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John Trapp on Job 17:7

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Job17:7

Verſe 7. Mine eye alſo is dim by reaſon of ſorrow] Not only is my good name blaſted, but my body alſo is waſted: the nerves of mine eyes are contracted, the viſive faculty decayed, Pſal. 6.7. Mine eye is conſumed becauſe of grief, yea my ſoul and my belly,R. Levi. Pagnin Vatab. Pſal. 1.10. Not the viſive only, but the vital powers [illegible: 1 letter]re waſted (ſee chap. 16.16.) yea the intellective part, as well as the ſenſitive, underſtood by the formations in the next clauſe, that is, the cogitations, ſay they according to Gen. 6.5. But I rather take it according to our Tranſlation, for the members of the body.

And all my members are as a ſhadow] My membra are but umbra, they look more like a Skeleton, an Anatomy, an Apparition, then a true body, nothing being left but skin and bone ſo much meager'd are all my members. This is hyperbolica ma[illegible: 1 letter]orum ſuorum amplificatio, ſaith Merlin.

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