_JOB OBSERVES, THAT THE WICKED SOMETIMES LIVE HAPPILY, AND SOMETIMES
THEIR DESTRUCTION IS MANIFEST, YET, THOUGH SOME LEAD A PROSPEROUS, AND
OTHERS AN AFFLICTED LIFE, ALL ARE CUT OFF ALIKE BY DEATH: WHENCE IT
CLEARLY FOLLOWS, THAT THE WICKED ARE RESERVED TO A DAY OF WRATH._
_Before Christ 1645._
_J... [ Continue Reading ]
AND LET THIS BE YOUR CONSOLATIONS— _And let this be the consolation
you administer._ Heath. Schultens renders it, _And this shall be for
your consolations._ "What I have to say, is in return for these
wonderful consolations that you bring me;" understanding the passage
ironically, which very well ag... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IF IT WERE SO— _But, if it is not so, what cause is there why I
should be troubled in mind?_ Houbigant.... [ Continue Reading ]
MARK ME, AND BE ADMONISHED, &C.— The coldest reader cannot be
insensible of the beauties of the poetry in this speech of Job. We
will not, therefore, attempt to point them out, but attend to the
thread of reasoning. As Job well knew that the account he was about to
give of the prosperity of wicked m... [ Continue Reading ]
LO, THEIR GOOD IS NOT IN THEIR HAND— After the foregoing elegant
description of the prosperity of some wicked men, Job proceeds, on the
other hand, to confess what was likewise apparent in the ways of
Providence, that some of them were as remarkably distinguished by
their wretchedness, being exposed... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD, I KNOW YOUR THOUGHTS— By the _day of destruction,_ and _the
day of wrath,_ mentioned in the 30th verse, I believe it will appear,
from the context, can be meant no other than the future day of
judgment; which, to the wicked and ungodly, is every where represented
in Scripture as a day of wra... [ Continue Reading ]