Chap. 3. yinExpofition upon the BookofJ O B. Vert I. raid unto them,be fruitful, &c. Gen.'. 22.28. So afterward when man had finned, and the Lord intended to leave the world groan- ing under part of thofe.evils which lin hadbrought upon it, he. wraps up all in the word of a curie , Curfedbe the groundfor thy fake,&c. Gen.3.i7. So then;when job curfeth his day, he witheth all the evil to it,that a day is capable of. And Job opened his mouth and surfed his day. But,what was this day that jobwas fo angry with it ? and that his pailìon doth fo burn againft it ? - The Text fpeaks indefinitely, Job surfed hir day. Some uudéritand it of the day ofhisprefent fltfcring,he curfed the day on which fuch troubles befell him : And we find Come- times in Scripture, that a day put thus alone, is an evil or a trou- blefòm day ; As in the twelfth verfe of the Prophetic ofObadiah, the Lord rebukes the children of Edam thus , Thou fhouldeJt not have looked on the day of thy brother, that is,the day of thy brother Jacob's fufferings, the day wherein I had him under my rod and adlliéted him. So the day of the Lord,is the day of the Lords an- ger, when hepours wrath and troubleupon the earth, IJa. 2. a a. The dayofthe Lordof hafts (hall be upon every one that it proudand lofty,andupon every one that is liftedup; and he íh42 be brought loin. The day of the Lord , or the day of a manundetermined, often lignifies an evil day. But here we may rather underftatid it for that day which was as the occation,or for the occafional dayofall job's troubles,and that was his birth-day ; If his birth-day had been prevented, all his troubiefom days had been prevented ; therefore he falls out with that,as himfeif explains it, verle 3. Let the day perifh ( faith he here) wherein Iwas born,and the night in zvbicb it wasfdid, there it a man-child conceived. It is ufual to call a mans birth-day his day, fo the Scripture is conceived to (peak, Hof. 7. 5. In the day of our King, the:Princes have made him fick, with bottels of wine; That is on his birth-day , which among Princes is commonly fo- lemnized with fèafting ; as we read of Pharaoh andof Herod. So then,thc day is his birth-day,the day of his nativity : which force take,precifely , for the day upon which he was born ; and others more largely, for the annual return of that day; as if he had laid in a curie for a day , whenfòever or how oftenfoever it thould re turn in the years of his life. A little further tó clear the fenfeof this curfe,let us confider the U u whole
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