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

Yet it may be questioned, why Elihu should thus stir up his attention, either to consider what he had spoken, or what he was now about to speak? Was Job a heedless, an un-attentive hearer? ⟨p. 524⟩We may conceive he was occasioned to give him this spur, or excitation, for these three reasons, or at least some of them.

First, We may suppose, that Job having been entertained with a long discourse, began to grow weary and slacken his attention, and therefore, as when we see one in a congregation remiss in hearing, or sleeping out a weighty point, we jog him, or say, Hearken to this; so Elihu here.

First, We may suppose, that Job having been entertained with a long discourse, began to grow weary and slacken his attention, and therefore, as when we see one in a congregation remisse in hearing, or sleeping out a weighty point, we jog him, or say, Hearken to this; so Elihu here.

Hence note, First; A good hearer of the Word, may sometimes want an awakening word.