geneva - Job:21-30

geneva@Job:21:1 @ Bvt Iob answered, and sayd,

geneva@Job:21:2 @ Hear diligently my speech, and let this (note:)Your diligent marking of my words will be to me a great consolation.(:note) be your consolations.

geneva@Job:21:3 @ Suffer mee, that I may speake, and when I haue spoken, mocke on.

geneva@Job:21:4 @ As for me, [is] my complaint to man? and if [it (note:)As though he would say, I do not talk with man but with God, who will not answer me, and therefore my mind must be troubled.(:note) were so], why should not my spirit be troubled?

geneva@Job:21:5 @ Mark me, and be astonished, and lay [your] hand upon [your] (note:)He charges them as though they were not able to comprehend his feeling of God's judgment, and exhorts them therefore to silence.(:note) mouth.

geneva@Job:21:6 @ Euen when I remember, I am afrayde, and feare taketh hold on my flesh.

geneva@Job:21:7 @ Wherefore do the wicked (note:)Job proves against his adversaries that God does not punish the wicked immediately, but often gives them long life and prosperity, so we must not judge God just or unjust by the things that appear to our eyes.(:note) live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?

geneva@Job:21:8 @ Their seede is established in their sight with them, and their generation before their eyes.

geneva@Job:21:9 @ Their houses are peaceable without feare, and the rod of God is not vpon them.

geneva@Job:21:10 @ Their bullocke gendreth, and fayleth not: their cow calueth, and casteth not her calfe.

geneva@Job:21:11 @ They send forth their little ones (note:)They have healthy children and in those points he answers to that which Zophar alleged before.(:note) like a flock, and their children dance.

geneva@Job:21:12 @ They take the tabret & harpe, and reioyce in the sound of the organs.

geneva@Job:21:13 @ They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment (note:)Not being tormented with long sickness.(:note) go down to the grave.

geneva@Job:21:14 @ Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the (note:)They desire nothing more than to be exempt from all subjection that they should bear to God, thus Job shows his adversaries, that if they reason only by that which is seen by common experience the wicked who hate God are better dealt withal than they who love him.(:note) knowledge of thy ways.

geneva@Job:21:15 @ Who is the Almightie, that we should serue him? and what profit should we haue, if we should pray vnto him?

geneva@Job:21:16 @ Lo, their good [is] not in their (note:)It is not their own, but God only lends it to them.(:note) hand: the counsel of the wicked God keep me from their prosperity. is far from me.

geneva@Job:21:17 @ How oft shal the candle of the wicked be put out? and their destruction come vpon them? he wil deuide their liues in his wrath.

geneva@Job:21:18 @ They shall be as stubble before the winde, and as chaffe that the storme carieth away.

geneva@Job:21:19 @ God wil lay vp the sorowe of the father for his children: when he rewardeth him, hee shall knowe it.

geneva@Job:21:20 @

geneva@Job:21:21 @ For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the nomber of his moneths is cut off?

geneva@Job:21:22 @ Shall [any] teach (note:)Who sends to the wicked prosperity and punishes the godly.(:note) God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.

geneva@Job:21:23 @ One (note:)Meaning, the wicked.(:note) dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.

geneva@Job:21:24 @ His breasts are full of milke, and his bones runne full of marowe.

geneva@Job:21:25 @ And another (note:)That is, the godly.(:note) dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.

geneva@Job:21:26 @ They shall lie down alike in (note:)As concerning their bodies: and this he speaks according to the common judgment.(:note) the dust, and the worms shall cover them.

geneva@Job:21:27 @ Behold, I know your thoughts, and the enterprises, wherewith ye do me wrong.

geneva@Job:21:28 @ For ye say, Where [is] the (note:)Thus they called Job's house in derision concluding that it was destroyed because he was wicked.(:note) house of the prince? and where [are] the dwelling places of the wicked?

geneva@Job:21:29 @ Have ye (note:)Who through long travailing have experience and tokens of it, that is, that the wicked prosper, and the godly live in affliction.(:note) not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,

geneva@Job:21:30 @ That the wicked is reserved to the day of (note:)Though the wicked flourish here, yet God will punish him in the last day.(:note) destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.

