_JOB EXPOSTULATES WITH GOD CONCERNING HIS AFFLICTIONS: HE COMPLAINS OF LIFE, BUT WISHES FOR A LITTLE EASE BEFORE HIS DEATH._ _Before Christ 1645._ _JOB 10:1. I WILL LEAVE MY COMPLAINT UPON MYSELF_— _I will not keep my complaint within myself._ Houbigant. See the note on the 1st verse of the prece... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT THOU SHOULDEST DESPISE, &C.— _That thou shouldest hate or destroy the work of thine hands, and give countenance to,_ or _favour the counsel of the wicked?_ Houbigant and Heath.... [ Continue Reading ]
HAST THOU EYES OF FLESH— Schultens observes, that _eyes of flesh_ are here used for _eyes of envy_ and _hatred;_ and that _to see,_ in the next clause, signifies _to envy._... [ Continue Reading ]
THOU KNOWEST THAT I AM NOT WICKED— _Flagitious._ Houbigant. _Guilty of atrocious and enormous crimes._ It would be injurious to the character of Job, says Mr. Peters, should we interpret in a severe and rigorous sense, as it is certain his friends too often did, his frequent protestations of his inn... [ Continue Reading ]
YET THOU DOST DESTROY ME— _And wilt thou tear me to pieces?_ Heath.... [ Continue Reading ]
HAST THOU NOT POURED ME OUT AS MILK, &C.— See Pliny, Hist. Nat. l. 7. c. 15.; see also this and the following verses finely elucidated in Scheuchzer, Physique Sacree, tom. vi. p. 39.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THESE THINGS HAST THOU HID IN THINE HEART— _And all the while didst thou treasure up these things in thy heart, I find by experience that this was thy purpose,_ Job 10:14. _That if I should sin, thou wouldst observe me, and wouldst by no means acquit me from mine iniquity._ Schultens.... [ Continue Reading ]
IF I BE WICKED, WOE UNTO ME! &C.— i.e. "I cannot, will not hope for any temporal deliverance upon account of my righteousness, as you, my friends, are endeavouring to persuade me, from a mistaken principle; and according to which, if no such deliverance should happen, you are still resolved to conde... [ Continue Reading ]
THOU RENEWEST THY WITNESS— _Accusations._ Heath. Literally, says he, thy _evidences;_ but, being a judicial term, it signifies _indictments, charges:_ the phrase is somewhat analogous to the term in the English law, _thou revivest thy bill._ The word rendered _changes_ is a military term, importing... [ Continue Reading ]