Chap. 19. AnExpofition upon the Bo&kof J O B. Vert.. 21. 287 afhamed to Tooke upon me, and I would haveyou viewme well, glut your eyes upon me, and takeyour fill of my beauty ;whenyou havebe- held meonce,beholdme a fecund time,andfee whether ye will not like me as well as at thefirf{ ; lookuponme as fren asyou pleafe,theoft- neryou look, the moreyee will be peafed, and belureye look upon no ether, for betides me there is no Saviour ; Beholdme, behold me, me onely, an'.%me alwayes ; behold me as muchÆs you will, andhave no will robehold any other. Scripture repetitions ( you fee) are no where vaine repetitions ; the more words we have from God !till the moreweight,' tis fo here in lob's repetition; Have pittie upon me, have pittie uponme, O ye my tends. Or, at leaf!, yee my friends (as Tome eranfiate) do ye thew Sa'rem oo, . me pittie, ye who are friends, let orangers doe what they pleafe, vulg. let them paffe by fenfeleffe of my forrowes, but doenot yee ; or ye my friends who are prefent with me, let me prevaile with you to (hewme pittie,though other friends who live at a diftar.ee are hardned againft me. Thus 70b is .conceived making a par- ticular application to his three friends, in oppofition to thofe whom he charged with unfriendlineffe in the former context. As if finding himfelfe deferted 6y thofe, yea by his kindred, by bis wife, and children, by his fervai,ts and Col ncelleur, I?e turned himfelfe tohis friends thenvifiting him, Oyee myfriends, who profeffe that ye came upon that very errand to çomfort me, benot you unkinde as the reft of whom I made that fad corn- plaint. But feeing lob in many paffages bath taxed thofe three friends with deepeft; unkindneffe, and profeffed that he had nor experienced any pittie from them ; I fee little reafon why he (hould make application to them hee upon that acccount ; And therefore (I conceive ) hedire&s his fpeech to them, be- caufe it was their duty as well as the duty ofothers to pittie him, not becaufe they had given him more hopes ofpittie then others had. Further, Confider he doth not fay have pittie on me, O ye men ; though there is an obligation in that to pittie; nor doth he fay have pittie on me, Oye my allies and kindred ( though that be a further obligation to pittie) but he puts it upon profef- fingand fometime afting lovers, o yee myfriends. A friend is a:
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