John Trapp on Job 6:5
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Job6:5
Verſe 5. Doth the wilde aſs bray when he hath graſſe?] q. d. Sure they doe not. As if theſe creatures, wilde or tame, want neceſſary food, you give them leave to fill the aire with their out-cryes; yea, you ſupply their wants; but for me ye will do neither, ſuch is your tenderneſſe and love toward me. Nay, ye condemne me for that which is naturally common to all creatures. Ye muſt needs think I am not without aylement that make ſuch great lamentations, unleſſe ye conceit that I am fallen below the ſtirrup of reaſon, nay, of ſenſe. It is eaſie for you who want neither graſſe nor fodder, or mixt meat. (as the word ſignifieth) who lie at rack and manger, as it were, and have all that heart can wiſh, or need require; it is eaſie, I ſay, for you to reſt contented, and to forbeare complaints. But why am I ſo ſeverely cenſured for impatient, who am ſtript of all, and have nothing left me, praeter coelum & coenum, as he ſaid, but only aire to breath in, and a dung-hill to ſit on; not to ſpeak of my inward troubles &c.
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