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Chap.
3
2.
An
Expofition
upo*
the
Book,
of
j
o
B.
Verf:
Blrhu
fiends
fix
whole
Chapters
in
delivering
his
mind upon
this
Controve
tie;
yet' he makes
Tome
paufes and
overtures,,
moving
or
inviting
fob_to
-a
reply.
But job interpofed`not
a
word.
We
may
confider this whole
difcourf of
Et.'hu in
foure
di-
flinót
pasts;
the
firft
contained
in
the
3
ad and
33d
Chapters;.
die
fecoiid
in
the
31.th,,
the third
in
the
3 5,
h,
and
the
fourrain-
rbe 36th
and
37lh Chapters of this
Book`.
In the tirll
part,
he
direð
his
fpeech
;
firft
to
-fobs
three
friends,
in
this
3
ad-
Chapter
Secondly ,_to
fob
himfelfe
the
3
In
this
Chapter
we may
confider
,
firft rationall
tran(ridn
from
the
dïlpeate
between fob
and his
friends,
to
this
difcowrfe of
Elihu, in the five
firft verfes
;-Secondly, we have a-very
Rhetori
call
-or
pathetical(Reface-,
whereinElihu
endeavourerh to
gain
attention
-by
giving
anaccounr,
or
the
reafons
of
his
undertaking
in which he
interweaves
many
Apologies for himfelfe,
inventu
--
ring
upon
fo-hard a
taske,
refpéccing
both
his youtli,
and
the'
weight ofthe
argument.
He amplifies and continueth upon this
fubje6
to the end
of
the
3
adthapter
;
wherein- he engageth
himfelfe
by
folemne promife
tò
carry
on
the lufineffe without
re-
fpeeI
of
perlons,
without feare or
flattery.
Yet'
more diRin
ly.
in this
firfl
part,The
tranfition; firft,
a-
rea
fon is
a`ïìgned why
Tobs
friends
left
off fpeakin
e4s
it
is not
Stied
to begin
to
fpeak,,
fo
neither
to
give-
over
fpeeking,
till
we
fee
and
can
give
a
reafon
for
it;
The
reafonhere given, is,
becaufe
fob
was
righteous in
his
own eyes
(v.
t.
)
Secondly,
a
reafon
is
gi-
ven
not
only why
Elihu
did
begin
to
fpeak,
but
why
he
began to
fpeak
as
he
did,
an
anger
;'firft,
agaiüft Job, which is laid
down!
in
the
fecondverfe,
Becaufe
he
jut
;fled
himfelfe
rather
then
God;
Secondly,
againft his
friends
(
ver.
3. )-Becaufe they
had
found
no
anfwer, yet
had
condemned
fob, or,
becaufe they cenfured
though
they couldnot confute
him.
In the 4th
and
5th
verfes , we
have
a
dilcovery
of
the
caufe
of Elihu's modefty
in
forbearing
fo
long
to
[peak,
which he
further
inlargeth.
in
-the
following
parts
of
the Chapter.
Verf.
t.
So
thrfe three
men ceafed
to
anfi
er
fobb.
They
who
had maintained
the
difpute
all
this
while,crafed,
éefted,
or
face
down!. When men
,fpeak
they
ufually Rand
up
er