Chap. 23. An Expofition upan the Book of JOB. Vert. r, 299 Fourthly, Becaufe he is conceivedcomplaining that he found the Lord altogether inexorable, fo that no imprefion could be made upon him by any thing he could fay or doe to take -himoff from his feverity towards him (Ver. 13, 14.) He it of one nrinde, x'hocan turne hint (there is no dealing with God ) and what h.is fouledefzreth, even that he deth (let it fall where and on whom it will, he will do it)for he perf.rmeth the thing that is app,intedfor me. From all which yob inferreth,that he had -cede enough tocon. plaine, much more that he did not complaine without caule. ,(Ver. tS, i6, i7.) Therefore amItroubled at his pre,/?cce -when I confider, l amafraid ofhint, for God makes my heart jj t, and the Allmighty traubleth me, bccanfe I was not cut &ff before the dark. nef 'e, neither bath be covered thedarkaafrefrommyface. Thus you have the partsand (cope of the whole Chapter,as'ris fuppofed to be anover bold complaint in reference to thedealings of the Lord with him. From all wbich'tis concluded, that thoughtheChapter begins sape antra¡fa- with, Then lab anfreered, andRid, yet, that yeb do h not anfwer enerat Job, fe EIi hat, norapply hinnfelfe to what he had faid ; but that being cerban e p P y g cerFianrifiaax /er- wearied with his often repeating, and renewing the fame argil. monibuf defer- aims againft him, he doth, upon the matter, leave him and his tom, noleam- frierds and all dilcourfe with them turning hinafelf to God,and pros cum powring his forrows into his bofome; as it the anfwer were di- t trnm,de,pa- rered to God, and not at all to Eliphaz. quiffimo iodicc5 But I rather apprehend (according to the former interprerati- Nunchoc anon on of this reply) that ?eb doth here plainlyhold forth an anfwer p opofrrit adirr- to what Eliphat had objefted or layd to his charge,and that be d` re tentan,Pd iag fti'l fo hotly oppofed, he Both first defend bis own integrity drrigir,vclaa in this Cha peer ; and that, fecondly, in the next heoverthroweth teipfum, i. e. the ground or foundation uponwhich his friends built their gene- feenmipfe ratio- call oppofirion : affirming, that there is neither any certain time `.na' "r. Bold. nor way in which thcLord dothpunifh wicked men in this world, and that thereforeno argument can be framed, or udgement gi- ven ofany mans conditionby his prefent ftate, or the ex ernall difpenfations of God towards him. Taking this fence, we may reduce the whole Chapter to theft two parts. i irft, A preface; fecondly, the pleading it felfe. The preface is laid downe in the fecond verfe ; Even to kg is 2q 2 m,
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