468 Chap. I3, AnExpofition upon the Bookof Joa. Verf. 17. caufe,I know that (hall be.jt flified. Aman that is lure he hath a good caufe, cares not who hears it, only he would have it well heard. Secondly, Hegiveth another ground from hisown neceflity bemull be heard he fhall die elfe ; in the later part of the I9' verfe,rvhois he that willplead.with me?for if now Iholdmy tongue, 1 f¿all give.up theghoff. Hear diligently my fpeech. Jöb had found bis friends unequal hearers, and therefore he begs abetter hearing;and toprepare their attentionfor it,he laies about him (as we ufe to fay) thick and threefold, Hear diligent- ly myfpeech, andmy declaration withyear ears. Hear diligently. rlúdiende au. The Hebrew is ; Hearing, hear, that is :e lure you hear thee. Att:fttio- when ou hear.. As if he liad Paid It is not an kind of attention nem ab its nin y , y Iz, f qualemeungsfed which willfervemy caufe, you mu.?give attentive diligence and maximam affta- diligent attention to my words. The doubling of theword imports etas. two things, either firft, that his friends werJunwiliing to hear; or fecondly, that what he had to fpeak was ofeery great impor- tance,fuch as might jufliycommand a double hearing. Hear deli gentlymy fpeech, And my declaration. Enigmata. The Vulgarreads ir, My dark,fpeeches . But there is no light rag. at all in the Original, leading them to tranflate dark fpeeches. They fay it is becaufe job fpeaks about a difficult point, or the riddles of providence, (hewing how the Lordhad aflfiéled the innocent, and yet is himfelf jun. Thefe indeed are hardfayings, dark fpeeches, and we may grant that there is a darknefs in the matter, a depth and a mynerioufnefs in what he was about to 311t1t (peak. But 706s defign was to fpeak plain, not in parables ro patefecit,often weak in the fan, not in the. clouds. And the,Hebrew word, in dit,qux figntfi its native importance, is to open dr:explain, to let a thing forth_ catiaiaft omninò in lively colours : Which fignification is altogether incontinent contraria.enig- with that of the Vulgar,which reads, ,Hear my riddle ) or my dark, mati,indicatio- fpeech. Betides theword [declaration] li nifies a grave and sera planamfpe g : minime ambi_ a weighty fpeech, a fpeech which is not frothed out with light parr; deaotans..words, nor wrapt up in obfcure meanings, but is bottomed upon' reafgn,
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