John Trapp on Job 7:13

Verſe 13. When I ſay, my bed ſhall comfort me] The bed was the moſt proper and probable meanes of refreſhment: but it is not the bed that can give ſleep, nor the couch, eaſe. Creatures are not able of themſelves to give out the comforts committed to them: their common nature muſt be aſſiſted with a ſpecial word of bleſſing, or elſe they do us no good: Man liveth not by bread only &c. God maketh the merciful mans bed, Pſalm 41.3. So he giveth his beloved ſleep, quiet ſleep: (Shena with an A[illegible: 1 letter]eph quieſcent:) Pſal. 127. He is the God of all mercies, and the Father of all conſolation, 2 Cor. 1.3. It is he that ſhines through the creature, which elſe is but as the aire, without light. Look now the aire lights us not without the Sun; nor fuel heats us not without fire: ſo neither can any man or means comfort or content us without God.

My couch ſhall eaſe my complains] Heb. Shall lift up, or take away, viz. the burthen of my cares and griefe: ſome part of my load at leaſt: but it fell out otherwiſe: for