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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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1Those words gavest thou, are not expressed in the Hebrew Text; that's marvellous concise, which hath occasioned both differences and difficulties, in the explication of it. The Text is only this, goodly wings to the Peacocks, we say, gavest thou the goodly wings unto the Peacocks? The Jewish Doctors generally make the same supplement. Some expositors express it thus, hast thou made the goodly wings of the Peacocks? I conceive the difference is not great, whether we read, hast thou given, or hast thou made? for doubtless, God in giving made, or in making gave, The goodly wings unto the Peacocks.
1Those words gavest thou, are not exprest in the Hebrew Text; that's marvelous concise, which hath occasioned both differences and difficulties, in the explication of it. The Text is only this, goodly wings to the Peacocks, we say, gavest thou the goodly wings unto the Peacoks? The Jewish Doctors generally make the same supplement. Some expositors express it thus, hast thou made the goodly wings of the Peacocks? I conceive the difference is not great, whether we read, hast thou given, or hast thou made? for doubtless, God in giving made, or in making gave, The goodly wings unto the Peacocks.
- 1Hebraei subaudiunt [Greek or Hebrew] num dedisti? Merc. An fecisti? Pisc.Hebraei subaudiunt 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 num dedisti? Merc. An fecisti? Pisc.
Master Broughton translates proud wings. The Peacock is a beautiful bird, and a proud one too: The Peacock is gorgeously clothed, as I may say, by the hand of God. Gavest thou the goodly wings? 1no, it was I the Lord, not thou, O Job, that gave the goodly wings unto the Peacocks. The word which we translate goodly, is very proper to the Peacock; the root of it signifies to exult, to boast, to glory, and therefore many translate, gavest thou the exulting or the rejoicing wings unto the Peacock. Though the Peacocks wings cannot properly exult or boast, yet because they are an occasion of exulting and boasting to this creature, therefore they may be said to do so. Hence Master Mercer translates The Peacock boasts with his wings or of his wings, he is filled as it were with joy, beholding his wings. And this gives one reason