-56 6 Chap. 7. iln Expofttion upon the Bôok, ofJO B. Vetf.1 Or thirdly, the connection may be made with thefe words, whichhimfelf had fpoken at the four and twentieth verle of the former Chapter, Teach me ( faith Job) and 1 will hold n.y tongue, and caufe me to underftand wherein I have erred t In which words we (hewed job makes anhumble fubmiflion of himfelf; and in cafe his friends could initrudt him better,he was willing to learn, he was not wedded to his own opinion, or refolved never to be removed from it. In purfuance ofwhich promifed teachablenefs,he in this Chap- ter grants what was grantable in the former difcourfe ofEliphaz. Eliphaz had faid, Chap. 5 verfe7, 8. That man was born to la- bour as the fparkr fly upward, and thereupon prefently infers, I wouldfeel¿,untoGod, enc. both thefe, the DoUrine , and ufe, Job Teems to profecute in this feventh Chapter, as if he fhould fay, what thou haft rightly fpoken, I will grant thee ; thou haft laid, Man is born to trouble, I fay fo too, I s there not an appoint- ed time unto man (of trouble?) andarenot hip layer as the dayes ofan hireling ? And thou advilefl me to Peek unto God, and apply my fclf to him ; it is good counfel, and therefore I will follow it : as we read he Both, at the fevcnteenth and twentieth verfes of this Ch3pter, 0 renumber that rxy life is wind, what Is man that tb..0 fhouldelt magnifie him ; I have finnéd what (hall I do lento thee, 0 thou preferver of men? Why doeft thou notpardons ìny tranfgreffion,andtake rway mine iniquity? Language full of hu- mility, and founding out of the brokennefs ofhis heart. But laftly,rather,thus Job having inthe former Chapter refu- ted thole arguments,by which Eliphaz would convince him,and having renewed his requeil to dye, expoftulated with his friends about their unkindnefs toward him, and admonifhed them to a more equal dealingwith, and hearing of him : he now proceeds to the confirmationofhis frrfl requeft to dye,which he doch from divers grounds. r . From the general condition ofmans life, verf. r , Is there not on appointed time to man, e%-e; 2. From the condition of force particular men, A fervsnt earneftly defireth the fhadow, and an hireling lookethfor the reward of his work, may not I therefore deliiredeath, which only will he a fhadow to me, till when 1 (hail not havemyseward And 3 Fromhis his qwn fpecial condition at the third verfe and for- ward
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