Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 14:1

1. MAn that is born of a Woman , is of few days , and full of trouble .

This expression is here used either, 1. To intimate the cause of Mans Misery, that he was born of Woman, a weak Creature, 1 Pet. 3. 7. and withal corrupt and sinful, and of that Sex by which sin and all calamity was brought into the world. See Ch. 15. 14. & Gen. 3. 17. 1 Tim. 2. 13, 4. Or 2. To note the Universality of the thing, Every man, every Mothers Son, as we use to speak. Mens Fathers are oft times unknown and uncertain, but their Mothers are always definite and certain. One man was then to be born, and afterwards was born without an earthly Father, to wit, our Lord and Saviour Christ; but no man was ever born without a Mother.

A short liv'd Creature in himself, and therefore needs no violent hand to cut him off, because he withereth so soon of his own accord.

And therefore a fitter Object for divine Compassion, than for his [illegible: 1+ letters]ury or severity. He chiefly intendeth himself, but he expresseth it thus generally, partly to relieve himself with the thoughts of the common Calamities of Mankind; and partly to move God with the consideration of the frailty and misery of humane Nature, and consequently of his condition.

Marginal references: Heb. [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1 word] days.; Eccles. 2. 23.