26o Chap.id ,: Att Expofitionupon the Book of; J A B. ,. ;Verf>8:; Why then doth he fay, Mji leannefs rifeth up ? Though, when a man is lean , his flefh falls, yet his bones rife A fat mans bones are(as it were ) buried in flcfh, you can fcarce feel his ribs, but when he grows lean , his bones flick out, and rife up That is the meaning here, My leannfs rifingup. 1'acieivide- job afcribesa rational of , both to his wrinkles and to his tur dare perfo. leannefr, as if bothdid fpeak , and which is more, give evi- nomut undo dence concerning him; he brings them forth as witneffes at anterugtr. the bar, this (peaks, and that fpeaks , he doubles it , My wrin- kles witnefs againjt me, andmy leannefs rifingup witnefeth to my face : When a witnefs is to give in his evidence in any caule before a Judge, he rifeth up , or flandetb forth , that all may fee him, Jobprelents his leannefs in the proper pollure of .a witnefs rifingup. The Original varies fomewhat in the latter claufe from the former ,. we render both by wirneffng , but we may read it thus, Thou haft filled me with wrinkles, tbat bath been, or is a avitnefs,or (as Mailer Broughton reads) aproof, my leannefs ri;. ling up (or which rifeth upagainft me) anfwers (or fpeaketh to myface. The meaning is, Thefe outward evils are evidence enough to my Friends, that God is angry with me , and that J am wicked againil God. lob grants that thofe wrinkles, and-this leannefs were Wit- neffes of his affíiCtions , he never queflioned their teflimony, as tó that point , neither indeed could he. Jonadab laid to Amnon, Why art thanbeing the Kings Son , lean, or thin from day to day,, wilt.thou not tell me ? 2 Sam. 13. ç. His leannefs told his friend plain enough, that all was not well ; he read that in his face , onely hecould not read the particular illnefs magnum certe there, If we fee a young man , efpecially the Son of a Great peccatum, quad man, or ,of a King ( who is waited upon;with all worldly de- tantuminflo9 lights ),wrinkled , and lean, is . it not a witnefs that he hath rente illaatate been lick, or is overwhelmed with forrow ? thefe.teffifie to his defsrmítatem fenilemfps. face, he cannot conceal it. cien, indaxit. But Job's friendsPaid , thefe were witneffesof his fin : they Lutant tanta+ produced the wrinkles of his body :, as a witnefs of his wrin- efflülionetre- kled Soul : and the leannefsof hisoutward man , as an ar- flere/fe maple ument ,of his inward leannefs .; they laid thefe teflified culpæ iræ $ Y Coc. plainly , that he was not only a great=fmner., but anHypo- crite
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