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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
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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.
When trouble comes, straits come,1 and great troubles reduce us to great straits, and compel us to say as that good King Jehosaphat 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 Jehosaphats 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.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew] Ad tempus arctum vel Angugustiae.〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Ad tempus arctum vel Angugustiae.
- 2[Greek or Hebrew], in tempus hostis. Sept.