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…

I answer, Job speaks not this to obscure the favours of God to him, or ungratefully to pass by his blessings; but he answers the objection of his friends, and maintains the argument he brought against them. His argument was, That the estate of a godly man in this life, is as transitory and as brittle, as the estate of a wicked man, and that therefore there can be no distinction made of men by outward dispensations: To clear which, he saith, Look to my good days, they are past away swiftly, and there's nothing remaining of them. Whence observe,

I answer, Job speaks not this to obscure the favours of God to him, or ungratefully to passe by his blessings; but he answers the objection of his friends, and maintains the argument he brought against them. His argument was, That the estate of a godly man in this life, is as transitory and as brittle, as the estate of a wicked man, and that therefore there can be no distinction made of men by outward dispensations: To clear which, he saith, Look to my good daies, they are past away swiftly, and there's nothing remaining of them. Whence observe,

That the outward estate of the best men in the world, is as transitory and fading as that of the worst in the world.

My days (saith Job) my comfortable days are passed away, Every man at his best estate is altogether vanity Psal. 39.5. It is not only a wicked man, whose outward estate is vain, but every mans; Davids crown and sceptre were fading, vanishing flowers. Abraham and all the Patriarchs said (Heb. 11.) We have here no continuing City; neither City nor Citizens have long continuance here. The Apostle (