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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 9
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A third expounds it of his Friends, as if he compared them to wild Beasts, who in stead of comforting his spirit, did (upon the matter) tear his flesh between their teeth.
A third expounds it of his Freinds, as if he compared them to wilde Beasts, who in stead of comforting his spirit, did (upon the matter) teare his flesh between their teeth.
Fourthly, 'Tis conceived, he means those vain ones of whom he speaks (Chap. 19.) that came about him, and troubled him.
Fourthly, 'Tis conceived, he meanes those vaine ones of whom hee speakes (Chap. 19.) that came about him, and troubled him.
But fifthly, and most generally, this Text is interpreted of God himself, He teareth me in his wrath who hateth me. For though Job speaks here distractedly, discovering rather his grief then his enemy; or as a man wounded and smitten in the dark,1 he perceives he hath an enemy, he feels the smart, and bears the blows, but he is not able to see who hurts him, yet in this confusion of language, his heart was still upon God who ordered, and disposed all those armies of sorrow, which assaulted him on every side.
But fifthly, and most generally, this Text is interpreted of God himselfe, He teareth me in his wrath who hateth me. For though Job speaks here distractedly, discovering rather his griefe then his enemy; or as a man wounded and smitten in the darke,1 he perceives he hath an enemy, he feeles the smart, and beares the blowes, but he is not able to see who hurts him, yet in this confusion of language, his heart was still upon God who ordered, and disposed all those armies of sorrow, which assaulted him on every side.