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geneva@Job:1:3 @ His (note:)His children and riches are declared, to commend his virtue in his prosperity and his patience and constancy when God took them from him.(:note) substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of Meaning, the Arabians, Chaldeans, Idumeans etc. the east.

geneva@Job:2:3 @ And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that [there is] none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, (note:)He proves Job's integrity by this that he ceased not to fear God when his plagues were grievously upon him.(:note) although thou movedst me against That is, when you had nothing against him, or when you were not able to bring your purpose to pass. him, to destroy him without cause.

geneva@Job:3:1 @ After this opened (note:)The seven days ended, (Job_2:13).(:note) Job his mouth, and Here Job begins to feel his great imperfection in this battle between the spirit and the flesh, (Rom_7:18) and after a manner yields yet in the end he gets victory though he was in the mean time greatly wounded. cursed his day.

geneva@Job:3:2 @ And Iob cryed out, and sayd,

geneva@Job:3:3 @ Let the day (note:)Men should not be weary of their life and curse it, because of the infinities that it is subject to, but because they are given to sin and rebellion against God.(:note) perish wherein I was born, and the night [in which] it was said, There is a man child conceived.

geneva@Job:3:4 @ Let that day be darkness; let not God (note:)Let it be put out of the number of days, and let it not have the sight of the sun to separate it from the night.(:note) regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.

geneva@Job:3:5 @ Let darkness and the (note:)That is, most obscure darkness, which makes them afraid of death that they are in it.(:note) shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

geneva@Job:3:6 @ Let darkenesse possesse that night, let it not be ioyned vnto the dayes of the yeere, nor let it come into the count of the moneths.

geneva@Job:3:7 @ Yea, desolate be that night, and let no ioy be in it.

geneva@Job:3:8 @ Let them curse it that curse the day, who are (note:)Who curse the day of their birth, let them lay that curse on this night.(:note) ready to raise up their mourning.

geneva@Job:3:9 @ Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but [have] none; neither let it (note:)Let it be always night, and never see day.(:note) see the dawning of the day:

geneva@Job:3:10 @ Because it shut not vp the dores of my mothers wombe: nor hid sorowe from mine eyes.

geneva@Job:3:11 @

geneva@Job:3:12 @ Why did the knees preuent me? and why did I sucke the breasts?

geneva@Job:3:13 @ For now should I have (note:)The vehemency of his afflictions made him utter these words as though death was the end of all miseries, and as if there were no life after this, which he speaks not as though it were so, but the infirmities of his flesh caused him to break out in this error of the wicked.(:note) lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

geneva@Job:3:14 @ With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built (note:)He notes the ambition of them who for their pleasure as it were change the order of nature, and build in most barren places, because they would by this make their names immortal.(:note) desolate places for themselves;

geneva@Job:3:15 @ Or with the princes that had golde, and haue filled their houses with siluer.

geneva@Job:3:16 @ Or why was I not hid, as an vntimely birth, either as infants, which haue not seene the light?

geneva@Job:3:17 @ There the wicked (note:)That is, by death the cruelty of the tyrants has ceased.(:note) cease [from] troubling; and there the weary be at rest.

geneva@Job:3:18 @ [There] the (note:)All they who sustain any kind of calamity and misery in this world: which he speaks after the judgment of the flesh.(:note) prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.

geneva@Job:3:19 @ There are small and great, and the seruant is free from his master.

geneva@Job:3:20 @ Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and (note:)He shows that the benefits of God are not comfortable, unless the heart is joyful, and the conscience quieted.(:note) life unto the bitter [in] soul;

geneva@Job:3:21 @ Which long for death, and if it come not, they would euen search it more then treasures:

geneva@Job:3:22 @ Which ioy for gladnes, and reioyce, when they can finde the graue.

geneva@Job:3:23 @ [Why is light given] to a man whose way is (note:)That sees not how to come out of his miseries, because he does not depend on God's providence.(:note) hid, and whom God hath hedged in?

geneva@Job:3:24 @ For my sighing commeth before I eate, and my roarings are powred out like the water.

geneva@Job:3:25 @ For the thing which I greatly (note:)In my prosperity I looked for a fall, as it now has come to pass.(:note) feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.

geneva@Job:3:26 @ I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; (note:)The fear of troubles that would ensue, caused my prosperity to seem to me as nothing, and yet I am not exempted from trouble.(:note) yet trouble came.

geneva@Job:4:3 @ Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou (note:)You have comforted others in their afflictions but you cannot now comfort yourself.(:note) hast strengthened the weak hands.

geneva@Job:5:3 @ I have seen the (note:)That is, the sinner that does not have the fear of God.(:note) foolish taking root: but suddenly I I was not moved by his prosperity but knew that God had cursed him and his. cursed his habitation.

geneva@Job:6:3 @ For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are (note:)My grief is so great that I lack words to express it.(:note) swallowed up.

geneva@Job:6:30 @ Is there iniquitie in my tongue? doeth not my mouth feele sorowes?

geneva@Job:7:3 @ So am I made to possess (note:)My sorrow has continued from month to month, and I have looked for hope in vain.(:note) months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.

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

geneva@Job:9:3 @ 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.

geneva@Job:9:23 @ 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.

geneva@Job:9:30 @ 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;

geneva@Job:9:31 @ 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.

geneva@Job:9:32 @ For he is not a man as I am, that I shoulde answere him, if we come together to iudgement.

geneva@Job:9:33 @ 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.

geneva@Job:9:34 @ Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his feare astonish me:

geneva@Job:9:35 @ [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.

geneva@Job:10:3 @ [Is it] (note:)Is it agreeable to your justice to do me wrong?(:note) good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the Will you be without compassions? work of thine hands, and shine upon the Will you gratify the wicked and condemn me? counsel of the wicked?

geneva@Job:11:3 @ Should men holde their peace at thy lyes? & when thou mockest others, shall none make thee ashamed?

geneva@Job:12:3 @ But I haue vnderstanding aswel as you, and am not inferior vnto you: yea, who knoweth not such things?

geneva@Job:13:3 @ Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire (note:)For although he knew that God was just, which was revealed in his ordinary working and another in his secret counsel, yet he uttered his affection to God, because he was not able to understand the reason he punished him.(:note) to reason with God.

geneva@Job:14:3 @ And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an (note:)His meaning is, that seeing that man is so frail a creature, God should not handle him so extremely, in which Job shows the wickedness of the flesh, when it is not subject to the Spirit.(:note) one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?

geneva@Job:15:3 @ Shall he dispute with wordes not comely? or with talke that is not profitable?

geneva@Job:15:30 @ He shall neuer depart out of darkenesse: the flame shall drie vp his branches, and he shall goe away with the breath of his mouth.

geneva@Job:15:31 @ Let not him that is (note:)He stands in his own conceit, that he will give no place to good counsel, therefore his own pride will bring him to destruction.(:note) deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.

geneva@Job:15:32 @ His branch shall not be greene, but shall be cut off before his day.

geneva@Job:15:33 @ He shall shake off his unripe (note:)As one who gathers grapes before they are ripe.(:note) grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.

geneva@Job:15:34 @ For the congregation of hypocrites [shall be] desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of (note:)Who were built or maintained by bribery.(:note) bribery.

geneva@Job:15:35 @ They (note:)Therefore all their vain devises will turn to their own destruction.(:note) conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.

geneva@Job:16:3 @ Shall (note:)Which serve for vain ostentation and for no true comfort.(:note) vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?

geneva@Job:17:3 @

geneva@Job:18:3 @ Wherefore are wee counted as beastes, and are vile in your sight?

geneva@Job:19:3 @ These (note:)That is, many times, as in (Neh_4:12).(:note) ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed [that] ye make yourselves strange to me.

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

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:22:3 @ 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:22:30 @ 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:23:3 @ Would God yet I knew how to finde him, I would enter vnto his place.

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

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

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

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: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: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?

geneva@Job:31:2 @ For what portion should I haue of God from aboue? and what inheritance of the Almightie from on hie?

geneva@Job:31:3 @ [Is] not destruction to the wicked? and a strange [punishment] to (note:)Job declares that the fear of God was a bridle to stay him from all wickedness.(:note) the workers of iniquity?

geneva@Job:31:4 @ Doeth not he beholde my wayes and tell all my steps?

geneva@Job:31:5 @ If I haue walked in vanitie, or if my foote hath made haste to deceite,

geneva@Job:31:6 @ Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine (note:)He shows what his uprightness stands in, in as much as he was blameless before men and did not sin against the second table.(:note) integrity.

geneva@Job:31:7 @ If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart (note:)That is, has accomplished the lust of my eyes.(:note) walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;

geneva@Job:31:8 @ [Then] let me sow, and let another (note:)According to the curse of the law, (Deu_28:33).(:note) eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.

geneva@Job:31:9 @ If mine heart hath bene deceiued by a woman, or if I haue layde wayte at the doore of my neighbour,

geneva@Job:31:10 @ [Then] let my wife (note:)Let her be made a slave.(:note) grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.

geneva@Job:31:11 @ For this is a wickednes, and iniquitie to bee condemned:

geneva@Job:31:12 @ For it [is] a fire [that] consumeth (note:)He shows that although man neglects the punishment of adultery, yet the wrath of God will never cease till such are destroyed.(:note) to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.

geneva@Job:31:13 @ If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they (note:)When they thought themselves evil intreated by me.(:note) contended with me;

geneva@Job:31:14 @ What then shall I do when (note:)If I had oppressed others, how would I have escaped God's judgment.(:note) God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?

geneva@Job:31:15 @ Did not he that made me in the womb make (note:)He was moved to show pity to servants, because they were God's creatures as he was.(:note) him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?

geneva@Job:31:16 @ If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow (note:)By long waiting for her request.(:note) to fail;

geneva@Job:31:17 @ Or haue eaten my morsels alone, and the fatherles hath not eaten thereof,

geneva@Job:31:18 @ (For from my youth he was brought up with me, (note:)He nourished the fatherless, and maintained the widows cause.(:note) as [with] a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)

geneva@Job:31:19 @ If I haue seene any perish for want of clothing, or any poore without couering,

geneva@Job:31:20 @ If his loynes haue not blessed me, because he was warmed with the fleece of my sheepe,

geneva@Job:31:21 @ If I have lifted (note:)To oppress him and to do him harm.(:note) up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:

geneva@Job:31:22 @ [Then] let mine (note:)Let me rot in pieces.(:note) arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.

geneva@Job:31:23 @ For destruction [from] God [was] a (note:)I did not refrain from sin for fear of men, but because I feared God.(:note) terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.

geneva@Job:31:24 @ If I made gold mine hope, or haue sayd to the wedge of golde, Thou art my confidence,

geneva@Job:31:25 @ If I reioyced because my substance was great, or because mine hand had gotten much,

geneva@Job:31:26 @ If I beheld the (note:)If I was proud of my worldly prosperity and happiness, which is meant by the shining of the sun, and brightness of the moon.(:note) sun when it shined, or the moon walking [in] brightness;

geneva@Job:31:27 @ And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my (note:)If my own doings delighted me.(:note) hand:

geneva@Job:31:28 @ This also [were] an iniquity [to be punished by] the judge: for I should have denied the God [that is] (note:)By putting confidence in anything but in him alone.(:note) above.

geneva@Job:31:29 @ If I reioyced at his destruction that hated me, or was mooued to ioye when euill came vpon him,

geneva@Job:31:30 @ Neither haue I suffred my mouth to sinne, by wishing a curse vnto his soule.

geneva@Job:31:31 @ If the men of my (note:)My servants moved me to be avenged of my enemy, yet I never wished him harm.(:note) tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.

geneva@Job:31:32 @ The stranger did not lodge in the streete, but I opened my doores vnto him, that went by the way.

geneva@Job:31:33 @ If I covered (note:)Not confessed it freely, by which it is evident that he justified himself before men, and not before God.(:note) my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:

geneva@Job:31:34 @ Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families (note:)That is, I reverenced the most weak and contemned and was afraid to offend them.(:note) terrify me, that I kept I suffered them to speak evil of me, and went not out of my house to avenge it. silence, [and] went not out of the door?

geneva@Job:31:35 @ Oh that one would hear me! behold, my (note:)This is a sufficient token of my righteousness, that God is my witness and will justify my cause.(:note) desire [is, that] the Almighty would answer me, and [that] mine adversary had written a book.

geneva@Job:31:36 @ Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, [and] bind it [as] a (note:)Should not this book of his accusations be a praise and commendation to me?(:note) crown to me.

geneva@Job:31:37 @ I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a (note:)I will make him account of all my life, without fear.(:note) prince would I go near unto him.

geneva@Job:31:38 @ If my land (note:)As though I had withheld their wages that laboured in it.(:note) cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;

geneva@Job:31:39 @ If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused (note:)Meaning, that he was not a briber or extortioner.(:note) the owners thereof to lose their life:

geneva@Job:31:40 @ Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The (note:)That is, the talk which he had with his three friends.(:note) words of Job are ended.

geneva@Job:32:1 @ So these three men ceased to answere Iob, because he esteemed himselfe iust.

geneva@Job:32:2 @ Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the (note:)Which came from Buz, the son of Nahor, Abraham's brother.(:note) Buzite, of the kindred of Or, as the Chaldee translation reads, Abram. Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself By making himself innocent, and by charging God of rigour. rather than God.

