x Shewing their repentance by their ſubmiſſion to God, and to face of Job, Fob for Gods ſake, and by taking ſhame to themſelves. » Both for
10 And the LORD turned the Captivity of Job <s
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c He ſpeakseithery 1. of 75's thoughts. Thou knowelt me and all my ſinful and unworthy thoughts of thy Providenrial Dealings with me, though I was not able ro ſee the evil of them. Or 2. of God's thourhts. Whrarſoever thou thinkelt or propoſeſt to do,thou canſt or maiſt doit; and neither I nor any of thy Creatures can either reſtrain rthice f:om it, or condemn thee for it,as I have boldly and wickedly pretumed to do. So this laſt Clauſe ofrhe verle ex- Plains the forixcr., | | | F * Who is hed chat hidech counſel without know- ledge e? therefore f have I utrered that I underſtood 44:5: not ;* things too wonderful for me, whic? I knew not g. 9'6: 45 e What am I that I ſhiuld dare to da 10. Ah filly audacious Wretch that Iam,that I ſh-uld be guilry of ſuch madneſs ! e Which Words are repeated out of Chap: 38: 2: where thev are explained, fBecauſe my mind was without knowledye,therefore my ſpeech was ignorant and foolith. Or Being {:nfible of my 1wnorance and raſh- eſs, I think fir ro make this humbie and ingenious confeſſion. gl bave ſpoken fooliſhly and unadvifcdly of :1ings faravove my reach, even of God's infinite and ſoveraign Majeſty, and of his deep and unlearchable Counſels and Providence, : ; 4 Hear, I beſeech thee, and I willipeak þ:; I will '
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when he prayed for his friends a: alſo b the LORD + _ | gave Job twice as much as he had before. been to Fob
z 7. e. Brought him out of thar ſtate of Bondage in which he had unro che been ſo long held by Satan and by his own Spirit,and our of all his dow9les Difſtrefſ=s and Miſeries: Or, return Job's captivity, i. e- the Perfons' and Things which had been taken f:om him, not the ſame which he hid loſt, bur other equivalent to them, and that wich advantage.
a Whereby he manifeſteth his Obedience to God and his true Love and. Charity ro them, in being ſo ready to forgive them, and hear tily to pray for them; for which God would nct Jer him loſe his Reward. 6 An emphatic] Particie.He nor only gave him as much as he loſt, bur double to it. :
11 Thene came there unto him all bis brethren, and
all his ſiſters d,&all they that had been his acquaintance before, and did eat bread wich him e in« his houſe 2: and they bemoaned him f, and comforted him over all the evil g that the LORD had brought upon him : eve- ry man alſo gave him a piece of money, and every ons
an ear-ring of Gold þ. | 4 M 2 cWhen
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'c When Job had humbled himſelf.and God was reconciled to Job, he quickly rurnedthe hearts of his Friends to favour him, according to Prov. 16. 7, as during his impenitency, and for his trial and hu= miliation he had alienated their Hearcs from him, of which Jobſo ſadly comp'ains. d Largely ſo called, according to the Scripture-uſe of theſe Titles,to wit,his Kindred diſtinguiſhed from his other Ac- giainntence: 1, 6, Fealted with him,as that phraſe is commoniy uſed in Scripture,to congratulate with him for Gods great and glorious fa- Vour alre:zdy vouchfafed to him in ſo eminenit a Viſion : and Revela- tion. f They declared the ſenſe which they had of his Calamuties whilſt they were upon him,alchough they had hitherto wanted op-
ortuniry to expreſs it. g Or, concerning all the evil; which though it wasbirter roendure when it was preſent, yer the remembrance of it revived in him by the Diſcourſes of his Friends was very de'ightful 4s is uſual in ſuch caſes þ Partly to make up his former loſlcs, and partly as a &ſrimony of heir honourable reſpeCt to him.
I2 So the LORD bleſſed 3 the latter end of Job more than his beginning : for be had fourteen thouſand ſheep and fix thouſand cainels, and 4 thouſand yoke of oxen,
and athouſand ſhe-afſes, _ ; No: only with Spiritual, but alſo with Temporal and Earthly
Bleſings.
13 He had alſo ſeven ſons and three daughters. Ined, as he complains.
14 Andbecalled & the name of the firſt, Jemima,ang the name of the ſecond, Kezia, and the name of the third; Keren-happuch.
k Giving them ſuch Names as ſignifie their excellent beauty, of | which ſee my Latine Synepſts.
15 And in all the land were no women found ſo fair as the daughters of Job : and their father gave them 7
inhe1itance among their brethren.
1 Gave his Daughters a ſhare, and poſſibly an equa! ſhare with his Sons in his Inheritance;, which 1n 1o plentiful an Eſtate he mighr eaſily do, eſpecially to ſuch amiable Siſters, without the envy of their Brethren: and which peradventure he did to oblige them to ſettle chemſelves amongſt their Brethren, and to marry unto their own Religious Kindred, not ro Strangers. who in thoſe times were generally {wal'owed up in the gulph of Idolatry.
i6Afcer this lived Job an bundred and forty years,and ſaw his ſons,and his ſons ſons, even four generations.
17 Se Job w died being old, and fuil of days ns
m Affer God had turned his Captivity as is ſaid wv. 10, » By which lengrh -f f:isdays it ſeems mol? probable rhat he lived before the times of Moſes, when the days of humane life were much ſhorts
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PSALMS
GUMENT.
TH B divine Authority of this Book of Pſalms is ſo certain and evident, that it was never queſtioned ins
I the Church : Which being fixed, it ivof (mall m:ment that the Penmen of ſome of them 18 not now knomp : Nor doth this any more leſven its Authority, than it invalidates the Decree of a Prince, or an AF of Parliament, that it is net certain by whoſe Pen it was drawn vp. Moſt of them were compoſed by David, as 3s - evident both from the title of them, and from the expreſs Teflimony ef the New Teftament concerning ſome of them; and that by the inſpiration of Gods Spirit, as appears both from the divine matter and frame of them,and from 2 Sam. 23. 1. Mat. 22.43, @c. AGS I. 16. and 2: 25. But ſome of theme were compoſed by other Per-
ſons 5, by Moles, as Pial. go. by Heman, end Ethan,
and Alaph, as the title of the Pſalms ſhew 5 and by o-
thers after their times, whoſe names are not mentioned, asis nou from Plal. 12 6. and 137. 1t is apparent /
that tbe Plalms were not written in the order in whic? they now by Ezra, as the Hebrew Do@ors affirm; or byſome other holy Prophet or Prophets.
e 5 and thy were put 1nto this order either
t is ſufficient for us, that