John Trapp on Job 2:7

Verſe 7. So went Satan forth from the preſence of the Lord] The like is ſaid of Cain, when he meditated the murder of his innocent brother, and went to put it in practice. Malefactors amongſt us, we know, are indited in this form. For that thou, not having God before thine eyes, but moved by the inſtigation of the divel, didſt—.

And ſmote Job] He pretended to touch him only, verſe 5. but let every good man bleſſe himſelf out of Satans bloody fingers: his iron entred into Joſephs ſoule, his ſtroke was very vehement upon Jobs body, making totum pro vulnere corpus: For he ſmote Job

With ſore boiles] hot boyling boyles, ſuch as the Sorcerers of Egypt were ſmitten with, Exod. 9.10. and afterwards the limbs of Antichriſt, Rev. 16.2. The Indian ſcab, ſome ſay it was, or the French diſeaſe, a moſt filthy and odious ulcer it appeareth to have been, ſore and mattery (why elſe ſhould he ſo ſcrape himſelfe with a potſheard, as verſe 8.) ſuch as whoſe ſharp and pricking humour penetrated the very bone, and put him to exquiſite paine, being worſe to him then Augustus his tres vomicae briae carcinomata, above-mentioned: or Philip the ſecond of Spain his loathſome and louſie diſeaſe, whereof he died Anno 1598.Inſtit. princip. cap. 20. Carolus Scribanius thus deſcribeth it. This potent Prince for a long time endured ulcerum magnitudinem, multitudinem, acerbitatem, foetorem &c. i. e. Many great, ſharp and ſtinking ulcers, which faſtned him to his bed, as to a croſſe, for a whole yeare before his death; beſides ſix years torture by the Gout, an hectick fever with a double tertian for two yeers ſpace feeding upon his bowels, and the very marrow of his bones; beſides a moſt grievous flux for two and twenty dayes, a continual nauſeouſneſſe of his ſtomack, an unſatisfiable thirſt, a continuall paine of his head and eyes, abundance of matter working out of his ulcets, quae binas indies ſcutellas divite paedore impleret: beſides a moſt loathſome ſtench that took away his ſleep &c.Alſted. Chron. pag. 314. thus he. Think the ſame, and worſe of Job, the object of Satans utmoſt malice, and that for a whole year, ſay the Hebrewes; for ſeven whole years, ſaith Suidas. chryſoſt. de Laz. Chryſoſtome compareth him with Lazarus▪ and maketh him to be in a farre worſe condition. Pineda ſheweth, that his ſufferings were a great deal worſe then thoſe of the wicked Egyptians under all their ten plagues; this was a boile, an evil boile, ſaith the text, one of the worſt ſort, the moſt painful and malignant that might be, and this all over his body.

From the ſole of the feet, unto his crown] It was all but one continued ſore, univerſall, as the leproſie, and therefore incurable; threatned as an utmoſt plague, an evil, an only evil, D[illegible: 1 letter]ut. 28.35. If any part were left untouched, it was his tongue and mouth, that it might be free to blaſpheme God: and that herein he was not ſmitten by Satan, ſome have obſerved from chap. 19.20. I am eſcaped with the skin of my teeth, having no ſores there, as I have all the reſt of my body over.