Chap.t 6. AnExpoftttiou upon the Book of j OB. Verf.2. 211 (hall the words ofthy mouth be like a ftrongwind 2s ifhehad laid, ThoufpeakeJt impertinently or what thou fpea, e({ loth not much eoneern the point in band it comes not up to the matter; yea, it is quite beftdes themark.' And fo Zopbar (Chap.' e. 2, 3.) Should not the multitudeof words be anfwered ? Andfhould a manful' of talkbejuftifìed? Thou does} but Verba dare , thou 1peaket to little purpofe , or little to the purpofe, though thou 1peakeit much. Eliphaz puts the lame language upon him (Chap. i 5 2.3,) Should a wife man utter vainknowledge,and fill his belly with the Eaft wind ? Should he reafon with unprofitable talk ? Or wttk_- fpeeches wherewith he can do nogood ? Thus his Friends accu fed him of that for which he now accufeth them; and he him- fell had aeculed them once and again ofthis before: So(Chap, i2. 2,3.) Whoknow.eth not fuch things ás thefe ? They are but vulgar truths which you have told me ; and ( Chap. 13.1,2.) Loe,rnine eye bathfeen- all this , mine ear bath heard, and under.. ftood it, whatye know, the famedo Iknow alfo ; I am,not infe- rior toyou. You produce nothing all this while, but what I am well acquainted with ; which is fully the fenteof this Verle I have heardmanyfuch things : that is, Every man can 1peak as 1,i,-cïpmss much as this. Here fob plays the Orator , or Rhetorician, fumir ab ewe- whole butìnefs and deign ( as the great Orator tells us ) is as nuatione, vice much as he can to extenuate , and lay low the arguments, or 91"PPe defen- reafons, of him that he oppofeth. Job hands as Defendant ferís agit.Pince f,mfu here, his Friends as Plaintiffs ; therefore he endeavours to re(n- cr e ne- der their Charge weak; and what they Paid finnewlefs, I have gabttJ pote(l, heardmany fuch things at thefe. out earn vche- hob doth not accule his Friends, as giving out falle and er- menses eats. roneous Do6rine ; for himfelf had heard and learned thofe nuabíc.Gíc. &o things before ; but he accufeth them forbringing proofs, °ad 3eren. which were not to the purpoté, or which were infuflicient to prove their purpofe:As ifhe had faid,I expelled whenyou would producefame ffronger arguments to maintainyour opinion,or clea- rer anfivers unto mine : 1 waitedforfome newmatter,and to have beardfomwhat that I hadnot heard before, butyou bave deceived my expel' : For, Ihave heardmanyfuch things as thefe. Hence note. Firff,Some truths are ofvery commonobfervation:Who know- eth not fuch things as thefe? Every Childe that hath been Ca- E e 2 techifed,
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