John Trapp on Job 35:8
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Job35:8
Verſe 8 Thy wickedneſs may hurt a man as thou art] Wicked men are many wayes miſchievous to others; and have much to anſwer for their other mens ſins. How many are undone by their murders, adulteries, robberies, falſe teſtimonies, blaſphemies and other rotten ſpeeches, to the corrupting of good manners, &c? What hurt is done daily by the Divels factours, to mens ſouls, bodies, names, eſtates? Beſides that they betray the land wherein they live into the hands of divine Juſtice, whiles they do wickedly with both hands earneſtly, Mic. 7.3. That I ſpeak not of the manifold miſeries, they pull upon themſelves.
And thy righteouſneſſe may profit the ſon of man] Thy ſelf and others: for the Juſt liveth by his own faith, he maketh a living of it, and a good one too. And as for his Charity, it is the mother of all manner of good works, whereof others have the benefit. Papiſts, and ſome as ſilly, have ſhrunk up charity to an hands breadth, to giving of Almes: But beſides that, a good man draweth out, not only his ſheaf, but his ſoul to the hungry.1 Theſſ. 5.14. He alſo warneth the unruly, comforteth the feeble minded, ſupporteth the weak, and tradeth all his talents for the good of others: He is a common bleſſing to all that art about him. As Plutark ſaid of the neighbour-Villages of Rome, in Numa's time, That ſucking in the aire of that City, they breathed [non-Latin text not transcribed], Righteouſneſſe; ſo may it be ſaid of the City of God, and her Citizens.
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