Chap. 33. Au &.rpofrtiots ups the Boo ,of J o B. Verf. aq. A man may have paine, yea manypains, yet no paine in his bones. Bones are to the body as beames and rafters, aspoftsan pillars are to a hovfe. Andwhen paincomes to the bones, when it fhakes thofe ports d pillars , it mutt needs be àvery thong .paine. Satan fayd to od concerning fob, while he fought new tryalls for him, in the fecund Chapter of this Book (verf. 5. ) Touch hisbone and hisfiefli, and he will curfe thee to thy face. And that he might be fully tryed, the Lord fuffer'd Satan to afflict him to the bone, nor did Satan leave abone unaf i ed ; what Eliba ,fpake here of man in General!, was true of him, The multitude ofhis boneswere ehaflned with flrongpaine. To haveany one bone inpaine is anaiHiEtion, much more to have many bones pained and akingat once. But when the multitude ofamans bones, that is, all his bones arepained together, that'sgrievous. And fuch a Muititudo- Man is-the while as it wereupon a rack. That by the multitude , dièttur r of bones here fpokenof , We are rounderhand, not only many, emraibus. o - or a great many ofhis bones,but all'his bones, may appeare from bra Pam uko <3;e64.. an..) wh e Eliphaz, defcribing thofe terrible vifonsi Plato unt. Co¢: with which God fo °timevifited him, faith, Afpirit pafedbefore my face, the haire ofmy flefn floodup, &c. which made all mj bones to (hake. Weput hi the margin, The multitude of my bones. The multitude of his bones are all hisbones, he hathnot fe much as one bone free .Thewhole fyfleme ofhis, bonesis as it were con- founded anddisjoynted. The multitude of his bones is chaflned with flrong paine. 737 Theword paine, is not exprefs'd in the tatter part ofthe verre the Hebrew is , The ïnultaude of his bones with 'Irons paine. À% Broughton renders thus, end all his bones with a fore one. The word which we tranflate flrong, fignit eth twothings ; Firh, as we render, flrength ormight (Pfa!: 74. a 5.) Thou driedft up mighty rivers ; God dryedup the river yardan for his people to paffe-through, yea and the redSea. Secondly, the word figniteth perpetual! Tailing or continual!. So fome render that place in the Pfalmes, notfire/ or, mighty rivers, but he dryed op everlafling orperpetual!rivers, fuch as had alwayes run with a full fireame, and were not like ihofe deceitful! brooked (. fpoken of in the 6th Chap: of this book (v.1 ¶th) towhich dab comparedhis Brethren) which in winter over-flow the bankes,but in futnmer, as'hat rime X x they
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