i Chap. 5. An Expofition upon the Book of J O B. Verf. 5. 2II mates, that the thing was or was fuppofed to be protected with armes. The Chaldee paraphrafe faith the fame : Souldiers withkof juxra weapons andwarlike infruments(hall carry them away. This word tex,urn Hebra- is inother places rendred AnArmy, in the Chaldee, So jell;: 23: do rmistaret a5 That which we tranflate, They (hall be thornes inyour eyes ct,verrit vúl. TheChaldee glofleth thus, TheyPall be anArmy befegingor com-garHBiblia,ra- pafngyou round about. And fo much for the fecond branch of pict ermatus, thtsverfe, He taketh it even out of the thorner. non enim nifa There is a third branch : And the robberfwalloneth up their de 'us ts óór f ubftance, rum eam rape It is the fame in fublance with the former, and we may fay herere. as Jofeph about the dreatias of Pharoah, The dreams are the fame, IYlilites arm; and they are doubled, only to note the certainty of the thing : Theft eb:Úei ca matter here is the fame, only the words are doubled (as the Holy dutete Ghat often.doth) to note the certaintyofthis thing, that theQhald. foolifh mans elate (hall be confumed. Erunrexerritue Yet, there is fomewhat very confiderable in the phrafe here vas iingenter.' ufed, and therefore I thall open it a little ; The robber fivalloweth Chald. Bibent (mien. vp hia fubftance, ter Z.:itras e- The robber ] Some tranflate, The thirfty [hall drinkor fwallow up jut : vulg. theirfubftance; Mr. Broughton,the thirfty /Ballfwill up their wealth; íß'",S voi ä And it fuits fairly with the former words, there the hungry fhall fl? r1C3 tire. eat up his hsrveft, and here, the thirfly (hall(will up their wealth , quo3efi capl- fo you have both the hungry and the thinly to make riddanceluraur cdfrri- of all ; neither his corn, nor his wine, his bread, nor his drink. es. Pra do fie neither wet nor dry, thail efcape, where both hungry and thirfly dhY`Iur,quod mo_ referino capil- come to confume. lot nuttier, ut We render it, The robber fwalloweth up their fubftance. Themos.offin ter- reafon of this difference is from the Original word, which may ra tfmael hab. have a double derivation: lira from a root,Ggnifying to thirft or Day, himhi to be thii'fiy : Secondly from a root which lignifies the hair of the f m,præ. head, or the locks, or extraordinary ruffian*like long hair and do,que,n fait. locks. And the reafon why we tranflate Robber, is given frompo it: exiflio both ; From the firl, becaufe robbers and fpoylersare common- aunt, ,ì coma. i 172 ly Toffe-pots and drunkards, men that bye their liquor,a thistly quod aatigurt va l generation in that fenfe ; and they alwayes thirft for a prey, they lqurrtáf {ts< thirft for the elates or lives of others From the latter, becaufe or. r J robbers, plunderers and fpoilers, ufualiy wore very long hair, either todifguife or make themfelves the more terrible ; So that a robber may be denominated, both from his unnaturally natural ' e 2 thirst
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTcyMjk=