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allude to the Second Commandment; " vifiting the Iniquity of the "Fathers upon the Children."

Ch. XXII. 6. Thou haft taken a Pledge from thy Brother for nought, and haft ftripped the naked of their Clothing. This is a plain Allufion to Exod. XXII. 26, 27. "If thou at all take thy Neighbour's Raiment "to Pledge, thou shalt deliver it to him by that the Sun goeth down, "for that is his only Covering; it is his Raiment for his Skin: wherein "fhall he fleep?" The Crime objected to Job is, that he has taken a Pledge. The Jewish Law made this criminal. This appears only from the Jewish Law, which fuppofes the Pledge to be the Raiment, the only Covering. V. 13. Thou fayeft, How doth God know? So Pf. LXXIII. 11. "They fay, How doth God know?" V. 19. The righteous fee it, and are glad. So Pf. CVII. 42. «The righteous fhall fee "it, and rejoice."

Ch. XXIII. 10. He hath tried me, I shall come forth as Gold. Pf. LXVI. 10. " Thou haft tried us as Silver is tried."

Ch. XXIV. 4. The poor of the Earth hide themselves together: taken probably from Prov. XXVIII. 28. "When the wicked rife, Men hide "themselves."

Ch. XXVI. 8. He bindeth up the Waters in his thick Clouds. This feems to be borrowed from Prov. XXX. 4. "Who hath bound the "Waters in a Garment?" In both Places the Water above the Firmament is understood. Again, it is faid of the Clouds (Ch. XXXVI. 30.) that they conceal thofe Foundations which support the Sea. These are plain Allufions to the Waters above the Firmament. Gen. I.

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Ch. XXVII. 7. Let mine Enemy be as the wicked. This Thought feems to be taken from 1 Sam. XXV. 26. "Let thine Enemies be as "Nabal." V. 14. If his Children be multiplied, it is for the Sword. So Hof.IX.13. "Ephraim fhall bring forth his Children to the Murderer." V. 15. Shall be buried in Death, and his Widows shall not weep. So Pf. LXXVIII.64. "Their Priests fell by the Sword, and their Widows "made no Lamentation." V.17. He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on. So Prov. XXVIII. 8. "He fhall gather it for him that will pity the poor."

Ch. XXVIII. 15. It cannot be gotten for Gold; neither fhall Silver be weighed for the Price thereof. So Prov. III. 14. "The Merchandise of

"it is better than the Merchandise of Silver, and the Gain thereof "than fine Gold."

Ch. XXIX. 3. By his Light I walked through Darkness. So Pf. XVIII. 28. "The Lord my God will enlighten my Darkness." V. 6. The Rock poured me out Rivers of Oil. Perhaps this may be taken out of Deut. XXXII. 13. "He made him to fuck Honey out of the Rock, "and Oil out of the flinty Rock." And what is very remarkable (V.22,23.) My Speech dropped upon them, And they waited for me as for the Rain, and opened their Mouth wide as for the latter Rain, seems taken from the fame Chap. V. 2. "My Doctrine shall drop as the Rain, my Speech shall diftil as the Dew." V. 12. I delivered the poor when he cried, the fatherless and him that had none to help him -taken probably from Pf. LXXII. 12. "He fhall deliver the needy, when he "crieth, the poor alfo, and him that hath no helper." V. 14. I put on Righteousness, and it clothed me. So Ifa. LIX. 17. "He put on Right"coufness as a Breast Plate." V. 20. My Bow renewed its Strength in my Hand. This feems to be taken from Gen. XLIX. 24. "His Bow "abode in Strength."

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Ch. XXX. 9. I am their Song, and become their Byword. So Lam. III. 14. “I was a Derifion to all my People, and their Song all the Day." V. 16. My Soul pours out itself within me. So Pf. XLII. 4. << I pour out my Soul within me." Job fays Pfalmift says V. 30. My Bones are burnt with Heat. So Pf. CII. 3. "My Bones are burnt as a Hearth."

