geneva

geneva@Job:8:1 @ Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and saide,

geneva@Job:8:2 @ How long wilt thou speak these [things]? and [how long shall] the words of thy mouth (note:)He declares that their words which would diminish anything from the justice of God, are but as a puff of wind that vanishes away.(:note) [be like] a strong wind?

geneva@Job:8:3 @ Doeth God peruert iudgement? or doeth the Almightie subuert iustice?

geneva@Job:8:4 @ If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their (note:)That is, has rewarded them according to their iniquity, meaning that Job should be warned by the example of his children, that he not offend God.(:note) transgression;

geneva@Job:8:5 @ If thou (note:)That is, if you turn while God calls you to repentance.(:note) wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;

geneva@Job:8:6 @ If thou be pure and vpright, then surely hee will awake vp vnto thee, and he wil make the habitation of thy righteousnesse prosperous.

geneva@Job:8:7 @ Though thy beginning (note:)Though the beginning is not as pleasant as you would like, yet in the end you will have sufficient opportunity to please yourself.(:note) was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.

geneva@Job:8:8 @ For (note:)He wills Job to examine all antiquity and he will find it true which he here says.(:note) enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:

geneva@Job:8:9 @ (For we [are but of] (note:)Meaning, that it is not enough to have the experience of ourselves, but to be confirmed by the examples of those who went before us.(:note) yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth [are] a shadow:)

geneva@Job:8:10 @ Shall not they teach thee and tell thee, and vtter the wordes of their heart?

geneva@Job:8:11 @ Can the rush (note:)As a rush cannot grow without moisture, so the hypocrite because he does not have faith which is watered with God's Spirit.(:note) grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?

geneva@Job:8:12 @ Though it were in greene and not cutte downe, yet shall it wither before any other herbe.

geneva@Job:8:13 @ So are the paths of al that forget God, and the hypocrites hope shall perish.

geneva@Job:8:14 @ Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust [shall be] a (note:)Which is today and tomorrow swept away.(:note) spider's web.

geneva@Job:8:15 @ He shall leane vpon his house, but it shall not stand: he shal holde him fast by it, yet shall it not endure.

geneva@Job:8:16 @ He [is] (note:)He compares the just to a tree, which although it is moved from one place to another, yet flourishes: so the affliction of the godly turns to their profit.(:note) green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.

geneva@Job:8:17 @ The rootes thereof are wrapped about the fountaine, and are folden about ye house of stones.

geneva@Job:8:18 @ If he destroy him from his place, then [it] shall (note:)That is, so that there remains nothing there to prove whether the tree had grown there or not.(:note) deny him, [saying], I have not seen thee.

geneva@Job:8:19 @ Behold, this [is] the joy (note:)To be planted in another place, where it may grow as it pleases.(:note) of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.

geneva@Job:8:20 @ Behold, God will not cast away an vpright man, neither will he take the wicked by the hand,

geneva@Job:8:21 @ Till he fill thy mouth with (note:)If you are godly, he will give you opportunity to rejoice and if not your affliction will increase.(:note) laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.

geneva@Job:8:22 @ They that hate thee, shall be clothed with shame, and the dwelling of the wicked shall not remaine.

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