or in ſome part of Arabia, not far from the Chaldeans and Sabears, as this Chapter witaefſcth ; ſo called probably from Uz, one of Efau's poſterity, Gen. 36. 28. Jer. 25. 20. b Not legally or exaQly, ashe confefſeth Ch. 9. 20. but comparatively to ſuch as weie partial in their Obedience to God's Commands, and as to his ſincere Inteati- - ons, hearty affeQtions, and conſtant and diligent endeavours to per- form all his duties to God and Men. «© Heb. right, exat and re- gular in all hisdealings with Men ; one of an unblamable converſa- tion, doing to others as he would have others to deal with him. d'One truely pious. and devored to God's Worſhip and Service. ez, e. carefully avoiding all fin againt God or Men.
2 And there were born unto him ſcven ſons and three daughters.
3 His + ſubſtance alſo was ſeven thouſand ſheep, and
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I4. 14. :Jam 5. 11. t Ch. 2. 3.
oxen, and five hundred fſhe-affes g, and a very great +. houſhold ; ſo chat this man was the greateit 4 of ail the *: men in the eaſt 7
Fudg, 5. 12+ 1 Chron. 5. 21s and from the plain teſtimonies of Ari-
| Burdens in-theſe hot and dry countries, as being able ro endure thirſt much better than other Creatures, and for {ſervice in War.
alſo may be included in this Expreſſion, whickis of the Feminine Gender,becauſe the greateſt parr of them ( from. which the deno- mination is uſually taken ) were She-Afſ+s. þ 7. e Oneofthe richeſt. i. To wit, that lived in thoſe parts : ſuch general Expreſſions be- ing commonly underſtood with ſuch limitations.
- 4 And his ſons, went and fealted & in their houſes, every one his day I, and ſent and called for their three ſiſters to eat and to drink with them.
k To teſtifie and maintain their Brotherly Love. 1 Not every day of the week, and of the Year; which wouid have been bur- denſome and t:dious to them all, and groſs Luxury and Epicurifm, which holy 95 would not have permitted ; bur each his appointed day, whether his Birth-day, or the firſt day of the Moath, or any
- _ Other ſet time, it matters not. . 5 And ic was ſo, when the days of :beir feaſting was ** * eh. r2, $92 .about »», thatJob ſentand * ſanctified them », and ©... roſe up early in the morning's, and offered burnt-offe- rings according to the number of them all: for Job faid, + 1Kings. It may be that my fons have ſinned p, and + curſedGod 21.10,13.4 in their hearts 7. Thus did Job [| continually þs. | _[ Heb. a/ m When each of them had h:d his his turn, which peradventure a * Came one ſpeedily, though not immediatly afrer another. And there was ſome conſiderable interval before their feaſting time. ” 7. e. He exhorred and commanded them to ſan&ife themſelves for the following Work, to wit, by purifying themſelves from all Ceremonial and Moral Pollution, as the manner then was, Exod. 19 10 and by preparing themſelves-by true ,repentance for all their ſins, and FREIOET ſuch as they had commirted in their time of Feaſting and Jollity,and by fervent prayers to make their peace with Sod by Sacrifice. o Thereby ſhewing his ardent Zealin God's Service, and his imparience rill God was reconcilcd to him. and to
his Children. p His Zzal for God's Glory, and his true Love to
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General comcerning this Book, efore 1 rome fo the Particulars, 1. That this was no Fifljon or P arable, which is ſufficiently evident, both ſrom the whole Contexture of the Book wherein we have an ex. and things here mentiened, with their ſeveral Circumſtances, and eſpecially the ſucceeding Pen. real and eminent example ef Prety and Patience, as Ezek. 14 14. James 5, 11. which is - manife both from the Stile an! Matternof it, and from the tactte approbation given to bt by Ezekiel and as ſuch, 3 Cor 3, and theſe thing: 1. From his long Lives were far ſhorter, as is manifeſt. afrer Moſes his time was in a manner quite extingutſhed. 3. From the.
Sacrifices bere commenty uſed, whereas, after the giving of the Law, all Sacrifices were confined to nh , ha 6 7 4 4. From the way of Ged's imparting of his Mind 16 the Gentiles at this time by
g; Becauſe there is nat tbe leat mention ef wous Affiiions in Egypt, nor of their glorious deliverance oat of it, though nothing coxld have been more ſeaſonable or ſuitable to the Matter
4. The Pen-man of this Beok, is not certainly known, nor is it material for us to know : toy the principal Author, it is of ns moment by what Hand or Pen he wrote tt: | was & who, as in his agony he wiſhed that his word: and carriage were written in a Book, Chap. 19, ed from it, he ſatisfied bis own and others deſires therein, Gn!) ] was added by another hand; the like ſmall Addition: being made in other Books of Scripture, 1s, 16. Or, 3: Moſes, who when he wa: in the Land of Midian, where he had #þ- and conſidering that it might be very u/eful for the Comfort and Direftion of Ged's pt,did by bis ewn Inclination, and theDireftion of God's Spirit commit it #0 Writing, 1nd whereas the Stileſeem; con ſidering the differing nature of the Bucks, this being almoſt all Poetical, and the o'her meerly Hiforical, for the miſt part, 0: plain Precepts or Exhortations Moſes lived 42 Tears in Midian, which w.s a part of Arabia, in which he muſt needs learn that Language.
TOrattle. oe thouſand camels f, and five hundred yoke of |
-f Camels in theſe parts were very numerous, as is manifeſt from | | -
frotle and Pliny, and very uieful, and proper both for carrying of | thinks
g/Which were preferred before He-Afles, as ſerving for the tame } uſes as they did, and for Breeding, and Milk alio : Burt He-Afes |
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2. That thisis a Jy": and from the unanimous conſent of the Church, bath of
wwe ſaid and dene, moſt probably was before Moſes, and life, which by comparing Chap. 1 with 42+ 16. could net want 2. From vhat conſiderable Knowledge of God, andof
the place of the Tabernacle or Temple, to which
whereas afterward theſe di coveries were withdrawn from the Gemiles, in this Beok of the Children of Iſrael, neither- of their rej.
Bur moſt pr-bably it was either, 1. Job himſelf
Cnly what concerns bis general Charafter, Cay.
And for the Arabick words here ujed, ir wnſt be remembred, that