...able to ftand,. the teft of " impartial truth,1' MISCEL* MISCELLANEOUS REMARKS on CHAP. VI. VERSE XV. BRETHREN HAVE DEALT DECEITFULLY AS A BROOK, AND AS THE STREAM OF BROOKS THEY PASS AWAY, &c. TO VERSE XXI. THESE vcrfes are a very beautiful fimilitude, or representation of his friends treacherous...

...they spake against me. All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me. My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away. Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me. From the...

...his friend ; but he who shows no fiity forsaketh the fear of the 15 Almighty: inhumanity is imfdety. My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, [and] as the stream of brooks, which are full 16 of water in winter, they pass away ;* Which are blackish by reaton of the ice, [and]...

...perfectly dry at other times of the year. — We now drew nearer to the river, of which a branch w;is dry, and having its channel filled with reeds growing...ice, and wherein the snow is hid : What time they Fax warm they vanish ; when it is hot they are consumed out of their place. The paths of their way...

...too fanciful and remote. Of this I shall produce an instance from the book of Job, c. vi. v. 15 20. " My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and...the ice, and wherein the snow is hid. What time they were warm they vanish : when it is hot they consume out of their place. The paths of their way are...

...agreeably shaded by the reeds.— A'ieiu/ir \1> brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and at the stream of brooks they pass away. Which are blackish...ice, and wherein the snow is hid : What time they v ax warm they vanish ; when it it hot they arc consumed out of their place. The paths of their way...

...Almighty. 15 Mv brethren have deall deceitfully as a brink, and us the stream of brooks they pass away ; 16 ins : 17 What time they wax warm, they vanish : when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place. 18...

...prove as deceitful as the torrents, which make a great :;oise, and run with a violent stream : Ver. 16. Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid.] When the melted ice and snow fall thick into them. Ver. 17. What time they wax warm, they -banish :...

...is afflicted pity should be showed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty. 1 5 My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away; 16 Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid: 17 What time they wax warm...

...from me ? Alas ! there is no help to me in myself; — For reason is utterly driven from me. V. 16. Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid. They roll turbid from an ice-hill, The snow foams above them. A CRITICAL EXAMINATION of the Writings...