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…

Some interpreters take the word day for judgement, Are thy days as mans days? that is, Are thy judging days,¹ or thy judgement given upon those days, like mans days, or the judgement which man giveth? We have the word in that sense (1 Cor. 4.3.) where the Apostle concludes in his own case, It is a very small thing with me to be judged of you, or of mans judgement; the Greek is, To be judged of mans day: and according to the idiom of that language in some countries, the day of a man is put for the judgement of a man. Though others conceive Paul calls it a day rather then a judgement, in allusion to that last day, wherein God will sit in judgement upon the whole world. So the meaning of Job is plainly this, The Lords judgement is not like mans judgement; This Exposition falls in with the sense of the former verse; men judge by outward proofs and probabilities, by questions and interrogatories, by testimonies and witnesses: God needs none of these humane helps in his day of judgement; yet in Jobs case, he carried it, as if he needed them. The suit depending so long before him, and such variety of experiments and trials, being put upon, or taken of him.