4t0 Chap17. 1ln.Expef;tion upon the Book of J O B: Verf.2 =,171:11'1 Malter Broughton tranflates by way of affirmation, Surely `r1ï t a mockers are bef{owed on me. We by way of Quelion, Are there ittu r der =1ìt. not mockers with me? Yes, there are mockers with me : Some Formula jur=f read it as the formofan Oath. It is familiar in the Hebrew jurandi huic to ufe fuck forms of fwearing and imprecating 'Co the words tirg" fgn:átr. are rendredby a learned Interpreter,Let me perifh ifmyfriends aria. Nett. are not mockers if they go not about to deludeme. Job fake this Diferamruf yg J pak mihi fttt. a little before, My friends fcorn me, Chap. 16. 20 Here he dean: mihi int- is at it again, Are there not mockers with me ? I find three ponere,Vatab. words applyed by Job to hisfriends, while he reproves this pr to their unfriendly ufage The firft, Chap. 12, 4, there he txfeth a wordwhich fige nifieth We are never the nearer the grave, becaufe we prepare for it, (peak and meditateon it, or re(olve to go into it It is not our holding back from the grave, that will keep us out of it, nor our willingnefs to gohe grave, that will put us into it, It is good to mitlake upon the bell fide ; God ufually recalls thofe from death, who are moil ready at his call to dye. Fifthly, In that he (peaks ofGraves in the Plural number : 'Learn this There are many rrtayes ofgoing out of the world, though there be but one may o fcoming in Whitherfoever we are going, we are going to the grave, and when we have ftept over, or fcrambled out ofthe grave, we may ¶uickly flip into another, and be locked in fail e- nough. Laftly, Take this from the whole, by way of Corrollary ; It is our wifdom to hand always ready for death , and the grave, for they hand ready for us: Ours is a dying life, a de- caying ftrength, oursare confuming dayes, our dayes cannot be many, poffbly they will be but very few ; for ought we know the grave is now ready for us, and we are fore it is a dig ging and preparingfor us: Therefore let us be digging in the Word of life, that we may be ready to meet and welcome death, and the grave, which are fo ready for us : The grave: are ready for rae. yobproceeds to re-inforce the caufe of this appeal. Verf.2. Are therenot mockers with me ? And Both mine eye continue intheir provocation ?
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