geneva@Job:21:31 @ Who shall declare his way (note:)Though men flatter him, and no one dares to reprove him in this world, yet death is a token that he will bring him to an account.(:note) to his face? and who shall repay him [what] he hath done?

geneva@Job:21:32 @ Yet shal he be brought to the graue, & remaine in the heape.

geneva@Job:21:33 @ The (note:)He will be glad to lie in a slimy pit, who before could not be content with a royal palace.(:note) clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as [there are] innumerable before him.

geneva@Job:21:34 @ How then comfort (note:)Saying that the just in this world have prosperity and the wicked adversity.(:note) ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?

geneva@Job:22:1 @ Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, and sayde,

geneva@Job:22:2 @ Can a man be (note:)Though man was just, yet God could not profit from this his justice; and therefore when he punished him, he had no regard to his justice, but to his sin.(:note) profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?

geneva@Job:22:3 @ Is it any thing vnto the Almightie, that thou art righteous? or is it profitable to him, that thou makest thy wayes vpright?

geneva@Job:22:4 @ Will he reprove thee for fear (note:)Lest you should reprove or hurt him?(:note) of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment?

geneva@Job:22:5 @ Is not thy wickednes great, and thine iniquities innumerable?

geneva@Job:22:6 @ For thou hast taken a (note:)You have been cruel and without charity, and would do nothing for the poor, but for your own advantage.(:note) pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

geneva@Job:22:7 @ To such as were wearie, thou hast not giuen water to drinke, and hast withdrawen bread from the hungrie.

geneva@Job:22:8 @ But [as for] the mighty man, he (note:)When you were in power and authority you did not do justice but wrong.(:note) had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it.

geneva@Job:22:9 @ Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the (note:)You have not only not shown pity, but oppressed them.(:note) fatherless have been broken.

geneva@Job:22:10 @ Therefore snares are round about thee, and feare shal suddenly trouble thee:

geneva@Job:22:11 @ Or darkness, [that] thou canst not see; and (note:)That is, manifold afflictions.(:note) abundance of waters cover thee.

geneva@Job:22:12 @ [Is] not God in the (note:)He accuses Job of impiety and contempt of God, as thought he would say, If you pass not for men, yet consider the height of God's majesty.(:note) height of heaven? and behold the height of the That so much the more by that excellent work you may fear God, and reverence him. stars, how high they are!

geneva@Job:22:13 @ And thou sayest, How doth God (note:)He reproves Job, as though he denied God's providence and that he could not see the things that were done in this world.(:note) know? can he judge through the dark cloud?

geneva@Job:22:14 @ The cloudes hide him that he can not see, and he walketh in the circle of heauen.

geneva@Job:22:15 @ Hast thou marked the old way (note:)How God has punished them from the beginning?(:note) which wicked men have trodden?

geneva@Job:22:16 @ Which were (note:)He proves God's providence by the punishment of the wicked, whom he takes away before they can bring their wicked purposes to pass.(:note) cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:

geneva@Job:22:17 @ Which sayd vnto God, Depart from vs, & asked what the Almightie could do for them.

geneva@Job:22:18 @ Yet he (note:)He answers to that which Job had said, (Job_21:7) that the wicked have prosperity in this world; desiring that he might not be a partaker of the like.(:note) filled their houses with good [things]: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

geneva@Job:22:19 @ The righteous see [it], and are glad: (note:)The just rejoice at the destruction of the wicked for two reasons, first because God shows himself judge of the world and by this means continues his honour and glory: secondly because God shows that he had care over his in that he punished their enemies.(:note) and the innocent laugh them to scorn.

geneva@Job:22:20 @ Whereas (note:)That is, the state and preservation of the godly, is hid under God's wings.(:note) our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of Meaning of the wicked. them the fire consumeth.

geneva@Job:22:21 @ Acquaint now thyself (note:)He exhorts Job to repentance, and to return to God.(:note) with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.

geneva@Job:22:22 @ Receiue, I pray thee, the law of his mouth, and lay vp his words in thine heart.

