Chap. i© An Expofitien upon the Book of j O B. Vert; 5, 45,9 Verfe 5. Are thy dayes as the dayes of men? Are thyyears as mans dayes? 1 know they are not. . Are thy dayes asmans ¿ayes.? Some interpreters take the wordday for judginent,Are thy dales as mans dayes? that is are thy judging dayes, or thy judgment YOnjt co ex given upon thofe dayes, like roans dayes, or the judgment which Citícum idio- mangiveth ? We have the word in that fenfe(i Cora. 3.)where t fne, tjieron, the Apottle concludes in his own cafe,It is a veryfmall thing with Putorim Pau. enetobe judgedofyou,orofnzans judgment ; the Greek is, To be lumpoilus o mans day and according to the idiomof that language diemmaul:, judged f y` $ dicere,quam to fotne countryes, the day ofa man is put for the judgment of a ludteium, ut man. Thoughothers conceivethat Paul calls it a day rather then alluderet ad a judgment, in allufion to that láf1 day, wherein God will fit in diem ilium judgment upon the whole world. So the meaning of oh is fupre»rum in Dominus plainly this, The Lords judgment is not like mans judgment ; This tp f,j don J . Expofìtion falls in with the fenfeof the former verte , men judge debit. t cz. by outward proofs and probabilities, byqueflions and interroga- tories, by tettimonies and witneffes : God needs none ofth.efe hu- mane helps in his day ofjudgment ;yet in lobs cafe he carried it, as ifheneeded them. The fuit depending fo long before him, and filch varietyofexperiments and tryals,being put upon,or taken of him. . But, we may better interpret dayes for a part of time ; and fo, Enos cujus Are thy dayes as mans dayes? is, Art thou (hart-liv'd as man is ? vïre uror,'a' The word Man, fignifies man in his worth condition, Are thy breviffima dayes like the dayes ofa meakman ?. ofa miferable fickly man ? Are peas nulla, they like the dayes ofa man, whom we number among the dead, and who is giving up the Ghoft every hour ?There are Tome men, whom we call long- liv'd, that is, men who in probability may live very long we fay ofa healthy .firong man, we would take a leafs ofhis life, or if we were to take a leafe, for lives, we would put his life in for one he is a man ofa,good cömplexion and con- iitution, a man like to live, and fee many dayes. But, faith yob, Are thy dayes as the dayes ofEnofh ? As thedayes ofaweak fickly man, as-the dayes ofone, who looks as if he woulddrop into the grave every day ; as-the dayes of a'very borderer Capon death, of the next neighbour,and heir apparent to the King of terrours?Lord, Al- n n z I am
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