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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 4-6
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IN the former Verse, God told Job what himself would do, or in what method he would proceed with him; I will demand of thee (saith the Lord) or I will put the Question to thee: In this verse the Lord begins to make his Demands, to put Questions to Job, and calls for his Answer; these Demands or Questions contain the confutation of Jobs former complaining speeches against, or, at least, about the dealings of God. The first Question we have in this fourth verse; Where wast thou, when I laid the foundations of the Earth?
For the clearing of this whole discourse, in which the Lord puts Questions or Demands to Job, I shall first consider the general scope of them all, and then the special matter contained and couched in the present context.
The scope which God seems to have in pressing Job with these Demands or Questions, may be threefold.
First, That by arguments from the less to the greater, he might show Job, that he was not able to comprehend the reason of his mysterious providential workings towards the children of men, seeing he could not give a reason of his sensible and natural works.