« W thin my ſelf, and nowlI ſay it with my mouth. + Thou Job . ſpecially, who art more nearly concerned ( to whom theres fore he ſpeaketh in the Singular Number _) and thy Friends with thee, ;
11 Behold, I waited y for your words : I gave ear to your reaſons z, whilſt ye ſearched out F what toſay #. + Heb.
y With filence, and patience, and diligent at:ention : which there- derſtangs! fore I now expeR from you. x Or, !eaſonings, Heb. underflandings gs. or minds, the depth and ſtrength of your Diſcourſes your moſt tin- f Heby telligent and forcible Arguments againſt Jeb ; I ſearched and exa- ds, mined them to the bottom, a Whilſt you put your Inventions upon the Rack, aud ſtudied to find out all that could be ſaid agaivſt him, and fo furniſh your ſelves with the moſt convincing words end reaſon:.
12 Yea, 1attended to you : and behold, there wes none of you that convinced Job 6, or that anſwered his words :
b By ſolid and ſatisfaftory Anſwers to his Aſertions and Allega* tions,
12 Leſt ye ſhould ſay c, We have found out wiſdom x
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corrigible, '' 2 Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu. the ſon of Barachel the Buzite b of the kindred of Ram c : againſt F Heb, his Job was his wrach kindled, becauſe he Juſtified | him- Jud, ſelf rather than God d.
God thruſteth him down, not man 4.
c It is a defeRive ſpeech, and may b= thus ſupplied : Thus it was, or God thus left you to ycur own weakneſs and miſtakes, and impertinent diſcourſes, /eſt ye ſhould ſay, %c. i.e. leſt you ſhould aſcribe the conquering or filencing of Job to your own Wiſdem, Ape, and Experience ; Or icft you ſhould boaftingly ſay, We haye
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.cvered and ſaid all that can or ved be ſaid in the Cauſe, the no "ind ſubſtance ofthe thing, that which may fully and finally rs the Coutroverfie, which is contained in the following Words. d Theſeare alledged by Elibu, in the perſon of 'Job's three Friends, Or 2s their Words, The ſenſeis, the ſtupendious Judgments which are upon Jeb, have not been brought upon him by Man ſolely and Or1- g1nally, for then there might have been ſome ground for Jobs Com- plaints, there might have been injuſtice or cruelty 1N them, but 1m- mediately by the Hand of God,of that God, who being Omniſcieat, and Juſt, aud True, - and Mercifull, would never have dealt thus hardly with]Jeb,if he were not an Hypocrite, and guilty of ſome very groſs, though ſecret fins 3 which is the ground-work of our diſcourſes. But faith Elibv, this Argument doth not ſatisfic me, and therefore bear with me ifI ſeek for better.
Heb.or- 14 Now he hath not Þ directed bis words againſt
red. me #7 neither willI anſwer him with your words f. | e I am not engaged in this diſcourſe by any provoking words of Jeb, as you hayc been, which hath drawn forth your Paſſions, and byafſed your Judgments, but meerly from Zeal, for the vindication "of God's honour and bye to Truth and Juftice, and a finc2re delire
" to adminiſter to Job matter both of conviRtion and of comfort. f 7. e- With ſuch Words or Argumentsas yours, cither weak and 1mpertt- 'nent, or fierce and opprobrious.
\ T5 Theyg were amazed h,they anſwered no more, + they left off ſpeaking.
£ i. e. Job's three Friends, of whom he ſpeaks ſometimes in the ſecond, and here in the third perſon, direQting his Speech to Job, & © andthe Auditors of this Diſputation. þ They ſtood mute like per» v theM- ſons amazed, not knowing what to reply to Jo's Arguments, and Wes, wonrdring at his bold and confident Afertions of his Integrity, and
' _/ of his Intereſt in God, under ſuch ſad and manifeſt tokens of God": ' juſt diſpleaſure againſt him. # Although Jeb gave them juſt
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occaſion to reprove and confute him for his intemperate Speeches and preſumptuous and irreverent Expreſſions concerning God.
16 When I had waited, ( for they ſpake not, but Nood ſtill ; and anſwered no morek; )
k Which he repeats as a ſtrange and unreaſonable thing that they ſhould be filent when they had ſuch Obligations to ſpeak for the Vin- dication both of God's Juſtice, and of their own; Truth and Repura- tion,
17 I ſaid, T will anſwer alſo my part /; TI alſo will ſhew mine opinion.
} I will take my turn and ſpeak what they have omitted. SE
, 18 ForT am full of F matter », + the ſpirit within
Heb. IE 7 conſtraineth me o. ; ends, - m i.e. I have many things to ſay in this Cauſe. = Either my own Heb +helSPirit or Soul, which is wholly diſſatisfied with what hath þcen >. + Thitherto ſpoken, and clearly *apprehends what may filence Job ad and end the Diſpute. Or, God's Spirit which he hath put in me, ; the Spirit of Underſtanding, which hath diſcovered the truth of the matter to me, and the Spirit of Zeal, which urgeth me to plead God's Cauſe apgainſt Job. « Forceth me to ſpeak : It is a Me- taphor from a Man or Woman whoſe Belly is full with Wind, or with aChild, and is neyer at reſt till it be emptied and caſed of its burden, |
19 Behold, my belly p is as wine q which + hath no veat ; it is ready to burſt like new bottles r,
pi e. My mind or heart, which is oft called a man's belly, as Job 15. 35. Pſalm 40+ 8. Hab., 3. 16. John 75. 38. q As new Wine pent up cloſe in a Bottle, as the following words explain it and de- termine it, The Wine is here put for the Bottle in which it is, by a common Meronymy. 7 i.e. Bottles of new Wine, by the' ſame ge- neral Figure ; for otherwiſe old Bottles are moſt apt to burſt ; Matt. 9s 17, 20 I will ſpeak, + that I may be refreſhed 5; I will Heb.#h4t open my lips, and anſwert, may s That I may eaſe my mind of thoſe thoughts which now opprefſs it.
reath. #1 will notutter impertinent words, but ſolid anſwers to Job's argu- ments.