AnExpofition upon the Book of J OB. Verf. 1, 415. srfrom the thrum, whichbeing woond about thebeam, the trea- ver havingfinithed his work, cuts the web off from it. The fame word in the Hebrew lignifies pining ficknefs,anda thrutn,becaufe of the thinneßand weaknefsof it. My life (faith Hezekiab) is fpent,I amat the very 'all call, the yern of time is all wroughtoff; therefore my lire is ready to be cut off. I am a borderer upon death and to benumbred among the dead, rather then among the living. Such a fenfe this reading gives the text of job, Myfoul is am-m, e. Denotat ¿i cut off y lif jplr f eentiers qua Thirdly, The word liignifies a reluf,}ance or difplacency of fpi- how interim; rit,ariling from the fight and fenfe of that whichis very loathfom, ubefcirpra filthy, andofan ill favour. It anfwers the Greek word rendered dlorù fenfu. Abomination (Mitch. 24. 15.) The abomination of'd fálation ; he Propriè fgnf means the Romans, who being idolaters, theirworfhip was abo- a Op rim - minabie ' and who being Lordsof the world, their power was Àam et qua formidable, and laid all countries wafteand .defolate,which óppo- naufeampsrie fed them, or which they;had .a mind to oppofe. And fo when avérfari yob faith,My foul is wearyof my. life; his meaning is reprefented thus,My foul refufes to inhabit,or to ad fo filthy a body as mine My foul loaths to dwell, or flay any longer in this nafty lodging As David (Pfal. 120. 5.) (peaks of his wearinefs in dwelling amongft wicked men, becaufeof, their mortal . filthi.nefs, or the pollution o their minds and. wayes. TI ó ii me that 1 fojourn in Mefhec ; that I dwell in the tents of Kedar ; So job feems to fpeak; in reference to the natural pollution and filthinefs of his own bo- dyT Wo is me.that I fojourn in fuch a difeafed body, and drwJi. (whiehyet will not die) infuch a dyingcarcafe. The noble :enant,my fi nl,ir weary offlayingin Inch a(finking and filthyhabitation,and I perceive (for I have moved him hitherto in vain) tbegreat land-lord will neither repair it,nor aryet let it fall. As then,a man,who lives in an ill or incommodious houfe,faich,Iam weary ofdwelling in it or as a man that bath a filthy garment,faitla, I am'weary of wear= n. Moyfes- ing i, : So faith Jab here, My foul is weary of my life, were I cumalb Ne- well ridof 'it, I fhould be well, braid®£lori- Fourthly, Manyof the Jewish Doors tell us that the moft D prrá tear I riû and proper:fignification of this word, isTo contendortrivet figmfiatione: ,to chide or wrangle( we may give it in that homely language.) As if OP, litigare themeaningofJobwere,Myfoul dotbeven cantend,cbideand wran- amt contenders. lewith my life m /out Conte s and di rtes the matter withmy life &i:igavit ani. g } ! yJ ft fp } f i namea in vita vby it will not end, that I. may get our from this body of mine, a+ea. and io.
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