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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and the thirty fourth chapters of the book of Job being the substance of forty-nine lectures / delivered at Magnus near the Bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and the thirty fourth chapters of the booke of Job being the substance of forty-nine lectures / delivered at Magnus neare the Bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. Simmons, 1661
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Some others interpret the latter part of the verse as containing Job's answer to the question put by Elihu in the first part of it; Why dost thou strive with God? (saith Elihu) To which Job is supposed, replying, Because he gives me not an account of my matters; God doth not answer to my words, and therefore pardon me if I complain or strive with him: I hope while I am thus unanswered ⟨p. 246⟩you will hold me excused if I move again and again, yea, even strive for an answer. But the Grammar of the text is against this reading, the words being plainly in the third person, his matters, not in the first, my matters; and 'tis too great a boldness with the text, to make such a change in the translation. Besides 'tis more agreeable to the scope of the place, to take the latter part of the verse as a reason given by Elihu, why Job should not strive with God, then to take it as a reason given by Job why he did.
Some others interpret the latter part of the verse as containing Job's answer to the question put by Elihu in the first part of it; Why dost thou strive with God? (saith Elihu) To which Job is supposed, replying, Because he gives me not an account of my matters; God doth not answer to my words, and therefore pardon me if I complaine or strive with him: I hope while I am thus unanswered ⟨p. 246⟩you will hold me excused if I move againe and againe, yea, even strive for an answer. But the Grammar of the text is against this reading, the words being plainly in the third person, his matters, not in the first, my matters; and 'tis too great a boldnesse with the text, to make such a change in the translation. Besides 'tis more agreeable to the scope of the place, to take the latter part of the verse as a reason given by Elihu, why Job should not strive with God, then to take it as a reason given by Job why he did.
I find a learned translator among the Moderns, who taking the latter part of the verse as a reason given by Job of his striving with God spoken of in the first,