Chap. r.. Expofit:on upon the Book ofJo a . Verf. 5 . 57 9 JOB Chap. xq.. Verf. 5, 6. Seeing hit days aredetermined, the number ofhis monthsare wittythee, thouhaft appointed him his bounds that he cannot paffe. Turnfromhim that he may refs, till he /haul accomplifi at an hireling his day. gOB having pleaded for pity upon confederation of the weakneffe and frailtyof man, upon the confederation of the fhortneffe of his life, and finfulneffe of his nature , proceeds here to another argument from a double confederation about death. Firfi, Becaufedeath bath a fet and a fixed timeat which itwill come, andwill not tarry, in the 5th and 6rhverfeso Secondly, Becaufe there is no returning from death : when death bath got us into its hand, it holdeth us fait and keepeth us fore enough. This he illuftrates twoways, r , By a dif imilitude, in the7,8,9,10. verles, There is hope of át tree ifit be cut down, that it will[prout again, &c. but it is not fo with man : Mandieth andwafeth away, Mangivetb up the Ghoft, andwhere is he ? This is a diffimilitude. . He illuftrateth it by a fimilitude, verf. a I, I z. As the waters failfrom thefea, and thefooddecayeth and dryeth up, fo man lieti, down and rifeth not. By thefe two are fet forth the prevailing ftrength of death. When once we. are under the power of the grave, there is no releafe nor fetching us back by any created ïìrength. In thefe two verfes, the 5th and 6th lob openeth his argu- menti that there is a fet time, and not onely a fet time, but a time irrevocable, a time fo fet that there can be no unfettling of it, Thenumber of his months are with thee, thouhaft; fet )rubs hzc bound: ,which he canner pale. f His days are determined. TheArgument hands thus, He ./hold be mercifully and gently dealt with this life, whore life is fee oft by certain bounds and limits , beyond which he Eeee z cannot
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