John Trapp on Job 21:11
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Job21:11
Verſe 11 They ſend forth their little ones like a flock.] Sunt quide eorum vitulis intelligunt recens natis, ſaith Mercer, Some underſtand it of young Calves, but better of young children, which have here their name from a root which ſignifieth wickedneſſe, naughtineſſe, to ſhew what little ones are, not Innocents, as we call them, not pueri quaſi puri; [non-Latin text not transcribed], is both a fool and a child. The firſt blanket wherein a child is wrapt, is woven of ſin, ſhame, blood and filth, Ezek. 16.4, 6. Hence Infants were circumciſed, and their foreskin caſt away, to ſhew, that themſelves had deſerved to be ſo ſerved. Parents therefore ſhould ſtrive to mend that by education, which they have marred by propagation. Wicked parents think not on this, though they ſend out their little ones like a flock, but tend them not, keep them not from the Wolf of hel, who ſeeketh to devour them.
And their children dance] Exiliunt, vitulantur, ch[illegible: 1 letter]reas ducunt, they skip and leap up and down,Nemo ſobrius ſaltat. Cic. as young cattle, and are taught to dance Artificially, which no ſober man will do, ſaith Cicero: And the better Dancer, the worſe man, ſaid Diogenes.
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