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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 36 › Verses 13-14
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JOB, Chap. 36. Vers. 13, 14. 13. But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath, they cry not when he bindeth them. 14. They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.
Elihu having put the case of the righteous in these two conditional propositions last opened, as somewhat doubtful, what at least some of them may do, as to a right-improvement of outward afflictions; he proceeds in these two verses to show the case of the wicked wholly desperate, in their affliction. There is an if put upon the righteous, but he is conclusive upon the hypocrite; to be sure he will neither hear nor obey, neither submit nor conform to the voice of the rod.
ELihu having put the case of the righteous in these two conditional propositions last opened, as somewhat doubtful, what at least some of them may do, as to a right-improvement of outward afflictions; he proceeds in these two verses to shew the case of the wicked wholly desperate, in their affliction. There is an if put upon the righteous, but he is conclusive upon the hypocrite; to be sure he will neither hear nor obey, neither submit nor conform to the voyce of the rod.
So that in these words he sets forth the common yea constant issue of the hand of God upon hypocrites in heart. Possibly good men, righteous men may not always answer the expectation of God, when affliction is upon them; but as for hypocrites, they (always) heap up wrath. And in this we may conceive Elihu hath a respect to Job; For though he did not conclude him to be an hypocrite in heart, yet he put it home upon him to consider the matter, whether he himself had not, at least, acted and carried it like an hypocrite in heart, under the afflicting hand of God, forasmuch as he was no more humbled and subdued under it. And indeed Elihu turns every stone, and trieth every way, to bring down the spirit of Job. And therefore as he had showed, what the usual effects of the hand of God upon the righteous are, so he tells him how it is with the wicked in that case, thereby to put him upon the trial, whether he had not reason to suspect himself to be an hypocrite, because his carriage, was so like theirs.