ON IIOSE XIV. -VERSE 9. 265 Rom. viii. 33. These are negatives. " Who knoweth the power of thine anger ?" Psa. xc. 11. " Who amongst you will give ear to this ?" Isa. xlii. 23. " Who bath believed our report ? or to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed ?" Isa. liii. 1. These are restric- tives. Who ? that is, few or none are such. 2. An earnest wish and desire of the prophet. O that men were wise to understand these things, and lay them to heart : as, " Who shall deliver me from this body of death ?" that is, O that I were delivered ! Rom. vii. 24. " Who will show us any good ?" Psa. iv. 6. that is, O that any could do it. 3. A strong affirmation or demonstration wherein true wisdom Both indeed consist, and what men that are truly wise will do, when the ways of God are by the ministry of his servants set forth before them ; namely, ponder and consider the great weight and consequence of them, as Jer. ix. 12, 13. " Who is the wise man that may understand this ?" namely, as it followeth, for what the land perisheth, and is burnt up like a wilderness that none passeth through ? And the Lord saith, " Because they have forsaken my law, which I set before them," &c. This is the character of a wise man, to resolve the judgments that are upon a people, into their proper original, and not to allege that there is no cause for them. 4. A vehement awakening and quickening of the people unto this duty of sad attendance on the words which he had spoken unto them, as Exod. xxxii. 26. " Who is on the Lord's side ?" Let him come unto me. And 2 Kings ix. 32. " Who is on my side ?" Who ? So it is, as if the prophet should have said, there are none of you who have been my hearers, but would willingly retain the reputation of wise and understand- ing men, and would esteem it a high indignity to be z
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