Chap,i6. An Expofition upon the Book of J OB. _ Verfi6. 321 There are many Church-hypocrites, who can foul and disfigure their faces with weeping,asChrifi reproves thePha- rifees; Math. 6. adc while they have no thought of wafhi ing or reforming either their hearts or lives. Job's face was foul with weeping, but his heart and life were clean, he needed not ftrain for teares, or weep by art;how could he refiraine teares,whofe troubles were enlarged ? The word which we render is doubled in, the Origional, which nr fpeakes thus much, that his face double - dirtyed, or double. Fails elect fact dyed in'hil own teares: Neither yet was this all the argu- data of e ment ofhis real forrows ; for he had not only quite(wept a- Pdiutu ur way his beauty, but he had almolt wept away his life too, ut antpad au- and was even dead with grief, as it follows in the next gendamsign- words. rationem. And onmy eye lids is the Jhadow ofdeath. That is, Mine eyes are darkned,and I look like one that's ready to give up the ghoft: As if he had faid, Myforrow may befeen upon my eyes,and eyelids, which with the extremity of grief, andmultitude of teares are even wafted away andfunk in my head,as whena man is deal,ordying:Much weeping wea- kens the eye-tight, yea tome are faid to weep out their eyes. Davidgives us that effeft ofweeping, flat. 6. 7, I water my Couch with teares:that is,I weep abundantly,then it follows, Mine eyes are consumed becaufeofmygrief: And(Pfai. 38.ír. ) My heart pantetb,my ffrengtbfaileth, as for the light of mine eyes itis alfo gonefromme:: J am even grown blind with for- row,or Cas the Churchbemoanes her fad efface, Lam. 2, IL-) Mine eyesdo fail with scares. Abundance ofteases bring fail- Hot goflus in ing of eyes : And he that ufethhis eyes to much weeping, hi'milíatiani. (hall have little ufe of them for feeing ; 'We may allign the 8a®Geæcir reafon ofit from nature, because continual pow ing forth uefurpgJe tefla- of teares fpcnds the fpirits,and,fo weakneth the vi five power. tatur t, rides Now as death is a total privation of fight, fo they whole Plutarchusin fight is ranch impaired,look fomewhat luxe the dead. Hence libello defu. job's 'complaint, O name-lids its the badow.o death. perllirione, Shadow of death, notes the clearest appeárançe,the firong- lsgo eflorculis eft fghes of death -' _,ar this fh_adow of death upon +,leisafufa. eye-lids, together with the fouling o his face, in the former mere, chufe may, be an allusion to forne fashions or cuftornes of Motuuers in those times or places, This phrafe (whichalfo T t often
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