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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 1-3
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First, God answered Job out of the Whirlwind; that is, when there was a great bustle or storm among the Disputants, conflicting about Jobs case; one moving this way, another that, all being tossed about (as it were) with the wind of their several opinions in ventilating his condition. Out of this Whirlwind it was (say some) or while all were thus discomposed in their spirits, and could not compose the matter in difference between them and Job, during this hurry or troublesome state of things and minds, the Lord arose and answered Job.
First, God answered Job out of the Whirlwind; that is, when there was a great bussle or storm among the Disputants, conflicting about Jobs case; one moving this way, another thar, all being tossed about (as it were) with the wind of their several opinions in ventitalating his condition. Out of this Whirlwind it was (say some) or while all were thus discomposed in their spirits, and could not compose the matter in difference between them and Job, during this hurry or troublesome state of things and minds, the Lord arose and answered Job.
Secondly, The Lord may be said to answer Job out of the Whirlwind, because he spake to him angrily, displeasedly, and reprovingly. Anger, especially the Lords Anger or Displeasure, is often in Scripture compared to a Storm or Tempest: As if this Whirlwind were nothing else but a sharp angry chiding. When a man chides, we say, The man's in a storm; and we may ⟨p. 12⟩say with reverence, when the Lord speaks chidingly (as he did to Job) he is in a storm, or (according to the Text) speaks out of a Sto my Whirlwind: Thus also, when the Lord speaks pleasingly, and gently, then he may be said to speak in a calm. There's a truth in that.
Secondly, The Lord may be said to answer Job out of the Whirlwind, because he spake to him angrily, displeasedly, and reprovingly. Anger, especially the Lords Anger or Displeasure, is often in Scripture compared to a Storm or Tempest: As if this Whirlwind were nothing else but a sharp angry chiding. When a man chides, we say, The man's in a storm; and we may