Chap. t g. An E.xpofitionupon the Bookle of JOB. Verf. 20. 28.t Ofa e!q runt:, fum,rrifera cri; nliire, Pi.:ut. ( pfal. toz. 5. eil'ty heart isfmitten dead, &c. Ty reafin of the voyce ofmy groaning; my bone cleaveth to my skin, that is, I am be- comevery low and leane. This proverb is ufed allo by corn plai ring Itremie. Their vifage is blacker then a cele, they are not known in the¡treets, their skin cleaveth to their bone (Lam. 4. 8. ) Fat men are skin andflefh, bones appease not ; ¡cane men are skin and bones, their Lib appearesnot. and I am efcapedwith the shin of my teeth. When he faith, I am efcaped, he irnplyes that he had been in Clanger, and could not eafily get away. Some evills may be withftood and conquered, but 'tis well if we can makean efcape fromothers. Vob was as hard put to it, as ever poor man was, He fpeakes in allufion to a Battle, or as ifhe had come lately from the Warres ; and indeed his was a fore warre. A man that bathbeen put to the worft in a battle, is glad he can efcape away with any thing ; he is glad when all elfe is loft to efcape away with his skin, though it be not a whole skin ; When all's made a prey, he is well if he bath his life for a prey. 'sb had been ina great battle, and was pitifully battered, he onely carne off with his life, ( that Satan had noCommif-, lion to touch) but he carne off with very little betides, nothing was left him but the skin ofhu teeth, that was all, and chat's a poore all, even as little as may be. The whole skin is not much, but the skin of the teeth is much lefïe. This was Yob's cafe, .1 am eftapedwith The skin ofmy teeth. The Vulgar rendreth it I am efcaped with my lipsabout my Derelilla flint teeth, or, there is nothing left me but my lips about my teeth ; They 146'1 eaitnm- who followthat tranflation, tell us rather wittily then folidly modo den that his lips were fpared him not out of pittie, but upon de- ligne. The Devill who had power to woundhim all over, To touch his bone and his flefh, as the Lord fpeakes ( Chap. z., ) yet fpared his lips, left he fhould be difabled or bindred in fpeak. ing, and fo in blafpheming God, which was his originali p'ot upon him. A learned tranflator, who retaines our reading, 1"7 hit re astir Both yet expound the skinof his teeth, for his lips, the lips be Jntegrum p.rer ing as a skin enclofing'the teeth ; and gives that Goff upon fee7ti. ilfrn- O o n:er.,Hrn. J n, it
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