530 Chap 24. An Exprfrtion upon the Book of JOB. Verf g. ntfre. And this is not on y an afilic`fion to the children,but to the mother a difconfolate widdow, who having loft her husband, is noev bereaved ofher childalto. Thus they adde atili&ion co the :Oil itte!, and forrow to the forrowfull. is here engaired,what fhouid move them to plucktbbefather- lefs from the brcafts, or what their intent might be in this barba. rau action ? Some anfwer, That it was their covetoufneffe which moved them to be cruel ; They pull'd the children from their mothers breafl., that to their mothers might be the fitter to doe them fer vice; they would needs weane the children before they were fit, that the mother might be the more fit to.labou.r,ánd toil for thé-, or they p'.uckt the fatherleffe from the breaft, to fell them and co mike money ofthem;when they had rnurthered the father,& ta- ken all from the widow,theymade their markets of their children. So we may interpret that of the Prophet (I,ra, 10. z. ) woe to them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write Brievoufnefe, which they have prefcribed, to turn afide the needyfrom judgement, and to take away the right from the poore of my people, that widdow.e may be their prey, and that they may rob thefatherleffe.So we read, imps; ing that they took away theeftate of the fatherleflfe,and fo robbed them. Others give this fence ofchore words, that they tooke away the perfons of.the fatherleffe, or more plainly, thus, That they (tole auuay fatherlelTe children, and fold them into Ga- ve y. There is a generation among us, called firiìs, who pull children from the breaft,or enveigle away fuch as know not th.eix- right hand from the left,to make merchandise of them.The finell ofgaine r-s fweet to tomefrom any thing, even from thefale ofpoore fttherl, ffechildren, mrrrrna, secondly, Others read the text thus ; They pluck frém the. euam vea¡tar a i'iW vafladfatherleffe that which was leftafter the prey or def#ruf/ion ; for the vit, word which we tranflacebreaf#,is derived from a root which fig- 144Piunt pupil' nifies to deftroyor lay waft; fo the fenfe is given thus ; They take toqusä poJi em yeti- away r ilaiir from the fatherleffe,even that poor pictar.cewhich was left Mon eft, after they had made havocke of all that was their fathers, F nt9' And take a pledge of thepoore. What a pledge is bath been opened (Cbap.zz. (5.) The words may alto bear; this tranflation, They take that which ie upon the poore
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