n If thou hadſt opened thine Ear to God's Counſe!s, and humbled * Pl. 23:5 thy ſelf under his correQting hand, and ſued to God for Mercy. 8 As this Verb 1s uſed, 2 Chron: 18. 31. Or, allured, or inti ed, or pe'ſwas ded thee, as the word properly ſignifies : which poſſibly may here be emphatical and may imply as that Job had by his 10s brought him- | telt1ato theſe ſtrai's, ſo that God would havebrovght him ou: 5f them by the uſual and : egular way, to wit, by perſwading him to turn from his fins. and humbly and carneſily to cry to God for Mercy, which if he had compiied with, God would haye delivered him, Þ
Heb: our of the month or jaws of tribulation , which like a wild Beaſt was ready to ſwallow him up, q 1, e: Into a ſtate of caſe and free- dom. r Thy Diſhes, or the Food inthem.
17 Burt thou haſt fulfilled the judgment s of the
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they are atflited or perſecuted, when he may ſeem to neglc& them, m Though they may be apprefled for a time, yet oft times he not only delivers them, but alſo raiſeth them to the higheſt Honour and Happ'neſs in this Life z Compare 1 Sam 2. 8. P/al, 113. 7, 8, n Their Felicity is more ſtable and permanent than that of the wicked. o Having mentioned the Cauſe, that God did eftabliſh them ; he now mentions the effeR, that { #hey | are or continue to #e exaired ; the
are not caſt down from their ,Dignity, as the wicked commonly
are- 8 And * if they be bound in fetters p, a»d be holden
in cords of affliction : | p If through theviciſfitude of Worldly Affairs, and the Righteous Judgment of God'upon them for their fins, they be brought from their Throne into a Priſon, as ſometimes hath been done. 9 Then he ſheweth them their work 9, and their
tran{grefſions, that they have exceeded r. i. e- Their evil Works, as the next Clauſe explains and limits it. By theſe Affffiiftions he brings them to a fight of their Sins and to Repentance, which is theway and means of 2heir recovery. r That they have greatly finned by abuſing their Power and Proſperity ; which eyen good men are too prone to do. Yo 10 * He openeth alſo their ear # to diſcipline z, and
commandeth #« that they return from iniquity #.
57. e, He enableth and inclineth them to hearken to what God ſpeaks by the rod, who would nothear in the time of their Proſperity - like them, Jer. 22. 21. t Or, 1» inſtruton, 1,e. to receive iuſtruftion + or ts chaſtening, i- e. to hear the rod, and who hath appointed it ; asis ſaid, Mich, 6. 9, « Either by his Word or Spirit accompanying the Afffi&ion and diſcovering the Mind and Will of God in this Diſpenſa- tion. x Which is the chief Cauſe of their Calamity.
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s Or, the cauſe, or ſentence. as the word moſt properly fignificth» Thou haſt fully pleaded thcir Cauſe, and juſtified the hard and -re- proachful Speeches which wicked men in their rage utter © againſt God, condemning God and juſtifying themſelves. # Or, therefore ( which 15 oft underſtood ) the ſentence and Judgment ( or, the judic-al ſen- tence, to wit, of the wicked now n.entioned ) ſhall tabe hold on thee. Thou haſt maintained their Cauſe againſt God, and God ſhall paſs a* gainſt thee their Sentence, or the Sentence of Condemnation due to ſuch wicked men.
18 Becauſe there is wrath u,beware x leſt hetake thee away with his ſtroke y ; then * a great ranſom can- not} deliver thee z.
v To wit, conceived by God againſt thee; Becauſe by thy plead- ing the Cauſe of the wicked,zhou haſt deſerved that God ſhould g1ve Sentence agaipftjthee, as was now ſaid, and haſt provoked God's wrath againſt thee, therefore look to thy (elf, and reconcile thy ſelf to God by true Repentance whiiſt thou maiſt, and before Sentetce be executed upon thee. x This is not in the Hebrew, but is neceſſai- ly to be underſtood to make up the ſence, and is oft underſtocd in the likecaſcs, and that before this Hebrew Particle Pen, as Gen. 3. 22+ & 11; 4.42: 4: ſai 86: 18. See the like alſo, Matth, 25.9, As 5.39: y Properly, with the ſtroke of his hand or foot. Tr is an allufion to men who oft expreſs their anger by claping their hands, or ſtamping with their feet. 4 For if once God's Wrath take hold of thee, and ſentence be executed upon thee before thou doſt repent and humble thy ſ:If to thy judge, neither Riches, nor Friends, no nor any Perſon, or thing in Heaven and Earth can redeem thee; no Ranſom or Price will be accepted for thee. :
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the forces of ftrength.
4 If thou couldſt recover thy loſt wealth or ſtrength, or thy Friends would imploy theirs on thy behalf, neither could the one ranſome thee, nor tlie other reſcue thee,
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