298 Chap. 23. .airs Expo[ti.:n up?.n the `tiockef JO B. Verf. Secondly, (Say they) becaufe he complained, that he could not get admittance unto God; nor audience with him, which was a further aggravation of his furrow. This h profecutes from the, third verfe to the end of the ninrh. 0 that I knewwhere I might finds bum, that lmight come even to his feare, L would order my- caufe beforekim, and-fillm mouth witharguments, I would kemro the words which he would anfwer me, &C. As if (according to the. [cope of this cxpofidon) he had Paid, 1 have waited long under toyprlJures and burdens, with mypetition in my hand , yea Ihave tendered up my petition,but ae yet I canget no aufwer ; Alas; I am greatly offiifled,yet fofarrefrom being releeved, That I cannot be heard, l ti weld therefore get near god, to .+`read andorder my caufa, before him. To be heard and to be releeved, are often in Scripture ícnce the fame thing,and alwaysnot to be heard fignifies as much as no to be rtl:eved. Till the Lord'gives us his ear, henever gives us his hand, therefore 770b muff needs think himfelf farre from be ing helped while he thought that he was not heard, Thirdly, Becaufe he complained that the Lord did thus afiCt- and try him, whenhealready knewwhat he was, and what he would be after bis try allby the foareft affligions ; when he knew that he was innocent,& that he would continue& holdout in his innocency to theend That he would not be weary ofwell doing, though under the-worl't of fufferings.(Ver. 10, t r, t z.) He know - eth the otay that l take, &c. As if he had faid ; The Lordweeds not, doe this to try me, f or be knsweth well enough who 1 arm and the ways, that Igo;keknezveth both theframed` my heart and the cosorfeofeery: life ., he k owet a how it is with menow, andthat I fhall be found: fueh as l haveoften pro of fed my feif to be, when be harkkept me to- theutneof f his purpofe in this ftryfurnace of offiliton.When be bath triedme I[hallcome forth ae gold, that is, when all'sdone, he knows that Ifhall hereafter approve myftlícurright in heart, and that (brth bisgrace, already beftenti upon me) 1 bavebetherto 1ept his way, 6- not declinednorgon beckfrom the commandements . of his ltpsyea that I have efleerned e e words ofhis mouth more then my enc. f 'ary-fo d.Thuy yob is conceived cotnçlaioing upon this ac- count, that he fhould be foextreamly affl ged,though the Lord knew his way, and that he was both a lover of, his Word, and a keeper ofhisCommandrments,and' that he would perfevere wich joy in keeping them to theend, though he thauld not fee he y, pec`ed apddefired endof thofe forrows.
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