Chap. 2. An Expofition upon the Bookof I O B. Verf. 9. 275 Doff thoujig retain thine integrity .? Words quick and (port. It is probable we have here only the Tamura narraarr compendium, or briefof. that difcourfe which paffed between Job mu errr qua andhis wife.We have only thepoyfon,and the Antidote,as a learn- &vsrl climb- ed Expofitor hints it upon this place. tun continent. The Septuagint have taken theboldnefs (if they be not falfified) to let down his wives fpeech at large,and joyn it in with the body ofthe Text, thus : A long time being fpent, his wifefaid unto him, How longwilt thou hold out, faying, Behold, I wait yet a little while expeeling the hope of my Salvation ? For confider, thy re- membrance is blotted out from the Earth, even thy Sons, and thy daughters, thepains and travel of my womb, whom I have brought forth in vain. Thou thyfelf fitteff here in the rottennefs ofWorms, abiding all night in the open air. I poor hand-maid wander frost place to place, from houfe to houfe, looking when the Sun will fet, that Imay take a little repofe from the pains andfarrows which now opprefs me ; but utter thou fome word againff the Lord and dye. The Greek Authors comment upon thefewords,as upon theText it felf: But I fhall wave them wholly. Neither (hall I flay here in the explication of the words, according to our reading out of the Hebrew, becaufe we have handled them at the third verle ofthis Chapter. In the teftimony which God giveth concerning job, where he fpeaks thus tòSatan, Half thou confidered my fervant Job, how that he is aperfef man,&c. and that he ffill hol dethfall his integrity ? God fpakeit to the praife of Job, frill he bolded) fall. his integrity; his wife fpeaks it to his reproach, and upbraideth him with it, Doff thou ffill retain thine integrity ? The words fpoken by both are the fame, but the fcnfe and intent of the fpeakers is quite diffèrent. God fpeaks themin honour to job; his wife fpeaks them in contempt ofJob, and therefore {informs them into a que- ilion,acutting kind of fpeech, Doff thou ftïll retain thine integrity As if the íhould fay, What? art thou fo fenflefs and fo ftupid, fo mad and fotti(h, togo on in this courfe ftill ? what haft thougot by it ? where are thy earnings ? what is the advantage of holi- nefs? or what is the profit of integrity, that thou holdeft and hug - geft it fofaft?Doff thou)fill retain thine integrity? This I conceive is the fumof the queftion, it isan upbraiding, a reproaching que- ilion ; and from that we may obferve, N n 2 k'irít,
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