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…

Eliphaz speaks all Interrogatories; and these speak him in anger, if not in some distemper. Should he do this? and should he do that? do show that either another hath very much done, what he should not, or that he who reproves him hath not such a spirit of meekness, as a reprover should, Gal. 6.1.

Eliphaz speakes all Interrogatories; and these speak him in anger, if not in some distemper. Should he doe this? and should he doe that? doe shew that either another hath very much done, what he should not, or that he who reproves him hath not such a spirit of meeknesse, as a reprover should, Gal. 6.1.

The words show the effect of what he taxed him with before; as if he had said,¹ Would you know what to expect from a passionate man, from a man whose belly is filled with the East-wind? You shall have him shortly filling your ears with an East wind, even reasoning with unprofitable words: And (as the next clause gives it, which is only an exposition of this) with speeches wherewith he can do no good: Some words are great doers, they do much hurt, or they do much good, and those words usually do some hurt, which can do no good; yea, that which is weak and unable to do good, may be strong and powerful to do evil. However, not to do good is to do evil, because it is every mans duty, whatsoever he doth, to be doing good: Here Eliphaz reproves Jobs words as evil, while he only saith, they do no good. And yet he saith somewhat more then that, for he saith, They can do no good: It is ill not to do good actually, but not to have a possibility of doing good is far worse. When the Apostle would say his ⟨p. 10⟩worst of the best of mans sinful flesh, he doth not only say, It is not subject to the Law of God, but adds, Neither indeed can be (