Chap. 4t do Expefttion upon the Bookof J o B. Verf. 2$ . X63 Buckler-fcales,by throwing a rotten flickat him, as well as by calling a dartor javelinat him ; he flightsall your artillery, as if he had reafon todo it,and fullyunderffood that his skin and fcales were anarmour ofproofagainfl all ail-auks. Verf. 28 . The arrowcannot make him flee. Arrows are notable weapons ufcd at a difiancc, which being fhot from a f1rongbow, anddrawn home by a thong arm, wound deeply and deadly ; yet Leviathan regards not whsle (bowers of arrows poured upon him. The Hebrew elegancy gives it thus, The fans of the bow cannot make him flee. MaflerBroughtons tranflation holds the metaphor uocranflated,The bows child droves him not away. Arrows are fometimes called the fans of thebow, and fometimes they arc called the font of the quiver (Lament. 3. a 3.) becaufe arrows are firfl taken out of a quiver, where they are kept, and fo arc, as it were, children of the quiver ; and then arrows areput upon the firing of the bow, and being fhoc out of it, may be called allo fans of the bow. Arrowscome out of the quiver and the bow, as children from parents. And as in this Scripture, arrows are called children, fo in another, children are compared CO arrows (Pfal. r 27. 4.) Asarrows are in thehand ofamightyman,fa are childrenof theyouth ; happy is the man that bath buquiver fullof tbene,that is, whobath many children. Here (by the way) give me leave to mind theReader, that 'cis ulual in Scripture tocall any thing that comes out of, or proceeds from another,its fon or child. Thus corn is called the fon of the floore (Ifa. 21 ,r0.)Omythrefhing,and the corn of myfloor; the Hebrew is, Omy tbrefhing, and the fonof my floor. Corn is called the fon of the floor, becaufe it comes from the floor, where it is thre(h- edanddelivered by the forceof the flail, out of the husk orchaff in which it was bred, and lay as a child in his mothers womb. Thusallo fparkswhich come from the coal, are called forts of the coal (Job ç. 7.) According to this frequentHebraifine,arrowsare here called the fans of the bow. The arrow cannot make bum flee. Though arrows fly at Leviathan, he fcorns to flee from ar- rows, he will fur no more whenyou (hoot a feathered arrow at him, than if you fhot only a feather at him. And as he contemns arrows, fo Eeeee 2 fling-
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