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

Secondly, As to his weighing or balancing of the Clouds, verse 16th.

Secondly, As to his weighing or ballancing of the Clouds, verse 16th.

The sum of these three verses, together with the two next which follow, make up an earnest exhortation, that Job considering, and comparing that great power and wisdom of God, which appear & shine in those forementioned works, with his own weakness and insufficiency, would therefore humble himself, and not venture any further to contest or plead with God.

The summe of these three verses, together with the two next which follow, make up an earnest exhortation, that Job considering, and comparing that great power and wisdom of God, which appear & shine in those forementioned works, with his own weakness and insufficiency, would therefore humble himself, and not venture any further to contest or plead with God.

And because many of the Lords providential works are unsearchable, as well as these which are natural, therefore Elihu would not have J•b busy himself in any curious prying into those which concerned his present condition. For, if there be infinite and unerring wisdom tempered with mercy, and justice with goodness, in all the outward dispensations of God, ordering the motions and ⟨p. 523⟩Meteors of the Heavens, the Clouds, the Rain, the Snow and Hail, the Lightning and the Thunder; then surely Job ought to sit down convinced, that there is a like temperament of equity with severity, and of goodness with sharpness in all his dealings with men, and was with him in particular. That's the scope and purpose of Elihu all along, in reading Job this Philosophical Lecture, or in putting Questions to him about the things of Nature, and the regiment of God in these inferior heavens, the Air, where all things seem to move without rule, or by no rule other than what Nature alone imposeth.