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…

Secondly, By way of proportion, thus: As thy children have sinned against him, so he hath cast them away for their transgression. And so Bildad argueth with Job upon the same principle that Eliphaz had done before, scil. that his sons and himself had exceedingly provoked God, and that therefore God had sent that judgement, and laid that heavy stroke upon them, If thy children, or, although thy children have sinned.

Secondly, By way of proportion, thus: As thy children have sinned against him, so he hath cast them away for their transgression. And so Bildad argueth with Job upon the same principle that Eliphaz had done before, scil. that his sonnes and himself had exceedingly provoked God, and that therefore God had sent that judgement, and laid that heavy stroke upon them, If thy children, or, although thy children have sinned.

¹Against him.] That word is to be opened a little. The Hebrew is, Have sinned to him. Which is indifferently translated, ⟨p. 21⟩either before him or against him; we take the later.

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Every sin is committed against God; that's the first. Sin is most opposite to God. It is against God in his nature: against God in his will: against God in his very being. Sin would thrust God out of the world, if it were possible; and therefore it is rightly translated, They have sinned against him. No marvel if God do so much against sinners, when sin doth so much against him; but is it not a miracle, that God should do any thing, especially such great things for sinners, when sin doth so much against him? David (