1Some render, stand, or stay about me; that is, have patience a while, be not hasty. Impatient persons will be gone, they will not abide by it, to hear another out. Our Translation reaches this sense fully (according to the Idiom of our Language) Suffer me a little. 2The word which we render little, may refer either to the littleness or brevity of his Speech, or to the littleness of the space or time which he would spend in speaking; we join both here; as if he had said, I will not speak much, and therefore I shall not take up much of your time. The word is used by the Prophet with an addition, (Isa. 10.25.) Yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction; that is, in the destruction of the enemies of my People. As if he had said, My wrath shall not abide, it shall not last long, nor continue upon my People; and when I have done with them, it shall be turned upon their enemies and oppressors, the Assyrians, and towards them it shall not cease, till they are utterly overturned. Take one instance more in the same Prophet, nearer the business of the Text in Job. (Isa. 28.10, 11.) Line upon Line, Precept upon Precept, here a Little, and there a Little, or now a little, and then a little. They shall not be overburdened, they shall have it by drops, by inches, by little and little, as they are able to bear; just as children and young Novices are taught, who cannot receive much at once, but now a letter and then a letter, now a rule, and then a rule. ⟨p. 139⟩Possibly Elihu perceived Job was not in a case to hear much, and therefore condescending to his weak condition by reason of his long sufferings, he saith to him, Suffer me a little.
1Some render, stand, or stay about me; that is, have patience a while, be not hasty. Impatient persons will be gone, they will not abide by it, to hear another out. Our Translation reaches this sence fully (according to the Idiom of our Language) Suffer me a little. 2The word which we render little, may referre either to the littleness or brevity of his Speech, or to the littleness of the space or time which he would spend in speaking; we joyn both here; as if he had said, I will not speak much, and therefore I shall not take up much of your time. The word is used by the Prophet with an addition, (Isa. 10.25.) Yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction; that is, in the destruction of the enemies of my People. As if he had said, My wrath shall not abide, it shall not last long, nor continue upon my People; and when I have done with them, it shall be turned upon their enemies and oppressors, the Assyrians, and towards them it shall not cease, till they are utterly overturned. Take one instance more in the same Prophet, nearer the businesse of the Text in Job. (Isa. 28.10, 11.) Line upon Line, Precept upon Precept, here a Little, and there a Little, or now a little, and then a little. They shall not be overburdened, they shall have it by drops, by inches, by little and little, as they are able to bear; just as children and young Novices are taught, who cannot receive much at once, but now a letter and then a letter, now a rule, and then a rule. ⟨p. 139⟩Possibly Elihu perceived Job was not in a case to hear much, and therefore condescending to his weak condition by reason of his long sufferings, he saith to him, Suffer me a little.
- 1Sta circa me paululum. Mont.
- 2[Greek or Hebrew] Parum modicum est temporis et quantitatis discretae.〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Parum modicum est temporis et quantitatis discretae.
