Job 3

Job 3:1

CVrsed] motions of meere infirmity, and impatience of the flesh, without blasphemy or impiety, or any other evill meaning, see upon 2 Samuel 1:21.

Job 3:3

Perish] an impossible and vaine wish. The meaning is, let not the memory of it bee kept, no solemnized as a birth day, but let it every yeare when it commeth, bee held as an unluckie and infamous day.

Job 3:4

Regard it] let it not be made pleasant with clearnesse; nor luckie by any good chances.

Job 3:5

The shaddow] like to the shaddow of the subterraneall, and infernall cloisters: [staine it] let it be mournfull, like lo a funerail day, which day it was not lawfull for them who had been present at the sunerall, to come to any feasts, or offer any sacrifices.

Job 3:6

Let it not be joyned with] the Italian, let it not rejoyce with, let it not bee reckoned amongst the good, nor joyfull dayes of the yeare.

Job 3:7

Salitary] and not honoured by any festivall assemblies.

Job 3:8

Them curse it] namely those hired mourners that used those formes of mourming at funeralls, 2 Chronicles 35:25. Ier. 9. 17. Amos 5:16.

Job 3:9

The dawning of] the Italian, the eye lids of or the first appearing of day light: a poeticall terme.

Job 3:12

The knees] namely of the midwife, or the nurse, see Genesis 30:3.

Job 3:14

Desolate places] hee seemeth to meane the founders of great cities, and heads of Empires after the desolation of the deluge, Gen. 10. 10. 11. Iob 15. 28. Isaiah 23:13.

Job 3:18

The oppressour] hee meaneth one that is set over slaves to see them doe their work, as Iob 39. 10. see Iudg. 16. 21.

Job 3:20

Is light given] the Italian, giveth he light, meaning God; though hee forbeareth to name him for the reverence and respect hee beareth to his name.

Job 3:23

VVhose way] that seeth no issue nor remedy to her evills, and is quite void of counsell and help: [hedged in] as in a lbirinth of calamities, Iob 19. 8. Lamentations 3:7. Hosea 2:6,

Job 3:26

I was not] I never gave my selfe over to carnall security, I have alwayes affrighted my heart with the apprehension of the accidents of this life and have contained my selfe within the bounds of all humility and modesty, Proverbs 28:14.