—Of Servants (see Hire.)
Their punishment will be not only spee∣dy in coming, (as I told you before out of Malachy:) but intolerable when it comes, & yet not to be avoided If I did despise the cause of my man servant, or of my maid servant,
A view of the threats and punishments recorded in the Scriptures, alphabetically composed with some briefe observations upon severall texts / by Zachary Bogan ...
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- A view of the threats and punishments recorded in the Scriptures, alphabetically composed with some briefe observations upon severall texts / by Zachary Bogan ...
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- Bogan, Zachary, 1625-1659.
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when they contended with me: what then shall I doe, when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him? Job. 31. 13. If I did despise] 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, the Septuagint. If I did but think slight of it (in contempt of their condition, because they were but my servants) to doe them right, and give them their due: (either when they contended with me or before me* 1.1;) much more, if I dee them wrong: what then shall I doe, when God riseth up, &c. What then shall I do?] In the Hebrew 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 And (or But) what shall I doe? As if Job had tacitely (as he does expresly in the rest of the chapter except ver. 34. where he does as he does here) made an imprecation of some punishment, or acknow∣ledged the justice of God, in punishing him so as he did; and then added this, after this manner, If I did despise, &c. I could not but say, I were justly punished now: And, more then so; what shall I doe, when God commeth to judg∣ment? When God riseth up.] God is not said in the Scriptures to arise, for any occasion, so much as for oppression, and violence: as in the place before, Ps. 12. 5. and severall other places of the Psalmes: and in Isa: 33. 10. 15. &c. As if he could not otherwise deal with oppressours: who are usually the great ones of the land, and men of power. Whereas those that are oppressed, are commonly the meanest, and those that can doe nothing for
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themselues; and have none to speake, or doe for them.
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* 1.1
So per∣haps the Hebrew 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 pro∣perly signi∣fies: the Septuagint. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, may very well be ex∣pounded so,