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John Trapp on Job 33:20

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Job33:20

Verſe 20. So that his life abhorreth bread] Which is the ſtaffe of mans life, and by the Latines called Panis, of the Greek [non-Latin text not transcribed], as if it were all in all. This the ſick man v[illegible: 1 letter]lut ſordidum abominatur, abhorreth as ſome filthy thing (ſo the Original word here ſignifieth,) he nauſeateth, and cannot away with it, though made of the Kidneyes of wheat, as Mòſes phraſeth it; he brooks it no better then if it were made of ſaw duſt, or mixt with gravel, or made with mans dung, as that in Ezekiel.

And his ſoul dainty meats] Heb. Meats of deſire: Thoſe Dainties which he once ſought ſo paſſionately, and fed upon ſo eagerly, he finds no more reliſh in, then in the white of an egge or a dry chip; yea, they are no leſſe horrid to him then rank poiſon. See a like deſcription of a ſick perſon, Pſal. 107.18. which ſeemeth to be taken from hence.

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