oz Chap. 6. An Expofitiota.upon the B00%,of J O B. Verf: i;6° and looked and fa id, there is nothing. That is, no Phew of rain, not theleafi cloud to be feen,yet prefently theheavens grew black, and there was a great rain, i Kings 18. 44. Thus, let our cap.í- vitybe turned,thus fpeedily and fuddenly,though there be no ap- pearance of falvation, no more than there is:of fountain in the fandy deferts,or ofrain in the clearer heavcns.,yet bring falvation for us : We ufe to fay ofthings beyondour fupply, have we a fpring ofthem ? or can we fetch than out of the .clouds ? So thoughno ground appears, whence luch Rivers fhould flow, yet let our falvation be as Rivers in the South, as Rivers fetched out ofthe clouds, and dropt inan militant immediately from the Hea- vens. lob compares'his brethren and friends to thofe fireams of brooks, they came fuddenly, but they are quickly down again. The comparifon in the Pfalm, is made only with refped to the Ridden appearance of thofe Rivers,but lob applieth it to the fud- den paffing away of thole Rivers ; as tbefream ofbrooks they pafs away. Their coming fo fuddenly, is agreat refrcfhing, but their fudden departure is as great a difafpointment. Lrffpr :erreU Theword notes two- things;.fire, motion: and fecondly, con- ;wire, evane. fumption...In both fenfes violent torrentspafs away : Firfi, they prsrnie ` pals away. with a thong motion; and then they pats away with non ampliut z fudden.confumption, they run fo fait, that they run themfelves sadlunt. off their legs, they come to nothing ; their motion frends them, whereas the motionofaRiver doth not. So the word is ufed, Pf. 37. 36. Hepaffed away, and lo, he was not, yes, 1fought him, but becould not befound. Thole things that pafs away, are many times Paid to lofe their being and their ufe ; be paffed away, and to bewas not. SoJob tneaneth here, thefe breams pals away, and lo, they are not. Having thus propofed this fimilitudc, that his friends dealt de- ceitfully as a brook, and the Wed what kind of brooks he meant, thole violent torrents, wiiichpafs away : now he gives a further defcriptionof thole brooks. Vetf. i 6. Which arehlackJh by reafonof the ice, and wherein the fnow is bid. Qui timerpu- The Vulgar Latine puts a firange fenfe upon this paffage, ínamirruitfit. Tendringit thus, He whofears the froft,(hall be overwhelmedly ter nia, vulg. fnow. Which feems to be a proverbial fpeech, to fet forth iliac, who (hitting fromone danger or extream, run into another more dangc-
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