reins are conſumed within me- So this may be a ſudden and pafſionate
Ejaculation or Exclamation ( ſuch as we find Gen: 48: 18: and oft in
the Book of P/alms ) ariſing trom the Contemy ation and confident Ex- peRation of this his unſpeakable happineſs, wherein he exprefſeth his. vehement deſire and longing for that bleſſed time and ſtate. Thereins
are oft put for the carne Deſires or AffeCtions, whereof they are ſup-
poſed to be the ſeat 3 as Job 38: 36: Prov: 23: 16. and Men are oft in Scripture ſaid to be conſumed or eaten ap, or the like, by ardent af- fetions 3 as P/al. 69. 19: and 843 2: aud 119: By, 82: John 2: a7,
28 But ye ſhould ſay b, Why perſecute we him e;
ſhall behold, and not + another y : though my reins bes 7 He, fi firanger.
_ 4 In manner before and after expreſſed No wonder that he repeats F Heb. in it again, becauſe the Meditation of it was moſt fivce: to him. = #: e; 2 me
|
[| ſeing the root of the matter is foundin me 4? 4 Or, Therefore, becauſe this is my Cafe, and my Faith and Hopein
God, b $0 the Future is uſed Potentially ; as it is 0bad: v: 12: and
f Or, and what root of matter
and that you will be more moderate in your Cenſures and Expreſſions concerning me, as being convinced and ſweetned by this ſincere and
Worldly Felicities of which his Friends had diſcourſed ſo much, but of another kind of, and a far greater Bleſſedneſs which fhould accrue to him in after-times, long after he was dead and rotten. Or, the, lait ; who is both the fir# and the laſt, Iſa: 44: 6: Rev: 1: 11. who ſhall, ſub:ue and ſurvive al! his and his Peoples Enemies, and after others the laſt enemy, Death, 1 Gor: 15: 26. and then ſhall raiſe up his Peo-. ple and plcad their Cauſe. and vindicate them from all the Caium- nics a.'d Injuries which are put opon them, and conduq them to Life and Glory. p The place upon which Chriſt !hall appear and ſtand at the laft day. Heb upon the du; ih which his Saints and Members lie or ſleep, whom he will raiſe out of it. And therefore he is fitly ſaid to ſtand '-pm the auſt, or the Grave, or Death; becauſe then he will -
ſolemn Profeſſion of my Faith and Hope, Or, 2. Peradventure you will ay; tu wit, by way of Excuſe for your ſelves. cSoit is a corre» Qtion of themſelves; ſeing things are thus with him, we are blame-wor-« thy that we have perſecuted him with ſuch bitter Inveaives, and we will do ſo no more. Or, wherein or how ( for ſo that Particle is ſome«- times uſed, as the Learned obſerve) do we perſecute him as he chargeth us, v: 22, He accuſeth us falfly.and without cauſe given on our parts. So it is an Apology for their hardSpeeches againſt him, which Job puts 1nto their mouths as their Exception to his Charge which he mention- ed,. v; 22; and upon that occaſion falls into a moſt terious and patheti- cal Exclamation. v- 23, 24: and into a moſt ſolemn Declaration of his
Faith in God his Redeemer, v: 55 26, 87. and after that Digreſſion he
put that among other Enemies under his feet 3 as is expreſſed, u Cor 1 5, reſumes the former matter, and here prepounds an Objeftion,to which 25, 25 Some render the words thus, and that very agrecably to the he gives a ſevere Anſwer, which may ſeem to ſuit much better with Hebrew, The laſt, or at the la# he ſhall ariſe or fland up againſt C tor ſo this than with the former Expoſition. d Theſe words contain either,
thi- very Phraſe is ſed, Gen: 4: 8: Juages 9. 18: ſal 54: Ze ) the duſt and fight with it, and reſcue the Bodies of the Saints, which arc
1. A Motive or Reaſon why they ſhould cerreft themſelves for perſes
cuting him, and defiſt from it; becauſe, ſaith Job, the root of thematrer,
held in it as Priſoners. from its Dominion and Territories. Some un- | 27» 297d is in me, The root notes the Occafion or the Foundation, or derſta-d this of God, that He ſhould ſtand 1a in the field as Conqueror the Truth and Subſtince ofa thing. And by this mater or word may of all his Enemies. But this neither agre's with the words, the Hes | be meant e'ther, 1, That famous Profeſſion of bis Faith and Confidence
brew Aphar, ſignifying dſt, and being neyer uſed of the field or place.
in God v: 25, 25, 27: which. ſaith he. Thave notuttered vain-glori-
of Batcel z ner with Job's icope, which was to defend himſelf againſt | oufly or hypocricically, but from my very heart, wherewith ] believe his Friends Accuſations, and to comfort himſelf with his hopes and | what I have ſpoken with my mouth, as is ſaid upon another occaſion, atſuranceof God's Favour to be exhibited to him io due tin.e. Which Rom: 10:9, 30. This Word or Faith is rooted in mine heart, as it end the words in that ſenſe would by no means ſerve, becauſe God ſhould be, Matth: 13: 21» Col: 2, 9. I am no Hypocrite, as You aſperſe
had been one of them. and though his C:uſe had been bad, and his Friends ſhould with God havetriumphed over him.
26 || And though after my skin, worms deſtroy this body q ; yet r in my fleſh s (ball I fee God ::
ogg : ke a me, but an upright perſon, having a root of true Religion in me; which .migh: and would be Conqueror of all his Ene-1ics, though Job himfelf hats ſhould allay ———— dorks yoo witlicy 9s heap with ſome circumſtantial DefeCts or Miſtakes in my Diſcourſes, or Miſ- carriages into which my Paſſion or Pain might tranſport me, and make you repent of your cruel uſage of a truly good may, But although Je5
had this rootin his heart, yet this was doubted of, and not diſcerna-
q Ihe ſtyle of this and other Poetical Books is conciſe and ſhort, | ble by Jeb's Friends, and therefore could be no Argument to. them,
Poſſibly it might be better to underſtand by this root of the word, to wit, of God's Word, which is oft called the word, by way of eminency, the Foundations or fundamental Truths of Divine Daftrine, which Job heid 3 as appeared by this glorious Confeſſion; howſoever he might err in the matter of Controverfie with them ; which being a diffe-
Particle, as it is oft elſewhere, is here to be underſtood, as the oppo- | rence in leſſer things, they ſhould mildly have bors with it, and not ſition of the next Branch ſheweth ) after my skin ( which either now azgravated it and traduced him, as if thereby he had renounced God
Is, or ſuddenly will be conſumed by Soresor Worms _) they ( 7: e: the
and the very Principles of Religion, as they did. Or, 2. The word
deftroyers or devenrers, as is \n-plyed in the Verb; ſuch Imperſonal | gr thivg under debate among ther. So the ſenſe may be this, The