Chap. 6. AnExpofatiox ;epos the Baoi{ of J O B. VerC7. 445 This wecall forrowful meat. Pfd. 1 27.2. We read of the £recta of furrow, that is, bread gotten with forrow, bread eaten with fa: row,orcourfebread. As bread of p'esf re (Dan. 0.3.) is fine bread: here forrowful m saris either uapleafant meat, or any m °at eaten in that rime of his furrow. That relative (the Things) is not in the Hebrew, and fo we m - y render word for word thus, my foul refufed to touch them as my forrowful meat. Or as another, (illy minds reIsles totoucb them; tbefe areplainly the very ficknefs ofmy meat. As if he had laid, I am fo far, from being refre(ï,ed with thefe that (the truth is) they make my very meat, and fo my whole life unpleafant to me. Mr. Broughton varies the latter claufe: Thole things which 1 have Lathed to touch, are now the very ficknefs of my fiefh. The word (Le ahem) which we tranflate meat, or prepared flefh, fïgniuies alto livingAl), in the Syriack and ,4rabick languages, as the learn- ed Grammariansobferve t Befides, we render the word (Le. chew) fie/h, Zeph. r. 17. Their blood fhall be powred rut as dull, an d their fiefh as dung, hence he tranflates, 7hefe thing: are to me as thelickneft ofmy flog; ; that is, the things which my foul refufed to touch, are now brought very near, and laid clofe upon me as ficknefs or (ores cleaveunto, and arc in the flab; or, they trouble me as much as the ficknefs of my d A,. The right application of thefe words is as difficult as the tran- flation of them', there arc divers wayes tomake out the fence; I fhall reduce them unto two:either firfl,that all thefe unfavoury, taftelefs, forrowful meats which Yob (peaks of, are but the fha- dows of his affli&ions and troubles. received from the hand of God. Or, Secondly, that they are fhadows of the counfels and reproofs , which he had received from the mouth of his friends. Istaufeo6am ego Firft,Some refer and apply all to the troubles,which were up- quondam ad on job: and fo thefewords area fuller juflification of hitrlfelf, hoistfmodi1a. that he had great caufe to complain, becaufe hisgrafs and fod- rumnae, move- der, that is,comforts fuitable to mans narure(as they to a beafls) macúß;i1'fq- were taken from him, and he was now fed and dieted with un- for p.upertae, favoury meat,meae without falt,the white of an egg, diffafffui vdl:orcibus,ula grievous afhi &ions, very gall and wormwood; The things wb eJ c: &erstefore my foul reftofed to'totecb, are as my meat ; I am put (as vcrmes nurse it were) to feed upon thar, which I would not willingly come abunde1 p feo4 near ; Píaad
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