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

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 ⟨p. 387⟩why the learned Bochartus is persuaded that the Ostrich is here intended, because the Peacock hath not goodly wings as the Ostrich hath, all the most beautiful feathers of the Peacock being placed in his tail or train, which is richly painted and adorned with various well-shadowed colours to the eye, when he spreads his tail, and prides himself in his plumes. But we need not stay upon this objection; the wing may well be taken for any feathered part. As Moses saith (Gen. 7.14.) every bird of every sort, or as the Hebrew is, of every wing, came into the Ark. And though the Peacock boasteth chiefly in his train,² as being most beautiful, yet he hath beauty in his wings too. Gavest thou the goodly wings Unto the Peacock?

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 rejoycing 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