Chap. t 2. An Expofition upon the Boot¿ of job.VerC. a 7. 267 potation, spoiled of the bootyand of the prey which they de- ligned to them:`el es; (hey t)1ouf,hc of riceadvantages by fpòil_ Sapïcntes hujus ing =ethers; but they are led away fpciled. To which fence the fecmii 'Prato fi- words are dreii expounded, He d'th cafi the wife menof this world r1e deijctt Pin. fron their witted end : They who prefùned and promiled there- felves groat fpuils, become a ¡poi!. Eliphaz treateth at large of this point (Chirp. 5. 12.) He difappointeth thede'Acet of the crafty, fo that their handcannotperform their enterp?ife. Th'rtíiy, TreeCc:uncellours are cfieia tpoiled, not only of IfebrRirt;,lia= their honour and credit, of their ends anu hopes ; but alto of tos their w is and wifdona. They :vhofe wits and vvíldon-) continue judicioexp. as high and quick as ever,';ay yet be difappointed in their coup- "nt.,24ete- fels, and loofe both their ends and honour : But the Lord doth tometimes fpoil thewile of wi dun, and knowing men of un- decftanding. The Hebrew Dot}ors delight molt in this inter- Adduoitfapi pretation, He preyeth ;Ion the wifdom of the w:fe; they think dams in ræ -: themfelves able to outreach and outpolicy all the world : Yet i.e.eorum fàpi,. God blafts their gifts, and darkens their under(taedings, he puts entiam qu.afi them out of their wits, and makes their judgments injudicious. prædan He gives them up (as he did thofeGentiles, who waxed vain in [palla diviprt their Imaginations, Rein. 1. 28. ) To areprobate mind, to an un- flab. Atoyf, judging, or an unappiosing fpirit. They who knowingly put darkness for light, and light for darknefs, evil for good and good for evil, wrong for right, and right for wrong, (hall do it at tall for want of knowledge. They who all againff their IigEt, Jhallnot have li;jat-to alt by. And as t ome Counfellours are thus fpoied for a pitnifhment to themfelves, fo not a fewwere fpoiled that they., may be a punifhnent to others. For thiscaufe theyare -di abled to relblv'e what is fate for a people, and what is unfafe, what may be for their uniting, or what for their dividit g, what for the fettliia;,or what for the difturbing of affairs.(Pfal.75.5.) Spoliati punt The jiovt hearted-are fpoiled ; fo we read, but lone traidlate, fortes corde.. Theyare (polledof their flotit heat:: The flout hearted the Itrong 9:4 Privari are fpoiled ; the ftrong man may be fpoiled by a ftronger : that',''tmo annnónr, rate fórtítu a good fence, brt it is more elegantly rend i ed, They arefpoileiof dire, their ¡bout heart, that is, the Loi d takes their heart our of their bo.om.Daringmen,who fearingnothing,are turned into,ikl,:gor- mifJabihs, fear round about; their ¡tout hearts are taken from them; and then,theyarefo far from being a terror td other men., , that they run from the fludtlow of a mart: Their courage is h1 m 2 duwn,,
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