chap. 24. An Expofrtion upon the Book of ,JOB. Vert. t8. 599 JOB, CHA P. 24. 'Verf. Me isfwift as thewaters , hisportion is "turfedin the earth : he beholdeth not theway ofthe vineyards. lHere are foure apprehenfions concerning the genera II fcope of thefe words. Firft, lob is conceived here defcribing a fourth fort ofwicked tnen,or the fame men ailing a fourth fort of wickedneffe ; for ha- ving (as bath been fhewed from the former words) firti dratxn out thedoings of the murtherer, and fecondi", of the Adulterer, and thirdiy,of the theife at land digging through houfes,he in the fourth place (as foure Interpret the text) proceeds to discover the Pyrale, who is a theife upon the water, a Sea. theife ; He ie fwift as the waters, or, heir fwift upon the waters : The letter of the Hebrew, is, He isfwift upon thefaces of the waters, he moves in, and upon all waters. It is ufuall in Scripture tocall theout- ward part ofany thing, the face ofit, as the face ofthe heavenr, is that part of the heavens which cloth outwardly appeare to :es, or is next to cur eye. O ye hypocrites (faith Chritt,c.. 'tatth, t 6.3.) ;e can di¡tern theface of the skie. So the face of the earth is the fuperficies, or upper part of the earth, and the face of the waters, is the upper part of thewaters. The word in the text is plural!, faces, he is fori {t upon the faces ofthe water ; that is,when he bath elurcher'd,committedAdultery, and robbed at land, when the Earth is weary ofhim, then he betakes himfelfe to the Sea, and turnes Pyrate. There is a truth in this foure men make fuch a Velotio, msne pregreffe in wickedneffe;they try all trades offin upon the earth, lead mane ; e: and then trade tinfully upon the water, defiling both earh and oipiHnavatah. water,both fea and fhoare, polluting all the elements with their Levis eft ad abominations, Andin purfuanceof thisexpoficion the two other nos em Claufesof the verfe are thus expounded, Theirportion is curled , f` e a the earth, that is they who live at land curie them when they are ,711x. Tars, gone to fea,fearing left they fhould take their fhips,&c fpoyl them of their goods by pyracy. And then, ke beholdeth not the trayoftba vineyard,,that is, he will come nomore on fhcare, he will not live at land : vineyards by a fynecdeche ofthe Fart for the whole bein
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