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Ch. XXXI. 4. Doth he not fee my Ways, and count all my Steps? So Prov. V. 21. "The Ways of Man are before the Eyes of the Lord, "and he pondereth all his Goings." V.7. Mine Heart walked after my Eyes, taken perhaps from Numb. XV. 39. "Seek not after your "own Heart, and your own Eyes." V. 8. Then let me fow, and let another reap; this appears to be borrowed from Lev. XXVI. 16. "Ye "fhall fow your Seed in vain, for your Enemy shall eat it.'

Ch. XXXIII. 14. God Speaketh once, yea twice: (i. e. often.) So Pf. LXII. 11. “God hath spoken once, nay twice have I heard it.” V. 30. Light of the living. We have the fame Expreffion, Pf. LVI.13.

Ch. XXXIV. 11. For the Work of a Man fhall he render unto him. So Pf. LXII. 12. "Thou rendereft to every Man according to his Work." Ch. XXXV. 10. God, who giveth Songs in the Night. So Pf. XLII. 8. "In the Night his Song fhall be with me. V. 12. There they cry,

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but none giveth Anfwer. So Prov. I. 28. "Then shall they call upon "me; but I will not answer."

Ch. XXXVI. 7. He withdraweth not his Eyes from the righteous. So Pf. XXXIV. 15. "The Eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous." V.8. If they (i. e. Kings) be bound in Fetters-be openeth their Ear to Difcipline: and if they obey, they shall spend their Days in Profperity. This was the Cafe of Manaffeh, who was carried bound to Babylon, and upon his Repentance reftored to his Kingdom. Compare this with 2 Chron. XXXIII. 11, 12, 13.

Ch. XXXVIII. 1. The Lord anfwered Job out of the Whirlwind. So Nah.I.3. "The Lord hath his Way in the Whirlwind." V.4. Where waft thou when I laid the Foundations of the Earth? alluding probably to Prov. VIII. 29. "When he appointed the Foundations of the Earth, "then I was by him." V. 9. When I made a Cloud to be the Garment of the Sea, and thick Darkness it's fwaddling Band. This may allude to Gen. I. 2. "Darkness was upon the Face of the Deep." V. 15. The wicked fhall be deprived of their Light, may perhaps allude to the Egyptian Darkness. The high Arm shall be broken. So Pf. X. 15. "Break thou the Arm of the wicked."

Ch. XLI. 4. Wilt thou take him for a Servant for ever? Exod. XXI. 6. "He fhall ferve him for ever." The Expreffion is very particular, and fignifies in both Places, to be a Part of the Family. Ch. XXXI.33. we have these Words, If I have covered my Tranfgreffion as Adam. Ch. XXXVI. 14. there feems to be an Allufion to the Deftruction of Sodom; Ch. XL. 12, 13. to the Punishment of Corah, Dathan, and Abiram. Idolatry was punished by the Jewish Law, and no other, with Death, and Job. XXXI. 28. fays, This were an Iniquity to be punished by the Judge.

[Ch. XXXVIII.22,23, Haft thou feen the Treafures of the Hail, which I have referved against the Time of Trouble, against the Day of Battle and War? This probably alludes to the Destruction of the five Kings of the Amorites at Bethhoron by Joshua, when the Lord destroyed their Armies with Hailftones. X. 11. Heath.

Ch. XX. 17. The Brooks of Honey and Butter, probably taken from those Paffages in Exodus, Ch. III. 8.

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Ch. XXII. 22. Receive the Law from his Mouth, alluding probably to the verbal Delivery of the Law from Mount Sinai. Idem.

Ch. XXIX. 4. O that I were as in the Days of my Youth, when the Secret of God was upon my Tabernacle! This feems to allude to the Refidence of the Divine Prefence on the Ark. Idem.

Ch. IX. 7. Who commandeth the Sun, and it rifeth not, and fealeth up the Stars, may perhaps allude to the Egyptian Darkness, and the Sun ftanding ftill in the Days of Joshua. Idem.

Ch. XXVI. 12. By his Strength he quieteth the Sea, and by his Understanding fmiteth it's Pride. Bp. Warburton applies this to the dividing of the Sea, and the drowning of Pharoah and his Hoft.]

