'268' Expofition upon the Bookof Jó B. Chap. 36 tempflate /Vulg. Ingo-- Ca= likálx fin thlehe ha .h not prayed in atftilion, becaufe there are fo many promires of hearing prayer in aftelion. The Lord is verygraci- ous to thole that cry in affliaion, and the hypocrite bath often heard that he will be Co 1 howwretchedly tin ulis he then againq God, as well a; regardless of his own good, if God hear not of him, or from him, in his affliaion t ( Pla/, iir) 17.) He will regard the prayer ofthe defiitute, and not defple their payer, that g-acionfly accept and anfwer it. Again ( Pfal, 69 3 3.)The Lord heareth thepoor, and defgeth not his Trifoners ; that is, any who arebound in affiielion r. For I fuppole that Text is not to be retrained to thofe only, vlio are (but up inprilons,but rakes inall thole that are bound in any trouble. In which fenfe the word is tiled ( Lam. , 34.) The Lordcloth not afflict wil1ingly,norgrieve. the children ofmen, to crufb under hit feet all the Prifoners of the earth : The Hebrew is, All theboundof theearth ;bywhom, he means,as chiefly the jaws gone into Captivity, who were more properly bound, fo any detained underany calamity whatfoever ; toall, or anyof their, that Scripture isapplyable, The Lorddoth not willingly all a. Seeing then there are fo many promifes made to thofe that cry in afiklion,thiswill be urgedupon the hypocrite as an heightning ofhis naglea, that he bath not cr yed whenGod bound him. Thus we fee the fecond part ofthefe hypocrites mi- fery, by whit they do nor, They cry not when he bimdeth them. The third thin. by which the woful mifery of hypocrites iN heart is let forth, is by what they fulfer. Verf. x. Theydye inyouth, and their life is among the un- clean. They dye in nigh. TheHebrew iq, their Soul dyeth. The Saul, firialy Eaten, is immortal, and dyeth nor; yet 'tis often faid in Sciipture, the Soul dyed); the Soul being taken, either) rid+, for the Life ; or, Secondly, for the Perlon. To fay, their Soul dyeth-in youth, is no more than to fay ( as we tranflare ) they dye in youth. The word rendred Totela, rgnifies in the Root of ir, top/1k!and trem- ble, or tomake force great concuffion ; hence fame render the Text, They- dye in 4 Tempefi, or in a Storm. One of the proifla DoEtors gives it thus, They pail dye withafiroak.or fhal&s. ; that is,
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