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…

Secondly, The comparison is laid between the lion and Job, Thou huntest me as if I were a lion: So divers of the Ancients, and the Septuagint understand it; I am taken or catched like a lion; As if Job had said, Lord, Thou usest me as a wild beast, thou huntest me as thou wouldest hunt a lion or a bear, thou settest thy nets and toils, thou makest snares and pits (as Nimrods do in the hunting of lions, and other wild beasts) Thou dealest with me, as if there were no taking, no taming of me, but by severest and roughest ways: Thou dealest with me, as if in my prosperity I had been like a fierce lion, oppressing and preying upon the poor; or, as if in my affliction I had provoked thee to resolve, that thou ⟨p. 555⟩wilt never leave off to afflict me, till thou hast destroyed me. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion; How are they hunted? Lions are not usually hunted to be preserved, 'tis rare to hunt lions so, but because they are hurtful and destroying creatures,¹ therefore they are hunted that they may be destroyed, and do no more hurt; as if he had thus expressed himself, Thou, Lord, seemest to adjudge me not only as an unuseful and unserviceable creature, but also as a dangerous, and a noxious creature, as a natural brute beast made to be taken and destroyed (2 Pet. 2.12.) yet I cannot assent that Job (though under the darkness of a sore temptation) had such dark thoughts of God, as if he had no other end in afflicting him, but to make an end of him.

Secondly, The comparison is laid between the lion and Job, Thou huntest me as if I were a lion: So divers of the Ancients, and the Septuagint understand it; I am taken or catched like a lion; As if Iob had said, Lord, Thou usest me as a wilde beast, thou huntest me as thou wouldest hunt a lion or a bear, thou settest thy nets and toils, thou makest snares and pits (as Nimrods doe in the hunting of lions, and other wilde beasts) Thou dealest with me, as if there were no taking, no taming of me, but by severest and roughest waies: Thou dealest with me, as if in my prosperity I had been like a fierce lion, oppressing and preying upon the poor; or, as if in my affliction I had provoked thee to resolve, that thou ⟨p. 555⟩