Chap,i5 An Expofition upon the Book of J B. Verf.24 123. given to fight neither againti (mall nor great, but onely againti theKing. So a wickedman when trouble comes, is like a King going to battei, full of fears and anxious thoughts what the iffue and event may be : He looks upon himfelf as the mark, both of the wrath of God and Man, and that every blow than be directed againti his breaft. Trouble and anguifh tingle out wicked men, when God fends out his Armies of judgements, he charges them not_ to fight againft the fmall or great of his own people, but againti the wickedof the world Wrath aims at them, and therefore they are terrified at the approaches of wrath. Pexliaturunz Secondly , Others give out the fimilitude thus, Trouble regojn circun. and anguïfh fhafl come upon him as a King reedy to battei: As dereft ebat when a King goes to battei, he is compaf ed with a firong elobus mmilie guard. (Every General bath his LifeGuard, much more 'fa' Z)gu< rina indicot, Kings) So trouble and anguith (hall compafs a wicked man, ..Rtaguflia & as yet with wideft difference ; for the Guard compafTeth the circurzvalla- King for the fafety and prefervation of his perfon ; whereas do earn cir trouble and anguith gather about wicked men for their defiru, pem ye But the Text will hardly admit this explication, and tug/ohm' co fer. therefore I'pafs it. dioturum.- Thirdly, The Hebrew word which fgnifies ¿day of Bat- lï ter, lignifies alto a Spherr or round Globe : we tranflate it a Significot gic, Ball (Ifa. 22. i8.) where it is prophefied againti Shebna, that ¿u-"Pilastale the Lord wouldmake him an example; and that (as the He- APudGminos brew is) Tong, he would tots himwith a tong , that is, he Globs« ho, would futely tofs , and turn him like a Ball , into a far jiiumauer S,.. Countrey ; as a Ball is toffed or thrown, fo the Lord would marorunt milt, throw himinto Captivity._ Now becaufe it is a ufual way Liv.clib, : of embattelling, to draw an Army into the form of a Globe, Annai itamu. or Bali ; therefore the fame word which {signifies a. Sphere, tus cum gtobo or Globe, lignifies alfo a Batter, from the formof it. Taking tuvet . it in this feule, for any thing that is round , or circular, as "11'21 Erft a Ball oc Spear. This third Interpretation of the ffmili- Ad Iræ 7m7 tude rifeth thus, Trouble and anguifhPall make him afraid, f®rma orbia they (hall prevail upon him , as a King put in Chains, or lei cálira in into a hoop of Iron : Some labour much for the maintain- orbrtulareue in of this Interpretation , That Eliphaz intends to (hew forau diJ o" g nurtur311;t for. howwicked Oppreffors (hall be furrounded and held fart with tioró n trouble, like tome great 'Kings, who falling into the hands mere. K a of
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