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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 15 › Verse 2
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Vers. 2. Should a wise man utter vain knowledge?
Vers. 2. Should a wise man utter vaine knowledge?
The question denies; he should not: No man should, least of all he.
The question denyes; he should not: No man should, least of all he.
The wise man is here opposed to the crafty man, at the 5. Verse. There is a wide difference between wisdom and craft, ⟨p. 4⟩between prudence and cunning; A crafty man knoweth what is good, but he commonly doth what is evil; he is able to see the right, but if it be not for his turn, he turns from it, and cares not to do wrong: A wise man is he that knoweth how to distinguish between good and evil, and ever aims to act what is good; his understanding is well enlightened, and his conscience binds him to follow the light of his understanding; as he can see what is just and right, so he cannot but embrace and do it. A wise, man in Scripture-language, is a holy man, and a fool, is a wicked man; holiness is the best wisdom, and wickedness is the worst of folly: Eliphaz seems to admit Jobs challenge of being a wise, man, that he might check him with more advantage for speaking so unlike one: As if he had said, Should a moral wise man, much more a spiritual wise man, should he that is, or pretends to be thus wise (as thou dost, should he) utter vain knowledge?