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…

Show me] The word signifies to make a matter intelligible or plain to the understanding; If I must still feel these pains, ¹then make me to understand them also: Let not the whole weight of my sorrows lie upon my sense, manifest them to my reason; the more I know of them, the better I shall manage and endure them.

Shew me] The word signifies to make a matter intelligible or plain to the understanding; If I must still feel these pains, ¹then make me to understand them also: Let not the whole weight of my sorrows lie upon my sense, manifest them to my reason; the more I know of them, the better I shall manage and endure them.

1. 1[Greek or Hebrew] Facscire me.〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Facscire me.

Show me wherefore thou contendest with me. ¹] The word which we translate to contend, signifies properly contention between party and party, not the sentence of the Judge. The parties to a suit, contend, but do not condemn. The Judge condemns the Delinquent party, but he doth not contend. His office is to hear the cause, and upon full evidence on both sides to pass his sentence. Job speaks in the stile of both, desiring the Lord not to condemn him as a Judge, and to show him why he contended with him, as a party. Thus the Lord is said in Hosea, to have a controversy with the inhabitants of Israel (Hos. 4.1.) and it seems by another Prophet, that he had continued a long one with them, and therefore promised, I will not contend for ever,