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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.
How unceasing were the oppositions of Job! no sooner had those three men ceased speaking, but a fourth riseth up to speak. The ⟨p. 11⟩Good man found no rest; his three friends had their Sabbath, they ceased or rested from the dispute, but Job was at weekday labour still, attending the words of this angry moderator. Mr. Broughton renders, The anger of Elihu was in choler. Anger is hot, but his anger was heat, or at least his anger was heated, yea it was not only heated as at the fire, but kindled like a fire.
How uncessant were the oppositions of Job! no sooner had those three men ceased speaking, but a fourth riseth up to speake. The ⟨p. 11⟩Good man found no rest; his three friends had their Saboth, they ceased or rested from the dispute, but Job was at weekday labour still, attending the words of this angry moderator. Mr. Broughton renders, The anger of Elihu was in choler. Anger is hot, but his anger was heate, or at least his anger was heated, yea it was not only heated as at the fire, but kindled like a fire.
Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu.
Anger is a fire;1 and (as Solomon saith) can a man take fire in his bosom, and not be burned? so I may say, can a man carry anger in his bosom, and not burn himself, if not others with it? And as fire is blown up by bellows, so is anger by provocation. The anger of God is expressed in a heat (Deut. 29.24.) What meaneth the heat of this great anger (ver. 20.) The anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke against that man. And (