Chap. 2. AnExpofitionupon the Bookof J O B. Verf: Jo. 287 fallen fpirit,a-fpirit fallen below all noble or holy refoluti.ons. Na- bal is fuck a fool, as hath his judgment and underftanding faded and corrupted, in regard ofany holy principles, though hemay be wife in regard of Natural Principles, Such the Prophet ds:fcribcs, they are wej e to do evil, but to do good they have no 1%zonvle-a e, .fer. 9. 22. Hence the'Latin word (Nebtelo) which liguifies a Knave, is by good Etyinolooifir derived from the Hebrew Nabal.; be- caufe !rich are dull-heads in goodnefs, and witty only in wicked nefs. Such was he, i Sam. 25. 25. Nabal it hip Name andfolly is with him : That proper name is theLime with the Appcllarive here; that's the Máfculine, this the Feminine, Thoufpea..ejti- li e a Nabulef We find the word often ufed elfewhere to lignifie wicked, worthlefs and vile perfòns, PJalm rq. t. 7.hefool loath Laid, &c. Deut. 32. 6. 21. at the fixth Verfè,. O foolifh people and unreife, do ye thus requite the' Lord ? And Verf. 21. They have provoked me to anger by thofi that are no Gods, an,l I roil., provoke them to jealoufie by them which are not a people, and move them to anger with a foolifh Nation ; by them which are not a People , by a foolifhNation : A foolifh people defèrve not The name of a People. Look upon this word in the Abítratt, folly is wickednefs; and to work folIy,is, in the language ofthe Scripture, as much as to work wickednefs, to work the greatell wickednefs. Hence it is fometimes translated villany, Jo . 29. 22;23. The Lord make. thee like Zedckiah and like Ahab, inborn the Kings of Baby- lon rolled in the fire, becaufe they hive comíeitt°d villany i;t If-aet. And throughout the Bookof Proveros, the tool and an ungodly man, a wife man and a Godly man, are (Synonoin.i s) words fig r nifying the fame thing. Thus Job reproves his Wire, Thou fpe,uw çii as one of the fooiiJh women , like One, of thole who have no wifdome, no goódnefs, not any fenfe or fop of goodnefs ïu therm, lint who were thefe foolifh Women', at whom he aimes in this cotnparif;gn ? that is not clear ; fome condeive he intends the Women of Ideemea, :Thou fpeakeh as one of thefe Heathen Wo- men, thefe Idumeans; I have heard indeed Inch lai:nguagefrom them when things have gone amifs-with them, I have heard them curling their Idols, curling their. Gods ; I have heard them rail at Fate, fall out and wrangle with fortune , TItors fire c c,'±' lit e, e of them. Thou takeft thy pattern in this from the eufiom e Heathen, who ufe their Gods coarily, when they think they have but coarfe ufage from their Gods, It :their Gods be angry, they
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