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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 40 › Verse 3-5
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.
What he said by way of answer, followeth.
Vers. 4. Behold, I am vile, what shall I answer?
Behold. Job doth not conceal nor cover, but calls all eyes to the view of his own vileness. Behold. Let God behold, let Angels behold, let men behold, what now I my self behold, that I am vile.
The root of the word, which we translate vile, 1signifies three things. First, To be light, or of little weight; and because light things are lightly esteemed, therefore it signifies, Secondly, To be contemned, or that which is contemptible; and, Thirdly, Because light things, and things contemptible, are also vile things; therefore, as we translate, it signifies vile. As if Job had said, I am light, I have no substance, no solidity in me; I am but as chaff, or, as a feather, I bear no weight, I deserve no esteem, no respect, I am vile. As the Hebrew word for honour and glory is derived from a root which signifies heaviness or weightiness, whence the Apostles phrase in the Greek tongue (