5 Moreover it has not seen the sun nor known it. This has rest rather than the other.
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Rather, it hath not seen nor known the sun: this (the untimely birth) hath rest rather than the other.
Moreover, he hath not seen the sun,.... This must be spoken of the abortive, and seems to confirm the sense of the former text, as belonging to it; and whereas it has never seen the light of the sun, nor enjoyed the pleasure and comfort of it, it is no ways distressing to it to be without it. The Targum is,
"the light of the law he seeth not; and knoweth not between good and evil, to judge between this world and that to come:''
so the Vulgate Latin version, "neither knows the difference of good and evil";
nor known anything; not the sun, nor anything else: or "experienced" (z) and "felt" the heat of the sun, and its comfortable influences; which a man may, who is blind, and has never seen it, but an abortive has not; and indeed has known no man, nor any creature nor thing in this world, and therefore it is no concern to it to be without them; and besides, has never had any knowledge or experience of the troubles of lifts, which every living man is liable to. Wherefore this is certain,
this hath more rest than the other; that is, the abortive than the covetous man; having never been distressed with the troubles of life, and now not affected with the sense of loss.
(z) "ueque expertus est", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Rambachius, so Broughton.
this--yet "it has more rest than" the toiling, gloomy miser.
More rest - Because he is free from all those encumbrances and vexations to which the covetuous man is long exposed.
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