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

But why doth Elihu speak thus to Job? Had he ever said that God works iniquity?

I answer, He had not. Yet because he thought God might have done better by good men, or have given out that which was more suitable to their estate, than such continual sorrows and afflictions as he endured, therefore this saying is deservedly imputed to him. For, it would have become Job, and doth every man, to say, that is best done which God doth, and that he hath chosen or pitched upon the best, and most proper means of doing his own choicest servants good, even when 'tis worst with them in the world, or, when he afflicts them with the greatest evils; For, Who can (then) say, he hath wrought iniquity?

I answer, He had not. Yet because he thought God might have done better by good men, or have given out that which was more suitable to their estate, than such continual sorrows and afflictions as he endured, therefore this saying is deservedly imputed to him. For, it would have become Job, and doth every man, to say, that is best done which God do•h, and that he hath chosen or pitched upon the best, and most proper meanes of doing his own choisest servants good, even when 'tis worst with them in the world, or, when he afflicts them with the greatest evils; For, Who can (then) say, he hath wrought iniquity?

Hence observe; First, The infinite purity of God, as also his love to righteousness and justice;