416 __ Chap. io. An Expoftion upon the Boek of J O'B. , °' Verf. z. Litigavi. rag. andgo beyond the reachoftheft afielions. The 95, Pfalm, veriio, 10. is fo tranflated, Fourty years long did I contend, chide or contefk angerlywith that generation : The Lord did often chide with the people of ifrael,and they ui:d to chide with.Mofes.; whence one place was called Meribah, yea, through their unbelief they did chide with God himfelf, and (there is no reafon duff and afhes Ihould have the laft word) God allogave them their chidings, and told Meth plainly their own, more then once. Thus the foul of.7ob chid his life ;what's the reafou that I am held in this eon- ' dition, why wil tnot thou be gone, that I may be at reti ? Carnal men chide with their lives for haltening fo fall.away,becaufe they know ofno reil,or have hopeof none hereafter.A godly man may be brought to chide with his life for making no more hafte away, becaufc he finds none,or foe ttle.reft here, Elihu (Ch.33.i9.) de fcribing in the method which God u1es to humble proud than, adds, Re is chaffened alfo withpain upon his bed, and the multitude ofhis bones wi hJtrongpains ; He is chatlened ; the word fìgtifies alto reproving, or convincing by arguments, and that in aquick and paffonate, as well as.in a.rational and folid way. Now, while of lidionschidingly (mite us, we are apt to_chidethem, and give them at lealt a word for a blow. job did not only chide with his afílidions, but with his life, ecaufe itwould not depart and be gone, being,fo unkindly ufcd and :imbittered.by aflliCtions. His foul did even chide his life out a doors. The Chaldee:Paraphraft gives the meaning yet higher, Myfoul Crudel* efforia is grown cruel againft my life ; As if he had laid, I am fo exceed- ! eti anima mea. Cbald. tngly atRifted andpained, that my.fuul begins to rage againft my Homo qui J,bi life, I can hardly .hold my own hands off from my Life, and I ipfi storm would not have God hold his. Let not my life be fpared, how preearuradve.- glad fhould .I be to fee it poured outeingui.th is, come upon tue (as fu m fe jcvire the Amalekite,r(ports of Saul, a Sam. a. 9.) becanf e my life aidctar. whole in me.0 that:God wauldffandupan me andflayme ; my foul is hardned againti my life (like the.Ottrich againil her young ones, Chap. 39. z 6.) as if it werenot mine. , Let me die, and that Thail be a favour, finite me, and that will be tome as a preciousoint- ment, though it break my head , and let out my troubled fpirits. Then we are cruel to our lives, when we care not what's done to us, orhow we are ufed fo we may be rid of our lives. But '( to pars this ) our tranflation is clear and fìgnificant, My
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