THE Jewish Authors have been as diligent as the Catholick and Protestant, in explaining the Book of Job. Besides those who wrote upon the first Prophets, that is to say, the historical Books, whom we have already mentioned upon Joshua, Obadiah Sphorno made a Comment in Hebrew with this Title, Justum Judicium; printed at Venice, in 1590, in 4to. He was an Italian; a Physician by profession; and died in 1550. We have mentioned him before upon the Pentateuch, and shall again upon the Psalms.
Aben Ezra comprized his Comment upon Job, in that which he wrote upon the Law. See the Pentateuch, and the Article of Jewish Commentators in general.
Abraham, the Son of Mordecai Peritsol, whose Hebrew Comment upon Job was printed at Venice, in fol. 1518. and in 8vo, ibid. 1587. Conrad Pelican translated it into Latin as far as the 20th Chapter. See what Bartolocci tells us of this Work in the first Tome of his Rabbinical Library, and of another, p. 42—47. This Jew was of Avignon, and flourished about 1525.
Elias Levita had his Comment printed at Venice, in 1544. See the Article upon the Jews in general. That of Elias, the Son of Joseph, was printed in Poland: It is not said when.
Joseph, the Son of David, inserted his Comment upon Job with that which he wrote upon the five Meghilloth and the Hagiographa; printed in Hebrew at Bologna, 1528. and at Venice, in 1530, in fol. He was of Lisbon in Portugal, and died in 1539. We shall speak of him again upon the Psalms.
Isaac Cohen, Son of Solomon, had his printed at Constantinople, with the Hebrew Text, in 1545, in 4to.
Isaac, the Son of Meir, included his in the five Meghilloth.
Mordecai, the Son of Jacob, put out his separately at Prague, 1597, in 4to. We shall speak again of this Jew upon Proverbs.
Alsec Moses wrote a Comment upon Job, printed with the Text of the Bible in Hebrew, at Venice, 1603, in 4to, under the following Title; Portio Legislatoris. We have already spoken of him, and shall again speak of him.
Meir wrote a literal and philosophical Comment upon Job, printed with the Text of the Bible in Hebrew, 1603, at Venice; the fourth Edition. He was the Son of Isaac Arama, a Spanish Philosopher, and lived in the beginning of the 16th Century. We shall speak of him again upon the Psalms, and in other Places.