Chap.3. An Expofition upon the Book, of J OB. Verf.ls. 395 ;her , and the ladbenot withws, (feeing that hit life is Bound up in the lads life,) Itfhall Come to pafs , that when hefaeth that the lad it not with tsr, he will dye, verf. 30, 31. That very fight will kill my father : and for me to fee my father dye, will be death to me alto, for fo he concludes, verf: 34. How fhall Igo to myfather andthe lad be not with me , left peradventure I fee the evil that fhall come upon myfather ? Oh (faith he) let me carry him back, my father will dye if he fee not the lad, and foil-Ian I, if fe the evil thatfhall come upon myfather ; he knew that fight would be as a (word to his heart , and as a dagger in his bowels. The Lord threatens his people thus in cafe of difobedience ''Dent. a$ 31. Thine Ox fhal' iæ flair before thine eyes, thine Afsfhall be violently taken away from before thyface. Thyfops and thy daugh- ters (hall begiven to anotherpeople,&c. So that thou fhalt be mad for the fight of thineeyes which thou (halt fee, verf34. And verf.67. he thewes what convullions and divifions of fpirit the vifions of the eye would bring upon them. In the morning thou(halt fay WouldGod it were Even ; and at Even thou fhalt fay , would God it were morning, for the ; fear of thine heart wherewith thou fhalt fear, and for the fight of thine eyes which thou fhalt fee. The fear of the heart, and the fight of the eye are neerly joy- ned. The fight of the eye caufed the fear.ofthe heart, andboth were as concaufes of thofe dif1afting thoughts and wifhes of hafiening the morning to /the evening, and again fuddenly redu- cing back the Evening to the morning. Unlefs forrow be hid from theeyes,it can hardly bekept from the heart., It is an ufual cuflome, ifa man be but let blood, to bid him turn away his head,if he be faint-hearted, for the fight ofhisblood will make his heart faint ; And fo from more galily fpefacles, men commonly turn away their faces, &c. which is to hide farrow from their eyes. It followes, Why dyed I notfrom the womb?why didnot Igive up the ghoft when I came out of the belly? why.did the knees prevent me ? ecc. Thefe two verfes.contain a further aggravation of the former Reafon by three otherfieps. Before he fpake againfi his concep- tion and his birth, now , Why dyedI notfrom the womb .? As. if `hehad faid ,though I were conceived; and fecondly,though I were born, yet why did not I make my cradle my grave', or my firft Eee 2 fwadìing
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