der with a voice like him p ? o*Thou art infinitely ſhort of God in Power, and therefore in Ju- Nice : for all his Perfe&ions are equal and infinite. Injuſtice is much more likely to be in thee, an impotent Creature, than in the A]- mighty God ; of which ſee the Notes on v: 2. p Therefore do not ume to contend with him. : 10 * Deck thy ſelf now with majeſty and excellen-
*Pf: 1041: 4
Cy 9,and aray thy ſelf with glory and beauty.
Nice, and conſequently in Power and Majeſty, take to thy ſe]f thy reat Power, come and fit in my Throne, anadiſplay thy Divine erfeQtions in the ſight of the World. Theſe and the following are
zronical expreſſions, to make Job more ſenſible of his diſtance from,
and ſubjeQ&ion to God.
Ix Caſt abroad therage of thy wrath 7: and behold
every one that is proud, and abaſe hims,
r Inflit heavy Judgments upon thine Enemies, the Chaldeans and
Sabeans, and others who'have injured or provoked thee. 5s Deſtroy
Him with ap angry look, as I can do and delight ro do with ſuch
Perſons. 12 Look onevery one that is proud, and bring him
'Jow : and tread down the wicked in their place 7.
# Either 1. whereſcever they are. Or. ' 2. Where they are in their greateſt ſtrength and glory, and therefore are moſt ſecure and Confident. 'Or, 3. Forthwith,upon the ſpot,that the quickneſs and zmmediateneſs of the ſtroke may diſcover that it comes from aDivine
x3 Hide them in the duſt together «, and bind their
faces x in ſacret y.
« Kill every one of them (as he faid vs 12: ( at one blow, as I can do, and bring them all to their Graves, that they may ſleep in the Duſt,and never offend theeznor trouble others more. x 7,e, Con- demn or deſtroy them. He alludes to the manner of covering the Faces of condemned Perſons, Eſther 7: 8; and of dead Men. 9John I:.44: & 20:7. Sec on Jeb 9g: 24. yEither ina ſecret place, bury them in their Graves : Or, ſecretly,with a ſecret and mviſible ſtroke, that it mayjappear it comes from the hand of a God.
7 O B.
da Let him anſwer ,
| 14 Then will I alſo confeſs unto thee, that thine
own right hand can ſave thee 2.
2 z. e. That thou art mine Equal, and maiſt venture to contend with me, But ſince thou canit do none of theſe things, it behoveg thee to ſubmit to me,and to acquieſce in my dealings with thee,
Is Behold now {| Behemoth @ which I made with p 0
thee b, he eateth graſs asan ox ec. Elephu
a That ſome particular Beaſt is deſigned by this word is evident as ſo;., from v; 17; and frem the peculiar CharaQters given to him, whichthink, © are not common to all great Beaſts, But whar it is, is matrer of : ſome diſpute among the Learned. The generality of them are 4. greed thatthis is the Elephant, and the following Leviathan the Whale; which being two of the goodlieſt and vaſteſt Creatures which God made) the one of the Land, the other of the Sea, and wathal ſuch to whom the deſcription here given for the moſt part manifeſtly agrees,and the like is preſumed concerning the reſt, may ſeem to be here intended. And the difficulty of reconculing tome tew Paſſages to them, may ariſe either from our ignorance of thery, | or from the different nature and qualities ef Creatures of the ſame general kind in divers parts But ſome late and very learned men take the Leviathan to be the Crocodile, and the Behemoth to be x Creacure called the Hippopotamus,which may ſeem fitly to be Joyn- ed with the Crocodile, both being very well known to Job and his Friends, as being frequent in the adjacent Parts, both amphibicus, living and preying both in the Water and upon the Land, and both being Creatures of great bulk and ſtrength. I ſhall not under- take to determine the Controverſie ; bur fhall' ſhew how each part or the following Deſcription is or may be applicd to them ſeveral- Iy. And this being no Point concerning Faith or a Good Life,eve. ry one may take the more liberty to underſtand the place of oneor other efthem. 6 Either 1. upon the Earth wherethou art, whereas the Leviathan is in the Sea. Or, 2. as I made thee,for this Hebrew Particle is oft uſed as a Note of Compariſon, as Job g: 26: Pſal: 14: 7. and elſewhere; in the ſame manner, and upon the ſame day. Whereby he may intimate, that being equally the Creator and So- veraign Lord both of Job, and ef this Behemoth, he had equal right to diſpoſe of them in ſuch manner as he thought meet. Or, nigh ( as the Particle oft ſignifies ) wntothee, i.e: in a place not far from thee, to wit, in the River Nile where the Hippopotamus, as well as the Crocodile, doth principallly abide. Bur although thoſe Creatures were now in that River, yet they were madeelſewhere,e. ven where the firſt Man was made. c This is mentioned as a thin ſtrange and remarkable, as indeed it is, either 1. of the Elephant, in which God hath wiſely and mercifully planted this diſpoſitien that he ſhould not prey upon other Creatures, which ifhe had,bee ing ſo ſtrong and 'vaſt a Creature, he muſt needs have been very pernicious to them, but feed upon Graſs as an Ox deth. Or, 2. of the Hippopotamus ; of whom Hiſtorians relate, that he comes our of the River upon the Land to feed upon Corn, and Hay, or Graſs, as an Ox doth, to whom alſo he is not unlike in the form of his Head and Feet, and in the bigneſs of his Body,whence the 1talians call him the Sea-0x.
.16 Lo now, his ſtrength 5s in his loins d, and his
force 7sin the navel of his bellye.
« He hath ſtrength anſwerable to his bulk, but this ſtrength by God's wiſe and mercifal Providence is not an offenſive ſtrength, conſiſting an or put forth by horns or claws, as it is in rayenous Creatures,but only defenſive and ſeated in his Loins,as it is in other Creatures, whereby he is rendred more ſerviceable to Men by the carrying of vaſt burdens. e. Which though in the Elephant it be weaker than his Loins, whence the Rhinocerss fighting with him aims at that part,yet hath a more than ordinary ſtrength in it, as appears by the binding of the heavieſt burdens under and abour it. This alſo agrees to theHippopotamus in an eminent degree, whoſe whole skin is noted by ancient Writers to be harder than any other Creatures, and almoſt impenetrable.
17 || He moveth his tail f like a cedar: the finews of TW"
his ſtones gare wrapt together. | f Whick:hough it be _ both in the Elephant and in the T
Hippopotamus,yet when itis ereQed, is exceeding ſtiff and ſrrong/
But this may be underſtood, either 1. of his Generative Part,