coop. 28. an Èxpo f s tio n upon the hook o f _ j o B. Vert. 13. 2°61 thing, fo is the price of tt, _Every mans lull, effecially the lu/Is offacit maxin great men or rtnces, makes the pricegreat. And :pi, the fame regum. l'bn. Author. It is afmall matter to us, unlcfs we are cl ached and fed (arum eR n j' with dar ers o tkat what we u e all the body over pleafeth us mo qui uÍis m ,f 1 y P t J> peritnlis,etíarn when'tisgot by the hazird of the foul or life. But the word which veflirxur ; A we render price, and well enough as to the fignilication of it,is yet deo per totun by many of the learned ( and 1 chink better as to the fence of this' corpus anima place) tranflated order ; Man knoweth not the order (nor the (late) quæJaaraxi- ofit. Thus we render it in the verb often ( Pfal, So. z r.) I mill Pliñlacenr.j reprove thee, and fee them, (chat is, thy fins ) in order before thee. n-w Proprio 1 And again (Exod. 40. 23.) I-Ielet the bread in order wpm it, &c. eßordinareaut The Greek Verfion contents fully to thisReading. And becaufe difponere hoer, Job fpraks of the price or worth of wifdome afterwards, telling t'me)i 'uertito us that it cannot be had for gold or over, &c. (v. 16. ;therefore > fecundum gra-, ( though our tranflation is not to be refufed, becaufe it anfwers dom ordi both a known fignilcacion of the word, and the general fcope of nom in quo res the Chapter, yet ) I judge that reading more futable ; No man aGquaconflizu- knoroeth the-order thereof. As if he had Paid, God cloth fovary his <iú colnfeprees dealings; that no man kno;>veth his method, or where tohave him et æflimarnus. at all times. God dock not keep a road, but takes what liberty he pleafth in his adminifirations toward men. And therefore, Aquila Man knoweth not the order thereof. Neither is itfound in the land ofthe living. That is, It is not any where to befound. That which is not to be i'i- entes poco_ found among the living, is much lets to be found among the liariter,v:an- dead. Beaus live, yet the life of fence is no life in companion co cur bornines,zn the life of reafon, and therefore'it is laid, Eve was the mother of corn Heva vo. allliving, as if beafls who have a fenfitive, and plants which have ntu anus. lter only.a vegetative life, or a life of growth, were not to be reckon- 14711. vilr. ed among the living.This form of fpeaking,7hc land ofthe living, is acommon Hebraifm in Scripture, Ggnìfying ourabode and Rate in this world. ( Pfal. 27. i 3.) I hadfainted, unlefs /bad believ- ed to fee the goodnefs of God in the land of the living. And thus fpake chofe wicked confpiracors againll the Prophet ( ter. 11.19.) Let its cut himof f from the land of the living, that his name may be na more remembrcd. So that whenYob faith, it is notfound in the land ofthe living, it is as if he had laid, This wifdome is not to be found an, rng may fort of men in the wo.ld. Yet there are Tome (to
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