John Trapp on Job 7:3

Verſe 3. So [illegible: 1 span] months of vanity] So, but a great deale worſe [illegible: 1 span]. The labouring ſervant hath his ſhade; the painful [illegible: 1 span]; But I am ſhade to [illegible: 1 word], or have aſſigned to me for [illegible: 1 span], But whole months of vanity, that is, of moleſtation and miſery, [illegible: 1 word] of the l[illegible: 1 letter]aſt comfort o[illegible: 1 letter] hope or amendment. The ſouldier, ſervant [illegible: 1 span]: but with me it is every day worſe then other; and [illegible: 1 span] here would be a little hell to me. From the months of vanity, here mentioned [illegible: 1 span] ſome render [illegible: 1 span] it may be gathered that Jobs calamities laſted a long time, twelve months, ſay the Hebrewes, ſeven years, ſaith [illegible: 1 span] in any ſort, we think our [illegible: 1 span]. For Months of vanity ſome reade [illegible: 1 span] ever in the Eclipſe.

And weariſome nights are appointed to me.] ſc. by God: and that ſo exactly as if he had numbred them to a night. See Dan. 10.1. Pondere, menſurâ, [illegible: 2 letters]mero Deus omnia fecit: It is he that cutteth us out our conditions, that prepareth for us troubleſome dayes and tireſome nights, and purpoſely that he may take us off from the inordinate love of life: like as by ſtrait binding (which mortifieth and deadeth the fleſh) men are made more able to beare the cutting off of a member; ſo ſhall we take our cutting off from this world the more gently, by how much the more painful, pinching dayes and nights we have endured.