Chap. 7. AnExpofition uponthe Booke of] OB. Verf. r. 567 ward to the feventh, therein exprtflìng how lad, how refuels, how troublefome his life was to him, which (as he apprehended) nothing could give remedy to, but only death : Mydifeafe ap- pea'rs curable, only by a grave, andmy only medicine, is a mouth Ball of earth : Therefore the matter handing fo with me, have I not rightly and realonably defired, either that I had not lived at all, or that I may quickly dye, and that God would cut o ffmy life. Having by there arguments confirmed that former delire ; in the next place, heagain renews his former complaints from the eleventh verle of this Chapter, unto the feventeenth. Thirdly,he abates himfelf before God, as unworthy that God fhould take any notice of him,or bellow a thought, a vi fit, à Umile, or a chai- flifement upon him. What it man that thou doff mignifie him? that thou doff vif t him, &c. Laftly, he concludes with couftffion of his fin, and earneft delire of pardon, at the twentieth and the one and twentieth verges. Thus ingeneral, both for the dependanceofthe latter part of his fpeech upon the fortraer,and the principal parts contained' in this. Verf. r. Is there not an appointedtime to man upon-earth?and are not his dayes alfo like, the dayes ofan hireling The queflion affirms, there is an appointed time to man upon earth,and hisdayes are like the days of an hireling. From whence we may form his argument thus. He that path a certain terme of life appointed him, to ferve in, doth not fin in defiring an end ofhis fervice : but there is an appointed time, &c. Therefore it is not finful to defrre it. Is there not an appointed time ?] The Hebrew thus ; Is there not a warfare toman upon earth ? So you find it in the Margin of min pér your Bibles: Our Tranflatours pull warfare there, and appointed Metapborami time in the Text. The word fignifies both, becaufe wars of all tempus ordina- other actions, have their fealons, and their appointed times; and tam, determia- the life ofman is well defcribed under both,or eitherof thole no- narum con/1i tions. :arum : ipfum. Confider it firll under themoil proper fignification,and foma nttlitht temp., ny read it, Is tberenot a warfare to man upon the earth ? Ifa. 4d. s, 2. Comfortye, comfort ye my people , faith the Lord, freak comfortably to erxfalem i Why ? Tell her, her mar are k ended.
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