in bis ſoul. Seing therefore the ſtate of man upon earth is ſo vain Archers, who wink when they take their ajm at a mark. Or, wh and unhappy every way, Lord give me ſome comfort to ſweeten ao thine eyes wink; 1. e. Why doeſt thou look with ſuch an angry, fo my life, or take away my life from me. percilious, and di{dainful 'ook, expreſſing both thy contempt Rm mn gs _ _ _ The eye is obſerved both by God and CHAP. XV. mg Ai of : pon Diſcoverer of the heart ; and winking with the eye, of a malicious mind, Pſal. 3 5. 19. Prov. 6.13. and 10.10, % 1 Kin Eliphaz's reproof: Job's knowledge and talkwain : He feareth mr God, nor 13 That x thou turneſt thy ſpiric y againſt God, s.,6 p Prayeth to him ; but hu own mouth uttered hi iniquity, and ſhould con- and letteſt fuch words gO out © thy mouth - x Gr demn him, 1------6. Job net the wiſeft of men, 7, 8- Nor wiſer than x Or for, or ſurely. y 1. e. Either thy breath ; h | p "ig they, who were elder than he, 9. 10 He deſpiſed the Conſolations of | thy toul: For all theſe the Pri: ſignifies H "a ed _ G4 ' bk God, and turned away hu ſpirit agaimſt him, tt ———13. The An- | ſþ-rit to returnto, or to return aga.nſt thar God "Way _ Ear Fry Plats £4 gels not clean in God's Jen: much leſs man, 14--=--16. A deſcription of | receive it. whom thou didft Hes 1 the Ancients: Their wiſdom and reports concerning deftruttion, and ter- K , : o rours 0n the wicked, and the cauſes of it, 17---=35. a. > What is man 2, that he ſhould be clean? and Eclt. | #28 ; : he which is born of a woman 4, that he ſhould be righ- *%. - | Hen anſwered Eliphaz the Temanite, and ſaid, teous b ? S” 1 Joh f Heb- 2 Should a wiſe man & utter | vain knowledge | # Heb. frail, or ſick, or wretched wan: His mean original and co a: E knowles b, an fill his belly c with the caſt wind 4? rupt nature ſhewerh him ro be unclean. a From wi he efron ' of wind © @ Such as thou ſeemeſt and pretendeft to be. b i. e. Empty Infirmity and Corruption, and Guilr, -and the Curſe conſequent u- words without any ſenſe or ſolidity in them. « i, e. Satisfie his Poe. Ha To wit, In his own eyes, as thou, O Job art, own Mind and Conſcience, which being ſecret, is compared to the I5 * Behold, he putteth no truſt in his ſaints c : yea Inwards of the Belly ; as Chap. 32. 19+ Prov. 20c 27. and 22. 8. the heavens « are not clean in bis ſight EF d i, e. With Diſcourſes which are not only flaſhy and unprofitable, C 1s E+ In his Angels, as appears b —_ b & without any weight.bur alſo doiſterous and pernicious both to | called his S#ints or Holy ones Me 4 Pſ ON $E whore himſelf and others ; as the Eaſt-wind was in thoſe parts, Gene. 41.6. | Mat- 18.1e. and 24 36. Who thou ks On OSS 13, 33. Exod. 16. 13+ Hoſ, 12. 1. : ; could not be confident in them 4 - 5 Ante" wars w ks oy a 3 Should he reaſon with unprofitable talk 2 or with | that they would continue in their lategrity if "nog 07 ſpeeches wherewith hecan do no good e ? themſelves, and not upheld by God's Ganial Groce nd Aſſiſtance. e Either to himſelf or others, but much hurt; which is impli- Sce the Notes on Jcb 4-18. d Heb and the heavens, i e- either, 1. The ed by the contrary, as is uſual. Heavens properly ſo called ; which though they be free from thoſe Fl 4 Yea, | thou cafteſt off fear f, and reftraineſt|| pray- OY —_ oo & do appear in heavenly bodies,yet are ſun, erg before God. Ph, :1oſop re Ew / pots and blemiſhes in them; as fear: Or,ſpeech. f Heb. Thou makeſt woid fear ; i. e. the fear of God, as the word | pareCb. 25, 5. where the ſtars a by Cn enmyeck:Com- "I CEE wade aud; Or Fiety =bd Religion, which oft | iſo there be metaphorical! a g bo we :0 be pure: Unleſs the ſtars F.3 cometh under the name of fear. This may be underſtood, either | 4. and for other hoi Miniſtets fC S” Angels, as they are Job 38, 1. Of Job himſelf; that he caſt off all Reverence to God, by uttering | and 12. 1,44 2 Thy Apende "ke q wag Dan. $ 10: Rev. 1- 16, 20» fuch bold and reproachful expreſſions concerning God and his Pro- | pur for its Inhabitants ; Gichs fo God nom bring off vidence. Or, 2: with reſpe& to others; that by his inſolent and | 15-18,21- Or for the 'An = E 1 , AS Pſal- 73-g- Dan-476- Luke unworthy ſpeeches of and carriage towards God, and by thoſe falſe | and 148- a6 -* Sas A ro _ _— Heaven, as Pal: 89. 6- and pernicious principles which he had laid down;as that God dealt | words. And theſe are me pure: To wit, the ſame thing in other with men in way of abſolute Soveraigaty, not of Juſtice; and that | comparatively to God; bi, which - by, _— and perfe&ly, and he made no difference between good and bad in the courſe of his, | is ſaid to be good and wiſe, and re on OR InEny God on'y Providence, but did equally Stay 2 or atflict beth of them ; He did | corruption, but not from im RO. The Angels are pure from that which tended to rhe ſubverkon of the fear and worſhip of God. | finning if God ſhould aan Sr rd Fe me nor from a poflibility of g As this Hebrew word ſignifies alſo, Pſal. 102. r. te or ; aw his help from them. j ſpeech; Whick well agrees to Prayer, which is accompanied with 16 How much more abominable and filthy ;s man al ſerious ioughen od groſs Tis ſenſe is, either, r. In ſtead | Which drinketh iniquity like water e ? y : *01, of humble and fervent Prayer to God, which thy Condition cal- e Who beſides his natura) proneneſs to ſin,hath contrafted habits
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have ſeen g, I will declare. | f I will prove what I have affirmed, that ſuch ſtrokes as thine are peculiar to Hypocrites and Wicked men.” g I ſpeak not by hear- lay only, but from my own experience. 18 Which wiſe men b have told from their fathers z,
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hb Who are moſt ableto be Witneſſes and Judges in theſe matters: ; Or, Anceftors, who diligently obſerved this,and carefully tranſmit- red their own judgement and experience ſucceſſively to their Po- ſterity: k They judged it to be ſo certain and important a Truth, that they would not conceal it in their own breaſts,but made con- ſcience of publiſhing it for the inſtruQtion and comfort of ſucceed. ing Ages. :