John Trapp on Job 3:13

Verſe 13. For now ſhould I have lien ſtill, and been quiet] Why, but is it not better to be preſerved in ſalt, then to putrifie in ſugar? to be emptied from veſſel to veſſel, then to be at eaſe, and ſo to ſettle on the lees? Jer. 48.11. to be tumbled up and down, as fiſhes are in the ſtreames of Jordan, then to periſh in the dead ſea? It is not alwaies (if at all) an happineſſe to lie ſtill and to be quiet: Life conſiſts in action;Iſa. 38.16. and in all theſe things is the life of my ſpirit, ſaith good Hezekiah, who had beene in deaths hands (where Job ſo much deſired to be) and could therefore make a better judgment. What haſte then was there of his lying ſtill, and being quiet? ſay that he were aſſured of his ſalvation (for elſe death had been but a trap-door to eternal torments) was there nothing more to be done, but taking preſent poſſeſſion? nothing to be ſuffered with Chriſt,Rom. 8.17 or ere we come to be glorified with him? Ought not he himſelf firſt to have ſuffered, and then to have entred into his glory? Luke 24.26. And ought not we to be conformed to his image (in ſufferings alſo) that he might be the firſt-born among many brethren? Rom. 8.29. Let us run with patience (running is active, and patience paſſive) the [illegible: 1 letter]ace that is ſet before us, looking unto Jeſus, &c. and looking off our preſent troubles (as the word there importeth) which while Job beheld over-wiſhtly, [non-Latin text not transcribed]. Heb. 12.2. and was more ſenſible of then was meet, he brake out in this fort, and ſhewed himſelf too much a man Let us do up our work, and then God will ſend us to hed all in good time, Iſa. 57.2. Rev. 14.13.