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Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 19:6

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Job19:6

6. Know now that God hath overthrown me , and hath compassed me with his Net .

Consider what I am now saying.

Hath grievously afflicted me in all kinds: Therefore it ill becomes you to aggravate my miseries; and if my passions, hereby raised, have broken forth into some extravagant and unmeet expressions, I might expect your pitty and favourable construction, and not such severe censures and reproaches. Heb. God hath perverted me, i. e. either my state or condition, as was now said, or my right and cause. He oppresseth me with power, and will not give me a fair hearing, as it follows, v. 7. He giveth me very hard measure, and dealeth worse with me than I might in reason and justice expect from so wise and gracious a God. This is an harsh reflection upon God; but such passages have sometimes come from good men when under sore afflictions and temptations, which was Iob's case.

i. e. With afflictions on every side, so that I cannot escape, nor get any freedom to come to him and plead with him, as I desire.

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