An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of…

This Verse is the proof of the former; some think the comparison lies between Jobs Friends and himself. We are thy Seniors, yet thou speakest as if thou wert the oldest man amongst us: Here are two terms in the Text, which seem to distinguish old age.

This Verse is the proofe of the former; some thinke the comparison lyes betweene Jobs Friends and himselfe. We are thy Seniors, yet thou speakest as if thou wert the oldest man amongst us: Here are two termes in the Text, which seeme to distinguish old age.

First, Grey-headed. Secondly, Very aged, much elder then thy Father.

First, Gray-headed. Secondly, Very aged, much elder then thy Father.

Among the Jews, a man was counted old at threescore, which they called, The first old age:¹ At seventy he was expressed by the word which we translate Grey-headed, and that was his title till he arrived at Fourscore; from that to the end of life, the whole state was called, Decrepit old Age; and they who reached those years, were expressed by the word which we render Very aged men, or as we say, men having one foot in the Grave; for he that was an hundred years old, was not numbered among the living, but among he dead. The Chaldee Paraphrast applies the distinction thus; With us is Eliphaz, who is grey-headed, and Bildad who is decrepit, and Zophar who is older then thy Father. Hierome gives Eliphaz the precedency in age, affirming that he was the eldest Son of Esau, and that at the time of this dispute, he was no less then a hundred and fifty years old, Jobs Father ninety, and Job himself seventy. But I stay not upon these conjectures.