9.12 Vert. 1 4. AnE.xpofition upon theBookcf J O B. Chap, 3-, Firft, Some take it for an expreffion of valt and mighty build- ings , Palaces and Houles of fùch largenefs and content, that when great Princes and Kings have their full retinue and families in them, they can fcarce be Peen : But I fee no reafon at all for that fence; and therefore I,pafs..it ; alittle touch will make that opinion defolate. Others by thefe defolate places, conceivethat Job meaneth For- rolls and Parks, places ofpleafure, which Kings and great men ufe to build and make up for delight and recreation. Or Thirdly, That by defolateplaces aremeant houles built in defolate or lòlitary places in Woods and Forrefls. Princes and great men will have their houles far remote from Townsand pla- ces ofrefort, that theymay be free from fuitors, and retire when they pleafe from the thron.gof the multitude ; it-is fàid concern- ing Solomon, r Kings 7. 2, that afterhe had.build the Temple and his own houle for his Kingly refidence,hebuilt a houfe in the Far- rell. ofLebanon. But this tnay be called a building in, rather then a building_of defidate places. fourthly,Rather,i conceive that Kings and Counfellors of the b trnitiocava- Earth may be fail `o build defolate places,wheu finding places de - fa&dejiru£la folate and ruined,they with vall expences raite up and build flatly defolataque, Fabri cks upon them, to get themfelves a name. Aswant and po- Tut ifflextm- verty, War and troubles turn a Palace into a defolate place ; fo chant riches and plenty,power and peace,meeting together in Kings and f duraDruf. great then, turn defolate places into Palaces Kings and .'Coun- fellorsare of fuchh wealth and power, that they canalter the moll. defolate and ruinous places, into delicate edifices and 'lately dwellings. OrLaflly, Which doth bell fuit with the fubjed of job's dit=_ courte or curfè in this Chapter ; he (peaking fo much of death,by.. the defolateplaces; we may underftand Tombes and Sepulchres,:; places of burial ; which Kings and Counfellors build to or for themfelves: And fo taken, the fence may begiven thus, as if Job had Paid, ifI had dyed, I fhould have líen in the grave with as much cafe and quiet,as thole great Princes-and Kings oftheearth whobuild themfelves 'lately monuments to lye in ;it would have . been as well with me as any of them, though inter'd under,fiate -- ly Tombs.W,e know it was an ordinary thing for Kings and great men (efpeciaily in ancient times ) to prepare for themfelves coli- ly Monuments while they lived, as boules for their bodies being dead:
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