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

So then, even, this other more favourable reading, which speaketh not comparatively, but positively, I am just before God, that is,¹ I shall be justified by God, or I doubt not but I shall be acquitted, and found right before God, this cannot every way be justified: It was Jobs fault and failing, that he was so confident God would not (he was far from saying God could not) find fault with him. We may see (if we have spiritual eyes, or eyes enlightened by the Spirit, so many faults in our best services, as may make us ashamed to own them, rather than to boast of them before men, much more to bear up our selves before God upon them: For (as Eliphaz told Job in the 4th Chapter) God chargeth his Angels with folly, and the best of his Saints are unclean before him; therefore that was too much for: Job to say of himself, though that's the easiest and most charitable Interpretation of what he said, when he said (as the Septuagint render) I shall be found righteous before God, or in the sight of God.

So then, even, this other more favourable reading, which speaketh not comparatively, but positively, I am just before God, that is,¹ I shall be justified by God, or I doubt not but I shall be acquitted, and found right before God, this cannot every way be justified: It was Jobs fault and failing, that he was so confident God would not (he was farre from saying God could not) find fault with him. We may see (if we have spiritual eyes, or eyes enlightned by the Spirit, so many faults in our best services, as may make us ashamed to own them, rather than to boast of them before men, much more to bear up our selves before God upon them: For (as Eliphaz told Job in the 4th Chapter) God chargeth his Angels with folly, and the best of his Saints are unclean before him; therefore that was too much fo: Job to say of himself, though that's the easiest and most charitable Interpretation of what he said, when he said (as the Septuagint render) I shall be found righteous before God, or in the sight of God.

1. 1Praepositio illa Mom verti potesta vel ab, ni hunc sensum justus suma Deo, vel justificabo causam mcam apud Deum. Cajet.