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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 12-15
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Secondly, The metaphor or allusion may be taken from a sieve. As the sieve is shaken when we would separate the chaff, or that which is vile and worthless from among the good corn; so the Lord by the light takes hold of the ends of the earth, and shakes the wicked like dross or darnel, out of the company of honest men. I, saith the Lord (Amos 9.9.) will sift the house of Israel among all Nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve; yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth, that is, be lost or perish. But the wicked, who are as chaff, shall be scattered, and perish for ever, when the Lord sifts them.
Secondly, The metaphor or allusion may be taken from a sieve. As the sieve is shaken when we would separate the chaffe, or that which is vile and worthless from among the good corn; so the Lord by the light takes hold of the ends of the earth, and shakes the wicked like dross or darnel, out of the company of honest men. I, saith the Lord (Amos 9.9.) will sift the house of Israel among all Nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve; yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth, that is, be lost or perish. But the wicked, who are as chaffe, shall be scattered, and perish for ever, when the Lord sifts them.
Again, These words, That the wicked may be shaken out of it, are by some expounded actively; The day-spring taketh hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked may shake (sc. themselves) out of it. For when the light cometh, wicked men do, as it were, shake themselves out of the earth; that is, they hide themselves, and run their heads into a corner. They who in the night and darkness go abroad doing mischief, following wicked purposes, ⟨p. 133⟩when the light appears, dis-appear, with-draw, and play (as we say) least in sight (Job 24.13.) The wicked are they that rebel against the light, they hate it, cannot endure it, they are like the wild beasts of the earth, that raven in the night, but in the day couch in their dens and coverts, no man can tell where to find them (