Job 9

Notes on the verses

Chap. IX. Ver. 7. The sun. 4 gloom, and a violent agitation of the sea, often accompanies these awful ca- Ver. 9. Arcturus, &c.—Heb. Aish, Cecil, and Cimah. The meaning of as the spider’s. ‘‘It is impossible to these and the following words is much controverted. Aish, rendered Arcturus, describe the utter vanity of the hopes is supposed to mean the North Pole, with its surrounding luminaries; Cecil, or Orion, the stars that arise in winter; Cimah, or Pleiades, those which usher So (Song of Solomon 4:12).—Seeth the in the spring. Ver. %. He will laugh.—Perhaps “It will laugh’ at all the consequences, even the trial of the innocent. So Schultens and Scott (the poet.) Ver, 25. Swifter than a post.—* Than a courier.”

Bp. Lowth. Camels (who compose the eastern caravans) travel little more than two miles an hour, out dromedaries will outrun the swiftest horses; and there are foot messengers who will go 150 miles in 24 hours.—Harmer. Ver. 6. As the swift ships.—See margin. boats on the Tigris and Euphrates, which some refer it to the same animals (the ships of the desert.” Chardin thinks this refers to the are carried with a rapid current; but dromedaries) which the Arabs call The deserts are their seas.—O7 dent. Lit. No. 686. Dr. ma! 6 Good renders the phrase, “ with spread (or swelled out) sails.” See (Isaiah 18:2). Ver. 30. Snow water.—The softest water for washing, and kept by the ancients to whiten and purify their skin.