Chap. 13. An Expo jjtion upon the Bookof JOB. Vert. z s. 43 3 endure are their flaying, though they be not all unto death, yet they all go upon the account ofdeath. For thyfakeare weplain all the day long ; Paul was alive, and yet in the number of thefe (lain: By being (lainall theday long, hemeans a beingalwaies within the view, or under the (utterance of bloudy perfe- cutors. Though heflayme. Slaying is theutmoll of outward evils. Hence O'.-ferve ( before I come to the main) That there isno outward evilfo dad, but Gad may lay it uponhis heft fervants. job .puts this fuppo(tion as his own cafe. Though he flay me, Tet will I troll inhim. There is a double reading of thefe words. Some read them in Hein negatively, others (as we) affirmatively. mutatis lice, The reafonwhy the negation is added by Come interpreters, ismobilibus, ti becaufe the fame Hebrew word in found, which we tran(late, non alit ei L him, fgnifies alfo theadverbof denial, not or no: therefore the,pf, focal. klaforttes obferve that this text is to be corretled in the reading. mú,oritebu; There is a like variety of reading upon the occalïonof this Mo- inter eaquer nofyllable, Lo (2 King.8.1o.) Where whenHazael wasPent by cum fcribancur Benhadad to enquireof Elifha whether he fhould recover of his N17cegantnr' Ç7 difeafe whereof he was lick, Elifha laid unto him, Gofay unto ÿáße dic ei fa. him, thou maieft certainly recover, howbeit the Lord bath fhewed na de i i fe-' me that he(hallfurely die. As ifhehadPaid, though the difeafe in quam aliqui ex_ it felfbe not mortal, yet thouihalt die of it. Whereas others iftimant amphi. tranflate it, ElifhaPaid unto him, fay, thou(halt not certainly re- Gologicam fame cover,for the Lord hathfhewed me that hefhall furely die. refponfionem, Now,the negative in .job hath a double reading. Firi, Byway f la diver ¡ade" of interrogation, and then the fence is the fame with our tran- Scripture fg flation, Though, or ifheflay me,(hall l not truly in him ? that is, nificat, cut ei, yes, I will, or I ought to trait in him ; fhould I diliruft God be- ant non. caufe he afHifts me, when as he affi is to thew his faithfulnefs, tic non omuino I will not do it. Others read it negatively, without an inter- revalefces, Jun. Si enecaret me. rogation, thus, Tboughhe flayme, Iwilt not expel(; or beholdhe nonfperarem r will flay me, Imill not hope. So the interlineal, But would jobfay fo, can thisHand with the Elate of grace Ecce oéciilat' ixe, andholinefs ? Werenot this indeedtogive up thecaufe, and to non fperabe. blafpheme God? Mont` Kkk i
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