Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 33:27

27. He looketh upon men , and if any say, I have sinned and perverted that which was right , and it profited me not .

Either, 1. the sick Man shall look upon and converse with Mankind, his Friends or others, as he did before, and shall say (as the following word is and may be rendred) I have sinned, &c. i. e. He shall confess to them, that God was not to be blamed, but that he by his own sin and folly did bring that evil upon himself. And then he shall acknowledge God's great goodness to him, and shall add what follows in the next Verse, He hath delivered my Soul, &c. and my life, &c. as they render it. Or rather 2. God diligently observes all Mankind and their several carriages, especially in sickness and distress.

If there be any Man that sincerely saith thus, God hears it and will pardon, and heal him, as it follows.

Either 1. I have judged perversly of the just and right ways of God, censuring his proceedings against me as too severe and rigorous, whereas in truth I only was to be blamed. Or 2. I have perverted God's righteous Law by bending it, and making it comply with my crooked ways▪ Or, I have swerved from the right and good way of God's commands: or, I have made crooked paths. So he repeats in other words what he said in the former branch of the Verse, I have sinned.

I got no good by so doing, as I vainly promised my self, but I got much hurt by it, even diseases and griefs and extreme dangers. This was the just fruit of my sins. It is a Meiosis whereby less is said and more is understood, of which we have seen many examples before.

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