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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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Fourthly, the manner of this rebuke seems to fit Job very fully, ⟨p. 25⟩for therein he is not charged with any falsity or gross mistake (he indeed having spoken of God and the things of God, of his own innocency and piety, with the rewards of both, truly and worthily) but only with obscuring and darkening the things which he had uttered. His speech bearing much of the Image of his own troubled spirit and troublesome condition, was somewhat troubled and confused. Therefore I conclude that the person spoken to and reproved in this second verse was Job, not Elihu; Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? and it being resolved that he was the man, let me (before I proceed to the matter of this reproof) give out this brief Observation.
Fourthly, the manner of this rebuke seems to fit Job very fully, ⟨p. 25⟩for therein he is not charged with any falsity or gross mistake (he indeed having spoken of God and the things of God, of his own innocency and piety, with the rewards of both, truly and worthily) but onely with obscuring and darkning the things which he had uttered. His speech bearing much of the Image of his own troubled spirit and troublesom condition, was somewhat troubled and confused. Therefore I conclude that the person spoken to and reproved in this second verse was Job, not Elihu; Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? and it being resolved that he was the man, let me (before I proceed to the matter of this reproof) give out this brief Observation.
We have heard at the eighth Verse of the first Chapter, how God spake of Job, and now consider how God speaks to Job; There the Lord approved him highly, as not having his like or second on earth for well-doing; here the Lord reproved him sharply, for undue-speaking.