392 Chap; a, As Expoftion open for Book of J O B. Vert'. 26é on the affernbly ofyoung men together,7 heaged, with him that isfull of dayes. That is, all ages (hail feel thefury of the Lord. A 11 nú rH no- full age, is an age full ofdayes or.eo npleaL to the utmoft time of rst óoea pri_ life. Some of the jewifh Writers obferve,that the numeral letters rnojeneíësrs efl, of this word (Chelach) make up threefcore, which they conceive mn mantra. is the age here meant ; but threefcore is nut afull old -age it is ra- uFdinHeb" ther the beginning of old age. Thereforefulnefsofage,is by others arum viridem feneílam now- yet to be (lrength of age ; thou Chile die in an old age, h 1 r in y oldage,t ine o- t oas (halt have fàrength and comfo t th h ld fpiutuut age 41rä1'1 not be a troublefome age, thou (halt not be weak and apb/it ill. crazy, di(lempered and fick,a burthen to thy felf,or friends; thou tudint,nujau- (halt die, (asCome tran(late) in agood oldage, or as Mr. Broughton té vireetem (l thou (halt die in ltsffy old age ; Time (hail not wither thee, nor ?,umid i jonot drink up thy blood and fpirits, Thoufhalt have a Spring in the EQynPk S'ene£iutetn i- Autumn, anda Summer in the winter of thy life. As it was with taq; poilicetur Mofes, Deut. 34. 7. who, died, when he was an hundred and nonquidem tae twenty years old, yet faith the text, His eye was not dim, nor his leflatn&mar- naturalforce abated; This is to die in a full old age, full of dayes, `efaPd jage .yet full of firength and health. It is a great biding, when a crm, man is(in this fenfe) youthful in old age : when others fee with .four eyes, and gowith three legs, he ufet neither Ralf nor fpeda- cles, but renews his flrength like the Eagle. Or, we may take the fenfe more generally, for any one that li- veth long, and liveth comfortably; as.it was faid of Abraham, Gen. 25. 8. 7bat be dyedin agood old age, an old man, and full of years. He died in a good old age; The youngman is counfeld, To remember hit, Creatour in the daies ofhis youth, before the evil daies come, Erclef. 12. s, What are thrfe? Thofe evil daies are the dales of ,old age : The wordsfollowing being an Allegorical, elegant defcription of old age. Old age in it felfis theevil day : The lives of many old men are a continual deaths They live as it were upon the wrack of extream pains or (bong infirmities; there- fore it isa fpecial bleffîng for man to be old, and yet to have a good old age, that is, a florid comfortable old age; To haie ma- ny years and few infirmities is a rare thing. In fome oldage flou- rifhes, and in others oldage perifhes, Job gives us this difference in the ufe of this word, Chap. 30. 2. Tea, whereto might the ífrengtb of theirhands profit me, inwhom (Chelach) oldage was perfhed, As if he had Paid, fome old men are aáive and thong, but th efe,who werefaded and flatted inall their abilities, what iliead
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