A35439:1647
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of the book of Job being the sum of thirty two lectures, delivered at Magnus near the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl ...An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of the book of Job being the summe of thirty two lectures, delivered at Magnus neer the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by A. Miller for Henry Overton, 1647
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.
Now a ship that carries such fruit makes great haste,1 because the fruit will spoil and rot, if not speedily put off. Ripe fruit is a commodity that will not keep; unless they have a quick passage, all is lost. My days (saith Job) pass even as a ship that carries ripe Summer fruit, which are hasted away with all speed, lest they perish before they come to the port.
Now a ship that carries such fruit makes great haste,1 because the fruit will spoil and rot, if not speedily put off. Ripe fruit is a commodity that will not keep; unlesse they have a quick passage, all is lost. My daies (saith Job) passe even as a ship that carries ripe Summer fruit, which are hasted away with all speed, lest they perish before they come to the port.
- 1Pertranseunt cum navibus fructus delicatos portantibus. Targ.
4. There is another sense given by those,1 who derive the word from a root, which signifies, to hare and oppose, or to be an adversary; and then it is thus rendered, My days pass away as a Pirates ship; or as a ship that goes out to take a prey, as a ship that goes out to take prizes upon the sea. Now we know, when ships go out either upon piracy, which is robbery at sea, or upon any lawful way of taking prizes by public authority: these ships of all others are the swiftest, they are prepared on purpose to make way and overtake other ships; their lading is not burden but ballast, that they may be swift of said; so saith Job, My days pass away like a swift ships; not like some great Merchant-ship deeply laden, which can make no great way in the sea, but as a ship of piracy, that hath nothing in her but weapons, artillery and ammunition, to oppose those they meet, such are as your nimble Frigates, Fly-boats, and Catches, which sail with every wind, or Galleys which pass without wind, carried with strength of arms and oars, all being vessels used to run in upon, and surprise a booty. This also is a good interpretation; and so M. Broughton translates it, My days do fleet away as the Pirates ships. That's the second similitude, My days are passed away as the swift ships.