Chap.30. 4e (x9seion :ION the look of ,J a. Veal. e before me ; as ifhe had faid ; Ifyou inquire of me, how it Comes to pate, that I who roar honoror'dby a8,and above the m./ ef,men, am now troden upon ex the areaneft wor"me,yeaas the mire in thefirms, I waft confefe'tis the hand of Çed upon me. 1 doe not much /yoke upon, much logef/ay in thele paare creatures that dafpife me, but know andacknowledge, that'tisGod which bath tooled my coard and afiiledme, 'Tie be that hark broken the band ofthat authority by »kick all were heldhe fulojeElion to me. 'Tie ç,dwho kath untied the knotof duty, which oncefirmlyfaft- ned reverence and re/petl to my person; and mono Iam defpijedand become the very / corne of men, and a reproach among the people. Thirdly , He lets forth, as the contempt of his person, fu the fickneffe and difeafes ofhis body, together with their fad Sym- ptomes and efTe&s, towards the making ofhim yet more corn. pleately miserable. This he Both at the 18th and e9th verles; 11y the Great force ofmy di/ea/e, is my Garment changed, it bindeth me about as the culler ofmy coat, hekath calf me into the noire ; Arad I am become liE e duet and allies. Fourthly,He urgeth his prefent misery by (which is worse then all this)the hidings of Gods face and favour from him, as allo by the fiopa and denyals which the Lord put upon his prayers and groans, at the 20th verfe,lcry unto thee and thou d,It n,t hear me,Istandupand thou regardetell me not. When lob was brought to this pafs,that man did not regard him at all,and,(as to fence ) God regarded himas little ; What could be added,in this life, to make him either more unhappy, or more fe; fi le of his unhappy. neffe ? Therefore after feverall reinforcemencs of his forrow, by other additional) argiements and confidera;ions,heconcludes this doleful) Rory in a proverbial) lamentation (v. 28. 29, 30 3 1, ) I went mournirf without the Sun, .Istoodup and I cried i the c:n- gregation. I am a brother to `Dragons, and a companion to Owl s. My skin is blackupon me, andmy bones are burnt with heat. My harpe al o is turned towrurning,and my organ into theveyce -.f th m that aoeepr. Againe we may analife the whole Chapter thus; F;rfl, !hews his prefent c,ifery, by the injurious and re- proachfuli fpeeches and revilings, which he received from the wort of men in the firft ten verses. B 2, Secor.dly,
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