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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second, being the five last, chapters of the book of Job being the substance of fifty-two lectures or meditations / by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. and S. Simmons, 1666
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AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-eighth, T… › Chapter 39 › Verse 1-4
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Vers. 3. They bow themselves, &c.
These words are a description of the hard travel of the Hinds, not of the Goats, as Interpreters generally agree. Bowing of the body is the posture of any creature in travel to bring forth. As if the Lord had said, Is it thou, O Job, that hast, or I, that have given them an instinct in nature to put their bodies (as wild as they are) considerately, into such a posture (when their pains come upon them) as may be most easeful for themselves, and least hurtful to their off-spring, by bowing their bodies to dilate the passages of nature, and so by a natural Midwifery to deliver themselves of their burdens? as followeth, They bring forth their young ones.
These words are a description of the hard travel of the Hinds, not of the Goats, as Interpreters generally agree. Bowing of the body is the posture of any creature in travel to bring forth. As if the Lord had said, Is it thou, O Job, that hast, or I, that have given them an instinct in nature to put their bodies (as wilde as they are) considerately, into such a posture (when their pains come upon them) as may be most easeful for themselves, and least hurtful to their off-spring, by bowing their bodies to dilate the passages of nature, and so by a natural Midwifry to deliver themselves of their burdens? as followeth, They bring forth their young ones.
The word rendered bring forth, signifies to cleave asunder, 1implying their extreme pain in bringing forth; or that it is to them as grievous as the rending and cleaving of their bodies could be. So the word is translated (Chap. 16.13.) where Job making a lamentable complaint about his sufferings under the hand of God, expresseth it thus; His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder. Such torture have these poor creatures in bringing forth their young; which is more plainly set down in the close of the verse,