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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 16-18
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God was ready to hear Job what he could answer to his Question. When God put the question to Adam (Gen. 3.11.) Hast thou eaten of the tree whereof I commanded thee, that thou shouldest not eat? And when he put questions to Cain (Gen. 4.6.) Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen? As also (vers. 9.) Where is Abel thy brother? He was ready to hear what either the one or the other could say for themselves; nor would he have cut them short in their plea, if they could have pleaded any thing for their justification. Now, as God was willing to hear what they could answer to his questions about their evil works; so he is willing to hear what any can answer (which was Jobs case) to the questions which he proposeth about his own works, and their behaviour under them.
God was ready to hear Job what he could answer to his Question. When God put the question to Adam (Gen. 3.11.) Hast thou eaten of the tree whereof I commanded thee, that thou shouldest not eat? And when he put questions to Cain (Gen. 4.6.) Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen? As also (vers. 9.) Where is Abel thy brother? He was ready to hear what ei•her the one or the other could say for themselves; nor would he have cut them short in their plea, if they could have pleaded any thing for their justification. Now, as God was willing to hear what they could answer to his questions about their evil works; so he is willing to hear what any can answer (which was Jobs case) to the questions which he proposeth about his own works, and their behaviour under them.
Secondly, From the scope of the words, Note; The most knowing men know but little of that which they know.
Secon•ly, From the scope of the words, Note; The most knowing men know but little of that which they know.