_COMPARISON IS NOT TO BE MADE WITH GOD, BECAUSE OUR GOOD OR EVIL CANNOT EXTEND UNTO HIM. MANY CRY IN THEIR AFFLICTIONS; BUT ARE NOT HEARD, FOR WANT OF FAITH._ _Before Christ 1645._ _JOB 35:1. ELIHU SPAKE MOREOVER_— Elihu puts it to Job's conscience, whether he thought it could be right to gain his... [ Continue Reading ]
BY REASON OF THE MULTITUDE OF OPPRESSIONS— See chap. Job 19:7.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHO GIVETH SONGS IN THE NIGHT?— _Who appointeth guards over me in the night-season?_ Heath; following the LXX. See Psalms 91:11. But Houbigant, after the Syriac, renders it, _Who giveth thoughts in the night?_ which seems best to agree with the next verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
THERE THEY CRY, &C.— _There they may cry aloud: but there is no deliverance from the pride of evil men._ Heath, after Le Clerc.... [ Continue Reading ]
ALTHOUGH THOU SAVEST, &C.— _How much less ought it to be said, thou shalt not bear rule over us? Judgment is not before him; wait thou therefore patiently his leisure._ Heath.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT NOW, BECAUSE IT IS NOT SO, &C.— _But now, because he visiteth not in his anger, and because Job is deprived of knowledge by immoderate self-conceit;_ Job 35:16. _Therefore openeth he his mouth rashly,_ &c. Heath. Houbigant renders the latter clause of the 15th verse, _Because he doth not severe... [ Continue Reading ]