49 8. Chap. io. An Expofition upon the Book of J. Q. B. Verf. 8: lowed up my eflate, fo thoufeemefl refolved to fwallow up my very breath. When Joab belìeged Ahel,a wife woman out of the City cryed unto him, Thoufeekeff.to defh' ya City in Ifrael, why wilt thoufwallozu up theinheritance of the Lord.? 2 Sam. 20. 19. job faw a great Army of afflicions,encamping about him : and, he feemsto cry out to the Lord of thole bolls, why feekeft thou to defiroy.thy fervant, why wilt thou fwa..11ow me, who am the work of thine hands ? U/finiile He- Grammarians obferve from the exadeft reading of the Hebrew, pß°¡Qlj `eBH that the former words [Together round about fhould be joyn'd. verba prsce. with thefe [Thou doff deffroy me] Thine hands have made me and donna, fimul fafhionedme, and yet thou doff deftrayme together round about ; that circumquáq: is, Thoumakett an utter end, .a total conlumption of me. sumar,un- Again, thefe words are read by fome with an interrogation, iocbif?i & rne.. Thine handshave made me andfafhionedme, and dolt-thouyet deftroy Mere. me ? The quellion Both not alter, but quicken the fence, and ren der it more preffing and pathetical. Wilt thou,deliroy me thus t.ie fr fC1fu, exaály,whocn.thou hall made fo exaHly ? The (yet) in the Text rron euhum di- founds out an admiration. As when God (Amos 4.) had brought c,;rfrfii,intei' many judgments upon Jerufalem,and found them. (till impenim rogatio ratan tent he concludes the narrative of every one, with, let have fenfüm reddit the not returnedunto me; As ifhe had Paid, What a wonder va{de °memo, y imitatum is here ? So job repeating the favours ofGod to him, concludes Mere. with aye: thou doff; or doff thou yet dejiroy me ? As if he had faids. What a wonder is here ?- How unfearchable are thy judgments, O- rr keen de g then God, and thy ways pall findingout ? Thus he fats what God diligenDL nki did, in oppotition to what he had done that fo.the.confderation diffruis of former mercies ..might provoke him to remove or mi.- tigate prelim' judgments. Doll thou deflroyme who haft .made- me ? Hence obferve, *see more of lira, That to mindGodof making us, is an argument toflay bit thispoint,ver bandfrom breaking us. 3 A 445, It repented the Lord(faith Moles, Gen. 6. 6.) that he badmade man, and it grieved him at the heart. This repentance and grief did not arife from his making of man,; but from that neceflity which his own juflice and honour laid upon him to defiroyman= whom he had made , as it follows in the next words, And the Lordfaid, I will deffrl man whom I have created. The words cw the refolution of God) not his propention i it went to his heart
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