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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters of the Book of Job being the substance of XXXV lectures delivered at Magnus near the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl.
London: printed for L. Fawne, 1656
AN EXPOSITION Upon the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Chapters o… › Chapter 5 › Verses 3-5
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Yet, there is somewhat very considerable in the phrase here used, and therefore I shall open it a little; The robber swalloweth up his substance.
The robber.] Some translate, the thirsty shall drink or swallow up their substance; Mr. Broughton, the thirsty shall swill up their wealth; And it suites fairly with the former words, there the hungry shall eat up his harvest, and here, the thirsty shall swill up their wealth; so you have both the hungry and the thirsty to make riddance of all; neither his corn, nor his wine, his bread nor his drink, neither wet nor dry, shall escape, where both hungry and thirsty come to consume.
The robber.] Some translate, the thirsty shall drink or swallow up their substance; Mr. Broughton, the thirsty shall swill up their wealth; And it suites fairely with the former words, there the hungry shall eate up his harvest, and here, the thirsty shall swill up their wealth; so you have both the hungry and the thirsty to make riddance of all; neither his corn, nor his wine, his bread nor his drink, neither wet nor dry, shall escape, where both hungry and thirsty come to consume.
We render it, The robber swalloweth up their substance. The reason of this difference is from the Original word, which may have a double derivation: First from a root, signifying to thirst or to be thirsty: Secondly from a root which signifies the hair of the head, or the locks, or extraordinary ruffian-like long hair and locks. And the reason, why we translate Robber, is given from both: From the first, because robbers and spoilers are commonly Toss pots and drunkards, men that love their liquor, a thirsty generation in that sense; and they always thirst for a prey, they thirst for the estates or lives of others: From the latter, because robbers, plunderers and spoilers, usually wore very long hair, either to disguise or make themselves the more terrible; So that a robber may be denominated, both from his unnaturally natural