Chap. 5 An Expoftìon upon the Book of J O B. Verf. t3. I285 tios, which craftymen (tame in their hearts, to protc t their law- lets pra&ifes,avd takes them in. Sécondly,The word tnay imply the taking and binding of a man in bonds or in fetters. He takes the wife in their own crafts nef.r, that is he takes and binds them as with a chain, or he fet- ters them in their own craftinefs,(o the word is ufed(Prev.5,2z.) His own irtvities fhall take the wicked tins/elf, andhe [hall 6e holden with the cords of his find. Thirdly,The metaphor may be carried in an allufion to Hun- ters of wild beafls,or tobird takers, who let nets and gins, traps, or toils to take them : There wife,crafry tnen,are cunning hun- cers,!heir trade and bufin4s is, to let nets to catch, and toyles to intangle, they digpits and lay loares for others to fall into ; So the Prophet defcribes them, (je,. 5. 26. ) They lay wait as be thatfetteth fnares, they fet a trap they cach men : But at Taft, god takes the Wife in their own crafrinefr, that is, the pitsthey have Jig- ged, and the fnares they have laved , and the nets they have let (hall catch themfeives. Fourthly, The word is applyal in Scrip.are, to a taking, or a di(covery by a lot; S:) (J¡2.7. t5.) t herule was thus given,He that fhall be taken with theaccerjed thing (ball be burnt and ver. t Si Achan was taken, that is, taken by a lot , the lot difcovered and catcht him. b,dchan had hid the Babylonifh garment, and the wedg of gold (aleenough, as he thought : and one would hive thought, that in Inch a mulricude,in fuch an huge huff and throng of people, he might have been hidden too;':jut God fends a to ,and rakes out Acha,Ç from the middel of all the mil itude, 37P1"4"/°. he calls him out by name, this is the man. There may bea lake meaningand ufe of theword in this place, He rakrth the wife in !Y/2nu[apio c5 their owncraftinefs,t hat is, men who think to flrlter themfeivesirmiterteneo among(} the multitude, or to walk in the clouds of craft ; men fugiertem in who hide and (hadow themfelves from the eye of the world, as curfu depreher- if none fhould fee who they are.or what theydo o;<r v oenh tehr efçe o G a od _ will take he will direa a dyne lot , onetime drnolre eye, quicqu ue prehend and lay hold on them ; he will difcover Acbans, the nonfeleob,n atur; troublers ofhis Ifrael,in their wickedcounfels; and bring to light unded'p ma. their flan wedges ofgold, and their Babylonifhgar,nen' r. nipuliufueit- There is one thing further confiderable,from the (enfe of that lsre,Eraírn, Greek word, which the Apoflle ufes (t Cor.3. t 9.) He taketh the wife,ctec, The Apoliles word lignifies properly tq take, or a taking
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