54 z Chap. 24: An expofition upon the Bock ofJ O B. Verf. 12. favor) dealing. His meaning is not that Goddid hot know that their dealings were unfavory,or that he did not obferve and take noticeof their dealings, but he did not obferve them, fo as to appeare prefcntly againft them. god layeth not , or God putteth :nor, the meaning is, God imputeth nat, or God chargeth not ,Jolly, or ( aridly to the letter of the Hebrew ) that which is unfavory to them or upon them. That word which figni fits a thing unfavory or without fait, in a natural( and proper fence, may elegantly be rendred folly in a moral or metaphorical fence;for foolifhnes or folly is that, which bath no (alt of reafon, r ;Lä1'1 quad righteoufneffe, juftice, or equity in it. Hence the word is often {tnetGm rrater tionem o n- tired to lignifie that which is done betides, without,or againft all d7 aquitatem. thefe. So it is Paid (Chap. 1, za.) In allthis 74 finned not, neither Bez: did he chargeGod foolifhly, or, neither didbe charge fillyupon God; it is this word. lobdid not think that God dealt unjuft ly or un reafonably with him, though he had taken all worldly comforts from him, and heaped all thofeafidions upon him. And here fob faith, God layethnot,folly to wicked men, notwithilanding all theunjuft and unreafonable things which they have done, in hea- ping troubles caufelefly upon the poore. Though aboundance of folly and madnefs was committed and ailed by them,with a high and heavy hand, yet Geddid not lay folly to them. Nan pcnit in. Some readethe text thus ; Xtwitloftanding all this, God loth fiefu n. q d. nothing that is unfavoury; we fupply thofe words,ro them;the He- nihrl fine maxi brew text is onely this, godpustetbnotfolly, fo the lafl me:itioned ma (ápientia a- tranflation may well ftand forwhen 76 had reported all thofe g:ywelpertnift faciendum things, it might well be quettioned, how is it that God permito, deis,. and fuffers filch wickedneffe in the world ? O, faith job, Godputs no folly,or loe doth nothing which is unjuft,or unreafonable in all theft things; an if he had laid, bow unreafonallo and unrighteous Amer men are in thefeattings,yet god is not eenrighteous,God lothnothing unbecoming bimlelfe, nothing unfeemly er unfavory in it Jelfe; Duo non Tacit Several( of the Jewifh Doctors fall in with this tranflation ; god xgratit & doth not this ( gratis or) without caufe ( faith one) He bath a- fruffra, i e. boundant reafonto let that bedone, which men doe without ei. non temere & ther rule or reafon. A fecond renders thus; God doth not that ahfq; racione. which is defeEllive or wanting in any circumftance of yuftice and pan: equity. The fence ofboth which rèndrin s or ara hrafes of the ;faro, non Goner 9 J g P P rmminutienern. text, are given in fully in the Annotations of a moderne writer :5 e. rem i. upon
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