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…

Some (especially Popish) Interpreters understand this description not of the grave, but of hell. The same word in the Hebrew serves both hell and the grave. Death looks like hell, and bears much of it's image. What is there in hell, but the agonies and sweat of death, the pangs and paleness of death? the chains and bonds of death? The state of the damned in hell, is an eternal act of dying. And all that Job speaks of the grave, is fulfilled there to the utmost. There is darkness, like darkness it self, called therefore utter darkness; there is the shadow of death without any order, there the light is as darkness. But though the Text be true of hell, yet Job had nothing to do or suffer beyond the grave, and I shall carry his discourse no further, keeping within those confines: We may learn,

Some (especially Popish) Interpreters understand this description not of the grave, but of hell. The same word in the Hebrew serves both hell and the grave. Death looks like hell, and bears much of it's image. What is there in hell, but the agonies and sweat of death, the pangs and palenes of death? the chains and bonds of death? The state of the damned in hell, is an eternall act of dying. And all that Job speaks of the grave, is fulfilled there to the utmost. There is darknes, like darknes it self, called therefore utter darknes; there is the shadow of death without any order, there the light is as darknes. But though the Text be true of hell, yet Job had nothing to do or suffer beyond the grave, and I shall carry his discourse no further, keeping within those confines: We may learn,

That death in it self is no way desirable.

Is there any beauty in darkness, in thick darkness, where there is no order, in darkness, where the very light is darkness? One of the greatest plagues upon Egypt, ¹