Job 19

Job 19:3

TEn times] or many times.

Job 19:4

Mine error] leave the are thereof to mee, for it nothing concerneth you.

Job 19:6

Know now] doe not adde affliction to the afflicted which is so odious a thing to God, Psa. 41. 2. and 69. 26. or regard the greatnesse of my evills which draw these complaints from mee, that seeme so immoderate to you, see Iob 6. 2. [compassed 〈…〉e] hath encompassed mee round with affliction, that I can get out no way. A hunting terme, Iob 10. 16. Lamentations 1:13 Ezech. 12. 13. Hosea 7:12.

Job 19:7

Wrong] the Italian, violence, I am guiltlessely tormented by the devill and his instruments through Gods permission, see Psal. 119. 122. Isaiah 38:14.

Job 19:8

Fenced up] see Iob 3. 23. [hee hath set] hee hath taken away all meanes from mee of getting out of my afflictions.

Job 19:9

My glory] namely the authority and dignity I was in, as a magistrate, see Iob 29. 7. 14. 20. and 30. 11.

Job 19:10

Hath hee removed] namely of bodily life and comfort, Iob 7. 15. but not of eternall salvation, Iob. 13. 15. and 19. 25 [a tree] cut down or rooted up.

Job 19:12

His troops] figurative termes taken from sieges, see Iob. 16. 13.

Job 19:17

My breath] shee scorneth to come nigh mee, by reason of the change and stinkingnesse of my breath: [for the] for the love and in regard of our children, which were the pledges of matrimoniall love between us.

Job 19:18

Young children] young in age, or mean of condition. Others, men of evill life.

Job 19:20

The skinne] namely my gummes, an ordinary kind of speech, as when one saith; such a one hath nothing left him but his teeth.

Job 19:21

Hath touched mee] see Rth 1:13. 1 Samuel 6:9 Iob 1. 11.

Job 19:22

Are not] as much as to say, it seemeth that you could find in your hearts to devoure mee alive, Iob. 16. 10.

Job 19:24

And lead] melted into the cuts of the letters, or upon lead. Namely some plate of that mettle, as was anciently used for inscriptions and publick monuments. His meaning is, I desire that posterity being well informed of my cause, might judge of it.

Job 19:25

For I] the Italian, as for mee I know, as much as to say: Finally I doe appeale to the last judgement of the great Iudge of the world, the promised Messias in whom I have beleeved as well for the salvation of the soule, as for the resurrection of the body. And hee in time shall make mine innocency to appeare, see 1 Corinthians 4:5. [liveth] as true eternall God: and that in his humane nature, which hee will take upon him for the redemption of his Church, he will perpetually enjoy the life of glory, purchased through his justice for himselfe and all his members,Iohn 6. 57. and 4. 19 [shall stand] that is to say, shall appeare in glory to judge all men who were turned to dust, and raised againe by him.

Job 19:26

My skinne] namely this corporall life, in which nothing is now left mee but my skinne: [in my flesh] in mine owne proper person, my body by vertue of the resurrection, being rejoyned to my soule, I shall enjoy the presence of my God and Saviour by the divine light in my mind, which shall redound unto the senses of the body, which shall also have for object of its happinesse, the humane and glorified body of Christ, and the misticall body of his Church perfectly united unto him, Psal. 17. 15. 〈◊〉 Cor. 23. 12. 1 Iohn 3. 2.

Job 19:27

Not another] mine own body shall bee againe restored unto mee, and not another new body created, see Isaiah 26:19. [my reines] an exclamation of a vehement desire, as Genesis 49:18. Psal. 119. 81.

Job 19:28

The root] I have Gods word, and his holy promises deeply rooted in my heart through faith, Ia. 1. 2. by which being freed by Gods judgement, I ought not, nor must not bee condemned by men, see Iohn 3. 18. and 5. 24.

Job 19:29

Of the sword] of Gods just punishment: [wrath] the Italian, iniquity, see Iob 6. 29. [a judgement] namely against them that give rash judgement of their brethren, Math. 7. 1. Romans 14:4 Ia. 4. 11.