Chap. z 6. An Expo(tion upon the Book, of j OE. VerC IS. 345 JOB, CHAP. rd. Vert 18, rg. O Earth, cover not thoumy blood, and let my cry have no place. Alfa now, beheldmy witnefs is inHeaven, andmy record is on high. J 0 B having (with much confidence)afferted the integrity of his heart, and the righteoufnefsof his way, both towards God and Man, confirms what he had thus confidently afferted, by a double Argument, Firft, By a vehement imprecation Verf.oS. Dearth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place. Secondly, By a free appeal, an appeal to God hiinfelf Verf 19. Alto now beholdmy witnefs is in Heaven, and my record is onhigh : He thews the neccffity of this appeal, Verf, 2o. My Friends fcorn me : therefore I am conftrained to go to God. When men have done us wrong, and will not do us right, it is both time and duty toappeal to God. Upon this E furamentè ground Job appeals, and he concludes (according to our tran deprecátorii flation) his appeal, with a pallonate, yet holy with , Verf. 21. forma,quoafr; O that one mightpleadfora man with God, as a man pleadethfor verar nulliu his Neighbour. The reafon both ofhis appeal and with, is frbi iniquitatis given us further Verf.22 he looked on himfelf, as a manL Awn and- ronfcium ingupon the very confines of death, the.Grave was ready for Ezra. him ; therefore he beggs, that this bufinefs might be difpatch- ed, and his integrity cleared before he dyed. He was loath to go out of the World, like a Candle, burnt down to the Soc-. ket, with an ill favour. He that hath lived untrained in his re- putation, cannot well bear it, to die with a blot; and there- tore he will be diligent by all due meanes to maintain the cre- dit which he hath got, and to recover what he hath loti : This was the reafonof Jobs importunity difcovered in thefe two Verles, now further to beopened, Y y Verf,ig,
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