Job 28

Job 28:1

FOr the silver] man not content with the fruites which the earth brigs forth hath digged for those mettals which it kept hidden in her entrailes: but as for Gods wisdome man must content himselfe with what hath been revealed in the Law, and word of God; the secrets of his providence can neither bee searched out with labour, no purchased for money

Job 28:2

The stone] called the Cadmian stone.

Job 28:3

Hee setteth] hee penetrates into dark places under ground at his own pleasure, and carrying light with him, he doth as one should say limit, and set bounds to those darkenesses: [the shaddow] which would lie hidden in eternall obscurity if man did not bring them forth.

Job 28:4

The floud] the Italian addeth, where the oud, in these mines sometimes veines of water being cut in sunder, doe hinder the work, and the water must either be drawn out, or the course of it turnd another way: [forgotten] which were never thought 〈◊〉, o which at other times had been dried up.

Job 28:5

Commeth] namely above the earth: [turned up] that is to say, it is stirred ad digged up: [fire] by meanes of furnaces, to melt or purifie mettalls, or by reason of lamps and other lights which are brought thither.

Job 28:7

No foule] which naturally are very quicksighted, and fly every where, even in most inaccessible places.

Job 28:8

The lyons whelps] lyons have all the same qualities as have been before spoken of.

Job 28:10

Rivers to set water-works going to wash the ore of those mettalls, and for other uses, or to draw the waters away when they overflow.

Job 28:22

Wee have heard] not that they have it really there; as they have mineralls, and mettalls.

Job 28:23

The way] the proceedings, motions, reasons, meanes and intentions [knoweth] a figurative terme, as who should say, hee hath it by him ready and at hand, hee needs not look for it as 〈…〉 it were hidden in an unknown place.

Job 28:25

To make] the Italian, when bee gave, namely when hee established the order of nature; perfectly regulated in all things; as if the winde, which is such a wandring and unconstant creature, ad its motions weighed and counter-poised, see Psalms 135:7 [weigheth] set an order for the suspending, or holding up of the higher waters in a certaine quantity, leaving the rest below, Gen.〈◊〉. 6.

Job 28:27

Hee see it] hee had it with him, and, as one should say, employed it, in the establishment of the whole order of nature. Some have understood this passage as also that of, Proverbs 8:22. of Gods 〈…〉 wisdome; which i his everlasting son by whom as by joynt and co-operating cause the Father created all things, Iohn 1. 3 Col 1:16 [declare it] the Italian hath it,numbred it, figurative termes, meaning that he possessed and comprehended it all.

Job 28:28

He said] hee hath not revealed, no communicated to man, the wisdome of his providence, by which hee ruleth the universe, but that of his law by which man ought to governe himselfe, and not goe beyond those bounds, Deuteronomy 29:29. 1 Corinthians 4:6.