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…

Now, as our own sins, and the il manners of others weary the soul: so

Thirdly, The pains and troubles which are upon the body often cause such grief of mind, as is an extreme weariness to the soul: That's the meaning of this text [My soul is weary of my life] That is, my life is filled with such outward troubles, as fill my inward man with trouble, and weary my very soul.

Thirdly, The pains and troubles which are upon the body often cause such grief of minde, as is an extream wearinesse to the soul: That's the meaning of this text [My soul is weary of my life] That is, my life is filled with such outward troubles, as fill my inward man with trouble, and weary my very soul.

¹Secondly, The word is translated by divers of the learned Rabbis, To cut, yea to cut off, as with a sword, or any other edged instrument: These render Jobs mind thus, My soul is cut off in me; or, My soul is cut off from my life; As if he had said, My days are at an end, I am ready to die, the thread of my life is cut, I am but a dead man. While life continues, soul and body are as it were one piece, but death divides them; or the recourse of night and day, runs the thread of time through our lives, till our web (longer or shorter) be finished, and then the thread is cut. To which similitude Hezekiah alludes in his mourning death-bed song, as he supposed (Isa. 38.10, 12.) I said in the cutting off of my days, &c. Mine age is removed from me, as a shepherds tent, I have cut off like a Weaver my life, he will cut me off with pining sickness, ⟨p. 415⟩