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…

Secondly,^* Bildad is conceived to allude to a certain sort or sect of men. For from Cabir here translated strong, the name of certain Poets or old Prophets is derived, whom the Greeks and Latins called Cabirs or Cabirims. These men had an affected outward gravity, yet were full of words, and much given to Battology, repeating the same things over and over. Bildad ranks Job (say some) with those Prophets, How long shall the words of thy mouth be like those roaming Cabirs, who by a needless multiplying of words, grated the ears, and burdened the spirits of all the hearers? Why doest thou speak, as if thou couldst carry the matter with empty words, and bare repetitions.

Secondly,^* Bildad is conceived to allude to a certain sort or sect of men. For from Cabir here translated strong, the name of certain Poets or old Prophets is derived, whom the Greeks and Latines called Cabirs or Cabirims. These men had an affected outward gravity, yet were full of words, and much given to Battologie, repeating the same things over and over. Bildad ranks Job (say some) with those Prophets, How long shall the words of thy mouth be like those roming Cabirs, who by a needlesse multiplying of words, grated the eares, and burdened the spirits of all the hearers? Why doest thou speak, as if thou couldst carry the matter with empty words, and bare repetitions.

1. *Graeci & latini Prophetas quosdam ex Hebraeo Cabiros cognominarunt, ob insignem eorum ad extra gravitatem & loquacitatem idem dicti Corybantes. Bold. Quos Authors latini Divos potes, seu potentes vocant, Graecis [Greek or Hebrew] dicuntur ab hac voce, quae potem sive potentem denotat. Drus. Ad magnanimitatem referri potest, quod corpore attenuato exhaustisque viribus fortiter tamen persisteret in loquendo & respondendo. Cajet. Jobi oratio non fuit frigida & languidased vehemens & concitata. Pined.Graeci & latini Prophetas quosdam ex Hebraeo Cabiros cognominarunt, ob insignem eorum ad extra gravitatem & loquacitatem idem dicti Corybantes. Bold. Quos Authores latini Divos potes, seu potentes vocant, Graecis 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 dicuntur ab hac voce, quae potem sive potentem denotat. Drus. Ad magnanimitatem referri potest, quod corpore attenuato exhaustisque viribus fortiter tamen persisteret in loquendo & respondendo. Cajet. Iobi oratio non fuit frigida & languidased vehemens & concitata. Pined.