geneva@Job:32:3 @ Also his anger was kindled against his three friends, because they could not finde an answere, and yet condemned Iob.

geneva@Job:32:4 @ Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken, because (note:)That is, the three mentioned before.(:note) they [were] elder than he.

geneva@Job:32:5 @ So when Elihu saw, that there was none answere in the mouth of the three men, his wrath was kindled.

geneva@Job:32:6 @ Therefore Elihu the sonne of Barachel, the Buzite answered, & sayd, I am yong in yeres, and ye are ancient: therefore I doubted, and was afraide to shewe you mine opinion.

geneva@Job:32:7 @ I said, Days (note:)Meaning, the ancient, who have experience.(:note) should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.

geneva@Job:32:8 @ But [there is] a spirit in man: (note:)It is a special gift of God that man has understanding and comes neither from nature nor by age.(:note) and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.

geneva@Job:32:9 @ Great men are not alway wise, neither doe the aged alway vnderstand iudgement.

geneva@Job:32:10 @ Therefore I say, Heare me, and I will shew also mine opinion.

geneva@Job:32:11 @ Behold, I waited for your words; I gave ear to your reasons, whilst ye searched out (note:)To prove that Job's affliction came for his sins.(:note) what to say.

geneva@Job:32:12 @ Yea, when I had considered you, lo, there was none of you that reproued Iob, nor answered his wordes:

geneva@Job:32:13 @ Lest ye should say, We have (note:)Flatter yourselves as though you had overcome him.(:note) found out wisdom: God thrusteth him down, not man.

geneva@Job:32:14 @ Now (note:)That is, Job.(:note) he hath not directed [his] words against me: neither will I answer He uses almost the same arguments but without taunting and reproaches. him with your speeches.

geneva@Job:32:15 @ Then they fearing, answered no more, but left off their talke.

geneva@Job:32:16 @ When I had wayted (for they spake not, but stood still and answered no more)

geneva@Job:32:17 @ Then answered I in my turne, and I shewed mine opinion.

geneva@Job:32:18 @ For I am full of (note:)I have conceived in my mind a great store of reasons.(:note) matter, the spirit within me constraineth me.

geneva@Job:32:19 @ Beholde, my belly is as the wine, which hath no vent, and like the new bottels that brast.

geneva@Job:32:20 @ Therefore will I speake, that I may take breath: I will open my lippes, and will answere.

geneva@Job:32:21 @ Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person, (note:)I will neither have regard for riches, credit, nor authority but will speak the very truth.(:note) neither let me give flattering titles unto man.

geneva@Job:32:22 @ For I know not to give flattering (note:)The Hebrew word signifies to change the name as to call a fool a wise man: meaning, that he would not cloak the truth to flatter men.(:note) titles; [in so doing] my maker would soon take me away.

geneva@Job:33:1 @ Wherefore, Iob, I pray thee, heare my talke and hearken vnto all my wordes.

geneva@Job:33:2 @ Beholde now, I haue opened my mouth: my tongue hath spoken in my mouth.

geneva@Job:33:3 @ My words are in the vprightnesse of mine heart, & my lippes shall speake pure knowledge.

geneva@Job:33:4 @ The (note:)I confess the power of God, and am one of his, therefore you should hear me.(:note) Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.

geneva@Job:33:5 @ If thou canst giue me answere, prepare thy selfe and stand before me.

geneva@Job:33:6 @ Behold, I [am] according to thy wish in (note:)Because Job had wished to dispute his cause with God, (Job_16:21) so that he might do it without fear, Elihu says, he will reason in God's stead, whom he does not need to fear.(:note) God's stead: I also am formed out of the clay.

geneva@Job:33:7 @ Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, neither shall my hand (note:)I will not handle you so roughly as these others have done.(:note) be heavy upon thee.

geneva@Job:33:8 @ Doubtles thou hast spoken in mine eares, and I haue heard the voyce of thy wordes.

geneva@Job:33:9 @ I am (note:)He repeats Job's words, by which he protested his innocency in various places, but especially in the 13th, 16th and 30th chapters.(:note) clean without transgression, I [am] innocent; neither [is there] iniquity in me.

geneva@Job:33:10 @ Lo, he hath found occasions against me, and counted me for his enemie.

geneva@Job:33:11 @ He hath put my feete in the stockes, and looketh narrowly vnto all my paths.

geneva@Job:33:12 @ Behold, in this hast thou not done right: I will answere thee, that God is greater then man.

geneva@Job:33:13 @ Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not (note:)The cause of his judgments is not always declared to man.(:note) account of any of his matters.

geneva@Job:33:14 @ For God speaketh (note:)Though God by various examples of his judgments speak to man, yet the reason for it is not known, yea and though God should speak yet is he not understood.(:note) once, yea twice, [yet man] perceiveth it not.

geneva@Job:33:15 @ In a dream, in a (note:)God, he says, speaks commonly, either by visions to teach us the cause of his judgments, of else by affliction or by his messenger.(:note) vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;

geneva@Job:33:16 @ Then he openeth the ears of men, and (note:)That is, determined to send on them.(:note) sealeth their instruction,

geneva@Job:33:17 @ That he may withdraw man [from his] purpose, and hide (note:)He shows for why God sends afflictions: to beat down man's pride, and to turn from evil.(:note) pride from man.

geneva@Job:33:18 @ And keepe backe his soule from the pit, & that his life should not passe by the sword.

geneva@Job:33:19 @ He is also striken with sorow vpon his bed, and the griefe of his bones is sore,

geneva@Job:33:20 @ So that his (note:)That is, his painful and miserable life.(:note) life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat.

geneva@Job:33:21 @ His flesh faileth that it can not be seene, and his bones which were not seene, clatter.

geneva@Job:33:22 @ Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life (note:)To them that will bury him.(:note) to the destroyers.

geneva@Job:33:23 @ If there be a (note:)A man sent from God to declare his will.(:note) messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, A singular man, and as one chosen out of a thousand, who is able to declare the great mercies of God to sinners: and in which man's righteousness stands, which is through the justice of Jesus Christ. to shew unto man his uprightness:

geneva@Job:33:24 @ Then he is (note:)He shows that it is a sure token of God's mercy toward sinners, when he causes his word to be preached to them.(:note) gracious unto him, and saith, That is, the minister will by the preaching of the word pronounce to him the forgiveness of his sins. Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.

geneva@Job:33:25 @ His flesh shall be (note:)He will feel God's favour and rejoice; declaring by this in which stands the true joy of the faithful, and that God will restore him to health, which is a token of his blessing.(:note) fresher than a child's: he shall return to the days of his youth:

geneva@Job:33:26 @ He shall pray unto God, and he will be favourable unto him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render unto man his (note:)God will forgive his sins, and accept him as just.(:note) righteousness.

geneva@Job:33:27 @ He looketh upon men, and [if any] say, I have sinned, and (note:)That is, done wickedly.(:note) perverted [that which was] right, and it profited But my sins have been the cause of God's wrath toward me. me not;

geneva@Job:33:28 @

geneva@Job:33:29 @ Lo, all these [things] worketh God (note:)Meaning, as often as a sinner repents.(:note) oftentimes with man,

geneva@Job:33:30 @ That he may turne backe his soule from the pit, to be illuminate in the light of the liuing.

geneva@Job:33:31 @ Marke well, O Iob, and heare me: keepe silence, and I will speake.

geneva@Job:33:32 @ If thou hast any (note:)If you doubt anything, or see opportunity to speak against it.(:note) thing to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to That is, to show you, in which mans justification consists. justify thee.

geneva@Job:33:33 @ If thou hast not, heare me: holde thy tongue, and I will teach thee wisedome.

geneva@Job:34:1 @ Moreouer Elihu answered, and saide,

geneva@Job:34:2 @ Hear my words, O ye (note:)Which are esteemed wise by the world.(:note) wise [men]; and give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge.

geneva@Job:34:3 @ For the eare tryeth the words, as the mouth tasteth meate.

geneva@Job:34:4 @ Let us choose to us (note:)Let us examine the matter uprightly.(:note) judgment: let us know among ourselves what [is] good.

geneva@Job:34:5 @ For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken (note:)That is, has afflicted me without measure.(:note) away my judgment.

geneva@Job:34:6 @ Should I lie against my (note:)Should I say, I am wicked, being an innocent?(:note) right? my wound [is] I am more punished, than my sin deserves. incurable without transgression.

geneva@Job:34:7 @ What man [is] like Job, [who] drinketh up (note:)Which is compelled to receive your reproach and scorns of many for his foolish words.(:note) scorning like water?

geneva@Job:34:8 @ Which goeth in (note:)Meaning that Job was like the wicked, because he seemed not to glorify God and submit himself to his judgments.(:note) company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.

geneva@Job:34:9 @ For he hath said, (note:)He wrests Job's words who said that God's children are often punished in this world, and the wicked go free.(:note) It profiteth a man nothing that he should That is, live godly, (Gen_5:22). delight himself with God.

geneva@Job:34:10 @ Therefore hearken vnto me, ye men of wisedome, God forbid that wickednesse should be in God, and iniquitie in the Almightie.

geneva@Job:34:11 @ For he will render vnto man according to his worke, and cause euery one to finde according to his way.

geneva@Job:34:12 @ And certainely God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almightie peruert iudgement.

geneva@Job:34:13 @ Whome hath he appointed ouer the earth beside him selfe? or who hath placed the whole worlde?

geneva@Job:34:14 @ If (note:)To destroy him.(:note) he set his heart upon man, [if] he gather unto himself his spirit The breath of life which he gave man. and his breath;

geneva@Job:34:15 @ All flesh shal perish together, and man shal returne vnto dust.

geneva@Job:34:16 @ And if thou hast vnderstanding, heare this and hearken to the voyce of my wordes.

geneva@Job:34:17 @ Shall even he that hateth right (note:)If God were not just, how could be govern the world?(:note) govern? and wilt thou condemn him that is most just?

geneva@Job:34:18 @ [Is it fit] to say to a king, [Thou art] (note:)If man by nature fears to speak evil of such as have power, then they should be much more afraid to speak evil of God.(:note) wicked? [and] to princes, [Ye are] ungodly?

geneva@Job:34:19 @ How much lesse to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, & regardeth not the rich, more then the poore? for they be all the worke of his handes.

geneva@Job:34:20 @ In a moment shall they die, (note:)When they look not for it.(:note) and the people shall be troubled at midnight, The messengers of visitation that God will send. and pass away: and the mighty shall be taken away without hand.

geneva@Job:34:21 @ For his eyes are vpon the wayes of man, and he seeth all his goings.

geneva@Job:34:22 @ There is no darkenesse nor shadowe of death, that the workers of iniquitie might be hid therein.

geneva@Job:34:23 @ For he will not lay upon man more [than right]; that he should (note:)God does not afflict man above measure so that he should have opportunity to contend with him.(:note) enter into judgment with God.

geneva@Job:34:24 @ He shall break in pieces mighty men without (note:)For all his creatures are at hand to serve him, so that he needs not to seek for any other army.(:note) number, and set others in their stead.

geneva@Job:34:25 @ Therefore he knoweth their (note:)Make it known that they are wicked.(:note) works, and he overturneth [them] in the Declare the things that were hid. night, so that they are destroyed.

geneva@Job:34:26 @ He striketh them as wicked men in the open sight of (note:)Meaning, openly in the sight of all men.(:note) others;

geneva@Job:34:27 @ Because they haue turned backe from him, and would not consider all his wayes:

geneva@Job:34:28 @ So that they cause the cry of the poor to (note:)By their cruelty and extortion.(:note) come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted.

geneva@Job:34:29 @ And when he giueth quietnesse, who can make trouble? and when he hideth his face, who can beholde him, whether it be vpon nations, or vpon a man onely?

geneva@Job:34:30 @ That the (note:)When tyrants sit in the throne of justice which under pretence of executing justice are hypocrites and oppress the people, it is a sign that God has drawn back his countenance of favour from that place.(:note) hypocrite reign not, lest the people be ensnared.

geneva@Job:34:31 @ Surely it is meet (note:)It only belongs to God to moderate his corrections, and not to man.(:note) to be said unto God, I have borne [chastisement], I will not offend [any more]:

geneva@Job:34:32 @

geneva@Job:34:33 @ [Should it be] according to (note:)Will God use your counsel in doing his works?(:note) thy mind? he will recompense Thus he speaks in the person of God, as though Job should chose and refuse affliction at his pleasure. it, whether thou refuse, or whether thou choose; and not I: therefore speak what thou knowest.

geneva@Job:34:34 @ Let men of vnderstanding tell me, and let a wise man hearken vnto me.

geneva@Job:34:35 @ Iob hath not spoken of knowledge, neyther were his wordes according to wisedome.

geneva@Job:34:36 @ My desire [is that] Job may be (note:)That he may speak as much as he can, that we may answer him and all the wicked that will use such arguments.(:note) tried unto the end because of [his] answers for wicked men.

geneva@Job:34:37 @ For he (note:)He stands stubbornly to the maintenance of his cause.(:note) addeth rebellion unto his sin, he clappeth [his hands] among us, and multiplieth his words against God.

geneva@Job:35:1 @ Elihu spake moreouer, and said,

geneva@Job:35:2 @ Thinkest thou this to be right, [that] thou saidst, My (note:)Job never spoke these words: but because he maintained his innocency, it seemed as though he would say, that God tormented him without just cause.(:note) righteousness [is] more than God's?

geneva@Job:35:3 @ For thou hast said, What profiteth it thee and what auaileth it me, to purge me fro my sinne?

geneva@Job:35:4 @ I will answer thee, and thy (note:)Such as are in the same error.(:note) companions with thee.

geneva@Job:35:5 @ Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the (note:)If you cannot control the clouds, will you presume to instruct God?(:note) clouds [which] are higher than thou.

geneva@Job:35:6 @ If thou sinnest, what doest thou (note:)Neither does your sin hurt God, nor your justice profit him: for he will be glorified without you.(:note) against him? or [if] thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?

geneva@Job:35:7 @ If thou be righteous, what giuest thou vnto him? or what receiueth he at thine hand?

geneva@Job:35:8 @ Thy wickednesse may hurt a man as thou art: and thy righteousnes may profite ye sonne of man.

geneva@Job:35:9 @ By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make [the oppressed] (note:)The wicked may hurt man and cause him to cry, who if he sought God who lends comfort would be delivered.(:note) to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.

geneva@Job:35:10 @ But none saieth, Where is God that made me, which giueth songs in the nyght?

geneva@Job:35:11 @ Which teacheth vs more then the beastes of the earth, and giueth vs more wisdome then the foules of the heauen.

geneva@Job:35:12 @ There they cry, (note:)Because they pray not in faith, as feeling God's mercies.(:note) but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.

geneva@Job:35:13 @ Surely God will not heare vanitie, neyther will the Almightie regard it.

geneva@Job:35:14 @ Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, (note:)God is just, however you judge him.(:note) [yet] judgment [is] before him; therefore trust thou in him.

geneva@Job:35:15 @ But nowe because his anger hath not visited, nor called to count the euill with great extremitie,

geneva@Job:35:16 @ Therefore doth Job (note:)For if he punished you as you deserved, you would not be able to open your mouth.(:note) open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.

geneva@Job:36:1 @ Elihu also proceeded and sayde,

geneva@Job:36:2 @ Suffer me a litle, and I will instruct thee: for I haue yet to speake on Gods behalfe.

geneva@Job:36:3 @ I will fetch (note:)He shows that when we speak of God, we must lift our spirits higher than our natural sense is able to reach.(:note) my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

geneva@Job:36:4 @ For truly my words [shall] not [be] false: he that is (note:)You will perceive that I am a faithful instructor, and that I speak to you in the name of God.(:note) perfect in knowledge [is] with thee.

geneva@Job:36:5 @ Behold, God [is] mighty, and despiseth not [any: he is] (note:)Strong and constant, and of understanding: for these are the gifts of God, and he loves them in man: but as much as God punished Job now, it is a sign that these are not in him.(:note) mighty in strength [and] wisdom.

geneva@Job:36:6 @ He (note:)Therefore he will not preserve the wicked, but to the humble and afflicted heart he will show grace.(:note) preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.

geneva@Job:36:7 @ He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with (note:)He prefers the godly to honour.(:note) kings [are they] on the throne; yea, he doth establish them for ever, and they are exalted.

geneva@Job:36:8 @ And if they bee bound in fetters and tyed with the cordes of affliction,

geneva@Job:36:9 @ Then he sheweth them their (note:)He will move their hearts to feel their sins that they may come to him by repentance as he did Manasseh.(:note) work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.

geneva@Job:36:10 @ He openeth also their eare to discipline, and commandeth them that they returne fro iniquity.

geneva@Job:36:11 @ If they obey and serue him, they shal end their dayes in prosperity, & their yeres in pleasures.

geneva@Job:36:12 @ But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die (note:)That is, in their folly or obstinacy, and so shall cause their own destruction.(:note) without knowledge.

geneva@Job:36:13 @ But the hypocrites (note:)Which are maliciously bent against God, and flatter themselves in their vices.(:note) in heart heap up wrath: they When they are in affliction they do not seek God for help, as Asa in (2Ch_16:12). cry not when he bindeth them.

geneva@Job:36:14 @ They die in (note:)They die of some vile death, and that before they come to age.(:note) youth, and their life [is] among the unclean.

geneva@Job:36:15 @ He deliuereth the poore in his affliction, & openeth their eare in trouble.

geneva@Job:36:16 @ Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait [into] a broad place, where [there is] no straitness; and (note:)If you had been obedient to God, he would have brought you to freedom and wealth.(:note) that which should be set on thy table [should be] full of fatness.

geneva@Job:36:17 @ But thou hast fulfilled the (note:)You are altogether after the manner of the wicked: for you murmur against the justice of God.(:note) judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold [on thee].

geneva@Job:36:18 @

geneva@Job:36:19 @ Wil he regard thy riches? he regardeth not golde, nor all them that excel in strength.

geneva@Job:36:20 @

geneva@Job:36:21 @ Take heed, regard not (note:)And so murmur against God through impatiency.(:note) iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.

geneva@Job:36:22 @ Beholde, God exalteth by his power: what teacher is like him?

geneva@Job:36:23 @ Who hath appointed to him his way? or who can say, Thou hast done wickedly?

geneva@Job:36:24 @ Remember that thou magnifie his worke, which men behold.

geneva@Job:36:25 @ Every man may see it; man may behold [it] (note:)The works of God are revealed, that a man may see them afar off, and know God by the same.(:note) afar off.

geneva@Job:36:26 @ Behold, God [is] great, (note:)Our infirmity hinders us so that we cannot attain the perfect knowledge of God.(:note) and we know [him] not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.

geneva@Job:36:27 @ For he maketh small the drops of water: they (note:)That is, the rain comes from those drops of water which he keeps in the clouds.(:note) pour down rain according to the vapour thereof:

geneva@Job:36:28 @ Which raine the cloudes do droppe and let fall abundantly vpon man.

geneva@Job:36:29 @ Also can [any] understand the spreadings of the clouds, [or] the noise of his (note:)Meaning, of the clouds, which he calls the tabernacle of God.(:note) tabernacle?

geneva@Job:36:30 @ Behold, he spreadeth his light upon (note:)Upon the cloud.(:note) it, and covereth the That men cannot come to the knowledge of the springs of it. bottom of the sea.

geneva@Job:36:31 @ For by them judgeth he (note:)He shows that the rain has a double use: the one that it declares God's judgments, when it overflows any places, and the other that it makes the land fruitful.(:note) the people; he giveth meat in abundance.

geneva@Job:36:32 @ With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it [not to shine] by [the cloud] that cometh (note:)That is, one cloud to dash against another.(:note) betwixt.

geneva@Job:36:33 @

geneva@Job:37:1 @ At this also my heart (note:)At the marvelling of the thunder and lightnings: by which he declares that the faithful are lively touched with the majesty of God, when they behold his works.(:note) trembleth, and is moved out of his place.

geneva@Job:37:2 @ Hear attentively the (note:)That is the thunder, by which he speaks to men to waken their dullness, and to bring them to the consideration of his works.(:note) noise of his voice, and the sound [that] goeth out of his mouth.

geneva@Job:37:3 @ He directeth it vnder the whole heauen, and his light vnto the endes of the world.

geneva@Job:37:4 @ After it a voice roareth: he thundereth with the voice of his excellency; and he will not stay (note:)Meaning, the rains and thunders.(:note) them when his voice is heard.

geneva@Job:37:5 @ God thundereth marueilously with his voyce: he worketh great things, which we know not.

geneva@Job:37:6 @ For he saith to the snow, Be thou [on] the earth; (note:)So that neither small rain nor great, snow nor anything else comes without God's appointment.(:note) likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.

geneva@Job:37:7 @ He (note:)By rains and thunders God causes men to keep themselves within their houses.(:note) sealeth up the hand of every man; that all men may know his work.

geneva@Job:37:8 @ Then the beastes go into the denne, and remaine in their places.

geneva@Job:37:9 @ Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the (note:)In Hebrew it is called the scattering wind, because it drives away the clouds and purges the air.(:note) north.

geneva@Job:37:10 @ By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters (note:)That is, frozen up and dried.(:note) is straitened.

geneva@Job:37:11 @ Also by watering he (note:)Gather the vapours and move to and fro to water the earth.(:note) wearieth the thick cloud: he scattereth his That is, the cloud that has lightning in it. bright cloud:

geneva@Job:37:12 @ And it is turned about by his gouernment, that they may doe whatsoeuer he commandeth them vpon the whole worlde:

geneva@Job:37:13 @ He causeth it to come, whether for (note:)Rain, cold, heat, tempests and such like are sent from God, either to punish man, or to profit the earth, or to declare his favour toward man, as in (Job_36:31).(:note) correction, or for his land, or for mercy.

geneva@Job:37:14 @ Hearken vnto this, O Iob: stand and consider the wonderous workes of God.

geneva@Job:37:15 @ Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the (note:)That is, the lightning to break forth in the clouds?(:note) light of his cloud to shine?

geneva@Job:37:16 @ Dost thou know the (note:)Which is sometimes changed into rain, or snow, hail or such like.(:note) balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge?

geneva@Job:37:17 @ How thy garments [are] (note:)Why your clothes should keep you warm when the south wind blows rather than when any other wind blows?(:note) warm, when he quieteth the earth by the south [wind]?

geneva@Job:37:18 @ Hast thou with him spread out the sky, [which is] strong, [and] as a molten looking (note:)For the clearness.(:note) glass?

geneva@Job:37:19 @ Teach us what we shall say unto him; [for] we cannot order [our speech] by reason of (note:)That is, our ignorance: signifying that Job was so presumptuous, that he would control the works of God.(:note) darkness.

geneva@Job:37:20 @ Shall it be (note:)Has God need that any should tell him when man murmurs against him?(:note) told him that I speak? if a man speak, surely he shall be swallowed up.

geneva@Job:37:21 @ And now [men] see not the bright light (note:)The cloud stops the shining of the sun, that man cannot see it till the wind has chased away the cloud: and if man is not able to attain to the knowledge of these things, how much less God's judgments?(:note) which [is] in the clouds: but the wind passeth, and cleanseth them.

geneva@Job:37:22 @

geneva@Job:37:23 @ [Touching] the Almighty, we cannot find him out: [he is] excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not (note:)Meaning, without cause.(:note) afflict.

geneva@Job:37:24 @ Let men therefore feare him: for he will not regarde any that are wise in their owne conceit.

geneva@Job:38:1 @ Then the LORD answered Job out of the (note:)That his words might have greater majesty, and that Job might know with whom he had to do.(:note) whirlwind, and said,

geneva@Job:38:2 @ Who [is] this that (note:)Which by seeking out the secret counsel of God by man's reason, makes it more obscure, and shows his own folly.(:note) darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?

geneva@Job:38:3 @ Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I (note:)Because he wished to dispute with God, (Job_23:3), God reasons with him, to declare his rashness.(:note) will demand of thee, and answer thou me.

geneva@Job:38:4 @ Where wast thou when I (note:)Seeing he could not judge those things which were done so long before he was born, he was not able to comprehend all God's works: much less the secret causes of his judgments.(:note) laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.

geneva@Job:38:5 @ Who hath layde the measures thereof, if thou knowest, or who hath stretched the line ouer it:

geneva@Job:38:6 @ Whereupon are the foundations thereof set: or who layed the corner stone thereof:

geneva@Job:38:7 @ When the morning stars (note:)The stars and dumb creatures are said to praise God, because his power, wisdom and goodness is manifest and known in it.(:note) sang together, and all the Meaning the angels. sons of God shouted for joy?

geneva@Job:38:8 @ Or who hath shut vp the Sea with doores, when it yssued and came foorth as out of the wombe:

geneva@Job:38:9 @ When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a (note:)As though the great sea was but as a little baby in the hands of God to turn to and fro.(:note) swaddlingband for it,

geneva@Job:38:10 @ When I stablished my commandement vpon it, and set barres and doores,

geneva@Job:38:11 @ And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be (note:)That is, God's decree and commandment as in (Job_38:10).(:note) stayed?

geneva@Job:38:12 @ Hast thou commanded the (note:)That is, to rise, since you were born?(:note) morning since thy days; [and] caused the dayspring to know his place;

geneva@Job:38:13 @ That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be (note:)Who having in the night been given to wickedness, cannot abide the light, but hide themselves.(:note) shaken out of it?

geneva@Job:38:14 @ It is turned as clay [to] the seal; (note:)The earth which seemed in the night to have no form by the rising of the sun, is as it were created anew, and all things in it clad with new beauty.(:note) and they stand as a garment.

geneva@Job:38:15 @ And from the wicked their light shall be taken away, and the hie arme shalbe broken.

geneva@Job:38:16 @ Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the (note:)If you are not able to seek out the depth of the sea, how much less are you able to comprehend the counsel of God?(:note) depth?

geneva@Job:38:17 @ Haue the gates of death bene opened vnto thee? Or hast thou seene the gates of the shadowe of death?

geneva@Job:38:18 @ Hast thou perceiued the breadth of the earth? Tell if thou knowest all this.

geneva@Job:38:19 @ Where is the way where light dwelleth? And where is the place of darkenesse,

geneva@Job:38:20 @ That thou (note:)That you might appoint its highways and limits.(:note) shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths [to] the house thereof?

geneva@Job:38:21 @ Knewest thou it, because thou wast then borne, and because the nomber of thy dayes is great?

geneva@Job:38:22 @ Hast thou entred into the treasures of the snow? Or hast thou seene the treasures of ye haile,

geneva@Job:38:23 @ Which I have reserved (note:)To punish my enemies with them, (Exo_9:18; Jos_10:11).(:note) against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?

geneva@Job:38:24 @ By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the East winde vpon the earth?

geneva@Job:38:25 @ Who hath deuided the spowtes for the raine? Or the way for the lightning of ye thunders,

geneva@Job:38:26 @ To cause it to raine on the earth where no man is, and in the wildernes where there is no man?

geneva@Job:38:27 @ To fulfil the wilde and waste place, and to cause the bud of the herbe to spring forth?

geneva@Job:38:28 @ Who is the father of the rayne? Or who hath begotten the droppes of the dewe?

geneva@Job:38:29 @ Out of whose wombe came the yee? Who hath ingendred the frost of the heauen?

geneva@Job:38:30 @ The waters are hid (note:)The ice covers it, as though it were paved with stone.(:note) as [with] a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.

geneva@Job:38:31 @ Canst thou bind the sweet influences (note:)Which rise when the sun is in Taurus, which is the spring, and brings flowers.(:note) of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Which comes in winter. Orion?

geneva@Job:38:32 @ Canst thou bring forth (note:)Certain stars so called, some think they were the twelve signs.(:note) Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide The north star with those that are about him. Arcturus with his sons?

geneva@Job:38:33 @ Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the (note:)Can you cause the heavenly bodies to have any power over the earthly bodies?(:note) dominion thereof in the earth?

geneva@Job:38:34 @ Canst thou lift vp thy voice to the cloudes that the aboundance of water may couer thee?

geneva@Job:38:35 @ Canst thou sende the lightenings that they may walke, and say vnto thee, Loe, heere we are?

geneva@Job:38:36 @ Who hath put wisdom in the (note:)In the secret parts of man.(:note) inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart?

geneva@Job:38:37 @ Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the (note:)That is, the clouds in which the water is contained as in bottles.(:note) bottles of heaven,

geneva@Job:38:38 @ When the dust groweth into hardness, (note:)For when God does not open these bottles, the earth comes to this inconvenience.(:note) and the clods cleave fast together?

geneva@Job:38:39 @ Wilt (note:)After he had declared God's works in the heavens, he shows his marvellous providence in earth, even toward the brute beasts.(:note) thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions,

geneva@Job:38:40 @ {\cf2 (39:2)} When they couch in their places, and remaine in the couert to lye in waite?

geneva@Job:38:41 @ Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones (note:)Read (Psa_147:9).(:note) cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.

geneva@Job:39:1 @ {\cf2 (39:4)} Knowest thou the time when the wilde goates bring foorth yong? or doest thou marke when the hindes doe calue?

geneva@Job:39:2 @ Canst thou number the months [that] they (note:)That is, how long they go with young?(:note) fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?

geneva@Job:39:3 @ They bow themselves, they (note:)They bring forth with great difficulty.(:note) bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows.

geneva@Job:39:4 @ {\cf2 (39:7)} Yet their yong waxe fatte, and growe vp with corne: they goe foorth and returne not vnto them.

geneva@Job:39:5 @ {\cf2 (39:8)} Who hath set the wilde asse at libertie? or who hath loosed the bondes of the wilde asse?

geneva@Job:39:6 @ Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the (note:)That is, the barren ground where no good fruit grows.(:note) barren land his dwellings.

geneva@Job:39:7 @ {\cf2 (39:10)} He derideth the multitude of the citie: he heareth not the crie of the driuer.

geneva@Job:39:8 @ {\cf2 (39:11)} He seeketh out the mountaine for his pasture, and searcheth after euery greene thing.

geneva@Job:39:9 @ Will the unicorn be willing to (note:)Is it possible to make the unicorn tame? signifying that if man cannot rule a creature, that it is much more impossible that he should appoint the wisdom of God, by which he governs all the world.(:note) serve thee, or abide by thy crib?

geneva@Job:39:10 @ {\cf2 (39:13)} Canst thou binde the vnicorne with his band to labour in the furrowe? or will he plowe the valleyes after thee?

geneva@Job:39:11 @ {\cf2 (39:14)} Wilt thou trust in him, because his stregth is great, and cast off thy labour vnto him?

geneva@Job:39:12 @ {\cf2 (39:15)} Wilt thou beleeue him, that he will bring home thy seede, and gather it vnto thy barne?

geneva@Job:39:13 @ {\cf2 (39:16)} Hast thou giuen the pleasant wings vnto the peacockes? or winges and feathers vnto the ostriche?

geneva@Job:39:14 @ Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and (note:)They write that the ostrich covers her eggs in the sand, and because the country is hot and the sun still keeps them warm, they are hatched.(:note) warmeth them in dust,

geneva@Job:39:15 @ {\cf2 (39:18)} And forgetteth that the foote might scatter the, or that the wild beast might breake the.

geneva@Job:39:16 @ She is hardened against her young ones, as though [they were] not hers: her labour is (note:)If he should take care of them.(:note) in vain without fear;

geneva@Job:39:17 @ Because God hath deprived her of (note:)That is, to have a care and natural affection toward his young.(:note) wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.

geneva@Job:39:18 @ What (note:)When the young ostrich is grown up, he outruns the horse.(:note) time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider.

geneva@Job:39:19 @ Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with (note:)That is, given him courage? which is meant by neighing and shaking his neck.(:note) thunder?

geneva@Job:39:20 @ {\cf2 (39:23)} Hast thou made him afraid as the grashopper? his strong neying is fearefull.

geneva@Job:39:21 @ He (note:)He beats with his hoof.(:note) paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in [his] strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men.

geneva@Job:39:22 @ {\cf2 (39:25)} He mocketh at feare, and is not afraid, and turneth not backe from the sworde,

geneva@Job:39:23 @ {\cf2 (39:26)} Though the quiuer rattle against him, the glittering speare and the shield.

geneva@Job:39:24 @ He (note:)He so rides the ground that it seems nothing under him.(:note) swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believeth he that [it is] the sound of the trumpet.

geneva@Job:39:25 @ {\cf2 (39:28)} He sayth among the trumpets, Ha, ha: hee smelleth the battell afarre off, and the noyse of the captaines, and the shouting.

geneva@Job:39:26 @ Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, [and] stretch her wings toward the (note:)That is, when cold comes, to fly into the warm countries.(:note) south?

geneva@Job:39:27 @ {\cf2 (39:30)} Doeth the egle mount vp at thy commandement, or make his nest on hie?

geneva@Job:39:28 @ {\cf2 (39:31)} Shee abideth and remaineth in the rocke, euen vpon the toppe of the rocke, and the tower.

geneva@Job:39:29 @ {\cf2 (39:32)} From thence she spieth for meate, and her eyes beholde afarre off.

geneva@Job:39:30 @ {\cf2 (39:33)} His young ones also sucke vp blood: and where the slaine are, there is she.

geneva@Job:40:1 @ {\cf2 (39:34)} Moreouer ye Lord spake vnto Iob, & said,

geneva@Job:40:3 @ {\cf2 (39:36)} Then Iob answered the Lord, saying,

geneva@Job:40:5 @ {\cf2 (39:38)} Once haue I spoken, but I will answere no more, yea twise, but I will proceede no further.

geneva@Job:41:3 @ {\cf2 (40:22)} Will he make many prayers vnto thee, or speake thee faire?

geneva@Job:41:30 @ Sharp stones (note:)His skin is so hard that he lies with a great ease on the stones as in the mud.(:note) [are] under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.

geneva@Job:41:31 @ He maketh the deep to (note:)Either he makes the sea to seem like it is boiling by his wallowing, or else he spouts water in such abundance as it would seem that the sea boiled.(:note) boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.

geneva@Job:41:32 @ He maketh a path to (note:)That is, a white froth and shining stream before him.(:note) shine after him; [one] would think the deep [to be] hoary.

geneva@Job:41:33 @ {\cf2 (41:24)} In the earth there is none like him: hee is made without feare.

geneva@Job:41:34 @ He beholdeth (note:)He despises all other beasts and monsters, and is the proudest of all others.(:note) all high [things]: he [is] a king over all the children of pride.

geneva@Job:42:3 @ Who [is] he that hideth counsel without (note:)Is there any but I? for this God laid to his charge, (Job_38:2).(:note) knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, I confess in this my ignorance, and that I spoke of what I did not know. which I knew not.

geneva@Psalms:1:3 @ And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and (note:)God's children are so moistened with his grace, that whatever comes to them, tends to their salvation.(:note) whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

geneva@Psalms:2:3 @

geneva@Psalms:3:1 @ «A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son.» LORD, how are they (note:)This was a token of his stable faith, that for all his troubles he turned to God.(:note) increased that trouble me! many [are] they that rise up against me.

geneva@Psalms:3:2 @ Many [there be] which say of my soul, [There is] no help for him in God. (note:)Selah here signifies a lifting up of the voice, to cause us to consider the sentence as a thing of great importance.(:note) Selah.

geneva@Psalms:3:3 @ But thou Lorde art a buckler for me: my glory, and the lifter vp of mine head.

geneva@Psalms:3:4 @ I did call vnto the Lord with my voyce, & he heard me out of his holy mountaine. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:3:5 @ I layed me downe and slept, and rose vp againe: for the Lord susteined me.

geneva@Psalms:3:6 @ I will not be afraid of (note:)When he considered the truth of God's promise, and tried the same, his faith increased marvellously.(:note) ten thousands of people, that have set [themselves] against me round about.

geneva@Psalms:3:7 @ O Lord, arise: helpe me, my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies vpon the cheeke bone: thou hast broken the teeth of the wicked.

geneva@Psalms:3:8 @

geneva@Psalms:4:3 @ But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is (note:)A king who walks in his vocation.(:note) godly for himself: the LORD will hear when I call unto him.

geneva@Psalms:5:3 @ My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct [my prayer] unto thee, and will (note:)Or wait, with patience and trust till I am heard.(:note) look up.

geneva@Psalms:6:3 @

geneva@Psalms:7:3 @ O LORD my God, if I have done (note:)With which Cush charges me.(:note) this; if there be iniquity in my hands;

geneva@Psalms:8:3 @ When I beholde thine heauens, euen the workes of thy fingers, the moone and the starres which thou hast ordeined,

geneva@Psalms:9:3 @ For that mine enemies are turned backe: they shall fall, and perish at thy presence.

geneva@Psalms:10:3 @ For the wicked (note:)The wicked man rejoices in his own lust he boasts when he has that he would; he brags of his wit and wealth and blesses himself and thus blasphemes the Lord.(:note) boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, [whom] the LORD abhorreth.

geneva@Psalms:11:3 @ If the (note:)All hope of help is taken away.(:note) foundations be destroyed, what can the Yet am I innocent and my cause good. righteous do?

geneva@Psalms:11:6 @ Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, (note:)As in the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.(:note) fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: [this shall be] the Which they will drink even to the dregs, (Eze_23:34). portion of their cup.

geneva@Psalms:12:3 @ The Lorde cut off all flattering lippes, and the tongue that speaketh proude things:

geneva@Psalms:13:3 @ Beholde, and heare mee, O Lord my God: lighten mine eyes, that I sleepe not in death:

geneva@Psalms:14:3 @ They are (note:)David here makes comparisons between the faithful and the reprobate, but Paul speaks the same of all men naturally, (Rom_3:10).(:note) all gone aside, they are [all] together become filthy: [there is] none that doeth good, no, not one.

geneva@Psalms:15:3 @ He that slandereth not with his tongue, nor doeth euill to his neighbour, nor receiueth a false report against his neighbour.

geneva@Psalms:16:3 @ But to the Saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent: all my delite is in them.

geneva@Psalms:17:3 @ Thou hast (note:)When your Spirit examined my conscience.(:note) proved mine heart; thou hast visited [me] in the night; thou hast tried me, [and] shalt find nothing; I am purposed [that] my I was innocent toward my enemy both in deed and thought. mouth shall not transgress.

geneva@Psalms:18:3 @ I will call upon the LORD, [who is worthy] to be (note:)For no one can obtain their request from God if they do not join his glory with their petition.(:note) praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.

geneva@Psalms:18:30 @ [As for] God, his way [is] perfect: the (note:)No matter how great or many the dangers may be, yet God's promise must take effect.(:note) word of the LORD is tried: he [is] a buckler to all those that trust in him.

geneva@Psalms:18:31 @ For who is God besides the Lord? And who is mightie saue our God?

geneva@Psalms:18:32 @ [It is] God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my (note:)He gives good success to all my enterprises.(:note) way perfect.

geneva@Psalms:18:33 @ He maketh my feet like hinds' [feet], and setteth me upon my (note:)As towers and forts, which he took out of the hands of God's enemies.(:note) high places.

geneva@Psalms:18:34 @ He teacheth mine hands to fight: so that a bowe of brasse is broken with mine armes.

geneva@Psalms:18:35 @ Thou hast also given me the (note:)To defend me from dangers.(:note) shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy He attributed the beginning, continuance and increase in well doing only to God's favour. gentleness hath made me great.

geneva@Psalms:18:36 @ Thou hast enlarged my steps vnder mee, and mine heeles haue not slid.

geneva@Psalms:18:37 @

geneva@Psalms:18:38 @ I haue wounded them, that they were not able to rise: they are fallen vnder my feete.

geneva@Psalms:18:39 @ For thou hast girded me with strength to battell: them, that rose against me, thou hast subdued vnder me.

geneva@Psalms:19:3 @ [There is] no speech nor (note:)The heavens are a schoolmaster to all nations, no matter how barbarous.(:note) language, [where] their voice is not heard.

geneva@Psalms:20:3 @ Remember all thy offerings, and (note:)In token that they are acceptable to him.(:note) accept thy burnt sacrifice; Selah.

geneva@Psalms:21:3 @ For thou (note:)You declared your liberal favour toward him before he prayed.(:note) preventest him with the blessings of goodness: thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head.

geneva@Psalms:22:3 @ But thou [art] holy, [O thou] that inhabitest the (note:)He means the place of praising, even the tabernacle or else it is so called, because he gave the people continuous opportunity to praise him.(:note) praises of Israel.

geneva@Psalms:22:30 @

geneva@Psalms:22:31 @ They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath (note:)That is, God has fulfilled his promise.(:note) done [this].

geneva@Psalms:23:3 @ He (note:)He comforts or refreshes me.(:note) restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the Plain or straight ways. paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

geneva@Psalms:24:3 @ Who shall ascende into the mountaine of the Lord? and who shall stand in his holy place?

geneva@Psalms:25:3 @ So all that hope in thee, shall not be ashamed: but let them be confounded, that transgresse without cause.

geneva@Psalms:26:3 @ For thy (note:)He shows what stayed him, that he did not recompense evil for evil.(:note) lovingkindness [is] before mine eyes: and I have walked in thy truth.

geneva@Psalms:27:3 @ Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in (note:)That God will deliver me and give my faith the victory.(:note) this [will] I [be] confident.

geneva@Psalms:28:3 @

geneva@Psalms:29:3 @ The (note:)The thunder claps that are heard out of the clouds should make the wicked tremble for fear of God's anger.(:note) voice of the LORD [is] upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the LORD [is] upon many waters.

geneva@Psalms:30:1 @ «A Psalm [and] Song [at] the dedication of the (note:)After Absalom had polluted it with most filthy fornication.(:note) house of David.» I will extol thee, O LORD; He condemns them for great ingratitude who do not praise God for his benefits. for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me.

geneva@Psalms:30:2 @ O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast (note:)Restored from the rebellion of Absalom.(:note) healed me.

geneva@Psalms:30:3 @ O LORD, thou hast brought up my (note:)Meaning, that he escaped death most narrowly.(:note) soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

geneva@Psalms:30:4 @ Sing unto the LORD, O ye (note:)The word signifies them who have received mercy, and show mercy liberally to others.(:note) saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.

geneva@Psalms:30:5 @ For he endureth but a while in his anger: but in his fauour is life: weeping may abide at euening, but ioy commeth in the morning.

geneva@Psalms:30:6 @ And in my (note:)I put too much confidence in my quiet state as in (Jer_31:18; 2Ch_32:24-25).(:note) prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.

geneva@Psalms:30:7 @ LORD, by thy favour thou hast made my (note:)I thought you had established me in Zion most surely.(:note) mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, [and] I After you had withdrawn your help, I felt my misery. was troubled.

geneva@Psalms:30:8 @ Then cried I vnto thee, O Lord, and praied to my Lord.

geneva@Psalms:30:9 @ What profit [is there] in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the (note:)David means that the dead are not profitable to the congregation of the Lord here in the earth: therefore he would live to praise his Name, which is the end of man's creation.(:note) dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?

geneva@Psalms:30:10 @ Heare, O Lorde, and haue mercy vpon me: Lord, be thou mine helper.

geneva@Psalms:30:11 @ Thou hast turned my mourning into ioy: thou hast loosed my sacke and girded mee with gladnesse.

geneva@Psalms:30:12 @ To the end that [my] (note:)Because you have preserved me that my tongue should praise you, I will not be unmindful of my duty.(:note) glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever.

geneva@Psalms:31:1 @ «To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.» In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy (note:)For then God declares himself just, when he preserves his as he has promised.(:note) righteousness.

geneva@Psalms:31:2 @ Bowe downe thine eare to me: make haste to deliuer mee: be vnto me a stronge rocke, and an house of defence to saue me.

geneva@Psalms:31:3 @ For thou art my rocke and my fortresse: therefore for thy Names sake directe mee and guide me.

geneva@Psalms:31:4 @ Pull me out of the (note:)Preserve me from the crafty counsels and subtle practise of my enemies.(:note) net that they have laid privily for me: for thou [art] my strength.

geneva@Psalms:31:5 @ Into thine (note:)He desires God not only to take care of him in this life, but that his soul may be saved after this life.(:note) hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.

geneva@Psalms:31:6 @ I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I (note:)This affection should be in all God's children to hate whatever is not grounded on a sure trust in God, as deceitful and vain.(:note) trust in the LORD.

geneva@Psalms:31:7 @ I wil be glad and reioyce in thy mercie: for thou hast seene my trouble: thou hast knowen my soule in aduersities,

geneva@Psalms:31:8 @ And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a (note:)Largeness signifies comfort, as straitness, sorrow and peril.(:note) large room.

geneva@Psalms:31:9 @ Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine (note:)Meaning, that his sorrow and torment had continued a great while.(:note) eye is consumed with grief, [yea], my soul and my belly.

geneva@Psalms:31:10 @ For my life is wasted with heauinesse, and my yeeres with mourning: my strength faileth for my paine, and my bones are consumed.

geneva@Psalms:31:11 @ I was a (note:)My enemies had drawn all men to their part against me, even my chief friends.(:note) reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.

geneva@Psalms:31:12 @ I am forgotten, as a dead man out of minde: I am like a broken vessell.

geneva@Psalms:31:13 @ For I have heard the slander of (note:)They who were in authority condemned me as a wicked doer.(:note) many: fear [was] on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

geneva@Psalms:31:14 @ But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, (note:)I had this testimony of conscience, that you would defend my innocence.(:note) Thou [art] my God.

geneva@Psalms:31:15 @ My (note:)Whatever changes come, you govern them by your providence.(:note) times [are] in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.

geneva@Psalms:31:16 @ Make thy face to shine vpon thy seruant, and saue me through thy mercie.

geneva@Psalms:31:17 @ Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, [and] let them be (note:)Let death destroy them to the intent that they may hurt no more.(:note) silent in the grave.

geneva@Psalms:31:18 @ Let the lying lips be made dumme, which cruelly, proudly and spitefully speake against the righteous.

geneva@Psalms:31:19 @ [Oh] how great [is] thy goodness, which thou (note:)The treasures of God's mercy are always laid up in store for his children, even at all times they do not enjoy them.(:note) hast laid up for them that fear thee; [which] thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!

geneva@Psalms:31:20 @ Thou shalt hide them in the (note:)That is, in a place where they will have your comfort, and be hid safely from the enemies pride.(:note) secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.

geneva@Psalms:31:21 @ Blessed [be] the LORD: for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness in a (note:)Meaning, there was no city strong enough to preserve him, as the defence of God's favour.(:note) strong city.

geneva@Psalms:31:22 @ For I said in my (note:)And so by my rashness and infidelity deserved to have been forsaken.(:note) haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.

geneva@Psalms:31:23 @ Loue ye the Lorde all his Saintes: for the Lord preserueth the faithfull, and rewardeth abundantly the proud doer.

geneva@Psalms:31:24 @ Be of good courage, and he shall (note:)Be constant in your calling, and God will confirm you with heavenly strength.(:note) strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD.

geneva@Psalms:32:1 @ «[A Psalm] of David, (note:)Concerning the free remission of sins, which is the chief point of our faith.(:note) Maschil.» Blessed [is he whose] transgression [is] To be justified by faith, is to have our sins freely remitted, and to be declared just, (Rom_4:6). forgiven, [whose] sin [is] covered.

geneva@Psalms:32:2 @ Blessed is the man, vnto whom the Lorde imputeth not iniquitie, and in whose spirite there is no guile.

geneva@Psalms:32:3 @ When I kept (note:)Between hope and despair.(:note) silence, my bones waxed old through my Was not eased by silence nor crying, signifying that before the sinner is reconciled to God, he feels a perpetual torment. roaring all the day long.

geneva@Psalms:32:4 @ (For thine hand is heauie vpon me, day and night: and my moysture is turned into ye drought of summer. Selah)

geneva@Psalms:32:5 @ I (note:)He shows that as God's mercy is the only cause of forgiveness of sins, so the means of it are repentance and confession which proceed from faith.(:note) acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:32:6 @ For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a (note:)When necessity causes him to seek you for help, (Isa_55:6).(:note) time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters That is, the waters and great dangers. they shall not come nigh unto him.

geneva@Psalms:32:7 @ Thou art my secret place: thou preseruest me from trouble: thou compassest me about with ioyfull deliuerance. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:32:8 @ I will (note:)David promises to make the rest of God's children partakers of the benefits which he felt, and that he will diligently look and take care to direct them in the way of salvation.(:note) instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.

geneva@Psalms:32:9 @ Be ye not as the horse, [or] as the mule, [which] have no understanding: whose (note:)If men can rule brute beasts, do they think that God will not bridle and tame their rage?(:note) mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.

geneva@Psalms:32:10 @ Many sorowes shall come to the wicked: but he, that trusteth in the Lorde, mercie shall compasse him.

geneva@Psalms:32:11 @ Be glad in the LORD, and (note:)He shows that peace and joy of conscience in the Holy Spirit is the fruit of faith.(:note) rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all [ye that are] upright in heart.

geneva@Psalms:33:1 @ Rejoice in the LORD, O ye righteous: [for] praise is (note:)It is the duty of the godly to set forth the praises of God for his mercy and power showed to them.(:note) comely for the upright.

geneva@Psalms:33:2 @ Praise the LORD with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery [and] an (note:)To sing on instruments, was a part of the ceremonial service of the temple, which does not belong to us any more than the sacrifices, censors and light.(:note) instrument of ten strings.

geneva@Psalms:33:3 @ Sing vnto him a newe song: sing cheerefully with a loude voyce.

geneva@Psalms:33:4 @ For the (note:)That is, counsel or command in governing the world.(:note) word of the LORD [is] right; and all his That is, the effect and execution. works [are done] in truth.

geneva@Psalms:33:5 @ He (note:)However the world judges God's works, yet he does all things according to justice and mercy.(:note) loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of the LORD.

geneva@Psalms:33:6 @ By the worde of the Lorde were the heauens made, & all the hoste of them by the breath of his mouth.

geneva@Psalms:33:7 @ He (note:)By the creation of the heavens and beautiful ornament with the gathering also of the waters, he sets forth the power of God, that all creatures might fear him.(:note) gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.

geneva@Psalms:33:8 @ Let all the earth feare the Lord: let al them that dwell in the world, feare him.

geneva@Psalms:33:9 @ For he spake, and it was done: he commanded, and it stood.

geneva@Psalms:33:10 @ The LORD bringeth the (note:)No counsel can prevail against God, but he deserves it, and it will have evil success.(:note) counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.

geneva@Psalms:33:11 @ The counsell of the Lord shall stand for euer, and the thoughts of his heart throughout all ages.

geneva@Psalms:33:12 @ Blessed [is] the nation whose (note:)He shows that all our happiness stands in this, that the Lord is our God.(:note) God [is] the LORD; [and] the people [whom] he hath chosen for his own inheritance.

geneva@Psalms:33:13 @ The LORD (note:)He proves that all things are governed by God's providence and not by fortune.(:note) looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons of men.

geneva@Psalms:33:14 @ From the habitation of his dwelling he beholdeth all them that dwell in the earth.

geneva@Psalms:33:15 @ He (note:)Therefore he knows their wicked enterprises.(:note) fashioneth their hearts alike; he considereth all their works.

geneva@Psalms:33:16 @ There is no (note:)If kings and the mighty of the world cannot be saved by worldly means, but only by God's providence, what do others have to trust in, who have not similar means?(:note) king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.

geneva@Psalms:33:17 @ A horse is a vaine helpe, and shall not deliuer any by his great strength.

geneva@Psalms:33:18 @ Behold, (note:)God shows his mercy toward his, which man by no means is able to compass.(:note) the eye of the LORD [is] upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy;

geneva@Psalms:33:19 @ To deliuer their soules from death, and to preserue them in famine.

geneva@Psalms:33:20 @

geneva@Psalms:33:21 @ Surely our heart shall reioyce in him, because we trusted in his holy Name.

geneva@Psalms:33:22 @ Let thy mercie, O Lord, be vpon vs, as we trust in thee.

geneva@Psalms:34:1 @ «[A Psalm] of David, when he changed his behaviour before Abimelech; who drove him away, and he departed.» I will bless the LORD (note:)He promised never to become unmindful of God's great benefit for his deliverance.(:note) at all times: his praise [shall] continually [be] in my mouth.

geneva@Psalms:34:2 @ My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the (note:)They who are beaten down with the experience of their own evils.(:note) humble shall hear [thereof], and be glad.

geneva@Psalms:34:3 @ Praise ye the Lord with me, and let vs magnifie his Name together.

geneva@Psalms:34:4 @ I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my (note:)Which I conceived for the danger I was in.(:note) fears.

geneva@Psalms:34:5 @ They (note:)They will be bold to flee to you for help, when they see your mercies toward me.(:note) looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.

geneva@Psalms:34:6 @ This poore man cryed, and the Lord heard him, and saued him out of all his troubles.

geneva@Psalms:34:7 @ The (note:)Though God's power is sufficient to govern us, yet for man's infirmity he appoints his angels to watch over us.(:note) angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.

geneva@Psalms:34:8 @ Taste ye and see, howe gratious the Lorde is: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.

geneva@Psalms:34:9 @ Feare the Lord, ye his Saintes: for nothing wanteth to them that feare him.

geneva@Psalms:34:10 @ The young (note:)The godly by their patient obedience profit more than they who ravage and spoil.(:note) lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not If they abide the last trial. want any good [thing].

geneva@Psalms:34:11 @ Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the (note:)That is, the true religion and worship of God.(:note) fear of the LORD.

geneva@Psalms:34:12 @ What man [is he that] desireth life, [and] loveth [many] days, that he may (note:)Seeing all men naturally desire happiness, he wonders why they cast themselves willingly into misery.(:note) see good?

geneva@Psalms:34:13 @ Keepe thy tongue from euill, and thy lips, that they speake no guile.

geneva@Psalms:34:14 @ Eschewe euill and doe good: seeke peace and followe after it.

geneva@Psalms:34:15 @ The eyes of the Lord are vpon the righteous, and his eares are open vnto their crie.

geneva@Psalms:34:16 @ The (note:)The anger of God not only destroys the wicked, but also abolishes their name forever.(:note) face of the LORD [is] against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

geneva@Psalms:34:17 @ The righteous crie, and the Lorde heareth them, and deliuereth them out of all their troubles.

geneva@Psalms:34:18 @ The LORD [is] nigh unto them that are of a (note:)When they seem to be swallowed up with afflictions, then God is at hand to deliver them.(:note) broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.

geneva@Psalms:34:19 @ Great are the troubles of the righteous: but the Lord deliuereth him out of them all.

geneva@Psalms:34:20 @

geneva@Psalms:34:21 @ Evil shall slay the (note:)Their wicked enterprises will turn to their own destruction.(:note) wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.

geneva@Psalms:34:22 @ The LORD (note:)For when they seem to be overcome with great dangers and death itself, then God shows himself as their redeemer.(:note) redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.

geneva@Psalms:35:1 @ «[A Psalm] of David.» Plead [my (note:)He desires God to undertake his cause against them who persecute him and slander him.(:note) cause], O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.

geneva@Psalms:35:2 @

geneva@Psalms:35:3 @ Draw out also the spear, and stop [the way] against them that persecute me: say unto my (note:)Assure me against these temptations, that you are the author of my salvation.(:note) soul, I [am] thy salvation.

geneva@Psalms:35:4 @ Let them be confounded & put to shame, that seeke after my soule: let them be turned backe, and brought to confusion, that imagine mine hurt.

geneva@Psalms:35:5 @ Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD (note:)Smite them with the spirit of giddiness that their enterprises may be foolish, and they received just reward.(:note) chase [them].

geneva@Psalms:35:6 @ Let their way be darke and slipperie: and let the Angel of the Lord persecute them.

geneva@Psalms:35:7 @ For (note:)Showing that we may not call God to be a revenger but only for his glory, and when our cause is just.(:note) without cause have they hid for me their net [in] a pit, [which] without cause they have digged for my soul.

geneva@Psalms:35:8 @ Let destruction come upon (note:)When he promises peace to himself.(:note) him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into Which he prepared against the children of God. that very destruction let him fall.

geneva@Psalms:35:9 @ Then my soule shalbe ioyfull in the Lord: it shall reioyce in his saluation.

geneva@Psalms:35:10 @ All my (note:)He attributes his deliverance only to God, praising him therefore both in soul and body.(:note) bones shall say, LORD, who [is] like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?

geneva@Psalms:35:11 @

geneva@Psalms:35:12 @ They rewarded me evil for good [to] the (note:)To have taken from me all comfort and brought me into despair.(:note) spoiling of my soul.

geneva@Psalms:35:13 @ But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing [was] sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and (note:)I prayed for them with inward affection, as I would have done for myself: or, I declared my affection with bowing down my head.(:note) my prayer returned into mine own bosom.

geneva@Psalms:35:14 @ I behaued my selfe as to my friend, or as to my brother: I humbled my selfe, mourning as one that bewaileth his mother.

geneva@Psalms:35:15 @ But in mine (note:)When they thought me ready to slip and as one that limped for infirmity.(:note) adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: [yea], the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew [it] not; they did tear With their railing words. [me], and ceased not:

geneva@Psalms:35:16 @ With hypocritical mockers in (note:)The word signifies cakes: meaning that the proud courtiers at their dainty feasts scoff, rail, and conspire his death.(:note) feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

geneva@Psalms:35:17 @ Lord, how long wilt thou beholde this? deliuer my soule from their tumult, euen my desolate soule from the lions.

geneva@Psalms:35:18 @ So will I giue thee thankes in a great Congregation: I will praise thee among much people.

geneva@Psalms:35:19 @ Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: [neither] let them (note:)In token of contempt and mocking.(:note) wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.

geneva@Psalms:35:20 @ For they speake not as friendes: but they imagine deceitfull woordes against the quiet of the lande.

geneva@Psalms:35:21 @ Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, [and] said, Aha, aha, (note:)They rejoiced as though they had now seen David overthrown.(:note) our eye hath seen [it].

geneva@Psalms:35:22 @ Thou hast seene it, O Lorde: keepe not silence: be not farre from me, O Lord.

geneva@Psalms:35:23 @ Arise and wake to my iudgement, euen to my cause, my God, and my Lord.

geneva@Psalms:35:24 @ Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy (note:)It is the justice of God to give to the oppressors affliction and torment, and to the oppressed aid and relief, (2Th_1:6).(:note) righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.

geneva@Psalms:35:25 @ Let them not say in their hearts, (note:)Because we have that which we sought for, seeing he is destroyed.(:note) Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

geneva@Psalms:35:26 @ Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion (note:)That is, at once, were they never so many or mighty.(:note) together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed This prayer will always be verified against them who persecute the faithful. with shame and dishonour that magnify [themselves] against me.

geneva@Psalms:35:27 @ Let them shout for joy, and be glad, (note:)That at least favour my right, though they are not able to help me.(:note) that favour my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, which hath pleasure in the He exhorts the Church to praise God for the deliverance of his servants, and for the destruction of his adversaries. prosperity of his servant.

geneva@Psalms:35:28 @ And my tongue shall vtter thy righteousnesse, and thy praise euery day.

geneva@Psalms:36:1 @ «To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David the servant of the LORD.» The transgression of the wicked saith (note:)I see evidently by his deeds, that sin pushes forward the reprobate from wickedness to wickedness, even though he goes about to cover his impiety.(:note) within my heart, [that there is] no fear of God before his eyes.

geneva@Psalms:36:2 @ For he (note:)Though all others detest his vile sin, yet he himself sees it not.(:note) flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful.

geneva@Psalms:36:3 @ The words of his mouth [are] iniquity and (note:)The reprobates mock wholesome doctrine, and put no difference between good and evil.(:note) deceit: he hath left off to be wise, [and] to do good.

geneva@Psalms:36:4 @ He (note:)By describing at large the nature of the reprobate, he admonishes the godly to beware of these vices.(:note) deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way [that is] not good; he abhorreth not evil.

geneva@Psalms:36:5 @ Thy (note:)Though wickedness seems to overflow all the world, yet by your heavenly providence you govern heaven and earth.(:note) mercy, O LORD, [is] in the heavens; [and] thy faithfulness [reacheth] unto the clouds.

geneva@Psalms:36:6 @ Thy righteousness [is] like the great mountains; thy judgments [are] a great (note:)The depth of your providence governs all things, and disposes them, even though the wicked seem to overwhelm the world.(:note) deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.

geneva@Psalms:36:7 @ How excellent is thy mercy, O God! therefore the children of men trust vnder the shadowe of thy wings.

geneva@Psalms:36:8 @ They shall be abundantly (note:)Only God's children have enough of all things both concerning this life and the life to come.(:note) satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.

geneva@Psalms:36:9 @ For with thee is the well of life, and in thy light shall we see light.

geneva@Psalms:36:10 @ O continue thy lovingkindness unto them that (note:)He shows who God's children are, that is, they who know him, and live their lives uprightly.(:note) know thee; and thy righteousness to the upright in heart.

geneva@Psalms:36:11 @ Let not the (note:)Let not the proud advance himself against me, or the power of the wicked drive me away.(:note) foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.

geneva@Psalms:36:12 @

geneva@Psalms:37:1 @ «[A Psalm] of David.» Fret not (note:)He admonishes us neither to vex ourselves for the prosperous estate of the wicked, or to desire to be like them to make our estate better.(:note) thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.

geneva@Psalms:37:2 @ For they shall soon be (note:)For God's judgment cuts down their state in a moment.(:note) cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.

geneva@Psalms:37:3 @

geneva@Psalms:37:4 @ And delite thy selfe in the Lorde, and hee shall giue thee thine hearts desire.

geneva@Psalms:37:5 @

geneva@Psalms:37:6 @ And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy (note:)As the hope of daylight causes us not to be offended with the darkness of the night so ought we patiently to trust that God will clear our cause and restore us to our right.(:note) judgment as the noonday.

geneva@Psalms:37:7 @ Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him (note:)When God allows the wicked to prosper, it seems to the flesh that he favours their doings, (Job_21:7).(:note) who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.

geneva@Psalms:37:8 @ Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: (note:)Meaning, unless he moderates his affection, he will be led to do as they do.(:note) fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.

geneva@Psalms:37:9 @ For euill doers shalbe cut off, and they that wait vpon the Lord, they shall inherite the land.

geneva@Psalms:37:10 @

geneva@Psalms:37:11 @ But meeke men shal possesse the earth, and shall haue their delite in the multitude of peace.

geneva@Psalms:37:12 @

geneva@Psalms:37:13 @ But the Lord shall laugh him to scorne: for he seeth, that his day is comming.

geneva@Psalms:37:14 @ The wicked haue drawen their sworde, and haue bent their bowe, to cast downe the poore and needie, and to slay such as be of vpright conuersation.

geneva@Psalms:37:15 @ But their sword shall enter into their owne heart, and their bowes shalbe broken.

geneva@Psalms:37:16 @

geneva@Psalms:37:17 @ For the armes of the wicked shall be broken: but the Lord vpholdeth the iust men.

geneva@Psalms:37:18 @ The LORD (note:)God knows what dangers hang over his, and by what means to deliver them.(:note) knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be for ever.

geneva@Psalms:37:19 @ They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall (note:)For God will give them contented minds, and that which will be necessary.(:note) be satisfied.

geneva@Psalms:37:20 @ But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD [shall be] as the (note:)They will vanish away suddenly for they are fed for the day of slaughter.(:note) fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.

geneva@Psalms:37:21 @ The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and (note:)God so furnishes him with high blessings, that he is able to help others.(:note) giveth.

geneva@Psalms:37:22 @ For such as be blessed of God, shall inherite the lande, and they that be cursed of him, shalbe cut off.

geneva@Psalms:37:23 @

geneva@Psalms:37:24 @ Though he (note:)When God exercises his faith with various temptations.(:note) fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth [him with] his hand.

geneva@Psalms:37:25 @ I have been young, and [now] am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his (note:)Though the just man die, yet God's blessings are extended to his posterity and though God suffer some just man to lack temporal benefits, yet he recompenses him with spiritual treasures.(:note) seed begging bread.

geneva@Psalms:37:26 @ But hee is euer mercifull and lendeth, and his seede enioyeth the blessing.

geneva@Psalms:37:27 @ Flee from euill and doe good, and dwell for euer.

geneva@Psalms:37:28 @ For the Lord loueth iudgement, and forsaketh not his Saintes: they shall be preserued for euermore: but the seede of the wicked shall be cut off.

geneva@Psalms:37:29 @ The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein (note:)They will continually be preserved under God's wings, and have at least inward rest.(:note) for ever.

geneva@Psalms:37:30 @ The (note:)These three points are required from the faithful, that their talk is godly, that God's law is in their heart, and that their life is upright.(:note) mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.

geneva@Psalms:37:31 @ For the Lawe of his God is in his heart, and his steppes shall not slide.

geneva@Psalms:37:32 @ The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.

geneva@Psalms:37:33 @ The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is (note:)For though it is sometimes so expedient both for God's glory and their salvation, yet he will approve their cause and avenge their wrong.(:note) judged.

geneva@Psalms:37:34 @ Waite thou on the Lorde, and keepe his way, and he shall exalt thee, that thou shalt inherite the lande: when the wicked men shall perish, thou shalt see.

geneva@Psalms:37:35 @ I haue seene the wicked strong, and spreading himselfe like a greene bay tree.

geneva@Psalms:37:36 @ Yet he (note:)So that the prosperity of the wicked is but as a cloud, which vanishes away in a moment.(:note) passed away, and, lo, he [was] not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.

