258:, Chap.28. ,4n Expofition upon the Book of j o D. Verf. 12. in it as no man living is able, unerringly, to refolve, but many choufands have erred exceedingly, foulely, groffely, while they have been of crying to refolve them, and fo have at once fallen by their prefumption,under the fore rebukes of God,and adefervéd' senfure from man. This was the cafe of robs friends, they prefu- t*ed they had found out the key of the whole matter, even the hidden reafon of all Gods providences toward job. But God cells themat {aft (Chap. 42. 8.) Te have netfpo,len ofme (that is, of my dealings withmin) the thing that is right ; indeed they had fpo- kenas to the man before them, fuch things as were very wrong, and had (hot wide from their mark ; And as food told theta at haft, that they were defe&ive in wifdom ; fo Job puts the íue -. Rion to them, here, reprovingly, where (hall wifdotne be found ? Job profecutes this point in lèveral formesof fpeech ; In this merle he argues by way of interrogation ; in thenext (or t 3th) by a plainnegation; and in the 14th by a profopopeia, or an imitati- on of aperfon, . bringing in the deep difclaimrng this wifdom,and the fez, laying, it it not in me. where(hall wifdome befound ? There is a vein for theSilver, and aplacefor the Cold where they fine it : But where is the vein for wifdome ? for wifdome to fee to the b ttom of all Gods providential dealings with the children of men ? the bowel's of the earth and the bottom of the fea, are eater found, then the place of this wifdome ? At illäfipientéa Some read the Text with a fpecial accent upon the word wif nude invenire- dome ; where (hall that wifdome, or (asothers) Wifdeme itfelf r' Jun. be found ? That wifdome, which ye havebeen pretending co, all this while, as enabling and (urni sing you to aflign the reafon,.. whyGod is pleated thus to exercife, thus feverely to rebuke and tread me a poor worm under hisfeet, yet the work of his bands, where (hall this wifdome be found ? As if he had faid, I bave fpoZenofroifdam, of that wifdom which men putforth in the pur- f`lute of gold and Silver,with all otherpretioaee treafurc: ofthe earth;. but I amnow fpeaking of a higher wifdome, Where fhallthat wif- domebefound ? thatwtfdome whereby God cloth order and dif- ofe allthe motionsof this world ;. in fearching this wifdome all. che:;
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