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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
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.
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, ⟨p. 320⟩They cast out their sorrows.
The word rendred bring forth, signifies to cleave asunder, 1implying their extream 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, ⟨p. 320⟩They cast out their sorrows.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew] propriè findo, diffindo, trajicio.〈non-Latin alphabet〉 propriè findo, diffindo, trajicio.
Which may be understood two ways; First, bowing to free themselves of their young ones, their sorrows end, or there is an end of their sorrows, they are cast out. Secondly, Thus they cast out their sorrows; that is, their young ones are cast out which have put them to much sorrow & grievous throws, & so may well be called their sorrows; as Rachel called that child with which she had such hard travel, Ben-oni, The son of her sorrows (