An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…

¹The Septuagint render it as a Negative Command, Do not thou repel or resist my Judgement. An ancient Greek Translator renders it, as we, by way of Question, What, wilt thou repel or oppose my Judgement? The word is applied to great sinnings (Ezra 9.13.) And after all this that is come upon us, &c. seeing our God hath given us such deliverance as this, should we again break thy Commandments? &c. But did Ezra think, that after that they should no more break the Commandments? Taking a breach of the Commandments barely for sinning, he could not express it so; therefore by breaking the Commandments, he means disannulling the Commandments: What is that? 'Tis so to break the Commandments, as if we would rescind and repeal them. There is such a kind of sinning, as if men would not only sin against the Law, but sin the Law away, or out of doors, as if men would sin the Bible out of the world: that's the meaning of the word there, If we shall again break thy Commandments; for it followeth, and join in affinity with the people of these abominations. 'Tis not breaking the Commandments by any sin, but to sin so as if we would make them all void, and reverse the statutes of heaven. Thus the word is used by David (Psal, 119.126.²) which doth much clear the sense of this Text, Lord, it is time for thee to work; Why? for they have made void thy law. 'Tis the same word here in Job, They have disannulled thy law. 'Tis high time for God to awake, to bestir himself, and look to men, when they come to this height of sinning, to make void and disannul his Law, by setting up their own lusts. Some would even enact their own lusts, and throw down the Law of God. That's the significancy of the word here used; saith God to Job, Wilt thou disannul my Judgement? Wilt thou make it void, or break the course of it? Wilt thou change it, and put or introduce somewhat of thine own in the room and place of it, as some gloss the words? Wilt thou disannul ⟨p. 539⟩My judgement?

¹The Septuagint render it as a Negative Command, Do not thou repel or resist my Judgement. An ancient Greek Translator renders it, as we, by way of Question, What, wilt thou repel or oppose my Judgement? The word is applied to great sinnings (