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…

First, We say Vanity. Secondly, Another saith Lies. A third saith Iniquity.

First, We say Vanity. Secondly, Another saith Lyes. A third saith Iniquity.

The word will bear any of, or all the three translations.¹ They bring forth vanity, a lye, iniquity. They who conceive mischief, may bring forth any thing but what is good. Those three words may serve the same thing; every vanity is a lye, and any lye is vanity, and iniquity is both lye and vanity. The persons of whom Eliphaz discourseth are said to bring forth vanity, on these three grounds.

The word will beare any of, or all the three translations.¹ They bring forth vanity, a lye, iniquity. They who conceive mischeife, may bring forth any thing but what is good. Those three words may serve the same thing; every vanity is a lye, and any lye is vanity, and iniquity is both lye and vanity. The persons of whom Eliphaz discourseth are sayd to bring forth vanity, on these three grounds.

1. 1[Greek or Hebrew] Vanitat mendacium perversitas.〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Vanitat mendacium perversitas.

First, Because they sometimes bring forth no fruit at all; they are conceiving mischief, but they can make nothing of it, their conceptions end in abortions; they devise and plot, but all is hatching of wind: The Church is so expressed, though in a different case (