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

First, to the bringing of a man out of close prison into a state of freedom, or into an open air. This he gives us in the former part of the verse, even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place.

Secondly, he doth it by alluding to the furnishing of a mans table with store, not only of wholesome but of delicious meats, who before fared very hardly. This he doth in the close of the verse, and that which should be set on thy table, should be full of fatness. As if he had said, if thou hadst harkened to the voice of God, thou shouldst have had both liberty, and plenty, hadst thou been bettered by thy troubles, it had been better for thee, and much better with thee; thou hadst been enlarged fully, thou hadst been supplied abundantly with all manner of good things desirable, even to the utmost of thy desires: that's the general scope of this verse; more particularly.

Secondly, he doth it by alluding to the furnishing of a mans table with store, not only of wholsome but of delicious meates, who before fared very hardly. This he doth in the close of the verse, and that which should be set on thy table, should be full of fatness. As if he had said, if thou had'st harkened to the voyce of God, thou should'st have had both liberty, and plenty, had'st thou been bettered by thy troubles, it had been better for thee, and much better with thee; thou hadst been enlarged fully, thou hadst been supplyed abundantly with all manner of good things desirable, even to the utmost of thy desires: that's the general scope of this verse; more particularly.

Even so would he have removed thee out of a strait into a broad place. Some read the verse with a retro-respect, or as looking back to the time past; as if Elihu had bid Job remember his former experiences, whether God heretofore dealt not bountifully with him. To this sense (besides others) Mr. Broughton translates, which