ïl s r z Chap. 4o. erfn Expofition upon the Book of 1 o s. Vert. 2, nefs, holy words, gracious words, are weighty words; evil words, impertinent words, unprofitable words, fpecially corrupt, filthy, finful words, are light words ; howmany words fever of chafe forts any man fpeaks, they are all light words, they have not a grain of goodnefs, and therefore not a grain of weightinefs in them. That's a good fenfe. gilts x imrer Secondly, One of the Greek tranflarors renders, Behold, 1 f a.íuoa, Lees havedone, or, abed lightly, There is lightncfs in our a6tions as tevitevfeet. well as in our fpeeches. We fay , fuch a man is of a light, Aquíla. that is, of a vain carriage ; and we fay of another, he is a grave ahan, or there is gravity in his carriage. Thus force fpeak and adt gravely, or weightily ; others fpeak and alt loofely, lightly. Whenpb faith, Behold, I amvile, it may take in both,/ havefpoken lightly, I have dons lightly, and therefoi e I am light, therefore I ansvile, or contemptible. fumnìhtt Yet further ; The greekSeptuagint tranflates, tam nothing; ern. Sept. nothingrleft thanennothi g. How (hall I an fiver thee, feting 1 anssYno- thing ? All that I am is fo light a thing, that I am nothing at all ; that is, nothingof worth, nothingof value ; I am of fo little va- lidity, that I have fcarce any entity. Ftom all thefe readings, wemay fully gather up fobs fenfe in this felf-abating, confeflion, Behold, Iam vile. Laflly, For the clearingof there words, confider, we are not to underhand Yob whenhe faith, I am vile, as fpeaking only with reference to his then prefent,fad,forrowful, deplorable condition: fometimes fuch' are accounted vile by men, who are low and mean in the eyeof the world. Yob did not count himfelf vile up- on that confideration, becaufe liript of all his worldly greatnefs, power and glory, health and flrength ; he did not call himfelf vile, becaufe of the prefent difpenfation of God towards him, but he called himfelf vile, withrefpelt to the common natural conditionof mankind, or as he was a Fulfill man, though his pro- vidential condition had been never fo good and profperous. Be- hold, lam vile. Hence obferve, Firf%; Man at his heft eftate is vile. David faith, he is even then altogether vanity (Pfal, and
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