Chip,16, AnExpofition upon the Rookof J O B. Verf;2o. 377 The Hebrew is, Mine eye pouretb out : The word fignifies to sir; Stillare flow forth like water, and to wail in flowing forth; his eyes jeudyluere ins were as a Fountain, which flowes continually , yet retains a flor aquatint perpetual flock of water ; but his ftrength abated and his Ufftllando fpirits-iffued with thole waters. Mine eyepoureth out, we add quaftattenuari. the word Tears, becaufe Tears are the only eye-waters, or all the waters which flow from the eye, Mine eyepoureth out tears. ,, .ae,o ell The-word fignifieth fometim Zra es only to drop, either as a ;llßái9. Limbeck dropps down the water which is railed up by theheat into fumes, or as the Eaves ofa houle drop ina time ofrain ; fo, mine eye diftilleth or droppeth tears. Job had a heat within him which might well caufe thofe difhilations, and fhowres without him , which might well caufe thofe droppings, This (Whiling, dropping, or pouring out of tears, was the pouring out of his forrows, and there was more in it then litent forrow, there was a voice in his forrows , or a voice of mourning was mingled with his weeping ; yea, this word implies fpeaking, in many places of theold Tefiament, Pbraldebrgê. where to drop is toProphefie, and Prophecying is a vocall cattillareJp a61 (Micah 2.6.) Prophefieye notfay they to them that prophe pro loqui nreti® fie ; the word is, Drop not : Both are exprelfed, Amos 7.16. ear. Prophetic not againft i(rael , and drop not thy word againft the houle of Ifaac, So (Exek; 21.2.) Drop thy words towards the holyplaces, andpropbefie againft the LandofIfrael. And the, reafon of it is, becaufe words fall into the ear of the hearers as drops of rain upon the dry and thirfty ground, both to foften andmake fruitful. Jobs tears prescht; the dropping of his eye was a kind of prophecying : Tears arenot words formally, but they are virtually. Weeping is inarticulate fpeaking : And though God (by reafon of his infinite, and unchangeable happinefs) never fpake that language , yet he underftands it fully. There arc (faith the Aac lie, argt?irg aM gaíïdt (peaking in an unknown tongue) it may i,e, fa r:tz;y inf:s ofvoyces in the World, and noneof them are without fgnifica . tion, (r Cor.r4,1o.) The voice of tears is very fignificant, yet Godonly knows the fpecial fignific ,tion of it matt knowsonely the general, that it fignifies ferrow.. Poffably words went with Jobs tears ; but if not, yet his tears had Ccc the
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