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

What is not so? what is missing? what is wanting? What had Job done amiss? or what had he mist to do? Elihu seems to answer, he hath mist the doing of that duty to which he was moved in the close of the fore-going Verse, expressed in those words, Trust thou in him, or wait upon him: But now because it is not so; that is, Because thou dost not put forth such acts of holy confidence, and patient waiting upon God as thou oughtest, and as I admonished thee to do, therefore God is engaged, and even compelled to treat thee thus roughly and severely, He hath visited in his anger. As if he had said, Though thou hast professed a trust in God, yet thou dost not trust in him fully, as becomes thee, yea, thou seemest sometimes (as a man forlorn) to cast up thy hopes; therefore, because thou dost not trust in him, because it is not so as I have exhorted and directed thee, the Lord hath visited in anger. Mr. Broughton renders, But now for missing, his anger doth visit. For missing; that is, for missing of duty, or for not acting up to duty, for not trusting fully in the Lord, the Lord hath visited thee in his anger. This sense is obvious and commodious according to our reading. But now because it is not so, ¹He hath visited in his anger, or strictly, his anger hath visited;

What is not so? what is missing? what is wanting? What had Job done amiss? or what had he mist to do? Elihu seems to answer, he hath mist the doing of that duty to which he was moved in the close of the fore-going Verse, expressed in those words, Trust thou in him, or wait upon him: But now because it is not so; that is, Because thou dost not put forth such acts of holy confidence, and patient waiting upon God as thou oughtest, and as I admonished thee to do, therefore God is engaged, and even compelled to treat thee thus roughly and severely, He hath visited in his anger. As if he had said, Though thou hast professed a trust in God, yet thou dost not trust in him fully, as becomes thee, yea, thou seemest sometimes (as a man forlorn) to cast up thy hopes; therefore, because thou dost not trust in him, because it is not so as I have exhorted and directed thee, the Lord hath visited in anger. Mr. Braughton renders, But now for missing, his anger doth visit. For missing; that is, for missing of duty, or for not acting up to duty, for not trusting fully in the Lord, the Lord hath visited thee in his anger. This sense is obvious and commodious according to our reading. But now because it is not so, ¹