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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and the thirty fourth chapters of the book of Job being the substance of forty-nine lectures / delivered at Magnus near the Bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and the thirty fourth chapters of the booke of Job being the substance of forty-nine lectures / delivered at Magnus neare the Bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. Simmons, 1661
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.
My terror shall not make thee afraid, Neither shall my hand be heavy upon thee.
My terror shall not make thee afraid, Neither shall my hand be heavie upon thee.
1My Burden shall not be heavy upon thee, saith the Chaldee Paraphrase, and so some translate out of the Hebrew, taking the derivation of the word from a root which signifieth to bow down the back, as we do when a burden is laid upon us. So the word is rendered (Prov: 16.26.) He that laboureth, labours for himself, ⟨p. 191⟩for his mouth craveth it of him, that's our reading; and we put in the Margin, and his mouth boweth unto him. The mouth of a labouring man boweth to him, as begging that he would get and give it something to eat, and satisfy the craving of his hungry stomach. 'Tis sad to see some poor men so given to Idleness, that they had rather starve then work, and when (according to the propriety of this text in the Proverbs) their mouth boweth to them, that they would take pains to get a little bread to eat, they had rather endure the burden of hunger, then the burden of labour; But I instance this place only for that word which signifies a burden, or to burden. Those dreadful Prophecies which mere published against any people in Scripture, are called Burdens. The Burden of Duma; the burden of Damascus; the burden of Babylon; that is, a prophecy which had a burden of calamity in it, able to break the backs of the strongest Nations. So saith Elihu according to this translation; My burden shall not be heavy upon thee.
1My Burthen shall not be heavie upon thee, saith the Chaldee Paraphrase, and so some translate out of the Hebrew, taking the derivation of the word from a roote which signifieth to bow downe the backe, as we doe when a burden is layd upon us. So the word is rendred (Prov: 16.26.) He that laboureth, labours for himselfe, ⟨p. 191⟩