Chap. 20 An Expafition upon the Bookof J O B. Verf. 8. 483 part, harden to be pleafed. To pleafe force is a pleafure but fie Thall never want work or trouble, who is forced (as thefe in the Text) to pleafe the poor. e.fsd his hands (hall reftore their goods. Some render, For his hands, &c. making this claufe the reafon ofthe former, why the wicked mans children thould be in fo low a condition as to pleafe the poor, even becaufe their father before his death reftored all his ill gotten goods to the right owners, and to had nothing left in flock, wherewith to make provifion for them his children. To reftore is a good work ; {hall the wicked man be in this 'good mind, to reftore the goods which he bath taken from the poor ? This were an aet ofJuftice (a parte pofi) and an argu- ment of his repentance for all the injufttce hich he hadafted (aparte ante.) Reftitution flowing from true tepentance and godly forrow is a work of Grace; buthere is reftitution with - but either repentance or forrow, except becaufehe couldhold `what he hadgottenno longer. For There is a twofold reftitution. Firif, Willing, upon the touch9f confcience, that we have done wrong to others. So Zacheree (Luke 19.8ò) Behold halfe my goods Igive to the poor, and if1 have wronged anyman byfor- gedcavilat on, behold I re/lorefourefold. Secondly, There is a forced reftitution, when the providence of God, not any motionof repentance, maketh a man reftore, when either juftice or violence compells him to reftore, that's the reítoring here meant ; he (hall reftore not what he would, but whether he would or no. He (ball not reftore from any trouble of his own mind at what he hath done, but be- caufe troubled and queftioned for what he bath done, or as ( the zo verfe of this Chapter (peaks) be /hall vomit it up againe, God will give him that, which will make him difgorge himfelfe of his fweet morfeils. Thus we may underftand it of a violent aft upon him, and not of any intendment by him. He hark no mind to doe thofe right, whom he bath wronged, but they whom he bath wronged call upon him for and demand their right. There are different readings. Some thus His handsfhai re- gqzc fare,
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