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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of the book of Job being the substance of thirty-five lectures / by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. Simmons, 1664
AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-fifth, Th… › Chapter 35 › Verse 14
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Elihu according to the first reading of the former words, exhorts Job to Repentance, Judge thy self; and here he exhorts him to Faith, Trust thou in him. Judgement is before him, therefore trust thou in him, or wait and hope in him; for seeing God is a Just and Righteous Judge, he will not neglect or slight the Cause of any of his People; therefore they have all the reason in the world to trust in him, and wait upon him. It is unbelief which makes haste, Faith is content to wait and tarry.
The Original word hath several significations. First,1 More general, to grieve, or be in pain and trouble. Secondly, In special, to bring forth, or the pain of a woman in travel to bring forth; there is much pain in that travel. Thus some translate here, Wait for him, as a woman in travel waits for deliverance. Thirdly, As it signifies to have pain, and to have that pain in bringing forth children, so to attend, to wait, to stay quietly, and expect. Rest in the Lord (saith David, Psal. 37.7.) and wait patiently for him. We may give the reason of this signification from that allusion. The woman though she be in pain, yet she patiently bears it, because she hath hope a man shall be born into the world, (John 16.21.) A woman in that pain, hath not only patience but comfort under it, because she hopes a child shall shortly be born, who will recompense all her sorrows, in bearing and bringing him forth into the world. That's the force of this word, Trust in him. Thou art in pain, in trouble, in travel for the present, yet thou shalt have a blessed deliverance, thou shalt certainly find, that it is not in vain to trust upon God. Thus Elihu adviseth Job to such a patience as a woman in travel with child hath, who bears her pains comfortably, being refreshed and supported with an assurance, and fore-sense of that joy which she shall have, being once delivered. Trust thou in him. I have in some other places of this Book, met with this Point of trusting in God, Job said in the 13th Chapter of this Book, (vers. 15.) Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him; And therefore I shall not stay to open that general duty, or the exercise of that Grace, which here Elihu