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

¹Secondly, And that more generally, these words are expounded, as if in them Elihu had put a kind of slight or scorn upon Job, triumphing and insulting over him, as his inferior in disputation. As if he had said, Go to now, O Job, seeing thou thinkest thy self so wise and just, that thou art able to plead and debate thy cause with God himself; teach us, who are nothing to thee, and who ingeniously confess our selves ignorant, how to resolve those questions lately proposed to thy consideration: We are overwhelmed with deep darkness, and have no hope to dispel it, or get out of it, unless thou canst give us light. Thus, I say, the words are generally expounded, as spoken with a kind of stomach, or carrying in them the sense of a secret subsannation; as if Job were mo• •ole to see than they all that were about him, as if they […] and blind,² and he alone had the wit. Now you that are so g eat a Master, and so ready a Teacher, come show us, play the Maste•, and act the Tutors part, teach us what we shall say to him.

¹Secondly, And that more generally, these words are expounded, as if in them Elihu had put a kind of slight or scorn upon Job, triumphing and in•ulting over him, as his inferiour in disputation. As if he had said, Go to now, O Job, seeing thou thinkest thy self so wise and just, that thou art able to plead and debate thy cause with God himself; teach us, who are nothing to thee, and who ingeniously confess our selves ignorant, how to resolve those questions lately proposed to thy consideration: We are overwhelmed with deep darkness, and have no hope to dispel it, or get out of it, unless thou canst give us light. Thus, I say, the words are generally expounded, as spoken with a kind of stomack, or carrying in them the sense of a secret subsannation; as if Job were mo• •ole to see than they all that were about him, as if they 〈…〉 and blind,²