7 0 z Both from men, and from God, and from his .own unquiet mind and guilty conſcience. - Shall force him to flee hither and thither, and he knows not whither, being ſecure and ſafe no where, but purſued by Terrors from place to place. _ 12 His ſtrength þ ſhall be hunger-bitten e, and de-
6:15:23 ftrudtion ſhall be ready at bis ſide d, _ | : Satan b Either 1- His Children, which are, and are called a Man's Strength, as Gen 49+ 3- P/#!- 127- 4, 5+ Or rather 2+ His Wealth, and Power, and Proſperity. c Or, famiſhed, 1- e- utterly conſum= ed- & i-e- Shall follow him at the heels, as a moſt diligent Ser- vant, or conſtant Companion: SET
12 It ſhall devour the + ſtrength of his skin e: ever
the firſt-born of death f ſhall deyour his ſtrength.
£ Heb- 7s bars, or rather, the branches of the skin, i- e- either the Veins, and Sinews, which branch out themſelves through the Skin as well as eiſe-where: Or the Fat and Fleſh which like barrs ſup- port the Skin, and adorn and beautifie it, as branches do a Tree ; without which the Skin is ſhrivel'd up and deformed- f i-e- A moſt remarkable and terrible kind of death. The fr/t-born was the chief of his Brethren, and therefore this Title is given to things eminent
In their kind, as 1/a+ 14+ 30+ Col: 1” 18. Heb: 12+ 23* Reve Ir ©
*Ch 8:14 714 * His confidence g ſhall be rooted out of his ta-
& 11: 2% bernacle 6, and it 5 ſhall bring him to the king of rer-
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_ g ie All the matter of his Confidence, his Riches,Children, OG þ i.e Qurt of his habitation. , i To wit, the loſs of his Confidence.
k Either 1- Into extream fears and Horrors of Mind. Or 2. To death, which even Ariffotle called, The moſt terrible of all terribles- And this it will do,either becauſe it will expoſe him to his enemies, who will kill him; or becauſe the ſenſe of his Diſappointments,and
Loſſes, and Dangers, will oppreſs his Spirits, and break his Heart.
15 Ir ſhall dwell in his cabernacle /, becauſe #: 3s
none of his m: brimeſtone ſhall be ſcattered upon his
habitation m.
I It, i- e Deſtrution, expreſſed v- 12. and deſigned by this par- ticle 1, v+ 13+ ſhall not come upon him and his for a fcaſon, for then there might be ſome hopes of Recovery ; But it ſhall fix its abode with me- m This may be added either 1. By way of Cor- re&tion, did I ſay, hu Tabernacle? T muſt retra&t the Expreſſion ; for in truth, it i none of his, it is become another Man's: Or 2- As a reaſon of the ruine of his Tabernacle,becauſe it is none of his own, but gor from others by deceit or Violence. But theſe words are, and may be joyned with the former, and both thus rendred. 4 Stranger, ( Heb. one that is not his, that is not deſcended from him, and hath no relation to him) ſbal dwell in his Tabernacle, 1. e. ſhall poiſeſs his Houſe and Goods. 7 It ſhall be utterly and prodigiouſly deſtroyed, as it were by Fire and Brimeſtone. He ſeems to allude both to the deſtruftion of Sodom, upon which God did ſcatter Brim- ſtone and Fire, which happened not long before theſe times, and could not be unknown to them who lived near that place, and were diligent obſervers of God's Works; and to the Judgment which befel Job Chapter 1- 16- when the Stranger hath taken and rifled his Dwelling, he ſhall forſake it as an accurſed place, and ſhail burn it with Fire and Brimeſtone ; that there may be no Mo- nument of ſo vile a perſon left upon the Earth.
16 His roots ſhall be dried up beneath, and above
ſhall his branch be cut off o. 0 i. e- He ſhall be deſtroyed both Root and Branch, + e- both himſelf and his Poſterity- Compare Mal 4. 1-
+Hebs bars
"Plal.199- 15 * His remembrance jhall periſh p from the earth, P.. 2.22; and he ſhall have no name in the ſtreet. & 10. 9, Þ1In ſtead of that Honour and Renown which he deſigned to have
both whilit he lived, and after his death, he is not ſo much as re-
membred, unleſs it be with contempt and reproach: . nor 18 + He ſhall be driven q from light into darkneſs r, him, and chaſſed out of the world.
q Heb. They ſhall drive him, i: e- his Enemies, or thoſe whom he hath oppreſſed ; or they whom God ſhall appoint to do it, whether Angels or Men. Orit is an 1mperſonal ſpeech, and to be reaared paſhvely, as it is alſo Job 7- 3. Luke 12+ 20+ and 16: 9+ r From a ſplendid and proſperous Life to diſgrace and miſery, and to the Grave, the Land of Darkneſs and Forgetfulneſs, as the following words explain ir. :
i9 * He ſhall neither have ſon nor nephew among his people s, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
s Butif any ſuch ſurvive, they ſhall be in the hands and power of Strangers, or rather of their Enemies. :
20 They that come after him ſhall be aſtonied at his
»:th/Li»m, day t, asthey that || went before « | were affrighted x. tHeb. lsi2 £* i ©. At the day of his Deſtruftion, as the word day is uſed, bold 0n hops PJ#l. 37+ 13- and 137+ 7+ Exek» 21. 25: Obad- 12. They ſhall be a- rour, mazed at the Suddenneſs, and Dreadfulneſs, and Prodigiouſneſs of it, as Job's Friends were at his calamities, Chapter 2- Iz, 13- wi.e. Before the perſons laſt mentioned. Thoſe who lived in the time and place where this Judgement was inflicted. x Or, filed with hor- reur, partly through Humility and Compaſſion, and parcly for fear, leſt the Judgment ſhould overtake them alſo. : 21 Surely ſuch .re the dwellings of the wicked, and this ;s the place of biz that knoweth not God jy. Y ie Who dotk not acknowledge, nor fear, nor ſerve God, as this phraſe is uſed, 1 Sam. 2: 12+ Pal. 79. 6. 2Theſſ* 1. 8:
\ CHAP. XIL c Job's anſwer + His Friends Strangeneſs and Reproaches vex him, 1 =umas ;, He layeth before them hs grear Miſery to provoke their Pity, 6 22. Wiſbeth his words might be recorded, 23, 24. His hope in his Redeemer, and the Reſurrefion, 25 —- 27 His Friends ſhould not reproach his Integrity, for fear of like Judgment, 28, 29. Hen Job aniwered and faid, | 2 How long will ye vex my ſoul, in pieces with words 4+
FIſa4-22e Jer. 22430.
| Or, Lived
and break me
s With meer empty words void of Senſe or Argument, with |
Fas
B. Chap. Xl your impertinent and unedifying Diſcourſes, and bitter Reproach- | es, aSit tolloweth- | | 3 LIheſe ten times b have ye reproached me: ye | are not aſhamed bar ye || make your ſelves ſtrange 1Or,bai to me 6. | your ſeln