The name of Job is to this day a byword or proverb among men, both for his poverty and his patience if a man is described as very poor, he is said to be as poor as Job or if very patient under his afflictions, he is said to be as patient as Job but as neither of these are to the disgrace of Job, something else seems rather intended here, even something to his reproach as when a man was represented as a very wicked man, or an hypocrite, it used to be said, such an one is as wicked a creature, and as arrant an hypocrite, as Job: He hath made me also a byword of the peopleĮither Eliphaz, or God for whatsoever befell him, whether more immediately by the hand of God, or by any instrument, the ascribes it to him, as being suffered in Providence to befall him as when he became a byword or proverb to the people in common, to whom an example might be set by one or more of Job's friends.
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