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Chap. 32.
An
Evpofition
upon
the
Book,
of
J
o
B.
Verf, z.
could not be
à
more unrighteous thought conceived
of
fob in
any
mans
heart,
then
that
he
was
(as
his
friends thought
him) righ-
teous
in his owne
eyes
-;
yet
thus they thought
him,
nor would
they thinke otherwife of
hint,
let
him
fay
what he would to
the
contrary.
So
much of
the
firft
verfe
which
giveth us
a
reafon why
fobs
friends
fate downe and
ceafed
to
anfwer
;
His
being (as they
judged
him
).righteous
in his
owne eyes.
In the
next
verfe
Elihu
gives out
a
feverer
Judgement agamf
him then
this
;
To
be
at
all
righteous in our owne eyes (according
to the
fence
intended)
argues
a
man to be
both very blind and very
proud, but
for
a
man
tobe
fo
righteous in
his ovine
eyes,
as
that
he
dares juftifie
himfelfe rather
then
<the
moil righteous
God
,
argues not
only
blindneffe
and
pride
;.
but
pride
and
blafphemy
;
yet
thus
faith
Elihu of fob;
as
it
followeth.
Verf.
a.:
Then
was kindled the
wrath
of
Elihss
the
fon
of
Bara
-
chel
the Buzite
of
the kindred
of Ram:
aoainfh
fob
was his
wrath
kindled
.,
becanfe he
jutifsed
himfelfe
rather
then
Clod.
Here
comes in
the
fourth fpeaker,as a-moderator
or
determi-
ner
of
this great difpute
;.And
he begins, much unlike
a
modera-
tor,
in
a heater
Then
was kindled_
the
wrath
of
Elihs.
Noma
bit
eft
It
is
very common for
men
to
grow hot in difpute
,
but
for
a
difkutádi a£lur,
man
to
begin
his
difpute with
an
hear, that's
very ftrange
;
many
nova
aim'
ar_
have
been
all in
a
flame upon
a
little
difcourf
, but
to
be in
a
canto
for
-flame
upon
the entrance of
a
difcourfe,
is
a
thine,
almoft.
unheard
ma,
tanta.fub-
p
b
tiliorqudtoma-
of.
Yet
thus
it
was
with this
man;
gn
in
feipfara
reflexá, Nam;
Then
was kindled
the
wrath
of
Elihu:
videtur
ergu-
The
Hebrew
is,
his
nofo
or
nofirills were
angry.
The
Metaphor
mentari
(utlo-
gici
ioquunrur)
is
taken from Horfes, Bears, Lyons,
Bulls
, or
any
furious
crea_
gyafi
ad
hoed-
tuses,
who
fend forth fumes
of
wrath
or
anger
at their
noftrills,
nem, ex
ipfss
The
blood at
the
heart
of
an
angred
angry man
is
enflamed, and
'obi
verbs
he,
as
it
were, breaths out
fire and
fmoake
at
his
mouth
and
no
diFts. Pined>
frills. Eli&
came in
a flame
to this
bufineilfe.
How unceffant were the oppolitions of
fob!
nofooner had
thofe
three
aten
ceafed
fpeaking
but
a
fourth
rifeth up
to
fpeake.
The
Good