4ó2 Chap.r7. AnExpójition upon the $oolZ, of J:O-B: Verf.a tion, that God would do him right, from the infufftcicncy of his friends to do him right : "i bou haft hid their heart from underffanding : As if he thould fay, Who would band to the judgement ofthofe, who want underfianding? Thou haft hid their heart from underJtandíng:therfore'halt tfou not exalt them; fç. To this honour of judging my caufe, and deciding this controverfie, yea, I find them fo unfit-to be either my Judges, or my Arbitrators, that they are indeed but Flat.:erees; and therefore they may rather expel` fotne fudden judgment. up- on themfelves, or their children, then that God thould do them thishonour to judge for me: He thatfpeaketh flattery to his Friends, even the eyes of.his Children !hallfail, Verfe 5. Thus I have opened job's fcope in the Context of thefe five Verfes ; which I have put together , becaufe the.matter runs in a continued dependence.And though for the main it be the fame with which he concluded in. the fixteenth Chapter, yet the varietyof reading and expreffion wilhyield us variety of meditation : I defcend to particulars. Vcrf. r: My breath is corrupt, my dayes are extinct : the graves are readyfor me. Here are three things., every of .which (peaks a dying man, Firh, Corrupt breath:, Secondly, Extinguifheddayer. t'creo Sjrîriru Thirdly, A grave made ready. eglrorur. sept. Fitft, Mybreath is corrupt : ltuach. Thereare three intern pretations given of that word ( My breath) force underhand ligQri ßrì' it of bismind, or whole inward man : As ifhe had Paid, My at,con thoughtsare,or mymind is exceedingly troubled ; and fo molt ffrmxitperan of,the Greek Interpretrs read it; and then the word which we oiphraftnfigni. translate Corrupt,may lignifie,grieved, paimed,or afid ed, and featPious, it is,often applyed to thole pains which are_moti painful even tuptur, rarrup the painofa woman in travel. And fo the fettle. is made out tut,aco na- . datur aim thus , as if job had Paid , l.am extreamly troubled , or I am addoloresira, pained, like;a woman in the hour of iravel , asfhe is in bodily ee f mo:9 Pa- pain, fo Iampained in mind; Ihave felt many inward Pangs tieauntaria andTbrougbs, andyet Iam.not deliverd: But I conceive this eorvaldecoa. expoLtion unfuitable to the fcope of the place,, Job being a?rindunra about , to, defcribe the 4ïate of his body, or, of his, out:- ward':.
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