ahall p11t it on. The raiment thus accumu- is not," generally suppose that be opene hi& lnted she.II pass from the wioked into the eyes only to find himself in the bands of l.utnde of the just, who o.t his deo.th shnll murderers. enter upon his inheritance (ob. xx. 18, 20, Ver. 20.-Terrors take hold on him a, 28). And the innooent shall divide the waters (~.omp. eh. xviii. 11). Terrors sweep silver (see the first clause of ver. 16). over the wicked mnn like a flood of waters Ver. 18.-He buildeth his houe as a -vague terrors with respect to the po.st, the moth. The moth is the symbol of fro.gility, present, and the future. He fee.re the deoo.y, and weali:ncee. 'l'he wicked man's vengeance of those whom he bas oppreseed ottempt to build himself up a house, a.nd and injured, the loBB of his prosperity a.t any establish o powerful family, is no better moment by a reverse of fortune, anrl a final than a moth's e.Uempt to mo.ke itself a retribution a.t the band of God commensu- permanent habitation. A.a moths do not rate with hie ill desert. He ie at a.II times construct dwellings for themselves, it has uneasy; sometimes he experiences e. sudden been proposed (Men:) to read 1!1•::i:::,Jl::i, '' as rueb upon him of such gloomy thoughts, a spider," for l!IJl::i, "e.s a moth ; " but the which overwhelms him, and sweeps him ohonge is too great to be at o.ll probo.ble. away like e. mighty stream. A tempest May not the cocoon, from which the moth stealeth him away in the night. While he iBB'ues e.s from a house, have been in Job's is off his guard, e.s it were, in the night, a. mind? The hawk-moth buries itself in a sudden storm bursts on him, and removes neat cave for the pupa stage ; and there him from his place. mny have been even better examples in Ver. 21.-The east wind carrieth him Uz. But we ourselves have not known away, and he departeth. The khamsin wind, these fe.ots long, and therefore we need not coming with all its violence and burning be surprised to find Job me.king e. mis- heat, drives him before it, and is irresistible take in natural history. And aa a booth (see 'Ancient Monarchies,' vol. ii. p. 482). tho.t the keeper maketh. Huts or lodges And as a storm hurleth him out of hi.I of boughs were set up in vineyards and place. This is little more than a repetition orchards b7 those who had to watch them of the previollB hemistich. The man is (see lee.. 1. 8; Lam. ii. 6). They were swept from the earth by a. storm of ee.lamity. habitations of the weakest and frailest Ver. 22.-P'or God shall oast 11pon him, kind. and not spare. Some commentators regard Ver. 19.-The rich man lieth down; the storm as still the subject, and translate, rather; he lieth d01D11 rich (see· the Revised "For it shall ea.at itself upon him [or, Version). llut he shall not be gathered. 'rush upon him '], and not spare " If wo accept the present te.11.t, we may (Schultens, Merx). The difference ill uot translate, But it (i.e. his wee.Ith) shall not great, since the storm represents God's be gathered, and suppose his wee.Ith to have judgtnent. He would fain flee out of l!ia consisted in agricultural produce. Or we hand; or, if the storm is meant, out of its may alter 1:1011• into 1:1•01•, a.ad translate, He hand. lieth .down rich, but he ahall do so no more- Ver. 23.-Men shall clap their hands at a. oorrection to which the ob 1rpurr8~rr•1 of the him. Applauding, i.e., the just ju<i,,"Ill.ent of Septuagint points, He openeth his eyes, God upon him. And shall hi.ls him out of o.nd he is not. Scime translate, "It is not;" his place. Accompo.ny with hisses his i.e. tlie harvest, in which his wenlth con- final ruin and downfall-hissing him, while sisted, is not-it has been all destroyed by they appla.11d the e.otion of God in respect blight or robbers. • Those who render, "He to him.
HOMILETICS. Vere. 1-10.-Job's first parable: 1. The transg,·essions of a godly man. I. A DARING ACOUBATION, 1. Against whom directed1 Against Eloah, the All-sufficient One; Shaddai, the All-powerful One, the Self-existent, Living One, whose universal dominion, resistless might, and ineffable majesty Bildad (eh. xxv. 1-3) a.nd Job himself (eh. xx.vi. 6-14) had eloquently pictured. With exalted conceptions of the transcendent greatness of the invisible Supreme, whose continual rresence also ho vividly realized (eh. 1xiii. 8, 9, 15), Job should have feared to speak rashly, much more accusingly, beforu him (Deut. xxviii. 58; P~. lx:xvi. 7, 11; Jer. v. 22). But clear and accurate notl.:ms of Divine truth do not always possess that moral force, even over crood men, that they should. Job a little while ago was afraid of God and troubkd at his presence (eh. xxiii. 15); now, havinJ lost, perhaps, his former luminous !Mlnse of the Divine presence, he hesitates not to bring against him a serious accusation. THE BOOK OF JOB.