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

Our Translation is very hard, hardest of all, Thou hast said, my righteousness is more than Gods; yet this Elihu might gather up consequentially from what he spake in the 19th Chapter, vers. 6, 7. Behold I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard, I cry aloud, but there is no judgement. As also from the passage, Chap. 23d vers. 2d. Even to day is my complaint bitter, my stroke is heavier than my groaning: In both places Job speaks as if God had not dealt rightly with him, as if God had been over-severe in afflicting him, or as if his complainings were short of his sufferings. In both or either of which, Job exceeds the bounds both of truth ⟨p. 11⟩and duty; such extravagant expressions, have no apology but his pain, nor can any thing be an Advocate for him, but this, That Satan who was his Tempter, was also his Tormentor, and held him so long upon the Rack, that he uttered (as himself confessed, Chap. 42.3.) that which he understood not, yea words by which Elihu understood that he said in effect, My righteousness is more than Gods.

Our Translation is very hard, hardest of all, Thou hast said, my righteousnesse is more than Gods; yet this Elihu might gather up consequentially from what he spake in the 19th Chapter, vers. 6, 7. Behold I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard, I cry aloud, but there is no judgement. As also from the passage, Chap. 23d vers. 2d. Even to day is my complaint bitter, my stroke is heavier than my groaning: In both places Job speaks as if God had not dealt rightly with him, as if God had been over-severe in afflicting him, or as if his complainings were short of his sufferings. In both or either of which, Job exceeds the bounds both of truth ⟨p. 11⟩and duty; such extravagant expressions, have no apology but his pain, nor can any thing be an Advocate for him, but this, That Satan who was his Tempter, was also his Tormenter, and held him so long upon the Rack, that he uttered (as himself confessed, Chap. 42.3.) that which he understood not, yea words by which Elihu understood that he said in effect, My righteousness is more than Gods.