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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second, being the five last, chapters of the book of Job being the substance of fifty-two lectures or meditations / by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. and S. Simmons, 1666
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AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-eighth, T… › Chapter 38 › Verse 1-3
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Secondly, Of a slight or diminution. Job, though indeed a man of an excellent spirit, had been too bold with God, and therefore no wonder if God spake (though he contemned him not) contemningly to him, Who is this?
Yet here it is questioned who the person was, whether Job or no, that is aimed at or intended in this rebuking or contemning Question.
There are two opinions about it, and the matter is carried on both sides (as one expresseth it) by no inconsiderable Arguments.
First, Some conceive, Elihu was the person concerned in this Question, Who is this? and they give several reasons for it; I shall only mention two. First, because he was the man that spake last; we had him speaking six Chapters quite through, while Job spake not a word; and therefore say they, it seems most probable, that when God came to speak, he would undertake him that spake last. Who is this?