chap. 34). éd* Expo/lion upon the Boole of J o B. Verf. 22. 20.5 the God of 3efurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy helpe, and in his excellency on the sky. And when the Lord would fet forth the greateft advancement of his people, he expreffeth it by riding, and by riding on the high places, ( Dent. 32. 13. Ifa. 52. 14. ) Then fkalt thou delight thy felfe in the Lord, and he /hall caufe the: to rideupon the high placer ofthe earth, and feed thee with the heritage of ?acob thyfather. In both places, this promife of iding upon the high placesof the earth, is an affurance given of=the molt full poffeffton ofand dominion over the greateft things of the earth. So that according to this fecond Interpretation, to ride upon the winde, denotes 1,,bt former highneffe and profperous flare, in which he was mounted triumphantly,and Gallantly, upon the Chariot ofworldly Greatneffe. The defcription which he gives of his honour in the former Chapter, complyes well withthis notion ; whereas now, he found that true, ( Pfal..to_. to: ) Be- caufe ofthine Indignation, and thy wrath, thou haft lifted mee up, and call tote downer Naturaliffs report that the )äagle takes the thellfiQh, and lifting it up'a great height, lets it fall upon a rocke to breake it. Thus faith 7ob,Thos haft lifted noel up to the winde, & letteft me fall to crufb me, as the next words implv,Thou dif folveff m' fubiance. This is a truth, profperity is a riding, and a riding, as it were, upon the wings of the winde, and it may well be called fo, becaufe ofthe urcertainty andmany changes of it : but I doe not conceave that Interpretation proper to this place, and therefore r rather adhere co the former. One ofthe Rabbines hash a conceit by himfelfe, I maycall it Aher,-E a dreame ; that lob did but teli his dream, while he fpake thus. As if through thediftemper ofhis fit knes, be in his fleepe, had phancied himfelfecarried away with the winde into the aire, and ridingon the Clouds : but I leave that as.a brain-ficke imagina tion,rather then a furious expofition of the text. Yet farther, thefe words, Then lifteft mee up to the winde,, and raufoft mee to ride upon it, Compar'dwith thofe that follow, eh u ogolve(t my fubftance, feeme to be acomparifon drawnefrom Clouds and vapours, which are exhaled and lifted uphigh in the ayre by the Sun, but are quicklydifrolved and blowne away by the winde. Thus yob reprefents his own condition ; hewas as a vapour lifted .up a while., but Toone fcattcred and blowne away. Hence.:.
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