484 Chap. :to expfitiors upon the Took_of J o B. Verf. tc), flore is;is iniquity ; that is, the thing. which he hath gotten by iniquity. Others thus, His hands pi? rell'ore htc vilerce, or that which 1;,:. hath go,ten by vi,lence. The fin by which any thing is gotten is let as a rrizirk upon it ; That elegantly and Pay called vi5.1ence, which bath been gotten violently. As that (with f3, like elegancy and Ace) may be called fraud, which was frau- udient dolenti. gotten. A third faith, His bandsAall rifhre hiefirength, Pun. fcp4e77; which may run in the fame channel! of interpretation ; his firchgth, that is, that which he by his ftrength bath forceablv taken away from others. Lattly, the Text is read, His h nd ¡bail reflore his forrow ; which may be explained thus, his hand, or his ari (our hands being,the chiefe inftruments of a&ion are put for aetion) (hail bring forrow upon him. He by his fin ¡hall bring upon himfelfe that mifchiefe, or thole evills which he bath brought upon others ; and this (not unfitly) may be called, the reftoring of them. &wicked man draweth down mifery upon himfelfe, and is the contriver of his own troubles. For as he that cloth good to others, cloth good to himfelfe ; So ( by the rule of contraries) he that doth evil! to another, cloth worfe to himfelfe : therefore their own hand may well be laid to reflore or bring forrow and miferyupon themfelves, even that forrow and mifery; which themfeives had brought upon their brethren. Thus the Pfalmia concludes of loch a man, ( fal. 7. ) His mifchiefe Iball come dOwn upon hie own, head ; His mifchiefe is the mifchiefe which he bath loved and rifted. Sin is like a ftone calf againti the wall, which bounds back, or rather like a ftone caff up to Heaven, which fallson Vatg his head that call it up. One ofthe Ancients giveth this fenceof ejgs a. Tsar dolores. the words, He fball borne his fingers with what he bath done, or Antb:of. forrowes ¡haii burnt his hands : he put out his hand to takeaway what belonged to others, but he burnt his fingers by it. Thele ex .1111 various readings are occafioned by going to a different root for g.41 ex the pedigree of this word ; yet all fall into that generali fence which our tranflation holds forth, His hands !ball reflore their goods which he bath takenby violence and firength of hand, or by anyfecret evill and unlawful! way. So Mr. Broughton, and his kods rompence his wrongs., Hence
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