geneva@Job:22:23 @ If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt (note:)God will restore to you all your substance.(:note) be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.

geneva@Job:22:24 @ Then shalt thou lay up gold as (note:)Which will be in abundance like dust.(:note) dust, and the [gold] of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.

geneva@Job:22:25 @ Yea, the Almightie shalbe thy defence, and thou shalt haue plentie of siluer.

geneva@Job:22:26 @ And thou shalt then delite in the Almightie, and lift vp thy face vnto God.

geneva@Job:22:27 @ Thou shalt make thy praier vnto him, & he shal heare thee, & thou shalt render thy vowes.

geneva@Job:22:28 @ Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the (note:)That is, the favour of God.(:note) light shall shine upon thy ways.

geneva@Job:22:29 @

geneva@Job:22:30 @ He shall deliver the (note:)God will deliver a whole country from peril, even for the just man's sake.(:note) island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.

geneva@Job:23:1 @ Bvt Iob answered and sayd,

geneva@Job:23:2 @ Even to day [is] my complaint (note:)He shows the just cause of his complaining and concerning that Eliphaz had exhorted him to return to God, (Job_22:21) he declares that he desires nothing more, but it seems that God would not be found of him.(:note) bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.

geneva@Job:23:3 @ Would God yet I knew how to finde him, I would enter vnto his place.

geneva@Job:23:4 @ I would pleade the cause before him, & fill my mouth with arguments.

geneva@Job:23:5 @ I would knowe the wordes, that he would answere me, & would vnderstand what he would say vnto me.

geneva@Job:23:6 @ Will he (note:)Using his absolute power and saying because I am God, I may do what I will.(:note) plead against me with [his] great power? No; but he would Of his mercy he would give me power to answer him. put [strength] in me.

geneva@Job:23:7 @

geneva@Job:23:8 @

geneva@Job:23:9 @ If to the North where he worketh, yet I cannot see him: he wil hide himselfe in the South, and I cannot beholde him.

geneva@Job:23:10 @ But he knoweth the (note:)God has this preeminence about me, that he knows my way: that is, that I am not able to judge his work, he shows also his confidence, that God uses him for his profit.(:note) way that I take: [when] he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

geneva@Job:23:11 @ My foote hath followed his steps: his way haue I kept, and haue not declined.

geneva@Job:23:12 @ Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have (note:)His word is more precious to me than the meat with which the body is sustained.(:note) esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary [food].

geneva@Job:23:13 @ But he [is] in one [mind], and who can (note:)Job confesses that at the present he did not feel God's favour and yet was assured that God had appointed him to a good end.(:note) turn him? and [what] his soul desireth, even [that] he doeth.

geneva@Job:23:14 @ For he performeth [the thing that is] appointed for me: and (note:)In many points man is not able to attain to God's judgments.(:note) many such [things are] with him.

geneva@Job:23:15 @ Therefore I am troubled at his presence, & in considering it, I am afraid of him.

geneva@Job:23:16 @ For (note:)That I should not be without fear.(:note) God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:

geneva@Job:23:17 @ Because I was not cut off before the (note:)He shows the cause for his fear, which is, that he being in trouble sees no end, nor yet knows the cause.(:note) darkness, [neither] hath he covered the darkness from my face.

geneva@Job:24:1 @ Why, seeing times (note:)Thus Job speaks in his passions, and after the judgment of the flesh: that is, that he does not see the things that are done at times, nor yet has a peculiar care over all, because he does not punish the wicked or avenge the godly.(:note) are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his When he punishes the wicked and rewards the good. days?

geneva@Job:24:2 @ Some remoue the land marks, that rob the flockes and feede thereof.

geneva@Job:24:3 @ They leade away the asse of the fatherles: and take the widowes oxe to pledge.

geneva@Job:24:4 @ They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves (note:)And for cruelty and oppression dare not show their faces.(:note) together.

geneva@Job:24:5 @ Behold, [as] wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; (note:)That is, spares diligence.(:note) rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness He and his live by robbing and murdering. [yieldeth] food for them [and] for [their] children.

