s The Hebrew word is not elſewhere uſed, and therefore it is di- verſly tranſlated ; either 1, Breaſts. Bur that ſeems ver improper here, becauſe mens Breaſts do not uſe to be filled with Milk. Or, 2.Milk-Pails. But their fulneſs is common, and no ſign of eminent Pleary,which is here deſigned. Belides, the following Branch, which in Job and elſewhere frequently explains the former, implies that it ſignifies ſome part of man's body, as all the ancient Interpretersren- der it, either the ſides, as ſome of them have it, or the bowels, as 0 thers. Bur for the following Mzk, they read 7at ; the Hebrew Let- ters being exaQtly the ſame in both words : and the Hebrews by the name of Mi/kdo oft underſtand Far. t& Which is oppoſed to the dryneſs of the bones, Job 3o. 3o. Pſal. 102 3. which is cauſed by Old Age, or grievous Diſtempers or Calamities.
25 And another «dieth in the bitterneſs of hisſoul x, and never eateth with pleaſure y.
v Either 1 Another wicked man. Or, 2. Any other man pro- miſtuouſly conſidered, either good or bad. So hereby he thews how indifferently, and alike, God deals the Concerns of this Life to one and another, to good and bad, So heſhews that tt ere is a great variety in Gods diſpenſations; that he diſtributes great proſperity to one, and great Affffiiftionsto another no worſe than he, according ro his wife but ſecret Ceunſel. x 7. e, with heart-breaking painsand Sorrows. yz. e; Hath no pleaſure.in his life, no not ſo much as at mea]-time, when men uſually are moſt free and pleaſant.
27 They ſhall lie down alike in the duſt z, and the worms ſhall cover them.
z All theſe Worldly Differences are ended by Death,and they lie in the Grave without any diftin&ion,till the time of General Reſur- re&ion and Judgment comes. So that no man can rell who is good, and who is bad by any Events which befall them in this Life. |
26 Behold, I know your thoughts 4,and the devices b which ye wrongfully imagine c againſt me 9.
a I perceive what youthink,and will obje&,and fay for your own defence. b Or, evil thoughts, for ſo this word is oft uſed, as Prov. 12- 2. & 14.17. & 24.8. 1/a. 32. 7. 6c Or, wreft, or violently force. Fcr they ſtrained both Job's words, and their own thoughts, which were byaffed by their Prejudice and Paſſion againſt 7984. &d For I know very well that your Diſcourſes, though they be of wicked men in the general, yet are particularly levelled at me.
28 For ye ſay e, where js the houſe of che princef ? 4b and where ore | the dwelling-places of the wicked g ? 7m fi
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29 Have ye not asked them that go by the way 4 ?
and do ye not know their tokens i ? | h Theſe are the words, either 1.Of Job's Friends, who thus con- tinue their former Diſcourſe by a ſecond Enquiry : Orrather,2. Of Job himſelf, who anſwers one queſtion with another. You may learn this, which is the matter of our debate, to wit, that good men are oft afflicted, and that wicked men do commonly live-and die in great Proſperity, and are not puniſhed in this World, even from them that go by the way, 3. e. either from Travellers, who having ſeen and ob- ſerved many Perſons, and Places, and: Events, are more capable Judges of this matter ; or from any Perſon that paſleth along the High-way,from every one that you meet with.Itis ſo vulgar and tri- vial a thing, that no man of common ſenſe is ignorant of it. 2 z. e. The Examples, or Evidences, or Signs of this truth, which they that go by the way can produce. They will ſhew here and there in di- vers places the goodly Houſes and Caſtles, and other Monuments of Power and Dignity, which wicked Potentates have ere&ted, and to this day do poſleſs, and in which divers of them live and die. He alludes here to thoſe Tokens which are ſet up in High-ways for the dire&ion of thoſe who travel in them. o * That the wicked & is reſerved / to the day of deſtruction ? they m ſhall be brought forth » to | the day
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k This is the thing which they might learn of Paſſengers! 1 Or, with-held or kept back, to wit, from falling into common Calamities, though in truth he be not ſo much kept from evil, as kept for evil ; he is reſerved from a leſs, that he may beſwallowed up 1n a greater miſery ; as Pharach was kept from the other Plagues, that he might be drowned in the Sea. ”: He ſpeaketh of the ſame perſon ; only the ſingular number is changed into the plural, poſſibly to intimate, that although for the preſent only ſome wicked men were puniſhed, yet then all of them ſhould ſuffer. n To wit, by the condu of God's Providence and Juſtice,as MalefaQors are brought forth from Priſon to Judgment and Execution, though they be brought to it ſlowly, and by degrees,and with ſome kind of Pomp and State, as this word ſignifies. o Heb. Tothe day of wrath ; 1. e, of ſpecial and extraordi- nary Wrath ; either to ſome terrible and deſolating Judgments which God ſometimes ſends upon wicked Princes or People: Or,to the day of the laſt and general Judgment, whichis called in Scrip- ture the day of Wrath ; For the day of the general Reſurre&ion and Judgment was not unknown to Job and his Friends,as appears from Chap. 19. 25, &c. and other paſſages of this Book.
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ſo much upon thy own Righteouſneſs, as if thou didft obl;jgeGod by it : oras ifhe could not without imury afflit thee, who ſuppo- ſeſt thy ſelf ro be a righteous perſon,though indeed thou art not fo,
as he ſaith, v. s, 6, &ce+ but if thou wert real! I