Chap. 36. e/fn E.tcpofztiorì upon the lookof ] o s. Verf. 2p. 3 t 3 his power ( which was fhewedbefore) fo defire nor the night, for thou cana not be obfcured fromhis knowledge under the co- vert of it, there is no hiding from God. Though I judge that in- terpretation too grofs, which fuppo'eth Elihucouni 1,n; job not todefire the night, as robbers and adul :erers,ro cote: himwhile doingwickedly, yet poflïbly he might mink job was not ío f ue to confefs the evils which he had done, and therefore ra: tier def. ed the concealment of them. Secondly, the night in Scripture, as alfo in humane Authors, is put improperly for death. All the dead are wraps up in a night of darknefs. Hence that counfel (John 9.4.) work while you have the day, the night cometh when no man can work, Wemay wo.k, yea, much work is done in the natural night. It is laid of the verruous woman (Prow. 31, i S. ) Her curdle goes Not out 67 night ; fhe and her maids are at work in the night; therefore it cannot be ffric`fiy meant, that no man can work in the night. Thenight there is the night of death, or of an extream troublous Ne afpires a life ; in rhefe nights, elpecially in the former, no man can work, i11nm iorse: a for there is nowifdom,nor device, nor labour in the grave whether (fc. mortis) wearegoing, ( Eccl. 9. r o.) According to this Scripture inter- qua abeuntpo- pretation, defire not the night, is defire not death. job had put Putt ad locum forth fuchdefires more than once (Chap.7.a 5.) c2'(y foul ehoof loom. Jut, ethftrangling and death rather than life. Mr. Broughton tranflates, .Qua ton;nlrur poop pe Breath nor unto thatnight : for peoplespaffage to their place : That It in loo tpfo- is, (faith he ) defire not death, the common paffage of ail men, as rum. Pifc. thou haft done. Therefore El.-hu feems here to call fob offfrom thofe defires ; donot thou peevi ldy or impatiently (becaufe of the trouble of thy life) call for death, lea it come too loon, and it tit' by thee as it bath done by many others, whom it bath cut off in judgment. So it followes here, De;ire not the.niight, whenpeople are cut off in their place. Death is a cuttingoff. As manydie in the night, fo when -ever any die they are cur offrom this world, and all the imptoyments of ir. they arP cut off from their dearea friends and relations. D :path cuts oil the thread of life, and us f. orri the comforts of this life. The H .brew iq, when peopleafcend. TheO:iginal Scripture ex- preffethdying byofending, though the death of the sicked is ra- S f rher
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