Chap. 20. AnExpofitian upon the Booke of J O B. Verf: 18. s27 price : But menhad rather beftow their paines and labour for the world, then take heavenly things at the loweft rates upon the eafiefl price, 3-ea without price;, as the Prophets rebuke in timates in the next words; wherefore doeyefpendyour moneyfor that which is not bread. andyour labourfor what fatisfieth not. Bread inScripture comprehends every good thing, and that which is not bread is good tot nothing.Breadfatisfies the hun- ger of man & renews his ftrength, but that which is not brea d cannot fatisfie. All the things of this life(which are our bread) are no bread incomparifon of the things ofChrift,efpecially of Chrift himfelfe, who is living bread,thebread oflife,& that an eternal life:yet Chrift who is the belt bread,better then bread; is litle laboured for, & that which hach fo little of bread in it, that it is not bread', is every mans labour; and the onely labour of moil men. Againe, Labour fignifieth thatwhich a manhath gottenby ; tiarnft hbirm' honest endeavours, and in righteous wayes. That which isun, fns, lacuna'n duely gotten, is not ( properly) laid to be gotten by labour, drmnia Dee though a man bath laboured much in getting it. Thus labour 16i e4éatxrz is oppofed to stealing (Ephef. q.. z8 )Let him that fítol e fleale rorf:atn tMsj. more(what 'hall be do then?) but rather let him labour;.wvorking inn Fercipiet. zvith hishands the thing that is good that be may have to give to Jun. him that needeth. So we may take it here,this man bath gotten much wickedly,and he bath gotten fomewbat honeftly,he (hall fuller damage in his ho:eft gaines; becaufe he bath gained dif- honefily. He fhsll reftore his labour, or what he bath laboured fix. A little gotten poy/ons that which t well gotten ; as was touched before. And ¡hall notfwallow it downe. The wordwas opened at the r 5th verfe : whereit is°faid, be bathfh'allowed downe riches : It may beenquired, how Zophar faith here, Fle'hall not(wallow it downe?to clear that you may confider ofa twofold 'wallowing. Firft, There is a fo allowing by rapine, and violence : dint- the wicked man fwallowed downe riches at the 15 verle. Secondly, There is a fwallowing for nourifhmenr, and fu- ftenance, for flrength and fupport. Thus 'tis fiid here,Hc/hall - notfwallow it down. Aman may be laid to fwallow down what lie_hath gotten, and to digit it, when his Omen iver, as the bodÿ .t
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