388_ Verf2zo An.Expofition upon the Bookof J ®B, ;chap. 3. conception ? He anfwereth, as David did his brethren'in another cafe, 1 Sam. 17. Why, what haveIdone orfpoken, Is therenot a -caufe ? Or as Jonah when God reproves himabout his pafhori for the withered gourd , Doff thou well to be angry ? fonab,replyes, Yes, Ido well to he angry even unto death, Chap. 4.9. So faith lob here to any that fhould rebuke him,with,doyou well to be thus angry withyur daj)?.Y.es,1 dowell to be angry withmy day,and I Thew you why, becaufe it flout not up the doors of my Mothers womb, The reafonor the argument ftands'thus; there is caufe I fhould curie that day and that night,which not hindering my conception or my birth, brought me forth upon the ftage ofthe world, toaft a part inall.thefe fòrrows : But the dayand the night did not-hin- der my conception ormy birth, therefore I havecaufe,I have, rea- loz}enough to break out in fuch complaints and curfe them: I do it,'bccáufe thefeflout not up the,doors of my Mothers womb. This is the argument or reafonby which he defends his paihon : and this argument will be found to have more paillon in it then reafon, if we examine it to thebottom.For he complains ofthat as thecaufe, which was not the caufe of his troubles:what did the night or the day,that he thus chargeth them ? They had no efficiency inbring - ing thole evils upon him;circurnflances are not caufes ;'Effe6s are produced in time, but time doth not produce effeas. Gnelythis wemay .fay to help it,he doth not curie the day as ifit could have fhut the doors ofhis mothers womb,but becaufe on that day thole doors were not fhut. - But leaving the reafonofhis fpeech; we will confider the fence of & vinoacon. The Hebrew word for word is thus rendered , Becaufe itPhut clufrt portal not up the doors of my belly,; And that the Caldee Paraphrafl.ren-. maxtlaruni des thus by way of explanation, Becaufe it did not fhut-up the anearum, qu'e _ doors ofmylips,; the mouth (faith. he) being (as it were) the.door füpt Oflia ven- aràr; or the in-let-to thebelly or ftomack, everything goeth in by that door ;and fo he carries the fenfe thus, let that night be curled be- 10+4 Pa caufe it did not flop my breath, and fo make an,endof me : The re3c tcé7e0 .,Septuagint .bath it thus, Beeaufe it 'but not up [ the doors of my W'';5c9t' Mothers belly, which,anfwers our Tranflation, thq doors ofmy Motherswomb. Mr. Broughton to the, fame fence, becaufe it flout not up the door of the belly that did bear me, that is, my mothers ly
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