A35473:1079
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of the book of Job being the sum of twenty three lectures delivered at Magnus near the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl.An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of the book of Job being the summe of twenty three lectures delivered at Magnus neer the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl.
London: printed by Matthew Simmons, 1650
Title page typeset from the transcription.
AN EXPOSITION Upon the Fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth Chapte… › Chapter 16 › Verse 3
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.
The Hebrew is, Shall words of wind have an end? That expression hath ben opened twice before.1 How long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong East wind, saith Bildad (Chap. 8.2.) Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the East wind? saith Eliphaz (Chap. 15.2.) Job retorts it upon them, Shall words of wind have an end? You tell me that my words are windy, yours are so indeed: I must hide my self from these blasts and storms of your tongues, unless you grow calmer; Shall windy words have an end? Words are windy:
The Hebrew is, Shall words of winde have an end? That expression hath ben opened twice before.1 How long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong East winde, saith Bildad (Chap. 8.2.) Should a wise man utter vaine knowledge, and fill his belly with the East winde? saith Eliphaz (Chap. 15.2.) Job retorts it upon them, Shall words of winde have an end? You tell mee that my words are windy, yours are so indeed: I must hide my selfe from these blasts and stormes of your tongues, unlesse you grow calmer; Shall windy words have an end? Words are windy:
- 1[Greek or Hebrew] Verba vervi, i, e. ventosa, parum solidas rations habentia.〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Verba vervi, i, e. ventosa, parum solidas rationes habentia.
First, When they have no solid reason, no substance in them: reason is the substance of words, and so is truth; ⟨p. 220⟩these two go always together, and where these are not, nothing goes out of the mouth but wind;1