Chap. 3. finFxpofition upon the BookofJ O B. Veri. 3. with mirth and feafting, but not be remembred at all. And the night wherein it was faid, a man-child is coneeived. So we tranflate : The elegancy of the Hebrew (peaks thus,The night whichfaid,a man-child is conceived ; as if the night had been themeffenger,and had brought wordof his conception. Some ren- der the Hebrew word [ Hàra ] ( which we tranllate conceived ) Born, applying both partsof the verle to his birth, Let the day pe- rill, wherein Iwas born, andthe night in which it was faid, a man - child is brought forth ; And the Original word will bear it,being ufed (as learned Mercer obferves) for produc` ion as well as con- ception.So r Chron,4.17. And floe bare Miriam and Shammai, &c. She bare, is the word in this Text of lob : We may take it either way ; the fence is clear according to our Translation , that Iob fends this curie beyond his birth-day, even to thenight wherein he was conceived : Or if we refer it no further back then to his birth, it is as ifhe had laid, whether I were born by night or by day,let the time ofmybirth be accurfed ; ifit were upon the day time,/et that dayperifbwherein Iwas born;Was I born in the night? let that nightperifh,rvherein it wasfàida man-child it brought forth: This diftribution notes a refolvednefs to curie it;and left he fhould mils the time ofthe days he curies both the divifions of time in e- very day. AsBenhadad in his charge for the taking ofthofe young men that cameout ofSamaria, to thew how fully he was refolved to have them taken, faith, Whether they be come outforpeace, take them alive , or whether they be come out for war, take them alive, 1 King.2o.18. As if he had laid, I'le have theín taken whatfoever comes oíft,or for whatfoever they come,they thall not efcape. Or as Llerod, who, that he might be Pure to flay Chrift in his infancy, commands all infants to be Hain : So lob, that the cnrfe might not mils the time ofhis birth-day, curiesall the time of that day, the day and the night.For though a manbe born in the night,yet that is not called his birth- night,but his birth-day : And to be born,is to come into the light , though the birth -time be the darkeli of the night. Hence the Heathen called their Juno, whole help they invoked in time ofwomens travel, (Deam lucinam) the goddefï bringing into light. So much for theopening ofthis curie , both in the general and in the parts ofit,refpeding the objef,day and night. In the next words he cuts out or proportions a fpecial curie, as theportion X x o 337
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