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

Which is added to set forth the exceeding greatness of that fear which seized upon him. The Text speaks as if his heart were indeed removed or taken out of his body. It is usual in Scripture to affirm that as done which is like to be done. The ship was said to be broken (John 1.4.) and the net (Luke 5.6.) because both were in eminent danger of breaking. We say of a man in great fear, his heart is ready to leap out of or out at his mouth. One of the Ancients renders here, my heart is plucked out; the septuagint, It floweth out; the Chaldee paraphrase, takes up the former expression; my heart leaps or jumps, which as it doth sometimes for joy, so often for ear, or at the unexpected appearance of danger. Some conceive by this moving of his heart out of his place, that Elihu was in a kind of ecstasy, that he was, as it were, carried out of himself, upon the hearing of that dreadful voice of God, the thunder; taking it so.

Which is added to set forth the exceeding greatness of that fear which seized upon him. The Text speaks as if his heart were indeed removed or taken out of his body. It is usual in Scripture to affirm that as done which is like to be done. The ship was said to be broken (John 1.4.) and the net (Luke 5.6.) because both were in eminent danger of breaking. We say of a man in great fear, his heart is ready to leap out of or out at his mouth. One of the Ancients renders here, my heart is pluckt out; the septuagint, It floweth out; the Chaldee paraphrase, takes up the fo•mer expression; my heart leaps or jumps, which as it doth sometimes for joy, so often for ear, or at the unexpected appearance of danger. Some conceive by this moving of his heart out of his place, that Elihu was in a kind of extasie, that he was, as it were, car•ied out of himself, upon the hearing of that dreadful voice of God, the thunder; taking it so.