65 1. Chap. rq.. ,eln Fxpoftion upon the Book of J O B. Verf.i 8. Verfe i 8. Surely the mountain falling cometh to nought , and the rockis removedout of his place. Here are two fimilitudes, Some reade, furely thehigh,mourr- ' Rab. Kimchi tain or highefi mountain cometh to nought for the Hebrew word exponit 17ä1J, here ufed fgnifes not only tofall , but to be very"high andgreat Eton cadens, lest fo high and great, that a man beholding it or looking down troni aliui, edttus,ut it is giddy and fats for fear. Hence Giants (Çen.6.) are cal- 051-}+,3 gi_ led Nephtlim, which properly lignifies Fallers, not becaufe they gantes. q.d. fall, but becaufe they make others fall : yea they being fo high or Monseditus f, men of loch flopidious limbs and fl:ature others Tieing them, eus deci- de:. tremble and fall before them ; So here, for the mountain falling, de Lib.Ra i. we may reade, the high andhuge mounrain,thegigantickmountain, the mountain above ordinary mountains, as much as the giant is above the ordinary pitch ofmen ; As if lob had Paid, the highefí 'mountain come tonought, he' fpeaks not of annihilation, but alte- ration , they moulderand break , they are not what once they were. proprie TF.e word which we tranflate cometh tonought lignifies pro- figniicar iu,mperly to witheras a leaf or to fall as a withered leafliwhen the defluxum dcct- lap or moiflure of the tree goes down to the root, then the leaves fall off. Thus (faith Tub) the great mountains , the huge gi- antly mountains come to nought, they either, they fall off Ike leaves in Autumn : the Prophet Ifaiah praieth (chap 64. j.) O that thou wouldefl bow the heavens andcome down, that the moun- tains mightflow downat thy pretence : by mountains he means tie greatell worldly powers not natural, but metaphorical moun- tains : yet it is a truth in the letter , for if the Lord do but bow the heavens and thew his power, if he bow the heavens and comes down in the greatnefhe of his flrength , then the hardeft mountains like the liquid waters !hall flow down at his pre- fence. duorum folio- run: ex arbore cum marcel- cunt ex utlo humore, eflnd the rock is removed out of his place. A rock is harder then a mountain, a mountain : is earth heaped together bur a rock is earth hardned together : but though it i- Conf_ be not only a mountain , but a rock, yea, though it be a moun- mot tain ofrocks, remove it (Lail. )esstveri: ¡mi The word lignifies properly to wax old becaufe things that veterafcit.;:ept. wax old areremoving and palling away ; Hence the fame- word Lignifies
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