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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of the book of Job being the sum of twenty three lectures delivered at Magnus near the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl.An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of the book of Job being the summe of twenty three lectures delivered at Magnus neer the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl.
London: printed by Matthew Simmons, 1650
Title page typeset from the transcription.
AN EXPOSITION Upon the Fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth Chapte… › Chapter 16 › Verse 2
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.
It seems the Friends of Job (at least to his sense) had forgotten the design they proposed to themselves when they first undertook this visit, (Chap. 2.11.) They made an appointment together, to come, and mourn with him, and to comfort him. That was the intendment of Jobs Friends at their fi•st addresses. Yet after so long a conference, he makes this report, Miserable comforters are ye; ye rather vex then heal any sore; you my Friends have troubled me more then my wounds, you have wounded my spirit more then Satan did my flesh,1 Miserable comforters are ye.
It seems the Freinds of Job (at least to his sense) had forgotten the designe they proposed to themselves when they first undertook this visit, (Chap. 2.11.) They made an appointment together, to come, and mourne with him, and to comfort him. That was the intendment of Jobs Freinds at their fi•st addresses. Yet after so long a conference, he makes this report, Miserable comforters are yee; yee rather vex then heale any soare; you my Freinds have troubled me more then my wounds, you have wounded my spirit more then Satan did my flesh,1 Miserable comforters are yee.
- 1Consolatores malorum. i. e. malos potest•s consolari. August.
One of the Ancients renders the words thus, Ye are comforters of evil men; or, possibly, you may comfort evil men; but you ⟨p. 214⟩cannot comfort me. As that which is one mans meat is another mans poison; so that which is one mans comfort is another mans sorrow. All good men cannot take in their comforts the same way; but the way of comforting good and evil men, differ as much as good and evil. The words of flattery and falsehood will serve to comfort the one, no words will comfort the other, but those of sincerity, and truth. I dare not conceive Jobs Friends such as would sow Pillows under the elbows of evil men, yet surely they put hard Stones under the sore and aching arms of this good man.