A35538:1647
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
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.
Vers. 15. And forgetteth that the foot may crush them.
That is, she hath no thought that they may take hurt,1 and therefore takes no care, nor makes any provision to preserve them from hurt; she minds not, nor doth at all apprehend the danger which her eggs are •n: She forgetteth that the foot (of man) may crush them, Or that the wild beast (that passeth along in those wildernesses and desert places) may break them.
That is, she hath no thought that they may take hurt,1 and therefore takes no care, nor makes any provision to preserve them from hurt; she minds not, nor doth at all apprehend the danger which her eggs are •n: She forgetteth that the foot (of man) may crush them, Or that the wild beast (that passeth along in those wildernesses and desart places) may break them.
- 1Ita stolida est ut non cogitat fieri posse, ut ova sua, quae humi reliquit, pedibus serarum aut hominum premantur. Merc.
The Hebrew is thresh them, which implieth more than cracking, even breaking them all to pieces.
The Hebrew is thresh them, which implyeth more than cracking, even breaking them all to pieces.