790 ' Chap: z t. An .Expofation upon tit Book, of J o s. Verf. 27, -And this bath caufed manya breach, not onely of the rules of love and charity, but of juaice and righteoufneffe. 'Tis too bòld ar, adventure. to conclude peremptorily the meaning and thoughts ofothers, without cleare confequer,tiall proofe, either in words or aftions. If lobhad not had more then bare prefumptions,his prefumption had been very blameable,while he laid, Behold, Iknewyour thoughts. And the devices whichyou wrongfully imagine againfi me. This part of the verfe is ofneer affinity to the former. Mr,Broughton renders it, Roadyour Injurious Imaginations a- gainfl me.And another thus:I knowyour endeavours to affright ¡lulu voca- me. The word which we tranflatedevice:, is, as the learned in íu!urn rr.edikr that language tell us,ofan ambiguous fignification: fometimes el ?, m bonam it is taken in agood, and often in an evili fence. Which variety peartem furnitor is ufually diftinguifhed and determined by tome adjun&, an- eg in mom. tecedent or confequent. The (cope ofthis Text carrieth the worfer fence, and the following adjund(wrongfully) explains it fo : Thedevices whichyou wrongful) Imagine aginfi me.This word is ufed (Gen, t I.6) when God complainsofthe buil- ders ofBabell,Thispeople areone, d- they have allone language, and this they begin to-doe, and now nothing will be refrained from them which they have Imagined (or devis'd)to doe.Let the vice benever fo foolifh and vaine, never fo proud and mad, while they are thus one, they will onne, nothing (hall reffrain them. 'Twas an evill device which yob meant, when he Paid, Iknow the devices whichyou wrongfully Imagine againfl me; jt ri ell llc The word which we render, wrongfully imagine,fignifies to aser tn7ttti fnatch a thing by force, or to offer violence. The Vulture that bird ofprey, is expreffed inHebrew by this word, accor- ding to which proprietie of the word, the Text may more firitly be rendred thus Iknowyour thoughts, and the divicee whichyou violently catchup againft me you aet as if ye came rather to catchme, then to comfort me,ye hook ii matters again(( me & even fit-sin your (elves to make me guilty. lob looks onhis friends,as ifthey had not confidred his cafe in the fimplicity of their fpitits,or with fincere intentions,but came as
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