John Trapp on Job 29:20

Verſe 20. My glory was freſh in me] i.e. I had daily new acceſſions to mine honours: and I was herein like a Bay-tree that is alwayes green. This was alſo Joſephs happineſs in Egypt; David in the Court of Saul; Mordecai's and Daniels in the Court of Perſia; and Queen Elizabeths; concerning whom (beſides that famous Epitaph ſet upon her Tomb by command of King James) Thuanus a French Hiſtorian teſtifieth, that the Lady Anna Ateſtina (Mother to the Guiſes and Nemours) pronounced her to be Glorio[illegible: 2 letters]ſſimam & omnium quae unquam ſceptrum geſtarunt feliciſſimam [illegible: 1 word], The moſt glorious and happieſt Woman that ever ſwayed Scepter. Among her Subjects the got a continual increaſe of honour and reſpects, by coupling mildneſs with Majeſty, and ſtooping yet in a ſtately manner, to the meaneſt ſort: but eſpecially by ſetting up God and his ſincere Service, wherever ſhe had to do, truſting God with her precious life, (ſo much ſought for by Popiſh Aſſaſſinates;) which whiles her Contemporary Henry 4. of France durſt not do, he loft his life, and much of his honour: witneſs that known Anagram, Borbonius, once Bonus orbi, now Orous boni.

And my bow was renewed in my hand] That is, I had freſh and new ſupplies of ſtrength,Robur meum inſtaurabi[illegible: 1 letter]ur maſuſque reddetur. Vatab. by friends and otherwiſe outwardly and inwardly, according to that above, Chap. 17.9. The righteous alſo ſhall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands ſhall be ſtronger and ſtronger. See Gen. 49.24. 1 Sam. 2.4.