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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of the book of Job being the sum of thirty two lectures, delivered at Magnus near the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl ...An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of the book of Job being the summe of thirty two lectures, delivered at Magnus neer the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by A. Miller for Henry Overton, 1647
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Mr Broughton translates, Who shall make him restore? So he carries it in allusion unto men, who violently take away the goods and estate of another. If a man come with force and take away my goods,1 I may make him restore them again by a greater force; but if the Lord take away and ask me no leave, I cannot make him restore. The word signifies to stop or turn a thing, and because in recovering ⟨p. 235⟩of a prey, or in making a man restore, we stop and stay his course, therefore the word is indifferently applied to both.
- 1Vertere aut reducere, quis re•• uere eum faciet, quis recuperabit aut redu•et praedam?
Others understand it in this sense, If he taketh away, who shall hinder him? That is, who can turn him from his purpose? Who can stop him in the thing he hath a mind to do?1 The Vulgar translation varies much, If he suddenly ask a man a question, who shall be able to answer him? The Hebrew word which signifies to return, signifies to answer, answering is the return of a word (Prov. 8.13.) He that answereth (or returneth a word) before he heareth a matter. But I shall lay that by, though the abettors of the Vulgar make great store of it; interpreting their meaning thus, if the Lord cite a man to judgement, and bring him to trial, man is not able to answer him, or to plead his own cause. Man cannot stand before the Lord. Observe hence,
Others understand it in this sense, If he taketh away, who shall hinder him? That is, who can turn him from his purpose? Who can stop him in the thing he hath a minde to doe?