Chap. 19. An Expolitionupon the Booke of J O B. Vert. 2-6. 359 God. Or though this skin be deflroyed, yet I./hall lee 76d To this Et MIquartz feats another tranílates ; After wormes have Jigged through this, vermti coafo detint rßad a- ( chat is, this skin or body ) I aovz!ing !ballfee god in myfl fh. vigilante roe. The Interlineal! varies little ; And after they (that is, the Jun: wormes) have confirmed this my skin, I (hall fee. God in my flefb. Et po(iquam The ftriCt letter of the Hebrew is very coneife; Andafter my skin pedemmeam on ti de troy this. So that we fupply three words in this one claufe, c Ìaanc. s Mane ont to make up that which we conceive the fenfe ; Firm , the word though ; Secondly, the word wines ; Thirdly, the word body ; neyther ofwhich are exprefly in the Uriginall. Therefore our trarflators have put them in a different chancier, implying that thofe words are added to explain the meaning of the place, which is fomewhat darke, by reafonof that conciienerfe of ex- preflion. Some Interpreters take noticeofthe elegancy of lob's rpeech, who therefore doth not namehis body, or fay, this body, eyther becaufe with the demonftrative particle, This, he ufed a geflure puttiug his hand upon his breaft, After wormes have deflroyed this which I now layinghand upon, that is, this my body, Ifha/l yetfee Clod in myfefb. Or as Tome others conceive he faith onely This, not this body, becaufe his body was fo worne and diffigured with his fores and fickneffe, that it could fcarfe be called a bo- dy ; After wormes have deftroyed this, call it what you will, I can hardly find a fitting word to call it by. As ifhe had more largely fayd; After Iam dead,andlaya' in the grave,where wormes doe not onely eate my skinand confume this uppergarment, but my whole body alfo;yea,ana not onely the outward limbs andmembers of my body,but my very bowelt an entralls.Though my reins be comfit- Credo carats wedwithin me; though wormes devoure,and rottenefs invade what- video tare- foever Iam, orhave of a bodie, though I am (pent fromhead to toe, on corlumi re. from 'kin to reins, without and wittin,yet notwithflanding all this, nes tneo, in me- t believe that 1 ¡hall rife again, andfee God in my fit,lh. Hence ob- dio: orporio ferve, firít, Bent ; - Confu nor torus Death may, yea(ballprevaileover the whole outwardman. ab una parte act a!terarn. Juan- Death fpends both skin, and reins ; it devoures all. Death fwallòwes up flefh and bones. We may well fay of death, It makes no bones ofany man. It takes in one part after another, till all be taken in ; skin, and flefh and bones, and reins; death
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