Chap. 19. fix Expeftion upon the Soak, of J ÓB. Vert 77. 267 plaint. Words are nothing but breath formed and fhaped to expreffe our mindes by ; fo, My breath it f range, is, my words, mycomplaints to her, my difcourfes with ber are Orange ; the will not heare me fpeake, my voyce is oflenfive and unpleafant to her by realön of my affli1ion ; I deale fo much in groaner and fighes while I fpeake, that the cannot beare it to heare me fpeake. Fourthly, Take breath ftric`tly for that which we refpire or breath forth while we live. My breath is f range ; that is loathsome, noyfome, ill favour". So the word is ufed (2Ktimb , I I. 2o. ) where the Lord tells the people of Ifrael when they murmured for flefh, that they fhould have their fill ofit, (verf 20.) Te /hall not ease oneday,or two day's, or fivedays, or tenday's, er twentie dayes,but even a whole moneth, tillii comeout ofyour no- finills, and be loathfome to you (fowe read, or ) till it be(range to you, or an abhorrence toyour ftomack. As all things are strange to us which we never had or ufed, fo fome things grow Orange to us, becaufe we haveand ufe them fo much. The ftrangeneffe ofloathing is worfe then the ftrangeneffe of not having ; Ye íhall beacquainted with flefh till ye count it strange ; that is, ungrateful! or unwelcome both to your prefence and your pa- late. So here,My breath is fratage to mywife,'tis to her as unfà, vory meate which the flomack loatheth, or cannot digeft ; probably the breath of lob might have an ill favour, through the continuance of his difeafe ; any long fickneffe may breed corruption of the breath, and force fickneffes arife from putri- faetion in the lungs or inward parts, which neceffarily corrupt the breath : 'tis like ?ob had inward fores as well as outward, and that there made his breath unfavory, Yet he ¡cokes on this as a part of his affliétion, that his breath ( though not fo fweet and pleafant as in former times ) fhould be Orange to his wife. My breath is frange to my wife. He adds an aggravation to this unkindneffe ofhis wife, as be- fore to the negle6t ofhis fervants ; as he intreated them, fo he intreated her ; My breath is(range tomy wire. Though I intreatedfor, thechildrensfake ofmy owne bodie. Some render'it diftinétly, and make this a defcription of the M m 2 un-
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