John Trapp on Job 3:24

Verſe 24. For my ſighing cometh before I eat] It cometh unſent for, as evill weather uſeth to do, and moſt unſeaſonably ſurprizeth me at my repaſt; I mingle my meat with my tears, with every bit of bread I have a morſell of ſorrowes [illegible: 1 letter] and I mingle my drink with weeping, Pſal. 102.9. though indeed Jobs was not ſo much a ſhowre of teares, as a ſtorm of ſighs, and a volly of roarings, betokening extremity of griefe, ſuch as was beyond tears, and vented it ſelfe as the noiſe of many waters; for my roarings ſaith he, are poured out like water. I am as hungry as a Lion roaring on his prey, and as violent as the Torrents ranging the fields; and yet I neither have leiſure nor lift to eat my bread: as loth to prolong ſuch a troubleſome life, but that I muſt, or be guilty of ſelf-murther. Mr Fox reports of Mr. John Glover, that not long after his converſion, upon a miſtake of the ſenſe of that text, Heb. 6.5, 6. he was ſtrongly conceited, that he had fallen into the unpardonable ſinne, and muſt neceſſarily therefore be damned: and in that intolerable grief of mind, although he neither had not could have any joy of his meat, yet was he compelled to eate againſt his appetite, to the end, to deferre the time of his damnation ſo long as he might.Acts & Mon. 1552. Now who can tell how neere Jobs caſe might come to this, fith the divell was both Author and Actor in a great part of both theſe Tragicomedies?