geneva - 20

geneva@Job:20:1 @ Then answered Zophar the Naamathite and saide,

geneva@Job:20:2 @ Doubtles my thoughts cause me to answere, and therefore I make haste.

geneva@Job:20:3 @ I have heard (note:)He declares that two things moved him to speak: that is, because Job seemed to touch him, and because he thought he had knowledge sufficient to confute him.(:note) the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.

geneva@Job:20:4 @ Knowest thou not this of olde? and since God placed man vpon the earth,

geneva@Job:20:5 @ That the reioycing of the wicked is short, and that the ioy of hypocrites is but a moment?

geneva@Job:20:6 @ Though (note:)His purpose is to prove Job to be a wicked man, and a hypocrite, because God punished him, and changed his prosperity into adversity.(:note) his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;

geneva@Job:20:7 @ Yet shall hee perish for euer, like his dung, and they which haue seene him, shall say, Where is hee?

geneva@Job:20:8 @ He shal flee away as a dreame, and they shal not finde him, and shall passe away as a vision of the night,

geneva@Job:20:9 @ So that the eye which had seene him, shall do so no more, & his place shal see him no more.

geneva@Job:20:10 @ His children shall (note:)While the father through ambition and tyranny oppressed the poor, the children through poverty and misery will seek favour from the poor.(:note) seek to please the poor, and his hands shall So that the thing which he has taken away by violence will be restored again by force. restore their goods.

geneva@Job:20:11 @ His bones are full [of the sin] of his youth, which (note:)Meaning that he will carry nothing away with him but his sin.(:note) shall lie down with him in the dust.

geneva@Job:20:12 @ Though wickedness be (note:)As poison that is sweet in the mouth brings destruction when it comes into the body: so all vice at the first is pleasant, but God later turns it to destruction.(:note) sweet in his mouth, [though] he hide it under his tongue;

geneva@Job:20:13 @ And fauoured it, and would not forsake it, but kept it close in his mouth,

geneva@Job:20:14 @ Then his meat in his bowels was turned: the gall of Aspes was in the middes of him.

geneva@Job:20:15 @ He hath deuoured substance, and hee shall vomit it: for God shall drawe it out of his bellie.

geneva@Job:20:16 @ He shall suck the (note:)He compares ill-gotten goods to the venom of asps, which is a dangerous serpent, noting that Jobs great riches were not truly come by and therefore God plagues him justly for the same.(:note) poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.

geneva@Job:20:17 @ He shall not see the (note:)Though God gives all other abundance from his blessings yet he will have no part of it.(:note) rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.

geneva@Job:20:18 @ That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow [it] down: according to [his] substance [shall] the restitution [be], (note:)That is these raveners and spoilers of the poor will enjoy their theft but for a time for after God will take it from them, and cause them to make restitution so that it is only an exchange.(:note) and he shall not rejoice [therein].

geneva@Job:20:19 @ For he hath vndone many: he hath forsaken the poore, and hath spoyled houses which he builded not.

geneva@Job:20:20 @ Surely he shall feele no quietnes in his bodie, neither shall he reserue of that which he desired.

geneva@Job:20:21 @ There shall none of his (note:)He will leave nothing to his posterity.(:note) meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.

geneva@Job:20:22 @ In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand (note:)The wicked will never be in rest: for one wicked man will seek to destroy another.(:note) of the wicked shall come upon him.

geneva@Job:20:23 @ [When] he is about to fill his belly, [God] shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, (note:)Some read, upon his flesh, alluding to Job, whose flesh was smitten with a scab.(:note) and shall rain [it] upon him while he is eating.

geneva@Job:20:24 @ He shall flee from the yron weapons, and the bow of steele shal strike him through.

geneva@Job:20:25 @ It is drawn, and cometh out of the (note:)Some read, of the quiver.(:note) body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors [are] upon him.

geneva@Job:20:26 @

geneva@Job:20:27 @ The heauen shal declare his wickednes, & the earth shal rise vp against him.

geneva@Job:20:28 @ The (note:)Meaning, the children of the wicked will flow away like rivers and be dispersed in various places.(:note) increase of his house shall depart, [and his goods] shall flow away in the day of his wrath.

geneva@Job:20:29 @ This [is] the portion of a wicked man from (note:)Thus God will plague the wicked.(:note) God, and the heritage appointed unto him by Against God, thinking to excuse himself, and to escape God's hand. God.

Job 20