Chap. 6. An Expoftion upon theBookofJ O B. wards then as yet you have put forth : Thus he fpeaks á1(o Chapter 31.6. Let me be weighed in an even ballance, that God anay knot' my integrity, Uneven ballanceswill not make a perfec`, difcovery : That which is falte, cannot give a true report:Things and perfons aCt as they are; therefore Job deured to be weighed in an even ballance, filch a beam will fpeak the truth of my e- fiate, both to God and nun ; God needs no meanes to make h it-if know, he knowsall immediately, and he weighs by his eye, not one thing by another, but ali things in themfelves ; job fpeakes of God after the manner ofinen. Andmy calamity laid in the ballances together. Mygriefand mycalamity. Griefe caufed by my calamity, and calamity the caufeof that grief. rnri My calamity. The word fignifies any trout lefotìre evil, fad e- vent, or accident; vurgarly called a mil:fortune ; 0 that thisfad äradieei , ejfateand condition wherein Iam, wereput into the ballance. The Original for ballances, is very obfercìable ; As there is f °rt, evenrus much elegancy, in the word by which the action, fo, in this, by nú1m inforru- which the inftrument of weighing is expreffed It is found onely wai f in the plural, or dual number, as many of that nature are ; The llorera fat word a'gd the rea,fontof it is thus givn,be Which are as thetongue g hobeQ lamer, tielut outer. of the ballance hands like a judge between the two fcales,ínclining pad, toneither till the weight be laid in; fo should the careofa Judge by office, or ofany man, by deputation, called to hear and deter- mine of things iic differencé,fiand indifferent tò both parties,till he heare the matter debated, and the reafons brought forth on either- fide. The ivloralihs embleme this by the place of that Signe in theZodiacke, which they call theVirgin, handing ( according to the doctrine of Afironomers) between the Lion andthe Ballancer. The Lion bids VirginAlice, be flout and fearless ; The Ballan- ces advise her to weigh the matter on both fides, with moderati- lfyvjc on,-and be cautions,inclining neither onewaynor other,but asthe merit of the cause, fully heard, (hall fway her judgement, ob defres, that his calamity might belayed thus in the bal lances,before the sentence; Laid:The word is,0 that my calàmity - Ievavir, fu_ might afcend in the ballances ; And that manner of fpeaking is fiulit, nom qui ufed, either becaufe weighing, the lighter fcale of the ballances adpendit ali loth afcend; or becaufe when.things axe weighed, the ballances `Cé3d`dlit la ; G g g 3, afcend Dïuf Vere 2. 413
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