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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 22-23
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.
The Word in the Hebrew here translated time, 1notes a special season of time, that which we commonly call opportunity, rather than time in general, or as it is a space of so many hours, days or years. David (Psal. 9.9.) calls God a refuge in time of trouble; that is, the Lord marks and hits the fittest time to come in and help his out of trouble. Thus, as they who reserve things, do it till a season of using them presents it self; so God reserves the snow and h•il till he hath a season, an opportunity to use them, what that is, himself (as was said) expresseth in the Text, it is The time of trouble, or of straits.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew] Tempus opportunum occasio.〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Tempus opportunum occasio.
When trouble comes, straits come,1 and great troubles reduce us to great straits, and compel us to say as that good King Jehoshaphat did (2 Chron. 20.) We know not what to do. The Septuagint render, The time of the enemies, that is, when I am resolved to punish or destroy my enemies. The word signifies both trouble and an enemy,2 and both may well be comprehended under one word, seeing no trouble is more troublesome, nor can put us to greater straits than the appearance of a powerful enemy; which was Jehoshaphat's case, when in a time of trouble he cried out, We know not what to do. And this notion of the word, as taken for an enemy, falls in clearly with the latter clause of the verse.