550 Chap. 20, tin Expofition upon the Bookof J o B. Vert, 2F' Ica cmnibcn enough for himfelfe. The wicked are oft reduced to a mcrfeil jpoliabirurbsnis ofbread : God rtëver leave s taking from them till all Le gore. nrkl ei eY t, quo v J As Davidprofcifiog his own experience,faith,I have been young cipoffit. andnow am old, yet lnever fan, the righteottis forfaken, nor their feedbegging bread ; they had alwayes fame oftheir meat left. So Z.pbar(it feemes) had obrerved in his experience,many wic- ked men forfaken and themfelves begging bread. They who have nothing left oftheir own, mutt of neceflïty aske or fleale from others ; None ofhis meat /hallbe left. And this interpre- tation fuites bete with that which followeth: Therefore no man ¡hall 'coke for his goods. atocem Habra- , is a threefold expofition ofthis paffage alto : Some am deducant a erive the word which we render to look, from a root that fig- ÿ1i t parturi- nifies to bringforth, or to multiplie. And fo the fence is given oc, legunt, thus ; Noneofbis meat, that is,ofhis efface or goods,Thall bring non partant, forth for good, p his or multi lie to his profit. Ifaman doe not en- vet non utulti- plictbitur bi- creafe, he comes tonothing, ifhe fpend, fpend, fpend, if he be ion )71 ejur. alwayes giving out, and never bring in, though his citate be paegn. varabl great, twill Toone be gone; Unleffe a mans efface be growing& multiplying, he cannot (as we fay) holdhis mete. In a Ilion time there will benone ofhis meate left. As vegitables grów properly, foalto inanimates have a kinde ofgrowth. A mans elategroweth ; gold and Elver grow by addition and multi- plication, though not by augmentation. Thus riches bring forth. Now I fay, if there be continuall fpending, and carry- ingout, andno comming in, no growing, or increafe, filch a man muff needs come to povertie. What God faid at frft to the cattle, andbeaffs oftbe earth ; he fayth to all that a man hath, Encreafe and multiply ; And when he faith, ,ultipl_y not, all muff needes decreafe, and the owner mutt lie under the curieof A X1,11 g4cd want, when what he hath is under this curie ofbarrennes. jgnifecat rebur Secondly, Others derive the word from a roote that figni- Non roborabi tur bonum ejuu. fies tobeThong, orfirength ; rendring cis ; His meate or efiate Rab. Abra. ¡hall not befirengthned ;-that is, hisprolçeritie fhallnot continue. Propterea non Mr. Broughton renders it fo °- therefore his goods continue not ; manebit profpe- there fhall be no tacke in them. 71x40 t4' Bifdes there two rendrings we take a third, and all three íff expeliare- meet in the general! punilhment of the wicked man ; Let no man
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