590 Chap. 7. An Expofition upon theBookof) OB. Verf. 4- of awcarifomenight; when a man, as fooneas he goeth to bed, delires to rife;as foon as it is night,enquires for day;this manhath a weary time of it. 7111 When pall 1 arife, and the night be gone ? Mr. Broughton lfltfcuit, odve tranflates, the duskie time be gone ? The word tignifiés evening, fpersfcir,inde and the verb to mingle or to mix ; becaufe the evening is a time ìry vejpera wherein there isa mixture ( as it were ) of light and darknefs tempos t Evening, is light and darknefs mingled; hence we call it twilight; ratan tCrurluci. And though all the night be ( in this fence ) mixed,becaufe in na lure there is no pure darknefs, yet. in the evening, this mixture is, more difcernable ; therefore it is rather appliable to the former part of thenight, becaufe afterward. the light is more fully over- Tin 117en11/. come, and conquered. row hinc When(hall thenight be gone ? The Hebrew is when Pall the pmnk night be meafuredout ? There is an elegancy- in..that ; it lignifies yarn uirux de- to mea.fure a thing,as we meafure loath,by a yard;or asground is not.n,uicut mcafured, by a rod or pole; it lignifies likewife to meafure time, ;1-lit/in to tell,count and obferve the houres:As if Job had Paid, ofhimfelf difcrer6. (as many times lick men doe ) I lie:a bed all night and till the clock. The clock is themeafure of the night :now,faith he, when Jhall the night be .meafured out ? As if he had ( with forrow ) counted the tedious honres, oh when will this time be meafured out ? what a long night is this ! As come toa Fick man in a. mor- ning, and. you, flail have him fay, what a long, tedious night:was this ? as long as two or three nights. He adds yet another part ofthe defcription,l -amfull of tongs y tW faeuro toandfro unto the dawning of theday. Re lay meafuring of the night, and was unquiet all the while, full,oftofngs to andfro. The word lignifies tobe filled with meat and drink;I have my fill of troubles, my: fill oftarture,I haveunquietnefsenough,as much as Z can hold of forrow. ="11.3. Tongs to a ndfro.] The word is underflood by fome, of in- ?rad;ce 1nj ward tollings lamfull oftongs so andfro, that is, 1 hazegreat watts, rematur agitations in my heart, my thoughts are very unfelled. One of clorgatus. Ce the Rabbins to that fence, 1 am full of wandring thoughts ; term oglratio. thoughts will tofs up and down, forward and backward ; A stem denotar. mans thoughts will tofs him fromone end ofthe world unto the tura:tr t" other whileheis a:prifoner in hisbed: They tofs him from bull- so/0 . aab, nets to bufrnefs, while he is unfit for any bufineß. A fiçk man Lev. is. full of inward,toffings, of wandring thoughts,his thoughts run faiteff,.
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