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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.
Verse 29. If I be wicked, Why then labour I in vain?
These words may be connected with either of the interpretations given upon the former verse, I know, thou (O God) or thou (O Bildad) wilt not hold me innocent. Now then, If I be wicked, &c.
The original word hath been heretofore opened. Only note, that the Hebrew is absolute, and not by way of supposition,1 plainly thus, I am wicked, or, I shall he accounted wicked, Why therefore labour I in vain? Or, now therefore I labour in vain. When Job saith, I am wicked, it is not as if he gave the cause, and assented to his friends, Ye have had an ill opinion of me all this while,2 now I begin to have as ill an opinion of my self, I am wicked. No, he means it only thus, I am handled or accounted as a wicked man, I am wicked, in your thoughts, and the providence of God seems to give you occasion of thinking so, ye look upon me, as if I were a wicked man, and I look like one, Why then labour I in vain?
The originall word hath been heretofore opened. Only note, that the Hebrew is absolute, and not by way of supposition,1 plainly thus, I am wicked, or, I shall he accounted wicked, Why therefore labour I in vain? Or, now therefore I labour in vain. When Job saith, I am wicked, it is not as if he gave the cause, and assented to his friends, Ye have had an ill opinion of me all this while,2 now I begin to have as ill an opinion of my self, I am wicked. No, he means it only thus, I am handled or accounted as a wicked man, I am wicked, in your thoughts, and the providence of God seems to give you occasion of thinking so, ye look upon me, as if I were a wicked man, and I look like one, Why then labour I in vain?