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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 38 › Verse 8-11
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.
And here shall thy proud waves be stayed.
Why doth the Lord call them proud waves? it is not because they are proud properly, but by a Metaphor; they lift up their heads as proud men do, and are therefore called proud waves. ⟨p. 107⟩Thus Jethro spake of Pharaoh and his host (Exod. 18.11.) In the things wherein they dealt proudly, the Lord was above them. Pharaoh and the Egyptians, like the proud waves of the sea, thought to have swallowed up all Israel; but God made the sea to swallow them up. Proud men, like mighty waves, think to swallow up all; but He is above them, that saith to the sea, Here shall thy proud waves Be stayed.
The Hebrew is, And here it shall set it self against the pride of thy waves. As if the Lord had said, if they come here,1 my doors shall meet them, my commands like bars shall stop them, that they shall not be able to go a step further; they shall not conquer my commands, nor break down the doors, nor dissolve the bars, which I have set up. The word rendered waves properly signifies a heap; because waves role in heaps one upon the neck of another.
The Hebrew is, And here it shall set it self against the pride of thy waves. As if the Lord had said, if they come here,1 my doors shall meet them, my commands like bars shall stop them, that they shall not be able to go a step further; they shall not conquer my commands, nor break down the doors, nor dissolve the bars, which I have set up. The word rendred waves properly signifies a heap; because waves role in heaps one upon the neck of another.