9l JOB, CHAP. 23. Verf. it, 2, Then Job anfwered, andfaid, Even to day is nay complaint bitter, ngf roal.,is hea- vier then mygroaning. N the former Chapter wehad the third and lalt chargeofF.liphaz againft fob, in this and that which followeth 7.b makes his reply, and de- fends himfelfe againft what Eliphaz had ob. jeâed and charged upon him. There are two opinions concerning the tendency of this reply, Firft, Some interpret it in favour of74, as if heonly fummó_ ned his friends to the trióunall ofGod,being confiden; Ma good iffue there. Secondly, Others interpret it as a prefumptuous fuggeftion ag inft 'God himfelfe, and the ftriâneffe of his proceedings with him, which they endeavour to prove upon (as they conceive ) there foure grounds of his complaint. Firft, Becaufe he complained that his affi&ions were beyond all hiscomplainrr;and that what he had faid was but hale to what be felt, or to the greatneffeofhis forrow(ver. y, z.) Even to day is my complaint bitter, my ifroalee is heavier then mygroaning. There words are conceived,to cary in them,at leaft,an intimation that 70h-thought himfelf too hardly dealt with, or that there was no juft canfe why he fhould beprofecuted and proceeded againft with io much feverity by the continued and renewed ftroakes of God upon him. And indeed it cannot be denyed, That be (who. faever he is)á jsfllyPaged as over-bold with God,who judgetb any ofthe dealingsof godwith bimfelfe or with any other man overre- vere. But we (hall finde, that though lob complained often that his forrows (as tohim) wereexceedinggreat, yet he never com- plained, that (as toGod) they wereunioft, Q q Secondly,
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