3'39 Verf. 2. An ExpQfation upon the Bookof J O B. Chap.3. Verfe z.` And Job fake and faid. This verfe is only a tranfition into thematter of the next,it is as if,the Holy Ghofr had faid , Job curfedhir day : and would you EtefañIeref- know how he turfed it ? He did it after this manner , or in this pedicitur qui form of words, yob fpeac and faid, thus, &c. Only note,that the o'dirur fern?)- word which we tranflate fpeak, is in the original anfivered ; and rem, etlomfï fo often in Scripture,he is faid to anfwer who begins to fpeak. yob nutlainterra- $aí10 anfwered and faid. Y¿L'CRe= r g, Dr,,f. We flamedyou before , that this day in general was the objeft of this curfe,i now be curfes it in the partsof it, theday and the night. . Let the dayperifh, &c, At whichwords the Rile alters, that which you read forward to thefixth verfe of the 42. chapter, is facred Poetry, yob breathes out his pat ion in verfe, and in verfe receives his anfwe'r. It is queftioned, whether ,fob at that time opened his mouth, and vented his forrows in verfe, or whether it were after contrived fo by thé pen -man of this book. As I fee no profit inmoving this queflion, fo I think there is no poffibility of refoiving it : And therefore I leave it as I found it, a quere dill. Only this, is ob'fervable;'that writing in verfe is mo[i futable, where the matter writton is deeply fleettin, and chiefly wrought out of our' affections. Hence we find, That thofe parts of Scrip- ture, which let forth flrongeft af-teEtions, are compofediu verfe : As thof holy flames of Ipiritual -love-between Chrift and his Spoaífè in the C,anticles^of Solomon : The triumphant joy of D:- borah,after deliverance from Siféra's Army : ofMofes and Miriam, after the deftrudion of Pbardoh The afflióing forrows of -He- zekiah in his ficknefs : And the Lamentatigns of Jeremy, for the captivity ofthe jars : The book of Pfalms is as it were a throng , of all af:fedtions, Love, joy, forrow,fear, hope, anger, zeal, every pailion ading a part, and woond up in higheft ftrains by theSpirit of God, breathing Poetical eloquence into that heavenly Prophet. So this book of jab, whofe fubjee`t is forrow , hath a cornpofure anfwerabie to;the matter. Paflion hath molt fcope in verfe, and is freeft when tyed up in numbers. The words follow i Le: the dayperifh. WNet this day was, w: (hewed you befóre a It was the day his nativity, -tie day (faith he) wherein I was b.:)-n. How fhouid this day perifh ?. To
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