An exposition with practical observations upon the three first chapters of the book of…

It may seem very doubtful what is here meant by these desolate places, and the building of them. ¹The word in the Hebrew is, desolations, or destructions; It comes from Charab, which signifies to dry up, because dry places are desolate places, as a desolate wilderness for the dryness of it, being unfit to sustain man or beast. Hence the name of the Mount Horeb, Exod. 3.1. called so from dryness, because there was no water, Deut. 8.15. The same word also signifies, a sword; because the sword (as we see by woeful experience) makes places desolate. But what Job should mean by this, That Kings and Counsellors of the earth, build solitary places for themselves, is questionable.

It may seeme very doubtfull what is here meant by these desolate places, and the building of them. ¹The word in the Hebrew is, desolations, or destructions; It comes from Charab, which signifies to dry up, because dry places are desolate places, as a desolate wildernesse for the drinesse of it, being unfit to sustaine man or beast. Hence the name of the Mount Horeb, Exod. 3.1. called so from drinesse, because there was no water, Deut. 8.15. The same word also signifies, a sword; because the sword (as we see by woefull experience) makes places desolate. But what Job should meane by this, That Kings and Counsellours of the earth, build solitary places for themselves, is questionable.

1. 1[Greek or Hebrew] Propriè destr• ctiones.〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Propriè destr• ctiones.