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…

2. The abundance, the fruitfulness, the great increase of all within his family, he will make thee thrive.

2. The abundance, the fruitfulnesse, the great encrease of all within his family, he will make thee thrive.

3. The peaceable holding or enjoyment of all those good things, free from foreign invasion or oppressions. Do thus, and then neither Sabeans nor Chaldeans shall any more come upon thee and plunder thee. Thus he will make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.

3. The peaceable holding or enjoyment of all those good things, free from forraign invasion or oppressions. Do thus, and then neither Sabeans nor Chaldeans shall any more come upon thee and plunder thee. Thus he will make the habitation of thy righteousnesse prosperous.

The sum of all is, as if Bildad had said unto Job: Thy habitation hath heretofore been an habitation of unrighteousness, of impiety, of tyranny, thy house hath been filled with spoil and oppression, thy Tabernacle hath been a Sanctuary for wickedness, a lodging or rendezvous for all manner of riot and intemperance, of rapine and injustice; but now, Job, if thou wilt make thy self pure and upright, thou shalt see the case will alter; whereas before troops and armies of miseries have invaded thee, and spoiled all thou hadst within and without; now, if in thy house, where wickedness formerly dwelt, righteousness shall enter and dwell, ¹thou shalt see that with righteousness peace will enter too; Troubles will depart, when wickedness departs, and evils of punishment will dislodge with the evil of sin; when those better guests, righteousness and holiness come into, and are welcomed at thy house,