a late learned writer thinks it was the smallpox. er Nyxvb "nicere malo", Pagninus, Montanus, Piscator, Schmidt; "maligno", Cocceius, Michaelis, "pessimo", Junius & Tremellius, Schultens. Vid. Reiskii dissert.
de Morbo Jobi, in Thesaur. Dissert. Philolog. par. 1. p. 556. Origen contr. Cels. l. 6. p. 305. So Michaelis in Lowth. Praelect. de Sacr. Poes. Heb. p. 182, 201, 202. Delaney's Life of King David, vol.
2. p.