Chap. 7. An Exp®fitianxpn tbe Baok. of J OB. Verf. 3. own. Jobs troubles, were not to him as an hired houfe,or a lod- ging, but as an inheritance, wherein he was fettled and eftated : I am made to poffefs months of vanity ; as if he had Paid, you fee what the patrimonyand inheritance is,which defcends to me: 1 have waited for comfort, and have been in expo±ationof good dayes, but I pofh{fs months of vanity, that's all I have found and felt, as the iffue ofmy labours. Empty Moons 2tiü`ìl-t Months of vanity. ] Some read, the word bears that fence ) as if Yobs Moon were alwayes in the wane, or ever in the eclipfe. The word lignifies any kind of vanity,whe- ther in word or in deed, perfonal vanity, or real vanity, falfhood ordeceit,any thing that is trivial orlight Such monthshave I ap- pointed to me. But Come may fay : Months ofvanity : Why doth 3'ob fo com- plain ofthis ? Hath anyman in the world any other than months ofvanity ? Why then dotti lob take it Co ill, that he poffeffeth months of vanity, when noother fall to the lot or polTef lon of any man ? DavidPM. 39. verf. 5. affirms, that, man at his beft eftate is altogether vanity; What reafon then hath Job to com- plain ofmonths of vanity in his wort} eflate ? It was with him as well as with any ofhis neighbours,we know not who hath any other than months ofvanity. The Preacher makes this the pre- face of his Sermon, Ecclef, i. 2. Vanity of vanities, ( faith the. Preacher ) vanity ofvanitier, all is vanity. I anfwer,it is true,our whole life is a lifeofvanity,but yet there is more vanity in force wens life,or in forcepart ofthe fame mans life, than in another. Vanity is gradual. There is a vain, and a vainer vanity, and there is the vainefi vanity. Months ofvanity may be underflood two wayes. Firft, Months of vanity, that is, months em pt of comfort tnan er`t fruitlefs months, months bringing me no refrefhing or con - vacuauhomini. tent. As Ges, a. 2. it is Paid, the earth was without forme and bscr jumenti (-- void: void, that is, it hadneither man, nor beaft, nor plant upon Plano' it, there wasnothing but emptinefs upon theface ofthe earth, as it layin that roodmats ; So Job faith here, mine are months of vanity,void.months,that is,monthsnot filled up with any light of comfort, with any refrefhing, with any joy, with any light or content, all thefe which areas thefilling up ofour months and thebeautyoftime, are taken -away from me, mine are empty months, my dayes are all dog-dayes, or at brit; the dayes in the . 'Wender ofmy life are blanks.. Second.
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