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…

These things.] The demonstrative particle may have reference to the words immediately fore-going, and only to them, How long wilt thou speak these things? That is, the things which thou hast spoken in the sixth and seventh Chapters. The language is undervaluing and contemptuous, How long wilt thou speak these things? Such poor stuff. How long wilt thou trouble thy Auditors with such matter, such fruitless, frothy, crude, and undigested matter; matter so injurious, so dishonourable to God, so unsavoury, and unedifying to man.

These things.] The demonstrative particle may have reference to the words immediately fore-going, and only to them, How long wilt thou speak these things? That is, the things which thou hast spoken in the sixth and seventh Chapters. The language is undervaluing and contemptuous, How long wilt thou speak these things? Such poor stuff. How long wilt thou trouble thy Auditours with such matter, such fruitlesse, frothy, crude, and undigested matter; matter so injurious, so dishonourable to God, so unsavoury, and unedifying to man.

Taking Job (under Bildad's apprehension) as having failed and erred in his discourse. Observe, first,

Taking Job (under Bildads apprehension) as having failed and erred in his discourse. Observe, first,

Perseverance in evil is worse then the doing of evil, How long wilt thou sp•ak these things? If thou having spoken once amiss hadst recalled thy self, and stopped there, it had been more excusable, To outlash sometimes in a word, may be a wise mans case: but to ⟨p. 5⟩make such a continued studied oration as this, and be out in all, and all to be an invective against heaven, who is able to bear it? To speak or do ill though but once, is too often by once; To act evil often, is to double every act. The shortest time is too long to serve any lust in. When the Apostle Peter (