F Either, x, In ſome dark Vault under Ground, ſuch as .good me hide themſclves inin time of Perſecution, Heb. rr. 38. Lord hide'me in tome hiding placejrom thy Wrath, arid all the incollerable « ets of it, which areupon-me + for Icannot be hid from thee, but by thee. Or,. 2. In the Grave properly ſo called. Though | know Life once loft 1s 1rrecoverable, yet I heartily defire Death, rather than to continue in theic Torments, And {the next words and wiſh ſeem to ſuppoſe the continuanceof his Lite. that is not ſtrange ;. For he ſpeaks like one almoſt diſtraQted with his Miieries, ſumetimes wiſhing one thing, ſome- times another, and the quite contrary. as ſuch Perſons uſe to do. And theſe Wiſhes may. be underii ood disjun tively, T wiſh either that I were dead, or that God would give me Life free from theſe Tor- ments, Or theplace may be underſtood thus, I could wiſh, if it were pollible, that I mightly in the Grave for a tin e, till theſe Storms be blown over, and then be reſtored ta a comfortable Life, g In; ſome ſecret and ſafe place, under the ſhadow of thy Wings ard Favour, that I may have ſome ſupport and comfort from thee þ Whilſt I am op« prefled with [uch grievous ard various Calamities, which he calls God's Wrath, becauſe they were, or ſeemed tobe, the cffcs of his Wrath. 7 To wit, to my Suffcrings, as thou haſt done to my, Life v. 5. k I. 6. Wherein thou w'liſt remember me. towit, *@mercy, .or ſo asto deli- ver me: F.r it is well known, that God is frequently ſaid to forget thoſe whom he ſuffers to continue in Miſery, and to remember thoſe whom he delivers out of it.
14 If a mandie, ſhall he live again /? all the days of , yy, wl T my appginted time will I wait til my change come m. warfare.
{ 1. e. tic (hall not, .Bamely 10 this World, as was {:14 betore, The aftirmative queſtio ; is equivalent to an abſo'u c denial, as Gen, 18.17. P/al. 56. 7. fer. 5. 9. andevery where, m Seing Death puts an end toali mens hopes of any comfortable being here, becauſe man once dead never returns to life z | will therefore war on God, ard hope for hisfayour whilſt Live, and it is roffivle to - pjoy it, and will continue waiting from time to time, until my change come i e. either 1. Death, the great and laſt Change ; which 15ex, rfſed by the root of this word, ob 16. x7. Or, 2. The change of my Condition for the bet er, which you upon your Terms encourage me to expe, and which [ict truſt in God | thall enjoy 3 for his word properly ſigni» fie: Viciſſitndes or Changes in ones Cod1tion 3 and this ſeems ro ſuit beſt with the !oliowing Veiſe And this Change, or a comfortable Life here job ſo heartily wiſheth, not only from that love of Life a: d Com«= tort which is natur-liyi1mplanted in all men, good and bad, andis uot forbidden by God, which alſo was ſtronger in thoſe Old Teſtament Saints, when the diſcoverics of God's Grace to finners, and of E'et- bal Life, were much dark: r than pow they are 3 but alſo becauſe this would be an cffeGtualvindication cf his own Integrity and Good names and of the ronour of Keligioo, both which did ſuffer ſome Echpſe ww - ooh cxtream Calamities, as is eyident from the Diſcourſes of his
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nI cruſt th:re is a time con 10g wh-n thou wiltſt grant me the Mer» cy which : ow thou denieft me to wit, a favourabic hearing, when thou wilrft call to me to ſpeak for ty ſelf, and 1 ſhall anjwer thee; which | know will be to thy ſatisfa@tion and my comfort. Compare this with Chap. 1 ;. 22. where the ſame words arc uſed io this ſame ' tenle, Or, hou ſhalt call ine our of the Grave or my | alamitics, and I ſhall anſwer thee, and lay, hereI am, raiſed out of the Pit in which I was buried »y thy powerful and gracious Command 0 # e. To me who am thy Workmarſhip in divers :clpeRts, f om whom thou now ſeemeſt to have anaverſivn and abhorrency,but 1doubt not thou wii ft have adeſi e 1, e. ſhew thy affe@ion or Good-will:o me 3 or a defire to look upon me, and to deliver me, Nor is it ſtrange that jeb, who lacrely was upon the br ok of Deſpair, doth now breathe out words of Hope, luch Ebbings and Flowings being uſual both with Fob clſc> where, as Chap. 13s Is, 16, and with David frequently in the Pſalms, and with others of God's People.
16 * For now pthou numbreſt my ſteps a, doft thou
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þ 50 fl:131s a reafon ef his defire of D-ath, v. 13. - Or rather. But now; fc this ſeems to be added by way of oppoſition, I believe thou wilttt picy and help me. but for the preſent it is far otherwiſe with q Thou «© akeſt a ſtri@& enquiry ibto all my. aRions, that thou maift find out all mine Errours, and puniſh them. Compare Jeb 13: 27. 2nd 31 4, and 34. 21 Pj. 56. 6. x te, Doſt thou not watch tor my Haltings, or Miſcarriages, as if thou waſt glad of an occafion to puniſh me ; Or, thou doſt not delay the puniſhment of my ſim « For the ſame tiebrew word fignires both ſin, and its puniſhments.
17 My tranſgreflion is ſealed up in a bag s, and thou ſeweſt up mine iniquity z. he
s 4s Writtwgs of other choice things, that they may be ſafely kept, and ail of chem brought forth upan occaſion, and not one of them torgotten of loſt, Compare Deaf. z2 34. Job 23%. 9. Hof. 11. 12, t 1. e. Thou keepeſt all my fios in thy memory, and faffeneſt the guilt of them upon my Conſciexce. Or, thou addeſt te my ſin, ove fin to a» nother, the follies of my youth, Job 13. 25 to thoſe of my riper years, Or, thou addeft to my puniſhment, i, e. thou puniſheſt me more thag
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