An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…

There is somewhat further observable in this, from the translation of the Seventy, who render it thus, Is there any sign or mark in the way of a ship, or of an Eagle? So the meaning of Job should be, that his life, in respect of former comforts and contentments,¹ was past away, and had left no mark, no sign behind it. The ship in the sea passeth away, and there is no rode, no tract left; and the Eagle in the air passeth, and you cannot see where the Eagle made her flight, the air closeth presently, there is no ⟨p. 341⟩way to be seen: Solomon useth those similes, Prov. 30.19. There be three things which I know not, the way of an Eagle in the air, the way of a Serpent upon a rock, and the way of a Ship in the Sea: ²And it is frequent in Authors to express those things which pass away, not leaving any tract or print behind them, by the motion of a ship in the sea, and of an Eagle in the air.

There is somewhat further observable in this, from the translation of the Seventy, who render it thus, Is there any sign or mark in the way of a ship, or of an Eagle? So the meaning of Job should be, that his life, in respect of former comforts and contentments,¹ was past away, and had left no marke, no sign behinde it. The ship in the sea passeth away, and there is no rode, no tract left; and the Eagle in the air passeth, and you cannot see where the Eagle made her flight, the air closeth presently, there is no ⟨p. 341⟩way to be seen: Solomon useth those similies, Prov. 30.19. There be three things which I know not, the way of an Eagle in the air, the way of a Serpent upon a rock, and the way of a Ship in the Sea: ²And it is frequent in Authours to expresse those things which passe away, not leaving any tract or print behinde them, by the motion of a ship in the sea, and of an Eagle in the air.