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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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The words, If I be cleansed, are not expressed in the Hebrew Text, but are clea•ly implied and understood; For Job cannot be supposed to ask this question; What profit shall I get by, or from my sin? that question were nothing to the present purpose or disputation. And therefore though all Interpreters do not make this supplement, yet all agree, that a supplement is to be made: Most concur in this, What profit shall I have, if I depart from, or forsake my sin? We say, If I be cleansed from my sin? As if these were Jobs thoughts, this his saying, Let me keep my sin, or not keep my sin, I see I am like to suffer. I shall still be kept under the rod. That's the plain sense of the words; Elihu chargeth Job with complaining of God, that it would be no advantage to him, […] to the ease of himself from any outward affliction and calamity, how much soever he forsook or were cleansed from his sin. There are two other readings of this verse,1 which I shall only name, and then give two or three Notes from our own.
The words, If I be cleansed, are not exprest in the Hebrew Text, but are clea•ly implyed and unde•stood; For Job cannot be supposed to ask this question; What profit shall I get by, or from my sin? that question were nothing to the present purpose or disputation. And therefore though all Interpreters do not make this supplement, yet all agree, that a supplement is to be made: Most concur in this, What profit shall I have, if I depart from, or forsake my sin? We say, If I be cleansed from my sin? As if these were Jobs thoughts, this his saying, Let me keep my sin, or not keep my sin, I see I am like to suffer. I shall still be kept under the rod. That's the plain sense of the words; Elihu chargeth Job with complaining of God, that it would be no advantage to him, 〈…〉 to the ease of himself from any outward affliction and calamity, how much soever he forsook or were cleansed from his sin. There are two other readings of this verse,1 which I shall only name, and then give two or three Notes from our own.
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