Chap.! 3. An Expofition upon the, Book, of J GB. Verf: 6. 421 when thin houfe of my body is taken down, Have a building, &c. And he can fay, I know,with far greater affurancethen any world- ly man,whohath fealed it in his will, that thus and thus his body fhall be entombed. It is a fad thing to take care for a rotten car- leafs, and forget an immortal Soul. Job having thus paralleld or compared himfelf in death with Kings,Counfellors and Princes,notwithfianding all their pompous Funerals and curious Tombs, paffeth as it were in the next Verfe to the other ektream. Verfe 16.- Or' ás anhiddenuntimely birth, I had not been, pas infants which never [ow light. Asifhe had laid, Ifany think that I have firained toohigh in makingmy felfequal in. death with Kings,&c.yet furely I fhoulei have been as thofethat never knew themfelves tobe in this world; oras thofe that the worldnever knew-to be, that is, as an un- hidden untimelybirth, or asinfants which neverfare the light. An hidden untimely birth. The word [NephelJ in the He-- brew for an untimely birth comes from [Na halJ which fi nifi- " r dseidu s ' p g our immaturus eth to fall down, or fall off, as untimely fruit falls offfrom a tree ; frutTu, gui art- which falling off before it is ripe,is unprofitable and ufelefs: When re maturirat the mother mifcarries, her fruit is like-the fruit ofa Tree, fhaken temrru ea or- off and falling down before it be ripe , or- in the blooming.- hored<ctdtr in- And the fame word is ufed in the Hebrew to fi nifie a Giant ; $ ita.oc. There were [Nephilim: Giants in the earth in thole dayes, Gen. 6.4. and- the Reafon why they are ft.) called, is, as fome apprehend, be- caufe they were Apoffates, fuch as fell off from God; from true'' Worfhip and Religion : Or becaufe they did fall upon men,as that phrafe is applyed to cruel men, they did fall cpon the poor ; So the- word is ufed, Chap.1.v.15. of this Book, The-Sabeansfell upon- Job'.rOxen, &c. They who fall fromGod by impiety will -quickly; fall upon menby cruelty. Or becaufe the dread and terror of them made men to fall down for fear before them : It its very obferva-° ble-,- that the fame word fhould lignifiean infant of lefs then a fpan long, and aGiant (it may be) of more then fix cubits and-- a. fpan, ( a Sam. 17. 4.) and both upon equal reafon , and with equal fignificancy. Further , we may take notice, that the-Hebrews exprefs any dead body or carkafs by the fame Word ; thedead body of \the° oldef
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