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…

So then, according to this reading, the sense may be given out thus: As if Elihu had said, How canst thou (O Job!) possibly imagine that God should be unjust, when he doth not forbear to tell the greatest Kings of their injustice, and convince them of it; he who calleth degenerate Kings Apostates, and unjust Princes wicked; he that is thus impartial in reckoning with Kings, and the mighty men of ⟨p. 621⟩the earth (as indeed God hath always been, and will ever be) How should he be unjust? Wilt thou condemn the most Just? Even him who is so just, that he rebukes injustice wheresoever he finds it, and who can find it wheresoever it is? (Psal. 105.14.) He reproved Kings for their sakes, (that is, for the sake of his peculiar people, when they did them wrong,) saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my Prophets no harm: implying, that he trusts Kings with that great power to protect his anointed, and to save his Prophets from harm; and therefore would not take it well at their hands, if they abused their power to hurt and afflict them. This is a good reading, but I shall not insist upon it, though some insist much upon it, because I would rather favour our own Translation, and carry the Interpretation that way, as containing an argument to prove, that it is a most wicked thing to condemn God as unjust, because men are scarce any where found so presumptuous, or bold, as to say to a King, Thou art wicked, or to Princes, ye are ungodly. It is much easier for any man, much more for great men to do evil, then for others to tell them so: And as the faults of Princes seldom find reprovers, so it requires a great deal of wisdom, not to commit a fault in reproving them.

So then, according to this reading, the sence may be given out thus: As if Elihu had said, How canst thou (O Job!) possibly imagine that God should be unjust, when he doth not forbear to tell the greatest Kings of their injustice, and convince them of it; he who calleth degenerate Kings Apostates, and unjust Princes wicked; he that is thus impartial in reckoning with Kings, and the mighty men of ⟨p. 621⟩the earth (as indeed God hath alwaies been, and will ever be) How should he be unjust? Wilt thou condemn the most Just? Even him who is so just, that he rebukes injustice wheresoever he sindes it, and who can finde it wheresoever it is? (