Job 16

Job 16:4

SHake my] in contempt and scorne, Psal. 22. 7. Lamentations 2:15.

Job 16:6

Though I speak] the Italian, if I speak, that which you say is true, my complaints doe not ease my paine, yet silence would encrease it and make it worse; therefore I will case my minde with talking.

Job 16:8

A witnesse] namely, that my sorrowes are not seigned, nor of small consequence, see Iob 10. 17.

Job 16:9

Sharpneth] he looketh fiercely upon mee, and with a piercing eye.

Job 16:10

They have] hee describes how violently his friends did set upon him, with their reproofes and injurious words, see Iob 6. 27. and 12. 4. and 17. 2. and 19. 22 [smitten mee] cruelly and contumeliously wro〈…〉ged mee with such injuries as this is, Lamentations 3:30. Micah 5:1.

Job 16:11

The ungodly] namely the devill and his instruments, Arabians and Caldeans, Iob 1. 15. 17.

Job 16:13

Archers] figurative termes, as Iob 10. 17. and 19. 12 [my gall] which is a mertall and incurable wound.

Job 16:15

I have sowed] according as my affliction hath been, so hath my humiliatin been, in submitting my selfe under the hand of God, Ier. 31. 18 [defiled] I have taken off all mine ornamerts, to put my selfe in the habit of an afflicted and suppliant man, see Exodus 33:5.

Job 16:16

The shaddow] mine eyes are dimme and weak, like unto a dying mans.

Job 16:17

Pure] it is not polluted by an evill conscience, see Psal. 109. 7. Proverbs 28:9. 1 Timothy 2:8.

Job 16:18

O earth] if I have committed any murther, or such like cruell fact, I doe not desire that it may be concealed, or scape unpunied. A kind of speech taken from robbers and murtherers, who cover all those things as may reveale blood-shed, see Genesis 4. 10. 11. Isaiah 26:21. Ezec. 24. 7 [my cry] that is as much as to say, let my request be denied, Iob 17. 9. Psal. 66. 18. 19. Proverbs 1:28. Iohn 9. 31.

Job 16:20

Powreth out] I powre out my teares, and cries before him only, and therefore he alone, and not yu, is to iudge of them.

Job 16:21

Plead] to maintaine by the inward seale of Gods spirit, and by the certaine prooss of a lively faith and pure conscience, his right and title to be one of Gods children; notwithstanding all this seeming rigor, see Iob 9. 32. and 7. 3.

Job 16:22

When a few] the Italian, for my few, I doe very earnestly desire this, before my death, which I perceive to be very neere; that I may die in peace with Gods approbation, and as a sweet smelling savour to the Church, and for the edifiction of it.