156 Chap, 22. An Expofitiontspon tbeBookcf JO B. Verf. 17. JOB, CHAP. 22. Verf. 17, 18. Whichfailunto God, Depart fromus, and what -can the Almighty doefor then; Yet he faded Their bouts withgood things : lint the connfell of the Zvi clued isfacrefromme. 1 N the former context Eliphaz had charged lob with impiety a gaMfl God, and called him to confider the difpenfitions of God in former times towards impious men, here he íhewes us what their impiety was, It was impiety higatned into bdafphemv. The (even abominationswhich were in their hearts, brake out at their lips, and were vomited out of their mouths in black coler, in coler as black as blacke as hell. Verf. 17. Wbich,fail onto god depart fromus, &c. There words are filled with the very fpirit of malice againft God him elfe; And we have the fame breathed out in the fame language in the former Chapter at the 14th verfe, there the rea- der may finde them explicated, and I (hall add lomewhat for a. further explication here. ithich (aid to God, departfrom sts. To this height ofmadneffe do force wicked men arife, their fpirits being bigge with finne, they bring forth or belch out this monfter of words; Theyfay to God, departfrom asst They (as it were) fend God a writ of Ejtment, they doe not pray or entreate God to depart from them, but with as much rude- neli'e and incivility, as unholineffe and prophaneneffe, Say unto god departfrom en. 'iris a word of-command, from man,. but such a one as brakes all the commandements of God. Mefes (Numb. a 6. 26.) befeeches the people, laying, Depart 'I pray youfrom the tents ofthere wicked men, andtouch nothing oftheirs ; but here we have wicked men not praying God to depart, but bidding him, theyfay depart from us. David fpeakes to the wick- ed(mJal. 119. I I5.)Departfrommeyeevili doers,for Iwill keep the commandements ofmy God ; he bids them begone, He would not
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