John Trapp on Job 14:11

Verſe 11. As the water fall from the ſea] He ſets forth the ſame truth by an elegant ſimilitude drawn from the drying up of waters. Look how theſe after ſome exundation of the ſea, or ſome great river, are ſeparated and left (upon the reflux thereof) behind the reſt upon the land, which cannot return (for then they muſt aſcend, which is impoſſible to nature) nor continue, but do utterly dry up,Sanctius Abbot. and evaporate: So &c. verſe 12. Others read it thus, As when the waters from the feafail, the flood decaieth, and dryeth up: ſo when mans life is taken away, it returns no more while this world lasteth. God hath made in the bowels of the earth certain ſecret wayes, paſſages, and veins through which water conveigheth it ſelf from the ſea to all parts, and hath its ſaltneſſe taken away in the paſſage. Thence are our ſprings, and from them our rivers: but in hot countryes, and dry ſeaſons, ſprings are dry, and rivers want water exceedingly; as at this time they do, March 7. 1653. So when natural moiſture decayeth in man, he faileth, and dieth: the radical humor, that ſupplement and oyl of life, is dried up, and can be no more renewed till the laſt day, when yet it ſhall not be reſtored to the ſame ſtate and moiſture, but inſtead of natural, riſe ſpiritual, 1 Cor. 15.