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

Again, Consider the Promise in relation to the Persons described, vers. 8, 9, 10. They were bound in Fetters, and holden in Cords of affliction: Now saith Elihu here, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

Again, Consider the Promise in relation to the Persons described, vers. 8, 9, 10. They were bound in Fetters, and holden in Cords of affliction: Now saith Elihu here, they shall spend their dayes in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

Hence Note; There is no condition so low and forlorn, but the Lord is able to bring us out of it, and into the enjoyments of fullest comforts;

He can change our Iron Fetters, and Cords, into Rings of ⟨p. 249⟩Gold, and Bracelets; he can translate our days of trouble, and our years of pain, into days of prosperity, and years of pleasure; it was so with Job in the issue, and he was the man that Elihu here intended. Job was long bound in fetters, and holden in the cords of affliction, yet as Elihu told him he should, so he did afterwa ds, spend his days in prosperity, and his years in pleasure; the Lord doubled his Cattle to him, his friends filled his Coffers, and his Cabinets, Every man gave him a peace of money, and every one an Ear-ring of Gold; his children also were the same fo• number, his daughters the fairest in the Land; himself also lived in the fullness of this outward Prosperity, till he was full of days, and he fed upon the delicious fruits of this Promise all his after-days. Manasseh having run a course of unparalleled wickedness, was at last taken by the Captains of the host of the King of Assyria, among the Thorns, and they bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon (