Job:9

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* Then Iob answered , and sayd , * I know [it is ] so of a truth : but how should man be (note :)Job here answers Eliphaz and Bildad 's oration , touching the justice of God , and his innocency , confessing God to be infinite in justice and man to be nothing in respect .(:note ) just with God ? * If he will contend with him , he cannot answer him one of a (note :)Of a thousand things , which God could lay to his charge , man cannot answer him one .(:note ) thousand . * He is wise in heart , &amp ; mighty in stregth : who hath bene fierce against him &amp ; hath prospered ? * He remoueth the mountaines , and they feele not when he ouerthroweth them in his wrath . * Which (note :)He declares the infirmity of man , by the mighty and incomprehensible power that is in God , showing what he could do if he would set forth his power .(:note ) shaketh the earth out of her place , and the pillars thereof tremble . * He commandeth the sunne , &amp ; it riseth not : hee closeth vp the starres , as vnder a signet . * Hee himselfe alone spreadeth out the heauens , and walketh vpon the height of the sea . * Which maketh (note :)These are the names of certain stars by which he means that all stars both known and unknown are at his appointment .(:note ) Arcturus , Orion , and Pleiades , and the chambers of the south . * He doeth great things , and vnsearcheable : yea , marueilous things without nomber . * Lo , he goeth (note :)I am not able to comprehend his works , which are common and daily before my eyes , much less in those things , which are hid and secret .(:note ) by me , and I see [him ] not : he passeth on also , but I perceive him not . * Behold , he taketh away , who can hinder him ? (note :)He shows that when God executes his power , he does it justly , as no one can control him .(:note ) who will say unto him , What doest thou ? * [If ] God (note :)God will not be appeased for anything that man can say for himself for his justification .(:note ) will not withdraw his anger , the proud helpers That is , all the reasons that men can lay to approve their cause . do stoop under him . * How much less shall I answer him , [and ] choose out (note :)How should I be able to answer him by eloquence ? By which he notes his friends , who although they were eloquent in talk , did not believe in their hearts , that which they spoke .(:note ) my words [to reason ] with him ? * Whom , though I were righteous , [yet ] would I (note :)Meaning , in his own opinion , signifying that man will sometimes flatter himself to be righteous which before God is an abomination .(:note ) not answer , [but ] I would make supplication to my judge . * If I (note :)While I am in pain I cannot break forth into many inconveniences although I still know that God is just .(:note ) had called , and he had answered me ; [yet ] would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice . * For he breaketh me with a tempest , and multiplieth my wounds (note :)I am not able to feel my sins so great , as I feel the weight of his plagues ; and this he speaks to condemn his dullness and to justify God .(:note ) without cause . * He wil not suffer me to take my breath , but filleth me with bitternesse . * If [I speak ] of strength , lo , [he is ] (note :)After he has accused his own weakness , he continues to justify God and his power .(:note ) strong : and if of judgment , who shall set me a time [to plead ]? * If I justify myself , mine own mouth shall condemn me : (note :)If I stood in my own defence yet God would have just cause to condemn me if he examined my heart and conscience .(:note ) [if I say ], I [am ] perfect , it shall also prove me perverse . * Though I were perfite , yet I knowe not my soule : therefore abhorre I my life . * This [is ] one [thing ], therefore I said [it ], He destroyeth the (note :)If God punishes according to his justice , he will destroy them who are counted perfect as well as them that are wicked .(:note ) perfect and the wicked . * If the scourge (note :)That is , the wicked .(:note ) slay suddenly , he will This is spoken according to our apprehension , as though he would say , If God destroyed only the wicked , ( Job_5:3 ), why would he allow the innocent to be so long tormented by them ? laugh at the trial of the innocent . * The earth is given into the hand of the wicked : (note :)That they cannot see to do justice .(:note ) he covereth the faces of the judges thereof ; if not , where , [and ] who That can show the contrary ? [is ] he ? * My dayes haue bene more swift then a post : they haue fled , and haue seene no good thing . * They are passed as with the most swift ships , and as the eagle that flyeth to the pray . * If (note :)I think not to fall into these afflictions , but my sorrows bring me to these manifold infirmities , and my conscience condemns me .(:note ) I say , I will forget my complaint , I will leave off my heaviness , and comfort [myself ]: * Then I am afrayd of all my sorowes , knowing that thou wilt not iudge me innocent . * [If ] I be wicked , why then (note :)Why does God not destroy me at once ? thus he speaks according to the infirmity of the flesh .(:note ) labour I in vain ? * If I wash (note :)Though I seem pure in my own eyes , yet all is but corruption before God .(:note ) myself with snow water , and make my hands never so clean ; * Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch , and mine own (note :)Whatever I would use to cover my filthiness with , it would disclose me even more .(:note ) clothes shall abhor me . * For he is not a man as I am , that I shoulde answere him , if we come together to iudgement . * Neither is there any daysman betwixt us , (note :)Who might make an accord between God and me , speaking of impatience , and yet confessing God to be just in punishing him .(:note ) [that ] might lay his hand upon us both . * Let him take his rod away from me , and let not his feare astonish me : * [Then ] would I speak , and not fear him ; (note :)Signifying that God 's judgments keep him in awe .(:note ) but [it is ] not so with me .

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