Chap. 31. An Expofttion upon the Book! of J o B. Verf. 39. 76 having unconscionably with held that reliere from the poore which is their due. Now, when fob faith, I have not castfed the owners thereofto loofe their life, I conceive that the owners by him inter el d mutt be taken in fomeone of there fences, and may fafely be taken in them all ; eyther for thofe who were.the former proper owners of the land, or for the labouring poore, or for the poore who were unable to labour. 7.b prorefteth himfelfe cleare ( and fo every juft man will approve himfelfa tobe) from the oppredi.on or vexation of any of there , not only by not taking troni them that which he had no right to, but by not with holding from them that which was their dale eyther as having earned it by their worke, or as being nut Gated to aske it by their wants. if I havecatsfed the swntrs thereof To !soft their life. This latter claufe may be taken two wayes; I is (t, in a ttridt: fence, forthrufting them out of the world by violence, and en. fnaring them to death by fome abufed law, or fecondly in a large fence, It may note the putting of them to any grievous trouble or hard(hip. For they are as it were, deprived of their lives, who are deprived of the fupport and comfort of their lives. The Hebrew Wordcompiyes fairely with this expofition, which Lßaphra¡anoc funifies not only to expire or d r, but to grieve and awl morij"rgni. b P 5 g P y fiat vet ¡piri- while we live. The poore labourers livelyhood comes in by his tumpaenicu, e labour ; and that which is a mans livelyhood may well be called not ere, yy.,m Iris life. Thus when fob !ajar, Ihave not catered the owao, t r'rt etf 'n'eí abores to loofe their life, he may be thus undeeftood, I have not by trim- e u5abi'er fete Ming and vexing them, tired'and worne out their fprir,nor made rFtira their lives bitter and burdenfome to them.which had been a con- iefa f tinuall d5irg, and, in a fort, the loofing of their life, while they had it. The people ofIrael in Egypt, were as dead men l'cirg contiruslly oppreffed by cruel taskmailers : and when they were inBabylon, their liste during that Captivity was prefented under the typeofdead. bones (Reek: 37.) So then, when )lob faith, he had not catered the owners thereof to !tare their life, This loffe of life may be taken either ftrialy , importing that he hod not de- itroyed the life ofany to get their eitate ; nor had he made the life of any fad and fotrowfull by vexatious dealings with them, Beeee or
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