506 Chap. 6. An Expofition upon the Bookof J O B. Verf. 19. loud1h-earn ofprofefon. It is reported by Geographers, ih their defcription of America, that in Peru there is a River called the Diurnal River, or the day River, becaufe it falls with a mighty current in the day, but in the night is dry. This may feem to be a fabulous report, but the reafon given (which is dire& to the point in hand) makes it not only. probable, but very plain ; for they tell us, tha t this River is not fed by a fountain,or tpring,but iscaufed meetly by the melting of the (how, which lies on the mountains thereabouts t in the day time when theSif i is upand warm the fnow melts, but when night comes, and the Sun goes down, the flow freezes, and fo the channel dries. Thus iris with thole, who have not an inward principle of-holinefs, they may have a great flood of profcfl-ion, when the fnowmelts down into theirbofomes,by the fhine ofoutward profperity;but when night and cold,when troubles and danger come, their waters freeze up, or pafs away and go to nothing. So much .of the caufes why thefe ftreants, thefe water- brooks vani(h, they have no fpring to maintain and feed them : Rain,and froil,and lnow(uncertain all) are all they have to trufl to. Job having thusexplained his fimilitude, and (hewed what he means by brooks, and what kinde of brooks he means. He now confirms all by anexperimént,you thall feeit is thus, thefe brooks will yield nothing at a time ofneed-Many have tried them ; who are they ? The troops ofTema look.ed,thecompanies ofSheba waited for theme The troops of Tema. That is, the travellers who came in great rmtt companies fromTema, and paffed through thofe defert Countries, _ Semtia,¡emi- where they had obferved in the winter, ftreams and floodsofwa- tsxoni ce ter frozen and full of fn©w ;now in theirfummer, travails, Etuinominnm , veturm.e vi- parcht with heat, and di(lreffed for want of water, they expended paorunar, releiffroMthofe brooks, which they. had markt out for them.- felves, and.ofwhich they had faid, thefe,will. be watering pla- Hos torrentes- ces for us, and refrethings in extreamelt heat. We read often in , eBpro j>!ora the old teilament offuch travellers, Gen. 37: Behold a come read refociila- parryoflihmaelites, camefrom Gilead, with their Camels bearing eienem,Goe. fpicetyand balm, and mirrh, going down into Egypt.'Such are now called aCaravan. The Letter of the Hebrew is, The paths of Ytinerehó- Tema; the path or road, in which they travelled, is .putfor the sine: interje fgeientet, travellers. Solfa. 21.. 13.,0ye travelling companiesof Dedaxim y The Hebrew is, Oyepathr ofDedani,n, that is, O ye.who travel in
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