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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
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Vers. 24. He shall break in pieces mighty men without number, and set others in their stead.
As Job had often complained of his own troubles, so he had sometimes of the prosperity of wicked men, or that God suffered them who were not worthy to live, yet to live in pomp, power, and pleasure. Thus he expostulated the matter, (chap. 21.7.) Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? &c. We may conceive Elihu removing that stumbling stone, and answering him in these words, while he telleth us what work the Lord often maketh in the world in those his lesser and particular days of judgement, among the mighty of the world. He not only striketh and woundeth, troubleth and vexeth them, but breaketh them, yea, breaketh them in pieces. 1The words are a comparison between the mighty, & a potters vessel, of whom David saith (Psal. 2.9.) Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron, thou shalt (not only give them a knock, or a crack, but) dash them in pieces as a potters vessel; and he can break them so small, that there shall not be found in the bursting of them (as the Prophet speaks, Isa. 30.14.) a shard to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit. Thus the Lord shall break in pieces, not the poor, and weak, and mean, but Mighty men.
As Job had often complained of his own troubles, so he had somtimes of the prosperity of wicked men, or that God suffered them who were not worthy to live, yet to live in pomp, power, and pleasure. Thus he expostulated the matter, (chap. 21.7.) Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? &c. We may conceive Elihu removing that stumbling stone, and answering him in these words, while he telleth us what work the Lord often maketh in the world in those his lesser and particular dayes of judgement, among the mighty of the world. He not only striketh and woundeth, troubleth and vexeth them, but breaketh them, yea, breaketh them in pieces.