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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-eighth, T… › Chapter 38 › Verse 12-15
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.
Note, Thirdly; 1The wicked, how high or how strong soever they are, they shall be broken.
- 1Observa in voce [Greek or Hebrew] hoc versiculo & v. 13. literam צ in Bibliis magnis & ••empl. emendatis suspensam esse, i. e. non eodem tenore cum aliis scriptam sed supra caeteras sursum versas pender• hoc modo [Greek or Hebrew] quod forsun mysterio non caret, quasi lux impiis & totus eorum splendor sit in suspenso non stabilis. Merc.Observa in voce 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 hoc versiculo & v. 13. literam צ in Bibliis magnis & ••empl. emendatis suspensam esse, i. e. non eodem tenore cum aliis scriptam sed supra caeteras sursum versas pender• hoc modo 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 quod forsun mysterio non caret, quasi lux impiis & totus eorum splendor sit in suspenso non stabilis. Merc.
A learned Interpreter takes notice, that in the larger Bibles, and most correct Copies, the Hebrew Word signifying the wicked, both in this 15th verse, and in the 13th verse, hath one ⟨p. 143⟩letter raised up higher than the rest, and exceeding the ordinary form of writing; as may be seen, if the Reader please to cast his eye upon the quotation in the Margin. This (saith my Author) is not (possibly) without a mystery; even to intimate thus much, that all the prosperity and outward splendour of the wicked hangs in suspense, or is very tottering and unstable. But whatever occasioned that irregularity in the Hebrew writing, or whatever it may import, this is a sure truth, that the highest estate of the wicked is very unsure.