geneva@Job:24:6 @ They reap [every one] (note:)Meaning the poor man's.(:note) his corn in the field: and they gather the Signifying that one wicked man will not spoil another, but for necessity. vintage of the wicked.

geneva@Job:24:7 @ They cause the naked to lodge without garment, and without couering in the colde.

geneva@Job:24:8 @ They are wet with the showers of the mountains, (note:)The poor are driven by the wicked into the rock and holes where they cannot lie dry for the rain.(:note) and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

geneva@Job:24:9 @ They pluck the fatherless (note:)That is, they so pillage and plunder the poor widow that she cannot sustain herself that she may be able to nurse her baby.(:note) from the breast, and take a pledge of The poor are driven by the wicked into the rocks and holes where they cannot lie dry for the rain. the poor.

geneva@Job:24:10 @ They cause him to go naked without clothing, and take the glening from the hungrie.

geneva@Job:24:11 @ [Which] make oil (note:)In such places which are appointed for that purpose; meaning, that those who labour for the wicked, are pined for hunger.(:note) within their walls, [and] tread [their] winepresses, and suffer thirst.

geneva@Job:24:12 @ Men (note:)For the great oppression and extortion.(:note) groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God Cry out and call for vengeance. layeth not folly [to them].

geneva@Job:24:13 @ They are of those that rebel against the (note:)That is, God's word, because they are reproved by it.(:note) light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

geneva@Job:24:14 @ The murtherer riseth earely & killeth the poore and the needie: and in the night he is as a theefe.

geneva@Job:24:15 @ The eye also of the (note:)By these particular vices and the licence of it, he would prove that God did not punish the wicked and reward the just.(:note) adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth [his] face.

geneva@Job:24:16 @ They digge through houses in the darke, which they marked for themselues in the daye: they knowe not the light.

geneva@Job:24:17 @ But the morning is euen to them as the shadow of death: if one knowe them, they are in the terrours of the shadowe of death.

geneva@Job:24:18 @ He [is] swift as the (note:)He flees to the waters for his succour.(:note) waters; their They think that all the world is bent against them and dare not go by the highway. portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.

geneva@Job:24:19 @ Drought and heat consume the snow waters: [so doth] the grave [those which] (note:)As the dry ground is never full with waters, so will they never cease sinning till they come to the grave.(:note) have sinned.

geneva@Job:24:20 @

geneva@Job:24:21 @ He (note:)He shows why the wicked will not be lamented, because he did not pity others.(:note) evil entreateth the barren [that] beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.

geneva@Job:24:22 @ He draweth also the (note:)He declares that after the wicked have destroyed the weakest, they will do the same to the stranger, and therefore are justly punished by God's judgments.(:note) mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no [man] is sure of life.

geneva@Job:24:23 @ Though men giue him assurance to be in safetie, yet his eyes are vpon their wayes.

geneva@Job:24:24 @ They are exalted for a litle, but they are gone, and are brought lowe as all others: they are destroyed, and cut off as the toppe of an eare of corne.

geneva@Job:24:25 @ And if [it be] not (note:)That is, contrary to your reasoning no man can give perfect reasons for God's judgments, let me be reproved.(:note) [so] now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?

geneva@Job:25:1 @ Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and sayd,

geneva@Job:25:2 @

geneva@Job:25:3 @ Is there any number of his armies? (note:)Who can hide him from his presence?(:note) and upon whom doth not his light arise?

geneva@Job:25:4 @ How then can man (note:)That is, be just in respect to God?(:note) be justified with God? or how can he be clean [that is] born of a woman?

geneva@Job:25:5 @ Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, (note:)If God shows his power, the moon and stars cannot have the light which is given to them, much less can man have any excellency but from God.(:note) the stars are not pure in his sight.

geneva@Job:25:6 @ How much more man, a worme, euen the sonne of man, which is but a worme?

geneva@Job:26:1 @ Bvt Iob answered, and sayde,

geneva@Job:26:2 @

geneva@Job:26:3 @ Whome counsellest thou? him that hath no wisedome? thou shewest right well as the thing is.

geneva@Job:26:4 @ To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit (note:)That is, moves you to speak this?(:note) came from thee?

