Chap. i I. .An Expofition upon the Book of j O B. Ver Poffibly lob might not have known the meaning of Zoptears difcourfe ; That God bath fecrets of wifdom , and that the fecret wifdom ofGod is double to his revealed; he might be to leek what ufe to make of this : Therefore (faith he) know (here t9 the application) God exalieth of thee leffe then thane iniquity de- ferveth. ExaEicth of thee. The Hebrew ZOTafhah, fignifies to forget , to lend , and to eat what is lent ; and from this fruitfulnes of the originali there a- rife fundry interpretations of the Text. Many take the former fenfe", as Nafliah fignifies to forget , and they differ yet much in giving the meaning of the whole fentence. Firft thus, Know therefore that God rnaketh or caufeth thee tofor- r -it get thine iniquity ; as if he had laid ; There is infinite wifdom in oblivifti, & in God , and ifhe Ihould break forth upon thee in the full luftre of fit° Hiphil Hon hisholines, and make thee remember all thy fins, thou wouldft obávrfi be fwallowed up in the gulfof thy own finfulnes. As no man canfacere, gram P g Y notitiamanfer- fee the face ofGod and live , it is fo glorious ; fo a fanner cannot refignificat. fee his own face and live, it is foodious. As God in condefcen- tion toour weaknes , thews us but the back-parts of his glorious felf , fo but the back.parts of our finfull felves. It is alwayes our fin to forget our fins , but it is often mercy in God to make us for- get them. Know therefore that god snakes thee toforget thine in- iquity that is, TheLord doth not let them in the eye ofthy con- fcience,nör dealshe with thee 'as if thouhat committed filch fins, whichyet he could bring to thy remembrance, and fet them in Scito quid order before thine eyes. So the interlineal] gives it , Know that Dents latere faá God doth caufefomewhat ofthine iniquity to be hiddenfrom thee, or cit adiquid de to be afecret to thee. God doth not open the pack of thine iniquity, tn;qu tau ¡Mona. and thew thee all thew ickednes that is in thine heart and life, God lets tome of it lie hid and be as a thing forgot , or a fecret to thy felt. Secondly, Others refer this forgetfulnes to God himfelf, who is taikl to forget the fault,when he remits the punifhment.This comes up to the fenfe of our Tranflators for when a thing is forgotten, then it is not exoefed , ercalled for (45f 17. 30,) The tunes of this ignorance God winkçdat ; he regarded not , he looked not af- ter what was done (that's the common expofition of the Text) God did (as it were) forget the finfulnes of thofe times ; As Li God 49
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