Chap: t r. An Expofition upon the Took of J O°6. Verf:i7. 93 come not , nor the years draw nigh , when thou (halt fay 1 have no pleafure in them; while thefun, or the light, or the moon, or theliars be not darkned nor the clouds return after the rain. Hecompa- reth old age to a gloomy day , when (hour falls after (hour, and cloud follows after cloud ; yet the Lord can make that age which dually gives nothing but clouds and (hours , but moyf}ure and wet , to be as clear as the light at noon , and as dry as fun- thine. We need not fear our woriiRate, if God will undertake tomend it : be not troubled with tyring.expeé}ationsofpain and weak- ne fe, ofdifeafes and Gckneffès in old age , God is able to make thee , notwithfanding the dífadvantages of nature, f}rong and healihy. Old age will be youth tons at his word, eflbraham was not troubled at anhundredyears old, when God pronnifedhim, thou ¡halt have a fanne. Saraahs dead womb was no inipeditnent when God Paid thou(halt conceive. ,Young men !hall faint, and old men (hall renew their flrength like the eagle, when God will have it fo. The fummer of your lives (hall be a winter, and your winter a fummer , your cloudy dayes !hall be clearer than the noon and your noon a cloud at his command, who made both fummer and winter', fun and cloud. He that put nature into order, can order things againFt nature. Thou(halt Thineforth, thou(halt be as the morning. Thisadditional! claufe heightens the fenfe of the former. The Licet to ea vita word which we tranflate, to fhine forth , liignifes alto to darken. funilum exifPi- So Mr. Broughton renders , Thy time(hall ppffe the noon-day ob- es /p nave na- rcurenes all match the morning. And another thus If thou doesrl tali venue ant J !" g YDYa CoYlfttrgef. wax obfcure or dark, yet thou (halt match the morning. D13.1 Our tranfators take Zophar continuing the metaphor of light; E è lila- Thineagefhall be clearer than the noon. day, and here he'thews, thatffrandi ar une. it (hall not be a (landing, but an increaling light , the light of the brefcendi ftgni- morning , Thou(halt be as the noon in regard of the clearneffe ofthy (nbten habe . light , and thou(halt be as the morning, to regard ofthe increafe and cues errs continuance of thy light: For though we have the greateil light at vtammane. noon,yet that light is neer a declenlion.The Sun being come to hi Merl height, is in its vertical point , and every hour after noon (though MR- si ftyin° ' we cannot perceive it) grows darker and darker , till the (Eta- teligitur., lows of the night wrap up all : but the morning Sun is a riling Sun , which gains and gathers every moment. That's Solomons defcription (Troy. 4, 18.) The path of the rightetie; is as the T z -morning
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