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…

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.

Among the Jewes, 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 Gray-headed, and that was his title till he arrived at Fourescore; from that to the end of life, the whole state was called, Decrepid old Age; and they who reached those yeares, 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 yeares old, was not numbred among the living, but among he dead. The Chalde Paraphrast applyes the distinction thus; With us is Eliphaz, who is gray-headed, and Bildad who is decrepid, and Zophar who is older then thy Father. Hierome gives Eliphaz the precedency in age, affirming that he was the eldest Sonne of Esau, and that at the time of this dispute, he was no lesse then a hundred and fifty yeares old, Jobs Father ninety, and Job himselfe seventy. But I stay not upon these conjectures.

1. 1Prima senectus [Greek or Hebrew] dicitur unde [Greek or Hebrew] senex: media senectus [Greek or Hebrew] dicitur & incipit ab anno 70. & durat usque ad 80. annum; ad quam qui pervenit postea [Greek or Hebrew] decrepitus dicitur, quod est ultimae senectutis vocabulum, quae durat usque ad vitae finem vel usque ad annum 100. Nam filius centum annorum habetur pro mortuo. Drus. Etiam Eliphaz qui canus est, & Bildad qui decrepitus est inter nos, & Sophar qui major est patre tuo diebut. Targ.