FROM what has been faid I think it clear that the Author of this Book was a Jew; and that he lived after the Time of Mofes. There are other Paffages in this Book, which agree with other Parts of SS. but whether they are taken from thence, or those Parts of SS. taken from Job, is not fo certain. I fhall mention the most remarkable of them. Ch. V. 19. it is faid, He fhall deliver thee in fix Troubles yea, in feven there shall no Evil touch thee. So Prov. VI. 16. "These "fix Things doth the Lord hate, yea, feven, &c." V. 10. God is called the Holy One. The Prophets call Him "the Holy One of Ifrael." But Job being not reprefented as a Jew, the Word Ifrael is omitted.

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Ch. XIV. 17. We have thefe Words, My Tranfgreffion is fealed up in a Bag; and thou foweft up my Iniquity. So Hof. XIII. 12. “The Iniquity of Ephraim is bound up in a Bag, his Sin is hid." In both Places there is an Allufion to the Custom of fealing up Records in a Bag. Ch. XV. 7. Waft thou made before the Hills? are the fame Words that are ufed, Prov. VIII. 25. bbın miyaa oh. In the laft Verse of the fame Ch. To conceive Mifchief, and bring forth Vanity are almost the fame Words with Pf. VIII. 15. ap 75" boy; Ch. XVI. 13. He poureth

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out my Gall upon the Ground. So Lam. II. 11. "My Liver is poured upon the Earth:" Ch. XVII. 3. Give me a Surety for thy Appearance: who is it that will ftrike Hands with me? agrees with Prov. VI.1. "My Son, if thou be Surety for thy Friend, if thou haft ftricken "thy Hand with a Stranger." The Surety was to strike Hands with the Perfon to whom the Security was given. The fame Custom is alluded to, and the fame Word, ypn is ufed in both Places. Ch. XVIII. 7. The Steps of his Strength shall be firaitened, are the fame

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to my Skin and my Flesh, are the fame Words with Pf. CII. 6. pa¬ "","My Bone cleaveth to my Flesh," and are a particular Way of expreffing the fame Thing; that there was no Fat between the Bone and the Flesh. Ch. XX. 8. He shall fly away as a Dream; be shall be chafed away as a Vifion of the Night. The fame Words are in Ifa. XXIX. 7. mbis min Bibn, “as a Dream, the Vision of the 'Night." The Addition of the two Verbs in the Passage, as it stands in Job, may perhaps be thought an Improvement upon Ifaiah. V. 23. God fhall caft upon him the Fury of his Wrath; and it shall rain upon bim in the Midft of his Food. So Pf. XI. 6. Upon the wicked he "shall rain Fire and Brimftone, and a ftrong Tempeft fhall be the "Portion of their Cup." Ch. XXI. 18. They are as Stubble before the Wind, and as Chaff which the Storm fuddenly fweeps away, feems to be an Improvement upon Pf. I. 4. "Like Chaff which the Wind "driveth away. Ch. XXIV. 4. They drive the poor out of the Way

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Ch. XXVI. 6. Hell is naked before him, and Deftruction hath no Covering. This looks like an Improvement upon Prov. XV. 11. "Hell and De"ftruction are before him." The fame Words too are used, — 8-78. There is one Obfervation, which I make by the Way; that this Likeness of Expreffion adds great Authority to the Books of SS. If the Author of the Book of Job borrowed from the other SS. they were certainly esteemed as facred Books in his Time, and could not be compofed by Ezra, as Lord Bolingbroke infinuates. If they borrowed from Job, then it follows that the Book of Job was delivered down under the fame Character among the Jews. But to return: V. 13. His Hand hath formed the crooked Serpent, na wn). See Ifa. XXVII. 1. where the fame Words are used, and Leviathan is faid to be" the crooked Serpent." But this Paffage being well known, there was no Occafion for the Author of this Book to be fo explicit. XXVIII. 28. The Fear of the Lord, that is Wisdom; and to depart from Evil is Understanding. So Prov. IX. 10. "The Fear of the Lord is "the Beginning of Wisdom, and the Knowledge of the Holy is Underftanding." Ch. XXIX. 16. I was a Father to the poor, and the Caufe

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