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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…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of the book of Job being the sum of thirty two lectures, delivered at Magnus near the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl ...An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of the book of Job being the summe of thirty two lectures, delivered at Magnus neer the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by A. Miller for Henry Overton, 1647
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
JOB Chap. 8. Vers. 20, 21, 22. Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers. Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing. They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame, and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.
JOB Chap. 8. Vers. 20, 21, 22. Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers. Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoycing. They that hate thee shall be cloathed with shame, and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.
These three verses are the epilogue or close of Bildad's discourse with Job having in the former parts of the Chapter asserted, and with great clearness illustrated the justice of God in his dealings against impenitents and hypocrites; he now concludes in a mollifying language, with the assurance of his favour and goodness unto those who return and humble themselves. Yet this he interweaves with threats of the displeasure of God seen in the effects of it, against the wicked, in the twentieth and two and twentieth verses.
THese three verses are the epilogue or close of Bildads discourse with Job having in the former parts of the Chapter asserted, and with great clearnesse illustrated the justice of God in his dealings against impenitents and hypocrites; he now concludes in a mollifying language, with the assurance of his favour and goodnesse unto those who return and humble themselves. Yet this he interweaves with threats of the displeasure of God seen in the effects of it, against the wicked, in the twentieth and two and twentieth verses.
It is, as if Bildad had thus said, Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man. Job, thou mayest perceive, by what hath now been spoken, that God is no enemy to the righteous, nor no friend to wicked men: Thou seest what the portion of a wicked man is from God, and how just God is in giving him such a portion; yet know, that mercy shall act as gloriously in the hand of God, as justice doth; as God is not unjust to favour hypocrites, so neither will he be unjust to forget the righteous and the perfect man: the hypocrite shall perish, but he will fill the mouth of a godly man with laughing, and his lips with rejoicing.