geneva@Job:26:5 @

geneva@Job:26:6 @ Hell [is] (note:)There is nothing hidden in the bottom of the earth but he sees it.(:note) naked before him, and Meaning, the grave in which things putrify. destruction hath no covering.

geneva@Job:26:7 @ He stretcheth out the (note:)He causes the whole earth to turn about the North pole.(:note) north over the empty place, [and] hangeth the earth upon nothing.

geneva@Job:26:8 @ He bindeth the waters in his cloudes, and the cloude is not broken vnder them.

geneva@Job:26:9 @ He holdeth backe the face of his throne: and spreadeth his cloude vpon it.

geneva@Job:26:10 @ He hath (note:)That is, he hid the heavens which are called his throne.(:note) compassed the waters with bounds, until the So long as this world endures. day and night come to an end.

geneva@Job:26:11 @ The (note:)Not that heaven has pillars to uphold it, but he speaks by a similitude as though he would say heaven itself is not able to abide his reproach.(:note) pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.

geneva@Job:26:12 @ The sea is calme by his power, and by his vnderstanding he smiteth the pride thereof.

geneva@Job:26:13 @ By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked (note:)Which is a figure of stars shaped like a serpent, because of the crookedness.(:note) serpent.

geneva@Job:26:14 @ Lo, these [are] parts of his ways: but (note:)If these few things which we see daily with our eyes, declare his great power and providence, how much more would they appear, if we were to comprehend all his works.(:note) how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?

geneva@Job:27:1 @ Moreouer Iob proceeded and continued his parable, saying,

geneva@Job:27:2 @ [As] God liveth, [who] hath taken away my (note:)He has so sore afflicted me that men cannot judge my uprightness; for they judge only by outward signs.(:note) judgment; and the Almighty, [who] hath vexed my soul;

geneva@Job:27:3 @ Yet so long as my breath is in me, and the Spirit of God in my nostrels,

geneva@Job:27:4 @

geneva@Job:27:5 @ God forbid that I should (note:)Which condemns me as a wicked man, because the hand of God is on me.(:note) justify you: till I die I will not remove mine I will not confess that God does thus punish me for my sins. integrity from me.

geneva@Job:27:6 @ My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach [me] so long as I (note:)Of my life past.(:note) live.

geneva@Job:27:7 @ Mine enemie shal be as the wicked, and he that riseth against me, as the vnrighteous.

geneva@Job:27:8 @ For what [is] the (note:)What advantage has the dissembler to gain, seeing he will lose his own soul?(:note) hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?

geneva@Job:27:9 @ Will God heare his cry, when trouble commeth vpon him?

geneva@Job:27:10 @ Will he set his delight on the Almightie? will he call vpon God at all times?

geneva@Job:27:11 @ I will teach you by the hand of (note:)That is, what God reserves for himself, and of which he gives not knowledge to all.(:note) God: [that] which [is] with the Almighty will I not conceal.

geneva@Job:27:12 @ Behold, all ye yourselves (note:)That is, these secret judgments of God and yet do not understand them.(:note) have seen [it]; why then are ye thus altogether Why do you then maintain this error? vain?

geneva@Job:27:13 @ This [is] the (note:)Thus will God order the wicked, and punish him even to his posterity.(:note) portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, [which] they shall receive of the Almighty.

geneva@Job:27:14 @ If his children be in great nomber, the sworde shall destroy them, and his posteritie shall not be satisfied with bread.

geneva@Job:27:15 @ Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows (note:)No one will lament him.(:note) shall not weep.

geneva@Job:27:16 @ Though he shoulde heape vp siluer as the dust, and prepare rayment as the clay,

geneva@Job:27:17 @ He may prepare it, but the iust shall put it on, and the innocent shall deuide the siluer.

geneva@Job:27:18 @ He buildeth his house as a (note:)Which breeds in another man's possessions or garment, but is soon shaken out.(:note) moth, and as a booth [that] the keeper maketh.

geneva@Job:27:19 @ The rich man shall lie down, but (note:)He means that the wicked tyrants will not have a quiet death, nor be buried honourably.(:note) he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he [is] not.

