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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 19-21
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.
The Tygurine Translation renders the words thus;1 Dost thou know the time when thou wast born? As if the Lord had argued ⟨p. 177⟩thus with Job; Thou dost not know the hour of thy own Nativity, or when thou wast brought forth; how much less the way or manner either of their production or constitution, which were brought forth and established many ages and generations before thine. Doest thou know when thou wast born?
- 1Habesnè cognitum tempus quo nasceboris. Tygur.
But I rather adhere to our own reading, Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born? That is, because thou livedst then, and hast lived ever since, and so hast gathered up the knowledge of these things by observation. Surely when I put these things in order, when I disposed the way, and the dwelling, the path and place of light & darkness, and took them to their bound, thou hadst not so much as a being; how then camest thou to this knowledge! I know, and thou must needs confess, it is not because thou wast then born; wast thou? The purpose of God in this question, as to show that he was before the Creation of the world, even from everlasting, therefore knew all things; but that Job was of little standing in the world, and therefore knew little, especially not those things proposed. There is a double reading and understanding of this verse.
But I rather adhere to our own reading, Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born? That is, because thou livedst then, and hast lived ever since, and so hast gathered up the knowledge of these things by observation. Surely when I put these things in order, when I disposed the way, and the dwelling, the path and place of light & darkness, and took them to their bound, thou hadst not so much as a being; how then camest thou to this knowledge! I know, and thou must needs confess, it is not because thou wast then born; wast thou? The purpose of God in this question, as to shew that he was before the Creation of the world, even from everlasting, therefore knew all things; but that Job was of little standing in the world, and therefore knew little, especially not those things proposed. There is a double reading and understanding of this verse.