John Trapp on Job 3:25

Verſe 25. For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me] Heb. I feared a fear, and it came upon me. Had Job been wicked, this had been no wander, Prov. 10.24. Job 15.21. Or had his fear been ſinfull, it had been l[illegible: 1 letter]ſſe pity. Prov. 29.25. John. 11.48, for why ſhould he, by a painfull [illegible: 1 span], ſuffer before he needed? and ſend for his croſſes before they came? A good man ſhould [illegible: 1 word] all (and ſo conſequently fearfull) in nothing, [illegible: 2 letters]il. 4.6. he ſhould hope the beſt, and beate bravely [non-Latin text not transcribed], ſaith Demoſthenes, whatever God ſendeth. The Epicunts held, that a good man might be cheerfull under whatſoever miſeries: 1.Ex prateritarum voluptatum recordatione. Cic. de finib. lib. 2. In conſideration of honeſty and integrity. 2. In conſideration of thoſe pleaſu[illegible: 1 letter]es and to [illegible: 1 word] that formerly he had enjoyed, and now cheared up himſelf with. Of neither of theſe was Job to ſeek: But whereas it might be ſaid unto him, Is it fit for thee, who haſt hitherto been ſo happy, now to take on ſo heavily, becauſe thus and thus afflicted? Truly, ſaith he, I was never ſo happy as you took me for; becauſe (conſidering how moveable and mutable all outward things are) I alwayes feared leſt I ſhould out live my proſperity: that which now alſo is unhappily befallen me. Sylla had been happy, ſi eundem & vinc[illegible: 1 letter]ndi & [illegible: 1 span] f[illegible: 1 letter]ciſſet, ſaith One: that i[illegible: 1 letter], if he had made an end of conquering and of living together: but that he did not. In him and many others it hath appeared, that mortality is but the ſtage of mutability. This, holy Job had oft forecaſted with himſelf; and though in his paſſion he here alled[illegible: 2 letters] it as a reaſon why he took no comfort in his meat &c. yet, in true account, it could be no grief unto him, nor offence of heart (as ſhe once ſaid to David, 1 Sam. 25.31.) ſith it was a fear of wiſdome and caution; a fear of the head, and no[illegible: 1 letter] of the heart; a fear of diligence, and not of diffidence.