Chap.'s'. An Expofition upon the;Bookof J ®B. Verf.1 . 567 bring me to ;my grave fooner.then thou thyfelf haft appointed ? I, ,hall din at the timethox haft determined , though Thou Jhouldett not diflrefsmy life , and even force out my breath with filch preffing extremities. further, Taking thclatter word for a prefcribed time: force Fäarxrjenfttni conceive job carryingan allufion to thole who are;furprized with omplefiuntur, feaveis and agues : they have changes, Tome well dayes, and force Aben, Ezra. lick dayes, yet the fever returns upon a fet time, or in a conftant Rai'. Sal. recourfe , till the diftetì per is checked ; As if he had faid, My of iEtionr are likefeaver fits ; though Ihave force intermiffion, yet I findea regreffión, the fit comes nponme again.; Changes, atfet times are upon me. But rather , according to the letter ofour tranflation, Changes iandwar are against me, that is, I am exercifed with variety of wars. The word imports any kinde of change, change oftimes or change of things,it fignifres alto changeofgarments (Judg..14. feorcari a z.) That notion of theword,hathan elegancy in it in reference to trarür (g inter yob's 'condition. ; He was a man cloathed with afitíon, forrow je cootputnan- encompaífed him asa long mourning cloak, and job had changes tibus7,altsvet ofthis raiment, ha went not always in one lute, though h lutes Potiasvarits were trill ofane colour, for he went alwayesin blacks. erJrbi rnvi- .Again, We may interpret this change, of his change from one cornjuctEderti; $ y P, $ $ burrnstorum elate to another, from joy to :forrows, from peace to trouble, opunibus. from plenty to want, from coftly robes to filthy rags.. Time was Marc. when .ob went in fçarlet, and finelinnen,and, if hr pleafed, might have fared delicioully everyday; but when he,fpake this, he was aavxzísay in another (late and habit; cloathed with fackcloth, and lying;in 1147Fròrs' the duft. It is raid ofwicked men (Pfal. 55.9.) Becaufe they -have nochanges, therefore theyfear not God; Every creature is fubjea to change, and bath force changes every day ; God only is un- changeable. Yet Tome_ men feem to have no chànges,& though they cannot be free from natural changesone moment, yet they may be free from many years civil changes:.heymay be fo far from filch changes as Job felt,from good toevil,that all the changes; theyare acquainted with,may beonly from good to better, from ftrong to ílronger,from rich to richer:that's the intent of the Pfalm ; they have no changes from joy to forrow, from health to ficknefs,from riches to poverty, from honour todifgrace, Therefore theyfear not God; their hearts werehardened, becaufe their eftates profpered. So then, thefe changes import, either divers forts ofaffiiaions, OF
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