644 Chap.4o. an Expofition upon the Book,of Jos. Verf. 21. Note, Secondly; playing life, is tbelifenf a bear . All beads would live fo ; wilde beafis do live fo. As it is laid of the Leviathan in the Sea(Pfal.504, 26.) Thereto the Skips, there is that Leviathan whom thou bag made to play therein. A life of play, is a beafiial life. It is laid (Zack. 8, g.) in a way of promife, That boyes and girles fhould play in thefirms, but men and women muff work ; it were a fhame to defcribe them play- ing. The life of man is not a playing life, but a labouring life. How beaft-likedo they live, who (as it is Paid of the people of Ifrael (Exod.38. 6.) Eat,unddrink, and rife up toplay ; that's juil like a bea1,feed on the mountains, and then play upon the moun- tains. Let us followSolomons councel (Ecelef. 9. r o,) whatfo ever thybandfindeth to do,da it with all thy might. Wehave icen Behemoth feeding, let us now fee him lodging and repofing him- felf. Veil. 21, 22. He lieth under the fhady trees, in the covert . of the reedand fens the food, trees cover him with their fliadow, the willows of thebrook compafs him about. There two verfes hold forth the manner of Behemoths repofe,- how and where he takes his cafe, He lieth under thefhady trees, trc. 79 Er coin Some of the JP's'fh Rabbins read there two verles with an in- ?9, dormïo; fe- terrogation Negative, thus; Dots he lie under the fhady trees ,, pisu cubo, non try the covert of the reeds ? do the fhady trees cover him with their 4ormiopotias fbadows ?,or thewillowscompafs him about r Implying i n that Behe- 1W? dicitur- moth is fo vafl a creature, that he can hardly find trees to (hadow Nam! him, or willows of the brook to compafs him abour. But though Behemoth be a great and tall beef, I nothing doubt but there are trees in and about the places which he frequents, great and tall enough to (hadow him from the Sun when he Bands upright, yea, and reeds of a fu fficient height to be a covert to him when he lieth down. And therefore as it was an over boldnefs in thole Rabbins ((Tutan interrogation where they found none, fo there is no need that an interrogation fhould either be found or put there. lndeedBocbartus,who judgeth reeds much too low romake acovert for the Elephanr,tellsuslout of erElian,ThatElephants go
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