444 Chap.r7. AnExpeftion upon the Book of J OB: VerC5 which fprings.from the fear of the Lord and his goodnefs,but that may be a good and a pure as ofobedience which Iprings from the fear of the Lord, and his wrath. Chrift exhorts and forewarns hisfriends to fear bins, wbo afterbe bath killed, bath power to call into Hell!, Luke 12. 5. 'Tis nobleft and moti Spiritual, toobey God for himfelf, without refped either to Heaven or Hell; yet we may have refpeF,f both to heaven and hell , to reward and punithment in our obedience. Jo. feph refilled temptation by the higheft argument , when he Paid, How can I do this great evil andfin againfl God? Gen.39. 9. He refills , temptation by a good argument , who faith, Howcan I fin againft God , which will do fo much evil to my fclf, or drawmany evils upon mine ? And thus Job ar- gued according to this Interpretation , when he Paid, He that fpeakrflattery to his friend, the eyes of his children (ball fail Or, as Mailer Broughton renders, The eyes of the given that , way ( that is, to flattery )fhall be confumed. There is another reading of the latter claufe, and fo of the lox Brnilnon whole Verle, The eyes ofthafe that confider, :obferve, or attend fîInnJ''d ink' himjballfail i and fo they derive the word (Banain) not from /Ternter vel . onftd=_ranter ( Ben) a Sen, or a Child, but from ( Bin ) which lignifies jttnificat i, to underftand ör confider,Tbe eyes ofthofe that confider him 'hall 7erba YID quod fail : Then the meaning is, my friends are fo mad, and ac--. ',111*teiliger4 cute in flattery, in compofing and uttering fauning fpeeches, ne la: that they who hear them are wrapt in an Extafie, and their liar Et eaeulicanfä- very eyes do fail with their intentnefs in beholdi'ng them,: derantium They arefuch powerful Orators,that they can draw the minds rum deficient and eyes of their Auditors whither they pleafe , and caufe Bold. theireyes to ake with looking fo wifllyon them , having ( as the Apoftle (peaks in a like cafe) their perlons in admirati. on. Job having thus complained againtt, and taxed his friends of flattery, goes on to aggravate the fadnefs of his condition,.. and upon the whole, tomove the Lord to haften an end ofhis, miferies, or to hallen his end, either to determine them,or to determinehim.
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