An exposition with practical observations upon the three first chapters of the book of…

JOB 3. Ver. 14, 15, 16, 17, 18. Verse 14. With Kings and Counsellors of the earth, which build desolate places for themselves. Or with Princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver. Or as an hidden untimely birth, I had not been, as infants which never saw light. There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together, they hear not the voice of the oppressor, &c.

JOB 3. Ver. 14, 15, 16, 17, 18. Verse 14. With Kings and Counsellours of the earth, which build desolate places for themselves. Or with Princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver. Or as an hidden untimely birth, I had not been, as infants which never saw light. There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together, they heare not the voice of the oppressour, &c.

From the 10th. verse of this Chapter to the end of the 19th, we have showed you, that Job layeth down the cause of his former bitterness and complainings against his day. At the 10th. verse he is angry because it hindered not his conception and his birth; And at the 13th. he giveth a further cause of that cause, For then (saith he) I should have been at rest. Now being about to prove that in death he should have found rest, he doth it by an induction of particulars, As if he had thus said. Where all sorts of persons, even they who have been hardest wrought, and most troubled in the world, find rest; there surely I should have found rest also, But in death, persons that have been hardest wrought and most troubled in the world find rest; therefore there I should have found rest too. Now for the proving of this assumption, that in death all sorts of persons find rest, even those who have been most travailed, ⟨p. 411⟩tired and worn out in the world: To prove this (I say) he gives instance in divers, almost all ranks, degrees and conditions of men.