Chap: Zq.. Pix E,rpolition upon the Book of J OB. Vert. 9 529 JOB, CHAP. 24.. Verf. 9, i0, I I, 12. They flatckthe fatherleffefrom the ltreafl, and take a pledge ofthe poor. They caul him to goe naked without Cloathing, and they take away thefheafe from the hungry. which makeoyle within their walls, and tread their wine-pre es, andfirffer tbirfi. Whichgroanfrom out of the City, and thefoul ofthe wounded cryeth out;yet God layeth not folly to thetas. Jo <B ftill drawsout the line ofthe oppreffors wickedneffe, or difcovers the feverall wayes of his oppreffion ; We have feene muchofhis bloody work before,here we have more,even higheft oppreffion, oppreffion devoid not only ofall juftice, but of all humanity ; fuch is that which is next inflamed in. Verf. 9. Theypluckthe fatherlefe from the bred. They, that is, the oppreffors before fpoken of,do it,ether with theirown hands,or 'cis done at their command by their minifters and inftrumen:s. They plucke thefatherlefe. The word notes an aft ofviolence, they lay violent hands up- on the fatherle/a.Who are meant by thefatberlefs, bathbeen o- pened more then once already. Here thefatherlefs are taken,not largely for any that are deftitute ofhelp and means, as the word is often ufed in Scripture, but ftridly, for children whole fathers are lately dead,& they yet in their minority,yea in their infancy, and in the firft of their infancy,fucking children,children hanging upon their mothers breath; which exceedingly [lightens the cru- elty of thefe oppreffors. To ufe any violence to the fatherleffe, though grown up, is (as hath been íhewed) a great wickedneffe, to ufe violence towards fatherleffe infants is much more wicker?; but to pull fatherleffe infants from their mothers or nurfes breaft (which is all the livelihooda child bath) this is utmoft wicked- y y neffe.
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