_JOB WISHES THAT HE MIGHT BE ALLOWED TO PLEAD HIS CAUSE BEFORE GOD; BUT, WHEREVER HE TURNS HIMSELF, HE CANNOT FIND OR BEHOLD HIM. HE ACKNOWLEDGES, HOWEVER, THAT GOD OBSERVES HIS PATHS, AND THEREFORE HE DOTH NOT DESPOND._ _Before Christ 1645._ _JOB 23:1. THEN JOB ANSWERED AND SAID_— Job, being trie... [ Continue Reading ]
MY FOOT HATH HELD, &C.— The division of this book into verses has obscured the sense: these two should be read thus, Job 23:11. _My foot hath trodden in his steps; I have kept his way, and have not turned aside_ (Job 23:12.) _from the commandment of his lips; neither have I swerved from his statutes... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT HE IS IN ONE MIND, AND WHO CAN TURN HIM?— _For when he is in the way, who shall turn him? whatever he desireth, that he doth._ Job had said, in the preceding verses, that he had observed the steps, and trodden in the way of God; and he now adds, _when he is in the way, who shall turn him out? i.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR GOD MAKETH MY HEART SOFT, &C.— _For God causeth my heart to melt; the Almighty terrifieth me;_ Job 23:17, _Yet so, that my mind doth not despond for that darkness, even that thick darkness, with which I am covered._ Houb. Heath observes, that the word _darkness_ is used here, as it is frequently... [ Continue Reading ]