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, The word is used adverbially, It is not so with me, that is, It is not so as you imagine. In which sense we find it, Gen. 1.7. The Lord said, Let there be light, and it was (Chen) so, as the Lord commanded, so it was, Eccles. 8.10. I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were strangers in the City, where they had done so.

Secondly, The word is used adverbially, It is not so with me, that is, It is not so as you imagine. In which sense we finde it, Gen. 1.7. The Lord said, Let there be light, and it was (Chen) so, as the Lord commanded, so it was, Eccles. 8.10. I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were strangers in the City, where they had done so.

Upon both these significations of the word, different interpretations of the whole are grounded.

Upon both these significations of the word, different interpre•ations of the whole are grounded.

First, Taking the word to note an upright hearted man, Job is conceived to speak interrogatively, as if he put this Question, For am I not right in my self? As if he had said, If you think it too much boldness that I have said I would speak unto God, and not fear him, Am not I right in my self? Am not I found and true at heart? Thus he seems to allude unto that testimony, which God gave of him at the first verse of this book, A man perfect and upright; As if he had said, I am no turn-coat or apostate, I am as I was,