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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
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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.
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.
One of the Ancients renders the words thus, Yee are comforters of evill men; or, possibly, you may comfort evill men; but you ⟨p. 214⟩cannot comfort me. As that which is one mans meat is another mans poyson; 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 evill men, differ as much as good and evill. 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 Freinds such as would sow Pillows under the elbowes of evill men, yet surely they put hard Stones under the sore and aking armes of this good man.
1The Vulgar translation speaks thus, Ye are burden some comforters: A comforter should take off burdens; sorrow is a burden: As the judgements that God threatened upon the Jews, and other Nations, are represented in the Prophets, under the name of burdens, The burden of Judah; the burden of Israel; the burden of Moab; the burden of Babylon; the burden of Idumea: So any affliction upon a person, is his burden; and the business of those who come to comfort a soul in affliction, should be to take off his burden, at least to lighten it. Jobs Friends did indeed bind the burden faster upon his spirit, and therefore he might well call them Burdensome comforters. False hearts count all truth a burden: The Land (saith Amaziah) is not able to bear his words (