geneva@Psalms:37:37 @

geneva@Psalms:37:38 @ But the transgressours shall be destroyed together, and the ende of the wicked shall bee cut off.

geneva@Psalms:37:39 @ But the (note:)He shows that the patient hope of the godly is never in vain, but in the end has good success, though for a time God proves them by various temptations.(:note) salvation of the righteous [is] of the LORD: [he is] their strength in the time of trouble.

geneva@Psalms:37:40 @ For the Lord shall helpe them, and deliuer them: he shall deliuer them from the wicked, and shall saue them, because they trust in him.

geneva@Psalms:38:1 @ «A Psalm of David, to bring to (note:)To put himself and others in mind of God's chastisement for sin.(:note) remembrance.» O LORD, rebuke me not in thy He desires not to be exempted from God's rod, but that he would so moderate his hand, that he might be able to bear it. wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

geneva@Psalms:38:2 @ For thine (note:)Your sickness, with which you have visited me.(:note) arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.

geneva@Psalms:38:3 @ [There is] no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither [is there any] rest in my bones because of my (note:)David acknowledges God to be just in his punishments, because his sins had deserved much more.(:note) sin.

geneva@Psalms:38:4 @ For mine (note:)He confesses his sins, God's justice, and makes prayer his refuge.(:note) iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

geneva@Psalms:38:5 @ My wounds stink [and] are corrupt because of (note:)That rather gave place to my own lusts, than to the will of God.(:note) my foolishness.

geneva@Psalms:38:6 @ I am bowed, and crooked very sore: I goe mourning all the day.

geneva@Psalms:38:7 @ For my reines are full of burning, and there is nothing sound in my flesh.

geneva@Psalms:38:8 @ I am feeble and sore broken: I (note:)This example warns us never to despair, no matter how great the torment: but always to cry to God with sure trust for deliverance.(:note) have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

geneva@Psalms:38:9 @ Lorde, I powre my whole desire before thee, and my sighing is not hid from thee.

geneva@Psalms:38:10 @ My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, (note:)My sight fails me for sorrow.(:note) it also is gone from me.

geneva@Psalms:38:11 @ My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my (note:)Partly for fear and partly for pride, they denied all duty and friendship.(:note) kinsmen stand afar off.

geneva@Psalms:38:12 @ They also, that seeke after my life, laye snares, and they that go about to do me euil, talke wicked things and imagine deceite continually.

geneva@Psalms:38:13 @ But I, as a (note:)For I can have no audience before men, and therefore patiently wait for the help of God.(:note) deaf [man], heard not; and [I was] as a dumb man [that] openeth not his mouth.

geneva@Psalms:38:14 @ Thus am I as a man, that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofes.

geneva@Psalms:38:15 @ For on thee, O Lord, do I waite: thou wilt heare me, my Lord, my God.

geneva@Psalms:38:16 @ For I said, [Hear me], lest [otherwise] they should rejoice over me: (note:)That is, if they see that you do not help me in time, they will mock and triumph as though you had forsaken me.(:note) when my foot slippeth, they magnify [themselves] against me.

geneva@Psalms:38:17 @ For I [am] ready to (note:)I am without hope to recover my strength.(:note) halt, and my sorrow [is] continually before me.

geneva@Psalms:38:18 @ When I declare my paine, and am sory for my sinne,

geneva@Psalms:38:19 @ But mine (note:)In my greatest misery they most rejoice.(:note) enemies [are] lively, [and] they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.

geneva@Psalms:38:20 @ They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow [the thing that] (note:)He would rather have the hatred of all the world, than fail in any part of his duty to God.(:note) good [is].

geneva@Psalms:38:21 @ Forsake me not, O Lord: be not thou farre from me, my God.

geneva@Psalms:38:22 @ Make haste to help me, O Lord my (note:)Who is the author of my salvation: and this declares that he prayed with sure hope of deliverance.(:note) salvation.

geneva@Psalms:39:1 @ «To the chief Musician, [even] to (note:)This was one of the chief singers, (1Ch_16:41).(:note) Jeduthun, A Psalm of David.» I said, Although he had appointed with himself patiently to have wait for God's timing, yet the vehemency of his pain caused him to break his purpose. I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.

geneva@Psalms:39:2 @ I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, [even] from good; (note:)Though when the wicked ruled he thought to have kept silence, yet his zeal caused him to change his mind.(:note) and my sorrow was stirred.

geneva@Psalms:39:3 @ My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: [then] (note:)He confesses that he grudged against God, considering the greatness of his sorrows, and the shortness of his life.(:note) spake I with my tongue,

geneva@Psalms:39:4 @ Lord, let me know mine ende, and the measure of my dayes, what it is: let mee knowe howe long I haue to liue.

geneva@Psalms:39:5 @ Behold, thou hast made my days [as] an handbreadth; and mine age [is] as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state [is] altogether (note:)Yet David offended in that he reasoned with God as though he were too severe toward his weak creature.(:note) vanity. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:39:6 @ Doubtlesse man walketh in a shadowe, and disquieteth himselfe in vaine: he heapeth vp riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them.

geneva@Psalms:39:7 @ And now Lord, what wait I for? mine hope is euen in thee.

geneva@Psalms:39:8 @ Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the (note:)Do not make me a laughing stock to the wicked, wrap me up with the wicked when they are put to shame.(:note) foolish.

geneva@Psalms:39:9 @ I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because (note:)Seeing my troubles came from your providence, I ought to have endured them patiently.(:note) thou didst [it].

geneva@Psalms:39:10 @ Take thy plague away from mee: for I am consumed by the stroke of thine hand.

geneva@Psalms:39:11 @ When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou (note:)Though your open plagues do not light on them forever, yet your secret curse continually frets them.(:note) makest his The word signifies all that he desires, as health, force, strength, beauty, and in whatever he has delight, so that the rod of God takes away all that is desired in this world. beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man [is] vanity. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:39:12 @ Heare my prayer, O Lord, & hearken vnto my cry: keepe not silence at my teares, for I am a strager with thee, and a soiourner as all my fathers.

geneva@Psalms:39:13 @ O spare me, that I may recover strength, (note:)For his sorrow caused him to think that God would destroy him completely, by which we see how hard it is for the saints to keep a measure in their words, when death and despair assails them.(:note) before I go hence, and be no more.

geneva@Psalms:40:3 @ And he hath put (note:)That is, a special opportunity to praise him, for God's benefits are so many opportunities for us to praise his Name.(:note) a new song in my mouth, [even] praise unto our God: many shall see [it], and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.

geneva@Psalms:41:3 @ The LORD will strengthen him upon the (note:)When for sorrow and grief of mind he calls himself on his bed.(:note) bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his You have restored him in his sick bed and sent him comfort. bed in his sickness.

geneva@Psalms:42:3 @

geneva@Psalms:43:3 @ O send out thy (note:)That is, your favour which appears by the performance of your promises.(:note) light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.

geneva@Psalms:44:3 @ For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a (note:)God's free mercy and love is the only fountain and beginning of the Church, (Deu_4:37).(:note) favour unto them.

geneva@Psalms:45:3 @ Gird thy sword vpon thy thigh, O most mightie, to wit, thy worship and thy glory,

geneva@Psalms:46:3 @ [Though] the waters thereof (note:)Though the afflictions rage, yet the rivers of God's mercies bring sufficient comfort to his.(:note) roar [and] be troubled, [though] the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:47:3 @ He shall (note:)He has made the Jews who were the keepers of the law and prophets, schoolmasters to the Gentiles, that they would with gladness obey them.(:note) subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet.

geneva@Psalms:48:3 @ God is known in her palaces for a (note:)Unless God is the defence of it, neither situation nor munition can prevail.(:note) refuge.

geneva@Psalms:49:3 @ My mouth shal speake of wisdome, and the meditation of mine heart is of knowledge.

geneva@Psalms:50:3 @ Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a (note:)As when God gave his law in mount Sinai he appeared terrible with thunder and tempest, so will he appear terrible to take account for the keeping of it.(:note) fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.

geneva@Psalms:51:3 @ For I (note:)My conscience accuses me so, that I can have no rest till I am reconciled.(:note) acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin [is] ever before me.

geneva@Psalms:52:3 @ Thou doest loue euill more then good, and lies more then to speake the trueth. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:53:3 @ Euery one is gone backe: they are altogether corrupt: there is none that doth good, no not one.

geneva@Psalms:54:3 @ For (note:)That is, the Ziphims.(:note) strangers are risen up against me, and Saul and his army who were like cruel beasts, could not be satisfied except by his death. oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:55:3 @ Because of the (note:)For the threatenings of Saul and his adherents.(:note) voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for They have defamed me as a wicked person, or they have imagined my destruction. they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.

geneva@Psalms:56:3 @ When I was afrayd, I trusted in thee.

geneva@Psalms:57:3 @ He shall send from (note:)He would rather deliver me by a miracle, than that I should be overcome.(:note) heaven, and save me [from] the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.

geneva@Psalms:58:3 @ The wicked (note:)That is, enemies to the people of God even from their birth.(:note) are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

geneva@Psalms:59:3 @ For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not [for] my (note:)For I am innocent toward them, and have not offended them.(:note) transgression, nor [for] my sin, O LORD.

geneva@Psalms:60:3 @ Thou hast (note:)You have handled your people sharply, in asking from them sense and judgment in that they aided Saul the wicked King, and punished him to whom God had given the just title of the realm.(:note) shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.

geneva@Psalms:61:3 @ For thou hast bene mine hope, and a strong tower against the enemie.

geneva@Psalms:62:3 @ How long will ye imagine mischief against a (note:)He means himself, being the man whom God had appointed to the kingdom.(:note) man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a Though you seem to be in honour, yet God will suddenly destroy you. bowing wall [shall ye be, and as] a tottering fence.

geneva@Psalms:63:3 @ For thy louing kindnesse is better then life: therefore my lippes shall prayse thee.

geneva@Psalms:64:3 @ Who whet their tongue like a sword, [and] bend [their bows to shoot] their arrows, [even] (note:)False reports and slanders.(:note) bitter words:

geneva@Psalms:65:3 @ Iniquities (note:)He imputes it to his sins and to the sins of the people that God who was accustomed to afflict them withdraws his help from them.(:note) prevail against me: [as for] our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away.

geneva@Psalms:66:3 @ Say unto God, How terrible [art thou in] thy works! through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies (note:)As the faithful obey God willingly, so the infidels disguise themselves as obedient out of fear.(:note) submit themselves unto thee.

geneva@Psalms:67:3 @ Let the people prayse thee, O God: let all the people prayse thee.

geneva@Psalms:68:3 @

geneva@Psalms:68:30 @ Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, [till every one] (note:)He desires that the pride of the mighty may be destroyed, who were accustomed to garnishing their shoes with silver, and therefore for their glittering pomp thought themselves above all men.(:note) submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter thou the people [that] delight in war.

geneva@Psalms:68:31 @ Princes shall come out (note:)He prophecies that the Gentiles will come to the true knowledge and worship of God.(:note) of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.

geneva@Psalms:68:32 @ Sing vnto God, O yee kingdomes of the earth: sing praise vnto the Lord, (Selah)

geneva@Psalms:68:33 @ To him that rideth upon the heavens of heavens, [which were] of old; lo, he doth send out his (note:)By his terrible thunders he will make himself be known as the God of all the world.(:note) voice, [and that] a mighty voice.

geneva@Psalms:68:34 @ Ascribe the power to God: for his maiestie is vpon Israel, and his strength is in the cloudes.

geneva@Psalms:68:35 @ O God, [thou art] (note:)In showing fearful judgments against your enemies for the salvation of your people.(:note) terrible out of thy holy He alludes to the tabernacle which was divided in three parts. places: the God of Israel [is] he that giveth strength and power unto [his] people. Blessed [be] God.

geneva@Psalms:69:3 @ I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine (note:)Though his senses failed him, yet his faith was constant and encouraged him still to pray.(:note) eyes fail while I wait for my God.

geneva@Psalms:69:30 @ I will praise the Name of God with a song, and magnifie him with thankesgiuing.

geneva@Psalms:69:31 @ [This] also shall please the LORD better than an ox [or] (note:)There is no sacrifice which God values more than thanksgiving for his benefits.(:note) bullock that hath horns and hoofs.

geneva@Psalms:69:32 @ The humble shall see this, and they that seeke God, shalbe glad, and your heart shall liue.

geneva@Psalms:69:33 @ For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his (note:)For as he delivered his servant David, so will he do for all that are in distress and call on him.(:note) prisoners.

geneva@Psalms:69:34 @ Let heauen and earth praise him: the seas and all that moueth in them.

geneva@Psalms:69:35 @ For God will saue Zion, and builde the cities of Iudah, that men may dwell there and haue it in possession.

geneva@Psalms:69:36 @ The (note:)Under the temporal promise of the land of Canaan, he comprehends the promise of everlasting life to the faithful and their posterity.(:note) seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.

geneva@Psalms:70:3 @ Let them be turned back for a reward of their (note:)By this we are taught not to mock at others in their misery, lest the same fall on our own necks.(:note) shame that say, Aha, aha.

