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

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 ⟨p. 280⟩hath turned thee from distresses mouth, ¹to largeness, where is no straitness, and that which was laid upon thy table was full of fatness: and he gives the gloss upon his own translation thus; God once made thee wealthy, and would again; thou hast had experience how good a master, and how liberal the Lord is to those that serve him, thou thy self didst enjoy prosperity a long time far from all trouble, or touch of affliction. Thus, (I say) some refer the words to the time past; but I rather keep to our own translation, which expresseth the original text, as an assurance of what Job should have had, and might have expected in time, had he complied as he ought, with the purpose of God in his afflictions.

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 ⟨p. 280⟩hath turned thee from distresses mouth, ¹to largeness, where is no straitness, and that which was laid upon thy table was full of fatness: and he gives the gloss upon his own translation thus; God once made thee wealthy, and would again; thou hast had experience how good a master, and how liberal the Lord is to those that serve him, thou thy self didst enjoy prosperity a long time farre from all trouble, or touch of affliction. Thus, (I say) some refer the words to the time past; but I rather keep to our own translation, which expresseth the original text, as an assurance of what Job should have had, and might have expected in time, had he complied as he ought, with the purpose of God in his afflictions.