264 Chap.i6 an Expoftion °upon the Book,, of J QB. VerC9. Fourthly,' 7as conceived,he means thofe vain onesof whom he fpeaks, Chap. 19. that came about him, and troubled him. But filthy,and möft generally,.:this Text is interpreted of God himfelf, He tearetbme in bit wrathwho batethme. For though job (peaks here diftrafedly ", difcovering rather his jufmodique. grief then his enemy ; or as a man wounded and fmitten in rimoniar inne the dark, he perceives he hath an enemy hefeels the (mart, carte P Y , p8ar,e a{flüëi and bears the blows, but he is not able to fee who hurts him, himinNpra- yet in this confution of language, his heart was Rill upon God pieAnt. who ordered, and difpofed all tlaofe armies offorrow , which affaulted him on every fide. He (tearetb ) me in his wrath. Sit0 The Hebrew wordTaraph is neer in found to our Englifh Ferarumpr.c- ,Tear, and i damrapienti- t fignifieth to tear as a Lyón his prey, Gen. 49. 9, tium f5, tace: Judah is a Lionswhelp , from the prey my Son thou art gone up. rantiumpro. The fame word in the Verb, notes Tearing,and in the Nown prium ejl. a prey, becaufe the prey is torn by the teeth, or claws of the Lion. SUS. He tearetbme in his ( wrath.) Wilde Beafis tear not fo much Efitot vint fromwrath as for hunger ; they tear out ofa delire to fill 6r« adverfari, , g Y idem cum sa- themfelves, rather than out of malice to deftroy others. But tan,unde £5' Job faith, He teareth me i t his wrath who fhateth] me. SnanuadiEJur. The word fignifies not an ordinary, but an inward hatred, tra Pa rapit and. with the change ofa letter it is the fame by which the De- goof;adio inte, limo pro/qua. vil is expreffed, Satan, an adverfary, or, the adverfary; foe al- turme. Jun. led becaufe ofhis extreme hatred againft mankind, yea,againft Chrift himfelf. lob fpeaks of God as if hebare fach a hatred a- FienduP1 ï- gainfl him as Satan doth, an inward perfeft hatred. bue;eßinvi- Thus fometranilate, Heprofecutes me with inwardhatred: dentium,irof . A hard expreflïon of _God ; Doth he tear a harmlefs Soul , sentiura, inri -and tear him in wrath ? Yet -thins is not all , to make up the dentium habí. meafure of this exceflive language ; Take two aggravations err. toquitur ad more. /imilitudinen befit?. que ho_ Hegráfbeth upon mewith his teeth. mintcaminan. lab purfues the allufion (till : Beafis ( as it were ) whet do denles ipfnnpa. ,their teeth that they may devour their re This at:#ion of tra ipfum pa. Y Y p y rat.4quin. gnafhing the teeth is afcribed to men, and it notes four things. Firft,
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