geneva@Job:27:20 @ Terrours shal take him as waters, & a tempest shall cary him away by night.

geneva@Job:27:21 @ The East winde shall take him away, & he shal depart: & it shal hurle him out of his place.

geneva@Job:27:22 @ And God shal cast vpon him and not spare, though he would faine flee out of his hand.

geneva@Job:27:23 @ Euery man shall clap their hands at him, & hisse at him out of their place.

geneva@Job:28:1 @ Surely there is a vein for the silver, (note:)His purpose is to declare that man may attain in this world to various secrets of nature, but man is never able to comprehend the wisdom of God.(:note) and a place for gold [where] they fine [it].

geneva@Job:28:2 @ Yron is taken out of the dust, and brasse is molten out of the stone.

geneva@Job:28:3 @ He setteth an end to darkness, (note:)There is nothing but it is compassed within certain limits, and has an end, but God's wisdom.(:note) and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.

geneva@Job:28:4 @ The flood breaketh out from the (note:)Meaning, him that dwells by it.(:note) inhabitant; [even the waters] Which a man cannot wade through. forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.

geneva@Job:28:5 @ [As for] the earth, out of it cometh (note:)That is, come and underneath is brimstone or coal, which easily conceives fire.(:note) bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.

geneva@Job:28:6 @ The stones of it [are] the place (note:)He alludes to the mines and secrets of nature, which are under the earth, into which neither souls nor beasts can enter.(:note) of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.

geneva@Job:28:7 @ There is a path which no foule hath knowen, neyther hath the kites eye seene it.

geneva@Job:28:8 @ The lyons whelpes haue not walked it, nor the lyon passed thereby.

geneva@Job:28:9 @ He putteth forth his hand upon the (note:)After he has declared the wisdom of God in the secrets of nature he describes his power.(:note) rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots.

geneva@Job:28:10 @ He breaketh riuers in the rockes, and his eye seeth euery precious thing.

geneva@Job:28:11 @ He bindeth the floods, that they doe not ouerflowe, and the thing that is hid, bringeth he to light.

geneva@Job:28:12 @ But where shall wisdom be found? (note:)Though God's power and wisdom may be understood in earthly things, yet his heavenly wisdom cannot be attained to.(:note) and where [is] the place of understanding?

geneva@Job:28:13 @ Man knoweth not (note:)It is too high a thing for man to attain to in this world.(:note) the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.

geneva@Job:28:14 @ The depth sayth, It is not in mee: the sea also sayth, It is not with me.

geneva@Job:28:15 @ It cannot be gotten for (note:)It can neither be bought for gold nor precious stones, but is only the gift of God.(:note) gold, neither shall silver be weighed [for] the price thereof.

geneva@Job:28:16 @ It shall not be valued with the wedge of golde of Ophir, nor with the precious onix, nor the saphir.

geneva@Job:28:17 @ The golde nor the chrystall shall be equall vnto it, nor the exchange shalbe for plate of fine golde.

geneva@Job:28:18 @ No mention shall be made of coral, or of (note:)Which was thought to be a king of precious stone.(:note) pearls: for the price of wisdom [is] above rubies.

geneva@Job:28:19 @ The Topaz of Ethiopia shal not be equall vnto it, neither shall it be valued with the wedge of pure gold.

geneva@Job:28:20 @ Whence then commeth wisedome? And where is the place of vnderstanding,

geneva@Job:28:21 @ Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the (note:)Meaning that there is no natural means by which man can attain heavenly wisdom: which he means by the souls, that fly high.(:note) fowls of the air.

geneva@Job:28:22 @ Destruction and death say, We haue heard the fame thereof with our eares.

geneva@Job:28:23 @ God understandeth the (note:)He makes God the only author of this wisdom, and the giver of it.(:note) way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.

geneva@Job:28:24 @ For he beholdeth the endes of the world, and seeth all that is vnder heauen,

geneva@Job:28:25 @ To make the weight of the windes, and to weigh the waters by measure.

geneva@Job:28:26 @ When he made a decree for the rayne, and a way for the lightening of the thunders,

geneva@Job:28:27 @ Then did he see it, and counted it: he prepared it and also considered it.

