Job 6

Job 6:2

OH that my] thou blamest me O Eliphaz for lamenting so extreamly, but know that my laments are not somuch as equall with my torments.

Job 6:3

Swallowed up] they doe not come out smoothly, but with interrupted throbs, even as liquor that commeth out of a bottle which hath a narrow mouth, or wanteth vent. Or my words faile mee, and are smothered up with sighs, and obs.

Job 6:5

The wilde asse] lamenting is a naturall thing even to beasts, when they doe want any good thing, or feele any hurtfull thing.

Job 6:6

That which is] how ca I use such moderatin as you desire I should, my evills being extream, sweetned with no kind of comfort, nor seasoned with any thing that is good for any healthful use.

Job 6:7

The things] I suffer such torments even in my very soule, as the very tought of them would heretofore have assrighted mee.

Job 6:8

O that thou dost in vaine exhort mee to hope for resturaton, for my case is ncurable, and my estate deplrable; I expect, nor desie nothing but death

Job 6:10

Concealed] I have not put out the light nor cancelled the seale of Gods promises in my heart, nor ever dissmbled or concealed the profession of my faith, Psal 40. 10. and 116. 0. and 119 4. so hee declares that ee doth not desire to die like a desperate man; but tht hee desireth death, as the only remedy of his evills.

Job 6:11

Mine ends] that space of life which I have to come according to nature is now so short, that I can not hpe for any reparation of so many evills, Iob 16. 22.

Job 6:14

From his friend] from the O Eliphaz, and from thy felows: [the feare of] which is violated for want of charity, and through giving rash judgement upon secret acts, which God reserveth only to himselfe.

Job 6:15

My brethren] or my intimate friends: [a brook] of raine-water which passeh away, and not of a living spring.

Job 6:16

Blackish] they seeme very deep and look darkish as long as they are frozen.

Job 6:17

They wax warme] the Italian, when they runne, namely when the ice melteth in summer.

Job 6:19

Tema, Sheba] places of Arabia, to which they travell with caravans, and in great troops, with many beasts of carriage; and water is very scarse, Genesis 37:25.

Job 6:21

Nothing] friends altogether unprofitable to performe any duties of true friendship, Iob 13. 4 [are affraid] you tremble with horror, as at accidents proceeding from Gods great wrath against an accursed person, whose company you therefore refraine.

Job 6:22

Did I say] seeing I desire no help nor assistance of you for mine evills and towards my losses, and that you can give me no comfort, which are two duties of true friends in affliction: I must needs esteem you as unprofitable friends, unlesse you will performe the third duty, which is to instruct and correct (but with reason) which I will willingly accept of, and doe crave at your hands.

Job 6:26

Doe yee imagine] doe you beleeve that all your discourses are like so many sentences, or unanswerable arguments; and mine to bee but frivolous things? [of one] namely mine, who am overladen with evills pst all remedy.

Job 6:27

The fatherlesse] namely mee, who have none to help or beare mee up.

Job 6:29

Let it not bee] namely in you, finning against Go, usurping his right, taking upon you to judge of secret things, even against your neighbour with calumniations and inhumantie.

Job 6:30

My 〈…〉e] these are figurative termes. His meaning is, ave not I understading and discretion enough, to keep 〈…〉ee from giving heed to, or feeding my selfe with pernitious thoughs and discourses? Iob 12. 11. and 34. 3.