Chap; 31. An .Expofttion upon the Boot of j o a. Verl, 6. 355 Againe When `fob faiths Let me be weighed d:c.that God may know mine integrity. He intimates thus much to us, That no- thing is fo pleating to him that is upright as toknow that God knoweth he is. As it is a (mall matter with thofe who are f rcere to be condemned..by< men , fo it is not much with them to be commendee or approved by them for indeed neither he that commendeth himfelfe (asthe Apoftle fpeakes 2 Co'. s o 18. ) nor he that is commended by others, is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth. ,The Teflimony or Letters commendatory of all the men in the world will doe us no good , unleffe God give us his d.Ifo. Therefore faith fob, I would be weighed that God may know, or approve, or giveteflimony to my integrity. The knowledgeofGod ìs írega;ntly put in Scripture for his Appro- bation ; And that interpretation of it here makesthe fence of th text ve ycleare. I (hall paffe from there words when I have only named the ssapáry ip ér trarflationof the Septuagint, whb render this verfe, not lobs v?- hitxtre, delire to be weighed in an even ballarcc, but as an Afertion con- oíd'evi o xupr. cernin hinatelfe I have flood in an even Ballance (or kept as e- a'uaxe,cí- é i ven peyfe in all my ;ilions ) And the Lord knoweth my integrity ;,,61,,-4; or innocency. As if he had fayd,.I have laboured to keepe the juffa nwio att- golden meaneofJofIice towards all men in ill things; and the reredomino,in- Lord who knowes all,things,.knowes I have, or I have not lufte- ncenëam rré- ted my felfe tobe fwayed or over- ballanced by any partial! or `m':.,evr. felfe-refpe&s to violate Juftice in any matter, and the Lord,wlio knowes all things, knowes Ihave not. This rendring carries a fayre fenceas to fobs (cope, but it doth not tarry fo even a bal- lance, nor fo rightly weigh the conttruâion ofthe;Original text, as the former, and therefore, I (hall fay nomore of it. Z z 2 31-
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