geneva@Job:28:28 @ And unto man he said, Behold, the (note:)He declares that man has as much of this heavenly wisdom as he shows by fearing God and departing from evil.(:note) fear of the Lord, that [is] wisdom; and to depart from evil [is] understanding.

geneva@Job:29:1 @ So Iob proceeded and continued his parable, saying,

geneva@Job:29:2 @ Oh that I were as in times past, when God preserued me!

geneva@Job:29:3 @ When his (note:)When I felt his favour.(:note) candle shined upon my head, [and when] by his light I walked [through] I was free from affliction. darkness;

geneva@Job:29:4 @ As I was in the days of my youth, when the (note:)That is, seemed by evident tokens to be more present with me.(:note) secret of God [was] upon my tabernacle;

geneva@Job:29:5 @ When the almightie was yet with me, and my children round about me.

geneva@Job:29:6 @ When I washed my steps (note:)By these comparisons he declares the great prosperity that he was in, so that he had no opportunity to be such a sinner as they accused him.(:note) with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;

geneva@Job:29:7 @ When I went out to the gate, euen to the iudgement seat, and when I caused them to prepare my seate in the streete.

geneva@Job:29:8 @ The young men saw me, and (note:)Being ashamed of their lightness and afraid of my gravity.(:note) hid themselves: and the aged arose, [and] stood up.

geneva@Job:29:9 @ The princes refrained talking, and laid [their] hand on their (note:)Acknowledging my wisdom.(:note) mouth.

geneva@Job:29:10 @ The voyce of princes was hidde, and their tongue cleaued to the roofe of their mouth.

geneva@Job:29:11 @ When the (note:)All that heard me, praised me.(:note) ear heard [me], then it blessed me; and when the eye saw [me], it gave witness to me:

geneva@Job:29:12 @ Because I delivered the (note:)Because his adversaries did so much charge him with wickedness, he is compelled to render account of his life.(:note) poor that cried, and the fatherless, and [him that had] none to help him.

geneva@Job:29:13 @

geneva@Job:29:14 @ I put on (note:)I delighted to do justice, as others did to wear costly apparel.(:note) righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment [was] as a robe and a diadem.

geneva@Job:29:15 @ I was the eyes to the blinde, and I was the feete to the lame.

geneva@Job:29:16 @ I was a father vnto the poore, and when I knewe not the cause, I sought it out diligently.

geneva@Job:29:17 @ I brake also the chawes of the vnrighteous man, and pluckt the praye out of his teeth.

geneva@Job:29:18 @ Then I said, I shall die in my (note:)That is, at home in my bed without all trouble and unquietness.(:note) nest, and I shall multiply [my] days as the sand.

geneva@Job:29:19 @ My root [was] (note:)My happiness increases.(:note) spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.

geneva@Job:29:20 @ My glory shall renue towarde me, and my bowe shall be restored in mine hand.

geneva@Job:29:21 @ Vnto me men gaue eare, and wayted, and helde their tongue at my counsell.

geneva@Job:29:22 @ After my words they spake not again; and my speech (note:)That is, was pleasant to them.(:note) dropped upon them.

geneva@Job:29:23 @ And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide (note:)As the dry ground thirsts for the rain.(:note) [as] for the latter rain.

geneva@Job:29:24 @ [If] I (note:)That is, they thought it not to be a rest, or they did not think that I would condescend to them.(:note) laughed on them, they believed [it] not; and the light of my countenance they They were afraid to offend me and cause me to be angry. cast not down.

geneva@Job:29:25 @ I chose out (note:)I had them at commandment.(:note) their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one [that] comforteth the mourners.

geneva@Job:30:1 @ But now [they that are] younger than I (note:)That is, my estate is changed and while before the ancient men were glad to revere me, the young men now contemn me.(:note) have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the Meaning to be my shepherds or to keep my dogs. dogs of my flock.

geneva@Job:30:2 @ Yea, whereto [might] the strength of their hands [profit] me, in whom old age was (note:)That is, their fathers died of hunger before they came to age.(:note) perished?

