268 Chap. i g. An expoltion upon the Book of JOB. Verf 170, undutifulneffehe found in his children Aly breath is flrange to Er orabcmPi- my wife, andI intreatedmy owne children ; implying that they al- os ute i anei. fo refuted ; I intreated the children of my owne body, I was a Vulg. fuppliant.to my owne boweli. Thus fervants, wife, and children, alLrelations,in the familie helped on his afidion. They who infift upon this interpretation are hard put to it bow to make it our, that he intreated his children; for it may be objected, All his children were crufhed to death with the fall ofthe houle, in the firft Chapter, how then can he be laid to intreate his owne children here? 'Tis anfwered ; kiríf, he might have young children when his house fell, that werenot at the banquet ; fo that as the vio- lent deathof Come ofhis children was an afNi¢fion to him, fo . allo was the prefervation and life of . his other children, accor- ding to this opinion. Secondly, Others referre it to his grandchildren, his Ions Ions whomhe might reckon as his owne childrens children, Ovum are as our own children. Thus yacob fpake to 7ofeph ( Gen. 38, Jrnt inJiárt- irnrazm. ) eflnd now thy twofonnes, Iîphraimand,c_Manaffeth,whichwere borne unto thee in the LandofEgypt, before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine, 44 Reuben andSimeon, they¡hall be mine. Thirdly, The Sep_uagint interpret it for, the children of his Concubines. TheScripture is cleare that divers of thel?a- triarchs had Concubines, but that yob had any the Scripture is filent; and therefore I pafl"e this, and rather fettle upon our reading, which both the Hebrew very well beareth, and moft of the learned follow : this being onely an addition to the unkindneffe of his wife, to whom ( faith he) my breath was I?eprer450. ad firange, though I intreated herfor the children,fake ofmy owne .bo- joins.urerin,ei' die, or as the letter of the Hebrew is, Though I intreated towards pleb. the children ofmy owne bodie. Further, The word fignifies, to bewaile, or deplore, as well as to entreate : , fo the word is ufed ( ?fal. 102.1 3,14,) Thon wilt wife andhave mercy..upon.Sion, for the time to favour her, yea the .;;a:et wxori a. fet time is come, for thyfervants take pleafure in her floues, and they nirnan:aartia+n favour the duff thereof; force readit, theypittie the dnfl,th.ey be- ubi commoner waile and mourne over theduff ofSion. Thus yob bewailed his iheros deploro, childrens duff ; And then the meaning may be, My breath, or my cc. complaint wasfirange to my wife, even When 1 tvAr bewailing, or de- ploring
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