..._.low' Ohap.E6. AnExpojition upon the Book of j O B. VerGa g. 3 7 Thus the Greek Expotitors render this Text, affirming, that his skin was difcoloured and black ; and began to look like Nigroreri na,, Sack cloth, through the heat and diftemper of his inward 9-10 cuti. parts : As health and foundnefsofconftitution put out afrefl=i meaPeePter and lively tináure, fo Sicknefs and Difeafes deface and darken ccrbtraretn a4 the beauty of the body. quafffacet,: Secondly, Take it again improperly, as to lobs then prefent quidant em anion ; and then, Ifowedfack.clotb upon my skin, is,as if he velli conresd had fpoken plainly, I have greatly abated, or humbled my n° felt, I have been as one who putteth on Sack - cloth. Such was his pofture, Chapter a 8. He took,a pot,fheard, andfcraped hisfores, andfate down among the afhes. As he who wore lack- cloth did humble himfelf greatly , or at }aft would be ace counted to have done fo; fo he that is really humbled' and that greatly, may be laid to have put on Sack- cloth. The fign is often put for the thing Ggnified , in reference both to joy and forrow, White Garments and Unóions were figns of joy ; and therefore when Solomon exhorts to joyfulnefs, he faith, Let thy Garments bealwayes white, and let thy head lack nooyntment,Ecclef9. S which we may expound either by that whichgoèth before,eat thy breadrnith joy;&"drinkthywinewith a merry heart, Verfe7. or by that which follows, Verfe 90 Livejoyfully with the wife ofthyyoutb : As to bid a man put on white Garments is to bid him rejoyce, fo to bid a man put on blacks, or Sack cloth, is to bid him mourn; and he who faith as Job here , that he hath done it, faith, That he bath mourned , though he hathnot done it. Job did not fow Sack-cloth uponhis skinwhen he fpake thus, but his forrows did truly fpeak Sackcloth : Such alfo is his fenfe of the next claufe ; where he profef}"eth, And l defiledmy horn in the Horns are proper to a bear, but they are oftenby a figure or improperly afcribed toman. The horn imports two things in figure; Firft, Srength, and power. Secondly, Dignity and Ornament, It is often put for strength and power ; for the flrength and power ofgood men, a Sam,2,ao,Hannah fings,Thoufhalt exalt the horn ( that is, the firength and power) ofthinean pointed
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