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…

JOB having in the former Chapter justified God in afflicting him, and maintained his own integrity, notwithstanding those afflictions, now returneth to that work, about which he had been too busy before; yet that,¹ wherein it seems he only found (as the case stood with him) some little ease and refreshing, The breathing out of his afflicted spirit in sad complainings. He resumes his former lamentation, and renews afresh what he had been more then large enough in, at the 3d, 6th and 7th Chapters of this book. Here, as there, he shows how ill it was with him, and what cause he had to be in heaviness, under the pressure of so many evils.

JOB having in the former Chapter justified God in afflicting him, and maintained his own integrity, notwithstanding those afflictions, now returneth to that work, about which he had been too busie before; yet that,¹ wherein it seems he only found (as the case stood with him) some little ease and refreshing, The breathing out of his afflicted spirit in sad complainings. He resumes his former lamentation, and renews afresh what he had been more then large enough in, at the 3d, 6th and 7th Chapters of this book. Here, as there, he shews how ill it was with him, and what cause he had to be in heavinesse, under the pressure of so many evils.

1. 1Afflicti saepe see exonerari putant, si laxis habenis de suo dolore querantur & suas enumerent calamitates uberrima oratione. Merc.Afflicti saepe se exonerari putāt, si laxis habenis de suo dolore querantur & suas enumerent calamitates uberrima oratione. Merc.

And here, more then there,¹ he remonstrates that he conceived himself more hardly dealt with, then stood not only with the goodness of God in his nature, but with that goodness which he had formerly acted both towards others and himself: This encouraged him about the close of the Chapter (vers. 20, and 22.) to petition again, that he might have a little refreshing before he lay down in his grave: and that God would (after these storms) return him some of those fair days he had enjoyed, before he returned to the earth, and should be seen no more.