Chap- AnExpofition upon the Bookof J O S. Verf.2o. As if he had faid,7hou wauldefi make us believe that Godwill be thy compurgator,andgivewitnef:: for thee upon bit own know- ledge that thou art not wicked: But :re who are but men may know the contrary, for we fee all the marks lfme/brands ofa wick- edman upon tbee : 7 be wicked man travellethwith pain all his days, andfo doff thou : Theft fores and furrows [peak who thou art, though we fay nothing. Matter Broughton reads,7rbe wickedkilleth himfelfall his days, he is a felfmurtherer, that was the report which Eliphaz made of himat the fifth Chapter, serf. z. Envyflíyetb thefilly one. Both lob and his Friends repeat the fame thing often , yet with fuch variety of illuflrations, that though for the matter it be the fame, yet it'is.new for the manner : Such repetitions do not onlydelight, but profit, The wicked man travellethwith pain all bit days. Who isa wicked man, hath been opened at large, Chap. r o. 7, where lob affirms,Thou knoweff that I am not wicked; There lee the temper of a wicked man, I will not fray upon it%ere. Onely confider how this appellation and condition fuite one with the other, The wicked man travels : The Original word for a wickedman lignifies an unquiet motion , and foone whole life isa continual, notonly motion, but unquietnefs. 'Unquiet is the name, and unquietnefs is the (late of a wicked man; he is always railingflirs, and a(ing Tragoedies, Hs life is always h h all h' to a urry, a trave 1 swathpain u- days. 1C'1 He travelleth with pain. t11[1ttt3 Propriefign f." This fentence is but one word in the Hebrew ; the word ¡Ong uciatur, lignifies any grief, or furrow , any torture or torment ; The voremvol do. tranflations are various, but all meet in this one fenfe that a harempart un.. wicked mans life is a miferable life ; All the life of a wicked entiun,rel e man is ent incar to care : So the Septuagint. Another fen- aitents &mo f k g lieatisfacinrar ders , It is [pent in forrow. But all may be reduced to that oligaod. which is moll proper to the word : He is in pain as a woman Omni, vita in travail ; and whereas we have heard of fome women in irnpü in fohicíe travail many days ; here is a man in travel all his da rud,ne, 70. in Y ys. % dalore.Aquila The wickedman travelleth in pain all his days ; his whole Dole: utpartu.. life is nothing elfe but continual pain , or painfull throes rienr.pa;... towards
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