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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…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of the book of Job being the sum of twenty three lectures delivered at Magnus near the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl.An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of the book of Job being the summe of twenty three lectures delivered at Magnus neer the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl.
London: printed by Matthew Simmons, 1650
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AN EXPOSITION Upon the Fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth Chapte… › Chapter 16 › Verse 8
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Vers. 8. Thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me, beareth witness to my face.
Vers. 8. Thou hast filled me with wrinckles, which is a witnesse against me: and my leannesse rising up in me, beareth witnesse to my face.
As if he had said, Though I hold my peace, and say nothing, 1though I do not aggravate my grief, yea though I should extenuate and hide it, yet there are witnesses enow of it; my wrinkles speak my grief, and my leanness shows that I am feasted with the sour herbs of sorrow: That's the general sense of this Verse.
As if he had sayd, Though I hold my peace, and say nothing, 1though I doe not aggravate my griefe, yea though I should extenuate and hide it, yet there are witnesses enow of it; my wrinkles speake my griefe, and my leannesse shewes that I am feasted with the sowre hearbes of sorrow: That's the generall sense of this Verse.
- 1Si vellem caelare aut verbis extenuare dolorem meum rugae meae testimonium daub &c.