John Trapp on Job 33:30

Verſe 30 To bring back his ſoul from the pit] i. e. That he may ſave him from temporal and eternal deſtruction, which is the moſt excellent fruit of affliction ſanctified. We are judged of the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world. So that a Saint may ſay, Periiſſem niſi periiſſem, I had been undone, had I not been undone.

Ferre minora volo, ne graviora ferans.

To be inlightned with the light of the living] To live comfortably,Conſ[illegible: 1 letter]icu[illegible: 1 letter]s ſit inter homines. Mercer. and to be famous among the Saints; who had they not been reduced by affliction, would have periſhed infamous and obſcure, wrapt up in the ſheet of ſhame, and going out in a ſnuff.