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

Fourthly, Darkness taken for that remaining ignorance or imperfection of knowledge which abides even in the best, in the holyest of men after their conversion, while on this side Heaven. Thy ignorance is da•kness (1 Cor. 13.9.) and this is that darkness w•ich Elihu here intends, when he saith, we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness. As if he had said, Though I, and they with me, a•e not altogether rude nor ignorant of God and his ways; though we have received (through grace) a competency of divine light, to guide us through this world, yet we are sensible of so much dimness and darkness, that we cannot order our speech before God, nor direct our selves what to say for thee, as thou hast handled the matter.

Fourthly, Darkness taken for that remaining ignorance or impe•fection of knowledge which abides even in the best, in the holyest of men after their conversion, while on this side Heaven. Thi ignorance is da•kness (1 Cor. 13.9.) and this is that darkne•s w•ich Elihu here intends, when he saith, we cannot order our speech by reas•n of darkness. As if he had said, Though I, and they with me, a•e not altogether rude nor ignorant of God and his wayes; though we have received (through grace) a competency of divine light, to guide us through this world, yet we are sensible of so much dimness and darkness, that we cannot order our speech before God, nor direct our selves what to say for thee, as thou hast handled the matter.

Further, The darkness that (as Elihu saith) hindereth man in o dering his speech before God, may be taken, not only for the darkness of the man, or of the person speaking, as hath been showed already, but also for the darkness of the matter, or of the things about which he is called or occasioned to speak. As there is a darkness of the Subject, so a darkness of the object, which David thus expresseth (