternefs o mealri;h. 4: by anger, which hath fo much from heat. Hencecurfsng(which de orbilt is an ate of anger) andbitternefs are put together ( Rom. 3.14) Amerum e/fici_ as alfo bitternefs with wrath. Eph. 4.3 i. Thus here, Thou wri- tar dcaloràs tell bitter things, or bitternefs againft me, is, thou writeft thy exce{3u. Galen. felf angry and difpleafedwith me. And fo the words a aan Amaros voter g fgenns ofarú me] have an accent,a weight in them: as if he had faid, Thouqui cum d,_ feemefl to vary thecourfe of thy dealings towards me, both in refe- cultate platen_ rence toformer times, and inreference to other perEons thou waft tar. Ariftot. teb. net wont to be thus bitter againi me, and towards others thouart4' Ethic. jweee and gentle (Ifa. 54. 7.) In a little wrath lhidmyfacefrom thee, for a moment, bnt with everlaffing kihdnefs I will have mercy on thee; that is, the experience which thy people have had of thee, and [mch have been my experiences : but now thou feemefi to run another courfe , Thou writefl bitter things againi me. Taking bitternefs for anger, I might Obferve, Y y y 7hnt
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