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An exposition with practical observations upon the three first chapters of the book of…
An exposition with practical observations upon the three first chapters of the book of Job delivered in XXI lectures at Magnus near the bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...An exposition with practical observations upon the three first chapters of the book of Iob delivered in XXI lectures at Magnus neare the bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by G. Miller for Henry Overton, 1643
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JOB 3. Ver. 20, 21, 22. Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul? Which long for death, but it cometh not, and dig for it more then for hid treasures: Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad when they can find the grave, &c.
JOB 3. Ver. 20, 21, 22. Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soule? Which long for death, but it cometh not, and dig for it more then for hid treasures: Which rejoyce exceedingly, and are glad when they can find the grave, &c.
AT this 20th. verse, the third and last Section of the Chapter begins, Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul?
AT this 20th. verse, the third and last Section of the Chapter begins, Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life to the bitter in soule?
In the former part of the Chapter, Job wished that death had ⟨p. 440⟩surprised him as soon as ever he set his foot into the world, yea before he came into the world, that he might have died in the very womb; Here Job begins to expostulate, why he having made so long a journey, and in his latter time so troublesome a journey in the world, why (I say) he is not (at his request) cut off and taken away, by the stroke of death; Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul? We may frame his argument thus, out of his words, as they are here couched; There is no reason, or if there be, show me a reason why his life should be prolonged, who liveth miserably and would die willingly; But I am the man who live miserably and I would die willingly; wherefore then? where is the reason, or show me a reason why my life is prolonged. That is the force of his argument. The main Proposition of the argument, is contained in the 20, 21, 22, 23. verses, namely, that there is no reason why a man that liveth miserably, should be denied to die, wherefore is light given to a man that is in misery? He endeavours to prove the Assumption at the 24th. verse, where he shows that he lived in great misery, which he doth amplify in the two last verses of the Chapter. This may serve for the sum and scope, or intendment of this last Section.