_z62 Chap. a. 'AnExpoftion upon the'Bookof O B. 'Vert. ?'leCted means, but ufed them ; yet alaffe it was with job, as it is Paid in the Prophet concerning Ephraim and Judah, That when Ephraimfaw hid ficknefs, and Judah faw his wound; Then went E- phraim to the Affyrian, andPent to KingJareb : Yet couldhe not heal you,nor cureyou ofyour wound. Though Job (as they in their civil ficknefs) feeing his ficknefs and his wound , had fent to this and that Phyfitian; their anfwers would have been, we cannot heal you nor cureyouofyour wound. His difeafe was of the nature of thofe which are called The Phyfitian: reproach: They could not difcover any natural caufeofit, and thereforethey could not prefcribe any artificial cure of it. Phyfitians ofgreatef value,in Jobs cafe, were Phyfitians ofno value.And therefore toThew that either all had in vain attempted to cure him,or that none durit undertake the cure, the Text faith,That he tookapotfbeard tofcrape himf elf withall,and hefat down among the afhe's. Thefe words area further aggravationof Jobs aftlirtion. When he is in this manner (mitten, Tinitten with boyles, (smittenwith the wort of boyles, fmitten ívìth boyles all over, from thefoie of his feet unto bid crown Surely a man in this pickle had need to have fume good tendance and looking to ; fuppofe the Phyfitians and Chyrurgions could not cure him, yet they might cafe him, ifthey had ply'd himwith Fomentations and fuppling Oyles, if they had bound up his fores with fine linnen to mitigate and tnollifie them. Iffuch applications and attendance had not been a refrefhing to him,yet they would have beena refped tohim ifthey had not been an allay to his pain, yet they wouldhave been an ho= Hour to his perfon. But (as this 8th verf. Thewsus) when the man was thus nothing but fores, he had thennothing tohelp him : He might fay (as David afterwards in a fad condition, Pfal. 142.- 4.) hooked on my right hand, and behold, but there war no man that would know me, refuge failed, or perifhedfrom me, no man cared for myfiul. When thus, Lover and Friend, Phyfitian, and Chy- rurgion,Wife and Servant were far from him; at leaf in duty and affeétion ; then he is forced to be both Patient and Phyfitian, lick and nurfe, He tookhim apot Jheard tofcrape himfelfwithal!. Poor man ! He who was lately in health, and thegreatet man in the Eat, being now Tick, hath nothing left him but a piece of a bro- kenpitcher. There are four aggravations of his aftliEtion in this. The fire- is this, that he could get none to drefs him, he was fai n Hof. q. 13. Oprdobeium >szedicorum,
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