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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
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JOB, CHAP. 16. Vers. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased? But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company. And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me, beareth witness to my face. He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth, mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me. They have gaped upon me with their mouth, they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully, they have gathered them selves together against me. God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over to the hands of the wicked.
JOB, CHAP. 16. Vers. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. Though I speak, my griefe is not asswaged: and though I forbeare, what am I eased? But now he hath made mee weary: thou hast made desolate all my company. And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witnesse against me: and my leanenesse rising up in me, beareth witnesse to my face. He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth, mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me. They have gaped upon me with their mouth, they have smitten mee upon the cheek reproachfully, they have gathered them selves together against me. God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over to the hands of the wicked.
IN the five former Verses of this Chapter, Job reproved the personal failings of his Friends towards him; he now enters upon the confutation of their opinion. This is the constant method, both of Job and his Friends; they never come to the matter till they have fallen upon the man; nor touch the opinion, till they have dealt with the person. And this is the tenor of most mens spirits, to this day, in disputes and controversies, and some do not only deal with the man before the matter, but lose the matter in dealing with the man, entangling, and engaging themselves so much in personal quarrels, that they forget, or desert the doctrinal quarrel. Job and his Friends, though they were too mindful of the former, yet they did not forget the latter, and here Job addresses himself unto it. Yet before he enters upon the state of the question, he sets forth his own state, and shows how it was with him; granting (which Eliphaz had made the ground of his accusation) that he was in an extremely afflicted condition, yet denying what he from thence inferred, that he was therefore wicked, or continued knowingly in any sinful course. He describes his afflictions with much variety of Argument and Elocution, to the seventeenth Verse.