88 Chap.] 6. An Expoftion upon the Bookof JOB. Verf.ar There is one thing further to be noted, for the clearing of this Text ; For pcfíibly the Reader may fcruple how the fame words should be rendred by Tome, as a with, 0 that one might pleadfor a man with God : and by others as a conclufion, He shillplead with Godfor a man. Again, höw the latter branch (hould be rendred by force in the form of a timilitude, As a man for NI neighbour, and by others as a direct affertion, And the Son ofmanfor his Friend. 1 anfwer to the full, That the fame word may be thus di- verily rend red according to differing Moods of Grammar; and fo the lign of the Optative Mood, which is in the form ofa with, is by Come judged moll futable to the (Cope of this place. So that a with may here be underftood and lately fupplyed, though it be not expreffed. To the fecond fcruple I anfwer , that the particle Vau, in the Hebrew, placed at the beginning of a word , though it be ufually taken as a Conjunction, knitting one fentence to ano. Cher, yct according to the exigence;and fcope of the Scripture, i; undergoes diverfe other fignifications, As finit, A disjundwe, Exod. 12. 15. Tefhall take it out from the Sheep, or from the Goates: TheHebrew is, Andfrom the Goates ; but becaufe the Law did not command both, but gave a liberty to chufe either of the two; therefore we render not And, but Or, from the Goates : So judg. t r. 3 r. See the Margin ofour Bibles ; which fhewes that Jepthah did not bind himlelf to offer up whatfoever fhould meet him, ih Sacrifice, but one of the two he did bind hinifclf to , either todedicate that to the Lord; or tooffer it up for a burnt'Otre- ring. Secondly, It is often ufed Adverfatively , as is rendred, But Gen.4a.io.Pfal 44.17. &c; Thirdly, Cafually, and it is rendred For Pfal 6o. rr.rfa,64. 5. &c. Fourthly,'(Befides diverte other acceptation's ofit, which I Ihail omit) it is ufed Comparatively, or as a Note of likeneffe Prov. 25. 25. As cold rater to a thtirffyfoul, fo is good newts from afar Countrey : The Hebrew is , Andgood news, So Prov.26.7. and very frequently in that BQok.Thus in the Text the particle (Vail) is taken by fume as a note of likeneffe comparing the two parts of the Verle with each other; but by
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