256 Chap.' 6. AnExpefrtion upon the Book of J O B: Verf.8 in Scripture ; but very frequently among the Rabbins. There Up are alto twoother fignifications ofit which Interpreters have Kugascontra9 taken in here. úalive car, Firfi, it fgnifies, To cut off, or to cut down (Chap. 22. 15, rugavir. '. l t prtt 16.) Haft thou marked the old way which wickedmen have trod- e carugu}3im en?which were cut downout of time: That oldway was theway Non alibtquam offin the way of holinefs is the olden way, but the way of in hoc libro in feripiura reps. fin is a very old way.) They who have trod the way of fin, rarer., were cut down by judgement, and they were cut down out kodfuccidifli oftime ; that is, thecourt ofdivine Juflice prevented the oto, to imoaro courfe ofnature, and Bruck them to death before death ufcth ell. lucre. firike. So force render it here, and then the fence rifeth t. us, Thou haft cut me down by thef-troakofthefe atltelions,and this is a witneft againft me, Secondly, The word according to the Chaldee, lignifies to Infignifica;ione binde, and fallen one with Cords, or with fetters of Iron, as chaldaico eto- ponirur pro li- MalefaF ors are bound in Prifon (Prov. a 5. 22.) His owe: ini- gare e.5' con- quity fhall take the wicked andbefhall be takenwith the Coards jlringere. ofhis fin.The Hebrew wordwhich we render to lsold,orfaften is exprefhed by this ofjob in the Chaldee Paraprafe. Ta- king this fenfe of the word, the interpretaion given of the whole is, Thou haft bound. or J'traienedme with the cords of k,nd his dolo# my allíiWon, left 1 fleouldget out, or make an efcape,and this it a runvincuhs witnefs agatnft net There is a truth in both thef readings as conflri£lumme to this plbple; but becaufe wrinkles are more proper to the renes, nequr leannefs which followes,thereforeI fhall not lay upon them elabi queam, te(lìmoninm but to keep to our own reading. jeritin me. Mac. Thou haft filledme withwrinkles. Wrinckles are caufed two wages. Firfi:, Through old age ; for then the moyfßure of the bo- dy being confumed, and fo the skin contra6ed, wrinckles, appear : there natural wrinckles cannot be avoided, if nature hold out to old age. Secondly, There are accidental wrinckles, fuch as are caufed by thong defeafes, which fucking up, or drawing out the fnoyllure of the body, fade the beauty of it. Great lick- neífes hafienon gray haires, and make a young man look old. Job was not filled with the wrincklesof old age ( he was in the tlrength of natureat that time) but he was with
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