Chap. 5. fln Expoftion upon the Bock, of J O B. Verf.st 6. 303 Lord heard bran, (vet frayed him oast o f all his trotebles. Forget not the Congregation of by p ;or f,r ever : The truth is,he neverforgets them. Yt,1,74.t9. They aregraven up,n the palm; of his bands, foch p>or art his treafure, his 'jewels as thefi net upon bis right hand ; Therefore always in his eye, yea always in his heart, though they lye in the dirt, or be troden under foot like mire in the ftrects. The Prophet makes this report to Cod himfelf (Ifa. ag. 4.) 1 'bou haft been a ftrenyta: to the poor, afirengtb to the needy inhis dt(irefr, a retitle from theform. e,rc . Thus far Eliphax, bath given inftance of the great, marvellous and unfearchabte works of God, in a double reference : Firft, to wicked crafty opprcffors; Secondly,to poor helplefs innocents. He (huts up his narration with a double effe& of thefe works upon thote two forts of men. Fi tt, fhewing what effeC they produce in the poor, namely hope: secondly, what in the wick- ed, namely, (hame and confufon of face. Ver. 16. So the poor bath hope, and inigeity fioppeth ber month. Here is the conclufion or refult of all, the Epiphonema or ex= ulting clofe, in which Elipbaz perfe&s theRory of thofe admi- rable works of judgment and of mercy; So the poor bathhope &c. ThisOriginal word forÇp?or] varies from the former,though eireflicelrf the perlonsand their eflate be the fame: That word noted them "7'71 full of defire, and this(which is thecaufe'of it ) empty' of com- Exh:uflu+,de humare pr®- forts:Properly it lignifies ate, that is exhaufied & drawn dry. Poor bufè,per ro. perlons are exhauffed perfons,exhaufted of their flrength,exhau- taphoraem de tied of their eftates,exhaufled of friend, and credit in the world. irib 0 corps. It is a Metaphor taken from rivers, ponds, or pools , that are oa us, . drawn dry, when we would cake the fifh, or rake away the de- reams yYrun fence which they give to forts or Cities, ¡fee. t 9.6. And they (Pall homo, turn the rivers far away, and the Brooke of defence !hall be emptied and dried up: which altoenlightens that text, Ifa. 33 z t. Where the righteous Lord sysltbe unto'us a place of broad rivers. A river that (hall not be drawn dry or flucedout ( as Euyhrates was by Cyrses when he took Babylon) but fhal1 fill its banks and (hoaxes per- perually ; that is, the Lord will be therea perpetual defence: A river that fhall never be impoverifh'd, but (hall keep a full flock and treafure of ftreames and waters. DaFilab had her name from this root,and it carries an elega allufìó nt
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