geneva@Job:30:3 @ For pouertie and famine they were solitary, fleeing into the wildernes, which is darke, desolate and waste.

geneva@Job:30:4 @ They cut vp nettels by the bushes, & the iuniper rootes was their meate.

geneva@Job:30:5 @ They were (note:)Job shows that those who mocked him in his affliction were like their fathers, wicked and lewd fellows, such as he here describes.(:note) driven forth from among [men], (they cried after them as [after] a thief;)

geneva@Job:30:6 @ Therfore they dwelt in the clefts of riuers, in the holes of the earth and rockes.

geneva@Job:30:7 @ They roared among the bushes, and vnder the thistles they gathered themselues.

geneva@Job:30:8 @ They were the children of fooles and the children of villaines, which were more vile then the earth.

geneva@Job:30:9 @ And now am I their (note:)They make songs of me, and mock my misery.(:note) song, yea, I am their byword.

geneva@Job:30:10 @ They abhorre me, & flee farre from mee, and spare not to spit in my face.

geneva@Job:30:11 @ Because he hath loosed my (note:)God has taken from me the force, credit, and authority with which I kept them in subjection.(:note) cord, and afflicted me, He said that the young men when they saw him, hid themselves as in (Job_29:8), and now in his misery they were impudent and licentious. they have also let loose the bridle before me.

geneva@Job:30:12 @ Upon [my] right [hand] rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the (note:)That is, they sought by all means how they might destroy me.(:note) ways of their destruction.

geneva@Job:30:13 @ They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no (note:)They need no one to help them.(:note) helper.

geneva@Job:30:14 @ They came [upon me] as a wide breaking in [of waters]: in the (note:)By my calamity they took an opportunity against me.(:note) desolation they rolled themselves [upon me].

geneva@Job:30:15 @ Feare is turned vpon mee: and they pursue my soule as the winde, and mine health passeth away as a cloude.

geneva@Job:30:16 @ And now my soul is (note:)My life fails me, and I am as half dead.(:note) poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

geneva@Job:30:17 @

geneva@Job:30:18 @ For the great vehemencie is my garment changed, which compasseth me about as the colar of my coate.

geneva@Job:30:19 @

geneva@Job:30:20 @ Whe I cry vnto thee, thou doest not heare me, neither regardest me, when I stand vp.

geneva@Job:30:21 @ Thou art become (note:)He does not speak this way to accuse God, but to declare the vehemency of his affliction, by which he was carried beside himself.(:note) cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.

geneva@Job:30:22 @ Thou liftest me up to the (note:)He compares his afflictions to a tempest or whirlwind.(:note) wind; thou causest me to ride [upon it], and dissolvest my substance.

geneva@Job:30:23 @ Surely I knowe that thou wilt bring mee to death, and to the house appoynted for all the liuing.

geneva@Job:30:24 @ Howbeit he will not stretch out [his] hand (note:)No one can deliver me from there, though they lament my death.(:note) to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.

geneva@Job:30:25 @ Did not I weepe with him that was in trouble? was not my soule in heauinesse for the poore?

geneva@Job:30:26 @ When I looked for good, then (note:)Instead of comforting they mocked me.(:note) evil came [unto me]: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

geneva@Job:30:27 @ My bowels did boyle without rest: for the dayes of affliction are come vpon me.

geneva@Job:30:28 @ I went mourning (note:)Not delighting in any worldly thing, no not so much as in the use of the sun.(:note) without the sun: I stood up, Lamenting them that were in affliction and moving others to pity them. [and] I cried in the congregation.

geneva@Job:30:29 @ I am a brother to (note:)I am like the wild beasts that desire solitary places.(:note) dragons, and a companion to owls.

geneva@Job:30:30 @ My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with (note:)With the heat of affliction.(:note) heat.

geneva@Job:30:31 @ Therefore mine harpe is turned to mourning, and mine organs into the voyce of them that weepe.

geneva@Job:31:1 @ I made a covenant with mine (note:)I kept my eyes from all wanton looks.(:note) eyes; why then should I think upon Would not God then have punished me? a maid?