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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 32
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Vers. 32. It shall be accomplished before his time, &c.
These words are a strong enforcement of the motive laid down in the former Verse, Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: Why, what if he do? Vanity shall be his recompense: That's the first part of the motive. The second is,
These words are a strong enforcement of the motive layd downe in the former Verse, Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: Why, what if he doe? Vanity shall be his recompence: That's the first part of the motive. The second is,
1Vers. 32. It shall be accomplished before his time: What shall be accomplished? There is no express Antecedent in the Hebrew; we may understand, either first, the life of the wicked man himself, of whom Eliphaz had before discoursed. Or secondly,2 the estate of the wicked man. Or thirdly, the designs and plots of the wicked man. Taking in all three, the meaning is, That himself, and all that he hath gotten, and all that he hath projected, Shall be accomplished before his time; and what's this but vanity for his recompense?
1Vers. 32. It shall be accomplished before his time: What shall be accomplished? There is no expresse Antecedent in the Hebrew; we may understand, either first, the life of the wicked man himselfe, of whom Eliphaz had before discoursed. Or secondly,2 the estate of the wicked man. Or thirdly, the designes and plots of the wicked man. Taking in all three, the meaning is, That himselfe, and all that he hath gotten, and all that he hath projected, Shall be accomplished before his time; and what's this but vanity for his recompence?