An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of…

Thirdly, Thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked; that is, thou under the hand of God hast carried thy self as wicked men usually do, thou hast imitated them in a great measure.¹ What do wicked men when the hand of God is upon them? they rage and murmur, they toil themselves and are full of the fury of the Lord, as a wild Bull in a net; thou seemest to have fulfilled this judgment of the wicked, for thou hast been so far from humbling thy self, as thou oughtest, that thou hast stood it out and stouted it with God, and desired a day of hearing; Hast thou not in all this fulfilled the judgment of the wicked? In the 34th chapter of this book at the 8th verse, Elihu told Job, that he had gone in company with the wicked, that is, that he had taken the same course with the wicked, and as they use to do in the day of their calamity. And that's the meaning of Elihu's charge here, Thou hast fulfilled the judgement of the wicked, that is, thou hast carried thy self too too like wicked men in the day of thy trouble. Thus Job is here censured, not strictly, as if he had done like wicked men, but because he did not suffer so patiently as became a good man; this was in him a fulfilling of the judgment of the wicked.

Thirdly, Thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked; that is, thou under the hand of God hast carried thy self as wicked men usually do, thou hast imitated them in a great measure.¹ What do wicked men when the hand of God is upon them? they rage and murmur, they toyl themselves and are full of the fury of the Lord, as a wild Bull in a net; thou seemest to have fulfilled this judgment of the wicked, for thou hast been so far from humbling thy self, as thou oughtest, that thou hast stood it out and stouted it with God, and desired a day of hearing; Hast thou not in all this fulfilled the judgment of the wicked? In the 34th chapter of this book at the 8th verse, Elihu told Job, that he had gone in company with the wicked, that is, that he had taken the same course with the wicked, and as they use to do in the day of their calamity. And that's the meaning of Elihu's charge here, Thou hast fulfilled the judgement of the wicked, that is, thou hast carried thy self too too like wicked men in the day of thy trouble. Thus Job is here censured, not strictly, as if he had done like wicked men, but because he did not suffer so patiently as became a good man; this was in him a fulfilling of the judgment of the wicked.