650 Chap. i g.. e/fn E"xpofition upon the Book, of J O R. Verf. i$. J OB Chap. 14. Verf. is, 19,2.0,2!, 22. Andfurely themountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out ofhisplace. Thewaters wear the ¡iones, thou wa(heil away the things whichgrow out of the cliff,' of the earth , and thou de- .Flroic.a. the hope ofman. Thouprevailed for ever againfl him, and he pafeth, thou changeit his countenance, andfendedhimaway. His foes come to honour , andhe knoweth it not , and they arebrought low, but he perceivethit not of them. But his flefh upon himfhall havepain, andhis foul within himfhall mourn. Mirton aft au IN this context yob give us a proof that he had not loft his dire 7obun, in n e.lü Philofophy,much leflè his grace in a lick bed. An inierprett r seeru,nnts Phitofophan- breaks out into admiration, that a man difireffed VViith fo many tern. Olymp. troubles fmitten with fo many fores , grieved with fo many pains could intend his thoughts fo much about the fecrets of nature, and the providential tranfmutations of the creature : that he ìvho had been confined fo long to a chamber could travel thus in his thoughts for illuirations of his own cafe over moun- tains and rocks, among {-tones and trees, through the windes and waters. The i 8th and a9th vertes are a colletlion ofcomparifons for this purpofe. The words are plain but there is much variety of judgement about their (cope and 7obs intendment in them. Some conceive that under there Gmiliitudes he bewails the laftingnelfe and long continuanceof his forrows, or rather that he lafled and continued fo long in his forrows : As if he had faid, The flróngefl peeces ofthe lower worldare eaten out by timeorforced into a decay by outwardviolence : mountains and rocks cannot (land ,theirground when the earth flakes : The hardeflHones cannot ever contend with the finalla droppings , nor can the deepefl roots hold their pofjeon againfl an overflowing deluge : all thefe are fubjebi unto
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