; them ms: good pleaſure ; and thar he hath reſerved and Prepared ſuch a feli- | m i.e. Belide the Oxen, therefore both were taken away toge- city for me, whom no Caldeans or Sabeans, no Men nor Devils can p | ther. take away from me ; Of which ſee Chap. 19: 25. | Hie,hen I 5 And © the Sabeans » fell upon them,and took them 22 In all this & Job ſinned not /, nor * charged God *Or,attrin hk away ; yea they have ſlain the ſervants with the edge fooliſhly m.. buted folly t of the ſword,and I only am eſcaped to tell thee o. k i e. Under all theſe preſſures. Or, inall that he ſaid did p- —_ 7 % A people of Arabia, who led a wardring Life, and lived by | upon theſe ſad occaſions. / To wit,in ſuch manner as the De pre= i: ) robbery and ſpoiling of others, as Strabo and other Heathen Wri- {aged that he would, and as 15 expreſſed in the following words As ** : ; ters note. o Whom Satan ſpared no leſs maliciouſly than he deſtroy- Chriſt ſaith, John 9. 3. Neither hath this man fonned, nor his parents.to , ed the reſt, that F944 might have ſpeedy and certain intelligence of | wit, ſo as you imagine, in an emunent or extraordinary degree.Bur | his Calamity. | both here and there humune Infirmities are excepted, of which*Job 16 While he was yet ſpeaking p,there came alſo an- | oft acknowledgeth himſcIfto be guilty. NSr was the queſtion be. | ſaid, The fire of God 9 is fallen from hea- | v2 Gov and Saran, whether Job had anyſin in him, bur whether | i0r, « other, and lai b & Nre OL Wod q 1 | he was an Hypocrite, or would blaipheme God; which is here de-
to digeſt his former loſs, or indeed co ([wallow his Spittle, as he ex- an extraordinary manner; to intimate that both God and Men were
Air which is oft called Heaven, as hath been noted again and again, whereof Satan is the Prince, £ph.2.2.
17 While he was yet ſpeaking,there came alſo anos ther,and ſaid, The Caldeans s made out three bands z, tor 4 | fb. and + fell upon thecamels, and have carried them a-
Heb. te {word,and. I only ameſcaped alone to cell thee.
he midfif might be able roeſcape them. _ F x8While he was yet ſpeaking,there came alſo another
R ———— « in their eldeft brothers houſe: K 7. e.
vation of the Judgement.
st wilderneſs x,and ſmote the four corners y of the houſe, and it fell upon the young men z,and they are dead,
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was born, and have Joſt only things without and beſide my ſelf. gl ſhal be as rich when I die as 1 was when I was born,&therefore have reaſon to be contented with my condition, which alſo is the com- mon lor of all men. Thizher, i. e. into my Morhers Womb, which in the former clauſe is underſtood properly, but in this figugatively of the Earth, which is our common Mother, as it is called b many Authors,our of whoſe Belly we were taken, and into which we muſt return again, Gen: 3: 19+ Eccleſ. 12: 7, And as our Mothers Womb 1s called zhe lower parts of the Earth, Pſal: 139. 15. fo it -isnot harſh if reciprocally the lower partsof the Earti:he called our Mothers Womb. Nor is it ſtrange thar the ſame Phraſe thou'd be rak-n both properly and metaphorically in the ſameVerſe; for {o it 1S Matth, 8. 22. Let the dead ſpiritually bury the dead corporally. See a!ſo Levit. 26; 21, 24. Pſal: 18. 26, &c. bþ Hehath taken away nothing but his own, and whar he ſo gave to methar he reſerved theS upremeDominion & Diſpoſal of in his own hand.$o 1 have no cauſe to murmure'orcom- Plain of him. Norhave I reaſon to fret and rage againſt the Calde- ans and Sabeans, and other Creatures, who were only God's Inftry. ments to execure this wife and holy Counſel. 7 ;. e.The Lord, God's Name heing ofren pur for God himſelf, as Pſal. 44: 5- and 48. 10. and 72: 18, 19. Dan: 2. 19, 20, As Names are put for Men, As I: I5: Rev: 3: 4 The Senſe is, IT havenocauſe to quarrel with Gnd, but much cauſe to bleſs and praiſe him, that he did give me fuch bleſlings, and ſuffered me to enjoy them more and longer than I deſerved ; and that he hath vouchſafed to afMi& me, which I greatly needed for my Souls good, and which I rake as a Token of
pufee, Ven 7, and hathburne up the ſheepand the ſervants,and | ,;.q ana diſproved. m Heb. Nor imputed folly to God; 7: e: for. Hat conſumed them, and I only am eſcaped alone to tell | hefrom blaſpheming God, that he did not entertain any diſhonou. thee rable thoight of God,as if he had done any thing unworthy of his
- RN infinite Wiſdom, or Juſtice, or Goodneſs, bur heartily a oved > Before he could have time to compoſe his diſturbed Mind, and and coauietis good pleaſure, and in his er ou _ oh
; preſſeth it, ch. 7. 19. q A terrible flame of fire ſent from God in | {harp proceedings againſt him.
GERHAP.. IL
is Enemies,and all thi ags conſpired to his ruine. 77. e. From the | Satans ſecond appearance before God: Job's charafter continuing the ſame,
condemneth Satan, r==—= 3. Satan Juageth him not ſufficiently tried unleſs his beey ſuffer ; and ſo obtaineth leave to hurt his yen > rh. touch his life, 4——6, Job ſmote with boils, ſcraperh himſelf, and fit= teth down in aſhes, 75, 8. bis Wives folly ; he roprowet h her,acknowl-ag-
ing Gods Sovere:gnity, and former Mercies, 9, 10, His three Shan, and their ſorrow, 11 —13,
way, yea, and ſlain the ſervants with the edge of the A Gain there was a day 2, when * the ſons of God
came to preſent themſelves before the LORD Gr. «hi
adverſary. s Who alfo lived upon the Spoil, as Xenophen and others obſerve. and Satan came alſo among them. to reſent hi f Angels 6 | Heb, # # That they might come upon them ſeveral ways, and nothing | before the LORD. S , P mſclf : EE
4 Another ſet time ſome convenient pace afrer the former cala-
| : þ mities. Ofthis, and the two next Verſes, ſee the Not Chap: and faid, Thy ſons and thy daughters were eating and | 1; 6, 9,8. ++...
2 And the LORD ſaid unto Satan, From whence
eaſting after their manner,and as Job generally feared and | comeſt thou ? And + Satan anſwered the 4Chap.1.9 ſuſpe&ed, wins againſt God, v. 5. Which was a dreadful aggra- | C\; d, From LORD, and
going to and fro inthe Earth,and from wal-
jm 19 And behold,there came a great wind * from the | King up and down in it.
3 And the LORD faid unto Satan, Hafſt thou' con.
ſidered my ſervant Job,that rbere is nene like him in the
._ _andIonl eſcaped alone to tell thee. Earth, || a perfect andan uprighe man, one that fear- ,-.. x Wheng: no force Winds came,as having moſt power in ſuch eth God and eſcheweth evil 2 and {till 5 he holdeth faſt (Cha.1.8;