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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 › Verses 1-3
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Secondly, There is a righteousness of our Cause, or of the special matter in controversy: In which sense (I conceive) Judah said of Tamar, (Gen. 38.26.) She hath been more righteous than I. That is, She hath carried this business better, and more according to right. And thus we may understand Elihu charging Job for saying, My righteousness is more than Gods; that is, my Cause is more righteous than his; and to say that (which is the most moderate sense) was too great a boldness for any creature, yea a blasphemy against the Creator. Shall man presume to say that God doth not carry things righteously with him, or that there is no reason why God should deal so or so with him! But did Job ever affirm his Cause more righteous than Gods? I answer, not categorically, or directly; But Elihu hearing Job make so many complaints, might suppose he thought there was no reason why God should deal with him as he had done, and then he had been more righteous in his Cause than God.
Secondly, There is a righteousnesse of our Cause, or of the special matter in controversie: In which sence (I conceive) Judah said of Tamar, (Gen. 38.26.) She hath been more righteous than I. That is, She hath carried this businesse better, and more according to right. And thus we may understand Elihu charging Job for saying, My righteousnesse is more than Gods; that is, my Cause is more righteous than his; and to say that (which is the most moderate sence) was too great a boldnesse for any creature, yea a blasphemy against the Creator. Shall man presume to say that God doth not carry things righteously with him, or that there is no reason why God should deal so or so with him! But did Job ever affirm his Cause more righteous than Gods? I answer, not categorically, or directly; But Elihu hearing Job make so many complaints, might suppose he thought there was no reason why God should deal with him as he had done, and then he had been more righteous in his Cause than God.
The Septuagint read it without any comparison at all, which makes the meaning much more easy; they say not, My righteousness