A35538:1860
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 22-25
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Yet many Expositors are not satisfied, that the Hebrew word here used ([Greek or Hebrew]) should be rendered to swallow; and therefore they translate, He diggeth the earth with fierceness and rage; and expound it of his making holes in the ground, by pawing in the valley spoken of verse 21. Master Broughton gives it thus; With snaking and stirring he beateth upon the earth: The Chaldee Paraphrase saith,1 He makes a hole in the earth. The authority of the Chaldee (saith Bootius) gives credit to this exposition and strengthens it; because it shows, that the word in the Syriac tongue (many of which are used in this book of Job) may well signify to dig or make a hole, seeing from this Verb a ⟨p. 453⟩Noun is derived, which in that language signifies a hole or pit. And if we take this interpretation (saith he) the words would not be a bare, much less a needless repetition of what was said (ver. 21.) He paweth in the valley. For though (according to this reading) the Text in both places speaks of hollowing the earth, yet we may give this difference; the former being to be understood of those lighter touches, which wanton lusty horses with one foot give the earth; but this latter, of great and deep impressions which they make in the earth with all their feet, while heated with a desire to charge the enemy, they are restrained and held in, till the signal be given.
Yet many Expositors are not satisfied, that the Hebrew word here used (〈non-Latin alphabet〉) should be rendred to swallow; and therefore they translate, He diggeth the earth with fierceness and rage; and expound it of his making holes in the ground, by pawing in the valley spoken of verse 21. Master Broughton gives it thus; With snaking and stirring he beateth upon the earth: The Chaldee Paraphrase saith,1 He makes a hole in the earth. The authority of the Chaldee (saith Bootius) gives credit to this exposition and strengthens it; because it shews, that the word in the Syriack tongue (many of which are used in this book of Job) may well signifie to dig or make a hole, seeing from this Verbe a ⟨p. 453⟩