Job 7

Job 7:1

TIme] all labours and services in this world, have their ends, and releasements, as souldiers are licensed, when the time of their serving is ended. But I alas seem to bee condemned to perpetuall torments, and shall have no time of respite in mine evills, which doe increase in the night time, which is a time of rest for all men.

Job 7:3

Moneths] this sheweth that his calamities lasted a long time, see Iob 29. 2.

Job 7:5

With wormes] with sores, and putrefied ulers, full of wormes.

Job 7:6

Hope] of corporall amendment.

Job 7:7

Remember] hee turneth his speech to God, speaking to him in humane termes and conceipts. If I die under thine hand, and that afterwards thy wraih be appeased, how wilt thou be able to doe me good when I am no more? Wouldest thou deprive thy selfe of the meanes of using thy goodnesse towards mee, letting mee die before thou help or relieve mee? see Iob 7. 21. and 14. 15. and 16. 22 Psal. 88. 11.

Job 7:11

Therefore I will not] since I can get no ease at thy hands; I will disburthen my heart with laments.

Job 7:12

Am I a Sea] I cannot judge my evills to be to any other end, than to keep mee in safe custody untill my cause be fuly heard; but what needs so much rigor? am I as mighty as these creatures? or able to resist thee or escape from thee? Iob 10. 6. 7. and 13. 27.

Job 7:15

My life] the Italian, my bones, my body which is now nothing but bones.

Job 7:16

I would not live] the Italian, I shall not live, give me a little rest, to prepare my selfe for my approaching death: [Uanity] transitory, uncertaine and fleeting of their own nature, but brought quite to nothing, through my calamities, Psal. 39. 5.

Job 7:17

Magnifie him] holding him in such straight custody, and proceeding against him, with such a rigourous inquest, as against a great and terrible delinquent, verse, 12.

Job 7:19

Swallow doune] that I may but recover my selfe, and take breath, Iob 9. 18.

Job 7:20

I have sinned] if thou wilt judge me according to the rigour of thy Law, I confesse my selfe to bee a sinner, and unable to yeeld thee satisfaction, Iob 9. 3. 15. 29. and 14. 4. though according to the fatherly rule, which thou hast prescribed to thy children, I have endeavoured my selfe to innocencie: [thou preserver] that keepest all men during this mortall life under thy Soveraigne hand as under custody, untill the time that every one must be judged [a burthen] life being noisome, and grieveous to me, being oppressed with so many sorrowes.

Job 7:21

Take away] from before thy face and judgement, by pardon and by remitting thy justice, 2 Samuel 12:13. not by taking it away from within man, by a totall annihilation of sinne, and all manner of defects which is never done during this life: [seek me] for to doe me good, verse 8.