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…

¹Grammarians observe from the exactest reading of the Hebrew, that the former words [Together round about] should be joined with these [Thou dost destroy me] Thine hands have made me, and fashioned me, and yet thou dost destroy me together round about; that is, Thou makest an utter end, a total consumption of me.

¹Gramarians observe from the exactest reading of the Hebrew, that the former words [Together round about] should be joyn'd with these [Thou dost destroy me] Thine hands have made me, and fashioned me, and yet thou dost destroy me together round about; that is, Thou makest an utter end, a totall consumption of me.

1. 1Distinctio Habraeorum magis postulat, ut verba praecedentia, simul circumquaque cum his jungantur, & absorbistime, Merc.

Again, These words are read by some with an interrogation, Thine hands have made me and fashioned me, and dost thou yet destroy me? The question doth not alter, but quicken the sense, and render it more pressing and pathetical, Wilt thou destroy me thus exactly,¹ whom thou hast made so exactly? The (yet) in the text sounds out an admiration. As when God (Amos 4.) had brought many judgements upon Jerusalem, and found them still impenitent, he concludes the narrative of every one, with, Yet have they not returned unto me; As if he had said, What a wonder is here? So Job repeating the favours of God to him, concludes with a yet thou dost, or dost thou yet destroy me? As if he had said, What a wonder is here? How unsearchable are thy judgements, O God, ²and thy ways past finding out? Thus he sets what God then did, in opposition to what he had done, that so the consideration of former mercies might provoke him to remove or mitigate present judgements. Dost thou destroy me who hast made me?