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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 13-18
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JOB, Chap. 39. Vers. 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18. 13. Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the Peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the Ostrich? 14. Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust, 15. And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beasts may break them. 16. She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labour is in vain without fear, 17. Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding. 18. What time she lifteth up her self on high, she scorneth the Horse and his Rider.
The Lord having put several questions to Job, about the wild beasts of the earth, questions him in this context, according to our translation, about two, but according to some other translations and readings, about three sorts of Fowls of the Air. Our translation mentions only the Peacock and Ostrich, others add the Stork.
THe Lord having put several questions to Job, about the wild beasts of the earth, questions him in this context, according to our translation, about two, but according to some other translations and readings, about three sorts of Fowls of the Aire. Our translation mentions only the Peacock and Ostrich, others adde the Stork.
1Yet 'tis the opinion of a very late and learned Author, that the whole context of these six verses contains the description of one Fowl only, and that the Ostrich. It cannot be denied, but that the first verse of this context, or the 13th of the Chapter, hath as various translations, by all sorts of Authors, as any (if not more than any) in this book; yet he grants, that most who have translated it into Latin, and all that ever he saw, who have translated it into the Mother language, of any Country, render it, the Peacock. And therefore referring the Reader to the perusal of his reasons and authorities, which are many and cogent, why he interprets the word Renamim, the Ostrich, I shall only touch at some of them in passage, as I proceed to open the Text, as 'tis expressed in our own translation.