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…

Thirdly, The word signifies a reluctance or displicency of spirit, arising from the sight and sense of that which is very loathsome, filthy, and of an evil savour. It answers the Greek work rendered, Abomination (Matth. 24.15.) The abomination of desolation; he means the Romans, who being Idolaters, their worship was abominable, and who being Lords of the world, their power was formidable, and laid all countries waste and desolate, which opposed them, or which they had a mind to oppose. And so when Job saith, My soul is weary of my life; his meaning is represented thus, My soul refuses to inhabit, or to act so filthy a body as mine; My soul loathes to dwell, or stay any longer in this nasty lodging: As David (Psal. 120.5.) speaks of his weariness in dwelling amongst wicked men, because of their moral filthiness, or the pollution of their minds and ways. Woe is me that I sojourn in Meshec; that I dwell in the t•nts of Kedar; So Job seems to speak, in reference to the natural pollution and filthiness of his own body. Woe is me that I sojourn in such a diseased body, and dwell (which yet will not die) in such a dying carease. The noble tenant, my soul, is weary of staying in such a stinking and filthy habitation, and I perceive (for I have moved him hitherto in vain) the great land-lord will neither repair it, nor as yet let it fall. As then, a man, who lives in an ill or incommodious house, saith, I am weary of dwelling in it; or as a man that hath a filthy garment, saith,¹ I am weary of wearing it: So saith Job here, My soul is weary of my life, were I well rid of it, I should be well,

Thirdly, The word signifies a reluctance or displicency of spirit, arising from the sight and sense of that which is very loathsome, filthy, and of an evil savour. It answers the Greek work rendered, Abomination (Matth. 24.15.) The abomination of desolation; he means the Romans, who being Idolaters, their worship was abominable, and who being Lords of the world, their power was formidable, and laid all countries waste and desolate, which opposed them, or which they had a minde to oppose. And so when Job saith, My soul is weary of my life; his meaning is represented thus, My soul refuses to inhabit, or to act so filthy a body as mine; My soul loaths to dwell, or stay any longer in this nasty lodging: As David (