An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…

Yet here is a word in the Original used for the heart, different from what is commonly used, and so occasions a difference among Interpreters and Translators. Grammarians derive it from a word that signifieth to look or behold, to see and and foresee, and the Noun signifieth a picture, because pictures are pieces of art, which draw all mens eyes to behold and look upon them; and the heart is therefore expressed by this word, because it forms, and as it were (by its imaginative faculty) draws the picture of all things in it self, or because in the heart or mind of man the forms of all things are represented: Mans imagination delineates and shapes a thousand varieties within it self, or man hath the picture and prospect of all matters in his heart, and therefore the same word signifies the heart and a picture, drawn and delineated to the life. That's the force of the word which here we render heart.

Yet here is a word in the Original used for the heart, different from what is commonly used, and so occasions a difference among Interpreters and Translaters. Grammarians derive it from a word that signifieth to look or behold, to see and and foresee, and the Noune signifieth a picture, because pictures are pieces of art, which draw all mens eyes to behold and look upon them; and the heart is therefore exprest by this word, because it forms, and as it were (by its imaginative faculty) draws the picture of all things in it self, or because in the heart or mind of man the forms of all things are represented: Mans imagination delineates and shapes a thousand varieties within it self, or man hath the picture and prospect of all matters in his heart, and therefore the same word signifies the heart and a picture, drawn and delineated to the life. That's the force of the word which here we render heart.

The Latin translation renders at a great distance from us, yet the letter of the Text may bear that reading also. Who hath given understanding to the Cock? Interpreters following this translation, conceive that here the Lord begins to question Job about irrational living creatures; Having said, who hath put wisdom into the inward parts? to wit, of man; he now adds who hath given understanding to the Cock? The same word that signifieth the heart, signifies also a Cock; as the heart foreseeth and looketh upon things afar off, so the Cock foreseeth the rising of the Sun and the break of day, and therefore hath his name from his fore-sight. They who follow this Translation, speak many things of the wonderful fore-sight of the Cock: and surely God hath placed a natural wisdom in that creature constantly to understand the hours of the night. A Cock is a natural clock