Note (return) — Rev. ANDREW LEE, A.M. (continued 5)

This may serve to explain a passage in Job, which might seem opposed to our construction of the text—"His sons come to honor and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them." [95] If we understand this of the wicked, it will harmonize with the other scriptures which have been adduced. Though some understand the words of Job, as descriptive of a man's state at the approach of death, at which period he is often lost and bewildered, and consequently unaffected with, any thing which may happen to his dearest connexions, for whom, in health, and while possessed of reason, he felt greatly interested. This construction is favored by the words which follow, in which he is represented as still pained in body, as well as mind—"But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn." [96]