Again, We may interpret this change, of his change from one estate to another, from joy to sorrows, from peace to trouble, from plenty to want, from costly robes to filthy rags. Time was when Job went in scarlet, and fine linen, and, if he pleased, might have fared deliciously every day, but when he spake this,1 he was in another state and habit, clothed with sackcloth, and lying in the dust. It is said of wicked men (Psal. 55.9.) Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God. Every creature is subject to change, and hath some changes every day; God only is unchangeable. Yet some men seem to have no changes, & though they cannot be free from natural changes one moment, yet they may be free from many years civil changes: they maybe so far from such changes as Job felt, from good to evil, that all the changes they are acquainted with, may be only from good to better, from strong to stronger, from rich to richer: that's the intent of the Psalm; They have no changes from joy to sorrow, from health to sickness, from riches to poverty, from honour to disgrace, therefore they fear not God; their hearts were hardened, because their estates prospered.
Again, We may interpret this change, of his change from one estate to another, from joy to sorrows, from peace to trouble, from plenty to want, from costly robes to filthy rags. Time was when Job went in scarlet, and fine linen, and, if he pleased, might have fared deliciously every day, but when he spake this,1 he was in another state and habit, cloathed with sackcloth, and lying in the dust. It is said of wicked men (Psal. 55.9.) Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God. Every creature is subject to change, and hath some changes every day; God only is unchangeable. Yet some men seem to have no changes, & though they cannot be free from naturall changes one moment, yet they may be free from many years civil changes: they maybe so far from such changes as Job felt, from good to evil, that all the changes they are acquainted with, may be only from good to better, from strong to stronger, from rich to richer: that's the intent of the Psalm; They have no changes from joy to sorrow, from health to sicknes, from riches to poverty, from honour to disgrace, therefore they fear not God; their hearts were hardned, because their estates prospered.
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