An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of…

There is yet a further sense of the whole verse thus; Desire not the night, &c. That is, do not curiously enquire the cause of that divine judgement by which God sometimes sweeps away whole nations, good and bad together, in the night, or suddenly. Or thus, disquiet not thy mind in the night, but rather rest in the will of God, when thou seest or hearest of those great destructions which come upon persons or nations.¹ Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place, that is, when they die in, or are removed from the place where they formerly lived and had their abode; in which sense it is said of the dead, their place shall know them no more (Psal. 103.16.) How well soever any are settled, death cuts them off in their place.

There is yet a further sense of the whole verse thus; Desire not the night, &c. That is, do not curiously enquire the cause of that divine judgement by which God sometimes sweeps away whole nations, good and bad together, in the night, or suddenly. Or thus, disquiet not thy mind in the night, but rather rest in the will of God, when thou seest or hearest of those great destructions which come upon persons or nations.¹ Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place, that is, when they die in, or are removed from the place where they formerly lived and had their abode; in which sense it is said of the dead, their place shall know them no more (Psal. 103.16.) How well soever any are setled, death cuts them off in their place.

1. 1[Greek or Hebrew] Sub, subter saepe significat, in loco.〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Sub, subter saepe significat, in loco.