Chip. 41. an Expofition upon the Book of J o B. Verf.34. 781 eyes, and their eye-lids are lifted up. hat generation was this ? Habet hoc It was the generation of proud, vai W men ; O how lofty are their magnanimus, ut mediocribus eyes: who can tell how lofty they are ! no mean thing will con- contentus, tent them. They have fuck a hunger after high things, that no- maximi negli- thing low is food for them. A godly man is not fatcsfied with gat.sen. matterswhich are truly low and (mall (to him the grearell things Superbus verse. in the world are fo) yet the lower, the leffer, the lea(} things pufrlumani- of this world will ferve his turn, as to conrentation with them. mum mna er, r- Lcviathan beholdeth all high things, and therefore as it follow- go ediorribus cnntentus éhÌf fed iuhiar"b maim. eth,. He is a Icing over all the children of ride. That is, he is the chief of ail proud ones. Meier Broughton renders it thus, he is a King over all wild kind. And a Modern Interpreter abroad, rendring the Hebrew Eßq; regina word, by a Latine feminine faith, fhe is a Qaeen over all thewild fuperomues Y > > feras. Jun. kind, or over all favage beans. Thus feveral render ir, according ipfe; regem to the Uri&words of the Hebrew, be es aKingover all wild beafis. agie inferoces The Septuagint tranflate, be is a Icing over all that are in, or that univerfos. inhabit the waters; others, that, move upon the earth, as the Tygur. learned Reader may fee in the margin. Now, becaufe thofe wild Inter o rimos'' Y yerba primal ones, of one kind or another, are proud, and prouder than tame tenet t eß fe- beafls ; therefore we render, He is a king over all the children citeprinceps: of pride:That'san Heb:aifine,children ofpride,for proud children, Mem or for chofe that are extreamly proud. They who excel in any biæ,iéufuper- thing are ellegantly called the children of it, as if they were be- bos,juxte idiç- gotten by ir, or bornof it ; they bear the likenefs of ir, as chit- ma Hebres- dren do of a parent. Some perlons (as Leviathanhere) are fo rum. like pride, chat they may well be called children of pride, as if Fitiusrei ali- pride tt felf had begotten them, and were their father, or themo- mitesnuncupa- cher that brought them forthand nnrfed then, or brought them Cur phrafi He" brines, quire P. ua inftgní- But why is Leviathan called aKing over all the children of oli ofClef excelhe. pride ? I conceive the chief reafon to be that which 1 (hall give in this Oblervation, becaufe Leviathan harts more to beproud of, than the proudefl of the world. They that have mot} to be proud of in nature, have not fo much...
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