Chap; 6. As Expefition upon the Book of 'JOB. "Vert.. 2r . Somuch for the letter ofthis fimilitude ; the fairing of thole fireames,exemplified in the fad experiences oithe troops ofTema and thecompanies of Sbeba, as often deceived and afhamed, as they came to them for water. Now follows the application of the fimilitude ; as if job had Said, I havefpoken in the, clouds, and toldyouftories offorraign con- cernment. .I tellyoufriends, ;I mutt even apply all this toyou, and leave it atyour doors. As Nathan, when he had told :David the Parableof the poor man and his little ewlamb,which his rich neighbour tookaway to chefs for the way-faring man that was come unto him ; he (I fay)brings it home to David in the dole, faying,7hou art the man.Soáfter Job had told a fiory in the gene- ral or in a third perfon, about deceitful brooks and travellers de- ceived by them,now he applies it tohis friends; ye myfriends are themen I mean by tilde-brooks ;ye are they I have all this while delineated and let forthby thefe unfaithful andunconfiant fireams ofwater. .ilerf.2t.For nory are ye nothingyefee my cafting down, andareafraid. For nowye are nothing.] What, nothing ? Ye are nothing at ttt7 Cit1`Ar ail unto me. Ye are no more to me in any wayofrefrefhing than Fuiflir nary. thefe firearns of the brook whichI even now deferided, were to EJ?i, mtbt ni. the troops of Tema, for now ye are nothing. As out of nothing i u&rorenr còmes nothing, fo that is as nothing untous, out of which nothing ter ciifrriprf. comes. Mere. Ifwe render it word forword according to the Hebrew, it is, ,Esrihilo Whit Te were not ; .ye areuntome, as if ye had never been, or ye have 1 ñib,i ell. deceived mein what I took you to be; I hoped for floods acorn- fort, for rivers of joy and fireams of confolation from you, but now I cannot find a drop, Te are not unto mc.Tbat man is indeed, who Both that,for which he is, or that which is expeaed, TheChaldee tranilates, re have been as ifye were not. And ,`f'ÌÌgua* there is a difference in the Hebrew word,, for Tome read it with ck,t, the Pronoun, Them; molt with the Adverb, Not ; but though Nt7futtil7t7 the tranflation differ, yet it comes to the fame fenfe,ye are them, QYe¡iidens hat is, like to them, like to thofe fireams, or ye a, a not ; that gu'd 4 ,ntr'zrue- is, ye are nothing tome. As thofe fireams were nothiìtg,or were 6r<ru(rrib,rnr not to the Travellers. The phralc ye are not, imports the de- 1..,17jeel ìn ccivablenefs of thole men; Job thought they would be fometh'ing uuu to . 51; i;
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