412 Chap. 6. An Expofation upon the Booknf JOB, Verf. to weigh money, comes the Hebrew word for one fpecial fort of money,the Shekel, becaufc they weighed by the fhkel, that be- ingas their fiandard or a fpecial coyne,o£fuch a known weight & 1S'icut Inmates value. that all their coyne was weighed and valued by it. So in cent ponderie the Latine, and likewife in our Englifh,we call one fpecialfumme £5'omniumpon- ofmoneÿ,A pound,which is a weight,and by whichmony is corn- de"' "gala, manly accounted and paid. And hence by a Metaphor, this word fignitìcs to judge or to confider of a thing exactly and fully, be- cauCe ofall matters that men weigh,they will weigh gold and fit- ver molt exaffly :if a man weighgold,he weigheth it toa grain, if Vibegit verba gold want but the turning ofthe fcale, more then due weight or p perant. allowance, it will not pats, IA 33. IS. Where it the Scribe, where ujlorprej® u the Receiver ? The Hebrew is, Where it the weigher ? that is, tt mrario mi either thefpiritualweigher: He that fifes to be fóexac# in weigh- litori. Jun, ing every tittle of the law,Or, the Civil weigher, becaufe they u. fed to weigh all the mony they received. So then, O that my griefewere throughly weighed,is as if he had laid, O that my griefe were weighed, as gold and lilver is weighed, weighed exa1ly, to the leaft, to the utmoft, that you might fully know what it is. The word .tingle by it Elf, notes an exat examination by weighing, but when (ashere) the word is doubled, or ( by an Hebraifine ) repeated, 0 that mygriefe in weighing were weighed, it heightens & increafes the fence exceedingly:Hence we tranllate "0 that mygreife were throughly weighed, weighed Co, as that there might be. a clear difcovery, howmuch my furrows weigh. The doubling ofa word, to this fence, is very frequent in Scripture, I thall not need to initance. Take only that ( Gen. 2..17. ) Of the treeof the knowledge ofgood andevil, thou (halt not ea :e of' it, for in that day that thou eatefi thereof, in dying, thou (halt die, ( that is ) t hootflaalt furely die;Sohere,O that in weighing it were weigh- ed, that is, O that it were tbroughty andexaelly weighed. Lay all together, and it imports thus much ; as if lob had laid, I would not have my forrows weighed at a vulgar bearne,or inor- dinary ballances, I would not have the found or letter only of what I have fpoken confidered,but I delire that you v:iould take my complaints together, the wards and the vmatter, and that you would weigh all impartially, that you niay come to a full under - i'tanding, what my condition ist and then furely you would give up a better judgement, and Make a faite interpretation of my words,
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