Job 11

Job 11:3

WHen thou mockest] the Italian, shalt thou mock, namely, God and us, making us believe such absurd things, as though wee were beasts, or ignorant men, Iob 34. 7.

Job 11:6

Of wisdome] this may bee understood of Gods Law, or of his secret providence: [double] that is to say, the Law of God doth not only require the outward discipline and obedience, wherein, O Iob, thou thinkest thou hast given satisfaction: But it also requireth the internall and perfect conformity to God, and to his will, which is the spirituall meaning of it: by which thou wilt finde thy selfe convinced, Romans 7:14 Iames 1. 25. Divine providence hath likewise two faces, of rigor, and clemencie, tempered and altered, according to the wants of Gods children in this life, by an unspeakable wisedom, see Ecclesiastes 7:14.

Job 11:10

If he cut off] that is say, if he destroyeth, or restoreth.

Job 11:11

He knoweth] mens inconstancie is the cause why he doth not alwayes proceed in the same degree, not in the same manner with them.

Job 11:12

For] the carnall mans bru ish understanding is ignorant of, or doth oppose this wisdome of God.

Job 11:13

Stretch out] according to the ancients gesture in praying, not with their hands joyned together, but with their armes stretched abroad, and the palmes of their hands turned up towards heaven.

Job 11:15

Lift up] thou shalt be freed from the confusion of conscience, and wilt bee able to present thy selfe before God with a gody confidence, to call upon him and contemplate him, seeGen. 4. 6. I 22. 26.

Job 11:17

Shall be] thou shalt be renewed in glory and prosperity, even like as the day when it returns after the night.

Job 11:18

There is] the Italian hath it, there shall bee, God will alwayes furnish thee with new matter, to cause thee to hope perfectly in his grace.

Job 11:20

Shall faile] aspiring to that good which shall never come to passe, Iob 8. 13 [giving up] namely, by reason of a totall despaire.