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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-eighth, T… › Chapter 38 › Verse 1-3
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
First, The Person answering.
Secondly, The Person answered.
Thirdly, The manner of his Answer.
The Person answering is, the Lord; the Person answered, is Job; the manner of the Answer is, out of a Whirl-wind; Then the Lord answered Job out of the Whirl-wind.
The Person answering is, the Lord; the Person answered, is Job; the manner of the Answer is, out of a Whirle-wind; Then the Lord answered Job out of the Whirle-wind.
In the first word of the Text, we have (that which our Translation makes emphatical) an intimation of the time or season of this Divine interposition; then the Lord answered, &c. The Hebrew Text doth not express this Adverb of time, there 'tis only, the Lord answered, but we well supply it, rendering, then the Lord answered; as if the Penman had said, at that very nick, instant or juncture of time, the Lord came in; the words were no sooner out of the mouth of Elihu, he had no sooner concluded his speech with Job, but the Lord began, and answered Job; and if the Lord had not just then interposed, possibly Job might have replied, and a new heat might have risen, to the increasing of his troubles, and the inflaming of all their Spirits (as was hinted before) therefore the Lord to stop all further proceedings, or speech between them two, began presently to speak himself. Then the Lord answered. Take this Observation from it; The Lord will appear in the fittest season.