Chap. 29. An Expoftion upm the Book, of O B. Verf. 2. 421 $,) 0 that I might have my requefl ! and that god wouldgrant me the thing that I longfor,, Thus alío Zophar (Chap.i i. 5.) 0 that Cg:d would (peak, and open his lips againfa` thee! Thus here, 0 that 1 were as in the montkes pall ! The Septuagint render h in the Cn- gular number,month; that I werefor a month as in the daps that the Lord preferved me ; As if he had laid, 0 that i bad my former profperity for a little while, though bar for a month. They who are compaffed with forrom Would highly prize even a bbort ergo}' -. ment of their former comforts ; 0 that I were for a month , for a day, for an boar, as in the dayes when God preferved me. The rico man fpoken of in the parable (Luke r 6th) being in torment befd for a drop of water to cool his tongue, which if it had been gran- tedhim could have given him but a little cafe, and that for the leaf+ of time,*moment ; how welcome then would luch a month have been to him as he once had, when he was cloathed gorge- oufly and fared delicioufly every day ! But we render more clear to the text ; O that I were as in months paft, that is, in the former part of my life, when I had as" much of this world as this world had,when all creature - content ments courted me, and tendred themfelves up to my acceptance.. 0 that I were as in the month:: pal#.. The life of a man bath a threefold meafure in Scripture ; fir ff, 'cis meafured ufually by yeares ; The dayes of our years are three- fore parrs and ten (Pfal. 90. so.) Secondly,by dayes,Man that is born ofa woman is offew dayes,and is fall of troable(Chap.14,1.) Thirdly, by Months or by Moons, as here the Heb :ew word rendred Months, conies from a root fignifying the (Moon, as our Englifh word alfo doth, becaulc Months are meafured by the courte of the Moon ; 0 that it were with me as in theMonths or Moons pall. Yobs Moon was changed ; is was full Moon with him once, but now he was in the wane, his light ryas almoq gone. All thing: under the Moon (like the Moon) appear daily in a new flap:, and are only certain in their uncertainties. O that I were as in the Months of old,or as in the Months of an- tiquity, fo the Original, n7ßcïtrss. quicgtad.ante The word figoificth any thing before us, whether in time or t,os,, tác ad place.;,
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