John Trapp on Job 14:16

Verſe 16. For now thou numbreſt my ſteps] Or, But now thou numbreſt &c. thou keepeſt an exact account of every ſin of mine, of every ſtep that I have trod awry; yea, though it be but ſome wry motion of my mind (as the Septuagint here tranſlate) ſo curious art thou and critical in thine obſervations of mine out-ſtrayes, [non-Latin text not transcribed] See chap. 10.14. But is this Job that ſpeaketh, or ſome other? How confident was he [illegible: 1 word]-while, and comfortable in the hope of a glorious reſurrection! but now, down again upon all four, as we ſay; and like an aguiſh man in a great fit of impatiency, which holdeth him to the end of the chapter? But for this; who knoweth not that every new man, is two men? that in the Saints, the fleſh is ever luſting againſt the ſpirit, and the ſpirit againſt the fleſh? that in the Shulamite, is as it were, the company of two armies maintaining a continual conteſt, Cant. 0.13? [illegible: 1 letter]ſaid, I am caſt out of they ſight: yet I will look againe toward thine holy Temple, Jon. 2.4. See the Note there.

Doſt thou not watch over my ſin?] This is the ſame with the former, but without a figure. The Rabbines have a ſaying, that there is not any doubt in the law, but may be reſolved by the context: the Scripture is its owne beſt Interpreter.