Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 32:18

18. For I am full of matter , the spirit within me constraineth me .

i. e. I have many things to say in this cause.

Either my own Spirit or Soul, which is wholly dissatisfied with what hath been hitherto spoken, and clearly apprehends what may silence Iob and end the dispute. Or, God's Spirit which he hath put in me, the Spirit of Understanding, which hath discovered the truth of the matter to me, and the Spirit of Zeal, which urgeth me to plead God's Cause against Iob.

Forceth me to speak: It is a Metaphor from a man or woman whose Belly is full with Wind or with a Child, and is never at rest till it be emptied and eased of its burden.

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