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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 15 › Verse 23
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.
Vers. 23. He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it?
Vers. 23. Hee wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it?
1We put in those words, Saying, and Is it; the Hebrew being only this, He wandereth abroad for bread, where; as if he had said, No man knows where, and he knows not whither himself.
1We put in those words, Saying, and Is it; the Hebrew being onely this, He wandreth abroad for bread, where; as if he had sayd, No man knowes where, and he knowes not whither himselfe.
- 1In Hebraeo tantum est movetur propane.
There is a twofold interpretation of this Wandering; some understand it of a powerful roving abroad for bread; he takes what he can from those who are next,1 or he takes what comes next to hand: He must have it, it matters not much with him, how or from whom. Such are called Rovers, they rove abroad for bread, they spoil and plunder others for the supply of their wants, shall I say, or of their lusts. But I conceive this Exposition unsuitable; and the reason is, because Eliphaz is not here describing the sin of a wicked man, but his punishment; to spoil and plunder for bread is his sin; to wander for bread is his punishment, and implies the evil and misery that comes upon the wicked, not the evil and mischief that is done by the wicked.