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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 40 › Verse 3-5
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1Yet further; The greek Septuagint translates, I am nothing; they carry the sense to the lowest and least imaginable: There is nothing less than nothing. How shall I answer thee, seeing I am nothing? All that I am is so light a thing, that I am nothing at all; that is, nothing of worth, nothing of value; I am of so little validity, that I have scarce any entity. From all these readings, we may fully gather up Jobs sense in this self-abasing confession, Behold, I am vile.
- 1Cum nihil si•. Sept.
Lastly, For the clearing of these words, consider, we are not to understand Job when he saith, I am vile, as speaking only with reference to his then present, sad, sorrowful, deplorable condition: sometimes such are accounted vile by men, who are low and mean in the eye of the world. Job did not count himself vile upon that consideration, because stripped of all his worldly greatness, power and glory, health and strength; he did not call himself vile, because of the present dispensation of God towards him, but he called himself vile, with respect to the common natural condition of mankind, or as he was a sinful man, though his providential condition had been never so good and prosperous. Behold, I am vile.
Lastly, For the clearing of these words, consider, we are not to understand Job when he saith, I am vile, as speaking only with reference to his then present, sad, sorrowful, deplorable condition: sometimes such are accounted vile by men, who are low and mean in the eye of the world. Job did not count himself vile upon that consideration, because stript of all his worldly greatness, power and glory, health and strength; he did not call himself vile, because of the present dispensation of God towards him, but he called himself vile, with respect to the common natural condition of mankind, or as he was a sinful man, though his providential condition had been never so good and prosperous. Behold, I am vile.