JOB · ·· 2o~ Man; s"like a flower, th~ while"he hach to la£1, He's nipt with froft, and 1hook with,, everybla!t, He's born in forrow, and brought up in tears, He lives a while in fin, and dies in fears. Lord, I'll not boaft, wl~at..e'r thou give unto m~, . Left e'r my brag'be don,e, thou take it from .!De, No man may boafi bwt of his own; I can Then boai't ofnothing, for I am a tnan. . ·' THE ARG~1ME N.T. 7\,qjh Eliphaz doth ngg;1a.vate ' Tb~ fins ofJob; malign~ his ftate: Whom Job'reproving, jrt.!tifies Himfelf, bewails h1s miferirt. DOth v~in repining ( IUipha'{ replies) Or word"s like wind, befeem the man that's wife ~ ... Ah ! fure, thy'faithlefs l1earr rejects the fear. Of heav'n, doth not ac~uaint thy lips with pray'r l ~by words accuf.e thy heart of Impudence; ·Thy tongue (not I) brings in the Evidence: Art thou the firtl: of men ? De Myfrcries Unfold to thee ?art thou the only wife ? .\\.'herein bath \Yifdom been more good to you Than us ? What know you rha.t we never knew '? Reverence, -not c~nfure, fits a yoLI'hg mans~yes, We arc your Ancients, and !hould be as wife ; . ls~t not enoa~h, your Arrogance derides , Our Cou,ufels;.bur m~;~.fi [corn t~y God belides ? Angels ·( if God enquire firietly) muft Nor--plead perfeelitn • then can man ic jufi ? ., ), ' ' ' ' ' '1. . •, ' ' .
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