geneva@Psalms:71:3 @ Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou (note:)You have infinite means and all creatures are at your commandment; therefore show some sign by which I will be delivered.(:note) hast given commandment to save me; for thou [art] my rock and my fortress.

geneva@Psalms:72:3 @ The (note:)When justice reigns, even the places most barren will be enriched with your blessings.(:note) mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness.

geneva@Psalms:73:3 @ For I feared at the foolish, when I sawe the prosperitie of the wicked.

geneva@Psalms:74:3 @ Lift vp thy strokes, that thou mayest for euer destroy euery enemie that doeth euill to the Sanctuarie.

geneva@Psalms:75:3 @ The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars (note:)Though all things are brought to ruin, yet I can restore and preserve them.(:note) of it. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:76:3 @ There brake he the arrowes of the bowe, the shielde and the sword and the battell. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:77:3 @ I remembered God, and was (note:)He shows that we must patiently abide though God does not deliver us from our troubles at the first cry.(:note) troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:78:3 @ Which we have heard and known, and our (note:)Who were the people of God.(:note) fathers have told us.

geneva@Psalms:78:30 @ They were not estranged from their (note:)Such is the nature of concupiscence, that the more it has the more it lusts.(:note) lust. But while their meat [was] yet in their mouths,

geneva@Psalms:78:31 @ The wrath of God came upon them, and slew (note:)Though others were not spared, yet chiefly they suffered, who trusted in their strength against God.(:note) the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen [men] of Israel.

geneva@Psalms:78:32 @ For all this they (note:)Thus sin by continuance makes man insensible, so that by no plagues they can be amended.(:note) sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.

geneva@Psalms:78:33 @ Therefore their daies did hee consume in vanitie, and their yeeres hastily.

geneva@Psalms:78:34 @ When he (note:)Such was their hypocrisy, that they sought God out of fear of punishment, though in their heart they did not love him.(:note) slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God.

geneva@Psalms:78:35 @ And they remembred that God was their strength, and the most high God their redeemer.

geneva@Psalms:78:36 @ But they flattered him with their mouth, and dissembled with him with their tongue.

geneva@Psalms:78:37 @ For their (note:)Whatever does not come from the pure fountain of the heart is hypocrisy.(:note) heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.

geneva@Psalms:78:38 @ But he, [being] full of compassion, (note:)Because he would always have some remnant of a Church to praise his Name in earth, he did not permit their sins to overcome his mercy.(:note) forgave [their] iniquity, and destroyed [them] not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.

geneva@Psalms:78:39 @ For he remebred that they were flesh: yea, a winde that passeth and commeth not againe.

geneva@Psalms:78:51 @ And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the (note:)The firstborn are so called, as in (Gen_49:3).(:note) chief of [their] strength in the tabernacles of That is, Egypt: for it was called Mizraim, or Egypt of Mizraim that was the son of Ham. Ham:

geneva@Psalms:79:3 @ Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and [there was] none to (note:)Their friends and relatives did not dare to bury them for fear of the enemies.(:note) bury [them].

geneva@Psalms:80:3 @

geneva@Psalms:81:3 @ Blow up the trumpet in the (note:)Under this feast he comprehends all other solemn days.(:note) new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.

geneva@Psalms:82:3 @ Doe right to the poore and fatherlesse: doe iustice to the poore and needie.

geneva@Psalms:83:3 @ They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy (note:)The elect of God are his secret ones: for he hides them in the secret of his tabernacle, and preserves them from all dangers.(:note) hidden ones.

geneva@Psalms:84:3 @ Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, [even] thine (note:)So that the poor birds have more freedom than I.(:note) altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.

geneva@Psalms:85:3 @ Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned [thyself] from the (note:)Not only in withdrawing your rod, but in forgiving sins, and in touching our hearts to confess them.(:note) fierceness of thine anger.

geneva@Psalms:86:3 @ Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I (note:)Which was a fair token that he believed that God would deliver him.(:note) cry unto thee daily.

geneva@Psalms:87:3 @

geneva@Psalms:88:3 @ For my soule is filled with euils, and my life draweth neere to the graue.

geneva@Psalms:89:3 @

geneva@Psalms:89:30 @ But if his children forsake my Lawe, and walke not in my iudgements:

geneva@Psalms:89:31 @ If they breake my statutes, and keepe not my commandements:

geneva@Psalms:89:32 @ Then will I visite their transgression with the rod, and their iniquitie with strokes.

geneva@Psalms:89:33 @

geneva@Psalms:89:34 @ My covenant will I not break, nor (note:)For God in promising has respect to his mercy, and not to man's power in performing.(:note) alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.

geneva@Psalms:89:35 @ I haue sworne once by mine holines, that I will not fayle Dauid, saying,

geneva@Psalms:89:36 @ His seede shall endure for euer, and his throne shalbe as the sunne before me.

geneva@Psalms:89:37 @ It shall be established for ever as the moon, and [as] a faithful (note:)As long as the Sun and Moon endure, they will be witnesses to me of this promise.(:note) witness in heaven. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:89:38 @ But thou hast reiected and abhorred, thou hast bene angry with thine Anoynted.

geneva@Psalms:89:39 @ Thou hast (note:)Because of the horrible confusion of things, the prophet complains to God, as though he did not see the performance of his promise and thus discharging his cares on God, he resists doubt and impatience.(:note) made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his By this he means the horrible dissipation and tearing of the kingdom which was under Jeroboam, or else by the Spirit of prophecy Ethan speaks of those great miseries which came to pass soon after at the captivity of Babylon. crown [by casting it] to the ground.

geneva@Psalms:90:3 @ Thou (note:)Moses by lamenting the frailty and shortness of man's life moves God to pity.(:note) turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.

geneva@Psalms:91:3 @ Surely he shall deliver thee from the (note:)That is, God's help is most ready for us, whether Satan assails us secretly which he calls a snare, or openly which is here meant by the pestilence.(:note) snare of the fowler, [and] from the noisome pestilence.

geneva@Psalms:92:3 @ Upon an (note:)These instruments were then permitted in the Church as also they are now. (Ed.)(:note) instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound.

geneva@Psalms:93:3 @

geneva@Psalms:94:3 @ LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked (note:)That is, brag of their cruelty and oppression, or esteem themselves above all others.(:note) triumph?

geneva@Psalms:95:3 @ For the LORD [is] a great God, and a great King above all (note:)Even the angels (who in respect to men are thought as gods) are nothing in his sight, much less the idols, which man's brain invents.(:note) gods.

geneva@Psalms:96:3 @ Declare his glory among all nations, and his wonders among all people.

geneva@Psalms:97:3 @ There shall goe a fire before him, & burne vp his enemies round about.

geneva@Psalms:98:3 @ He hath (note:)God was moved by no other means to gather his Church from the Jews and Gentiles, but because he would perform his promise.(:note) remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

geneva@Psalms:99:3 @ Let them (note:)Though the wicked rage against God, the godly will praise his Name and mighty power.(:note) praise thy great and terrible name; [for] it [is] holy.

geneva@Psalms:100:3 @ Know ye that the LORD he [is] God: [it is] he [that] hath (note:)He chiefly means concerning spiritual regeneration, by which we are his sheep and people.(:note) made us, and not we ourselves; [we are] his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

geneva@Psalms:101:3 @ I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate (note:)He shows that magistrates do not do their duties, unless they are enemies to all vice.(:note) the work of them that turn aside; [it] shall not cleave to me.

geneva@Psalms:102:3 @ For my days are (note:)These excessive kinds of speech show how much the affliction of the Church should wound the hearts of the godly.(:note) consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.

geneva@Psalms:103:3 @ Who (note:)That is, the beginning and chiefest of all benefits, remission of sin.(:note) forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;

geneva@Psalms:104:3 @ Which layeth the beames of his chambers in the waters, and maketh the cloudes his chariot, and walketh vpon the wings of the winde.

geneva@Psalms:104:30 @ Thou (note:)As the death of creatures shows that we are nothing of ourselves: so their generation declares that we receive all things from our Creator.(:note) sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.

geneva@Psalms:104:31 @ Glory be to the Lord for euer: let the Lord reioyce in his workes.

geneva@Psalms:104:32 @ He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth: he toucheth the hills, and they (note:)God's merciful face gives strength to the earth, but his severe countenance burns the mountains.(:note) smoke.

geneva@Psalms:104:33 @ I will sing vnto the Lord all my life: I will prayse my God, while I liue.

geneva@Psalms:104:34 @ Let my wordes be acceptable vnto him: I will reioyce in the Lord.

geneva@Psalms:104:35 @ Let the sinners be (note:)Who infect the world, and so cause it to be that God cannot rejoice in his work.(:note) consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless thou the LORD, O my soul. Praise ye the LORD.

geneva@Psalms:105:3 @ Reioyce in his holy Name: let the heart of them that seeke the Lord, reioyce.

geneva@Psalms:105:14 @ He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved (note:)That is, the king of Egypt and the king of Gerar, (Gen_12:17, Gen_20:3)(:note) kings for their sakes;

geneva@Psalms:105:30 @ Their land brought foorth frogs, euen in their Kings chambers.

geneva@Psalms:105:31 @ He (note:)So that this vermin did not come by chance, but as God had appointed, and his prophet Moses spoke.(:note) spake, and there came divers sorts of flies, [and] lice in all their coasts.

geneva@Psalms:105:32 @ He gave them (note:)It was strange to see rain in Egypt, much more it was fearful to see hail.(:note) hail for rain, [and] flaming fire in their land.

geneva@Psalms:105:33 @ He smote their vines also and their figge trees, and brake downe the trees in their coastes.

geneva@Psalms:105:34 @

geneva@Psalms:105:35 @ And did eate vp all the grasse in their land, and deuoured the fruite of their ground.

geneva@Psalms:105:36 @ He smote also all the first borne in their land, euen the beginning of all their strength.

geneva@Psalms:105:37 @ He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and [there was] (note:)When their enemies felt God's plagues his children by his providence were exempted.(:note) not one feeble [person] among their tribes.

geneva@Psalms:105:38 @ Egypt was (note:)For God's plagues caused them to prefer to depart with the Israelites rather than with their lives.(:note) glad when they departed: for the fear of them fell upon them.

geneva@Psalms:105:39 @ He spred a cloude to be a couering, and fire to giue light in the night.

geneva@Psalms:106:3 @ Blessed [are] they that (note:)He shows that it is not enough to praise God with the mouth, unless the whole heart agrees to it, and all our life framed after it.(:note) keep judgment, [and] he that doeth righteousness at all times.

geneva@Psalms:106:30 @ Then stood up (note:)When all others neglected God's glory, he in his zeal killed the adulterers and prevented God's wrath.(:note) Phinehas, and executed judgment: and [so] the plague was stayed.

geneva@Psalms:106:31 @ And that was (note:)This act declared his living faith, and for his faith's sake was accepted.(:note) counted unto him for righteousness unto all generations for evermore.

geneva@Psalms:106:32 @ They angered [him] also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with (note:)If so notable a prophet of God does not escape punishment, though others provoked him to sin, how much more will they be subject to God's judgment, who cause God's children to sin?(:note) Moses for their sakes:

geneva@Psalms:106:33 @ Because they vexed his spirite, so that hee spake vnaduisedly with his lippes.

geneva@Psalms:106:34 @ Neither destroied they the people, as the Lord had commaunded them,

geneva@Psalms:106:35 @ But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their workes,

geneva@Psalms:106:36 @ And serued their idoles, which were their ruine.

geneva@Psalms:106:37 @ Yea, they sacrificed their (note:)He shows how monstrous a thing idolatry is, which can win us to things abhorring to nature, while God's word cannot obtain small things.(:note) sons and their daughters unto devils,

geneva@Psalms:106:38 @ And shed innocent blood, euen the blood of their sonnes, & of their daughters, whome they offred vnto the idoles of Canaan, and the lande was defiled with blood.

geneva@Psalms:106:39 @ Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went (note:)Then true chastity is to cleave wholly and only to God.(:note) a whoring with their own inventions.

geneva@Psalms:107:3 @ And gathered them out of the lands, from the East and from the West, from the North and from the South.

geneva@Psalms:107:30 @ Then are they glad because they be (note:)Though before every drop seemed to fight one against the other, yet at his command they are as still as if they were frozen.(:note) quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.

geneva@Psalms:107:31 @ Let them therfore confesse before the Lord his louing kindnesse, and his wonderfull woorkes before the sonnes of men.

geneva@Psalms:107:32 @ Let them exalt him also in the (note:)This great benefit should not only be considered particularly, but magnified in all places and assemblies.(:note) congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders.

geneva@Psalms:107:33 @ He turneth the floodes into a wildernesse, and the springs of waters into drinesse,

geneva@Psalms:107:34 @ And a fruitfull land into barrennes for the wickednes of them that dwell therein.

geneva@Psalms:107:35 @ He (note:)For the love that he bears to his Church, he changes the order of nature for their convenience.(:note) turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings.

geneva@Psalms:107:36 @ And there he placeth the hungrie, and they builde a citie to dwell in,

geneva@Psalms:107:37 @ And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of (note:)Continual increase and yearly.(:note) increase.

geneva@Psalms:107:38 @ For he blesseth them, & they multiplie exceedingly, and he diminisheth not their cattell.

geneva@Psalms:107:39 @

geneva@Psalms:108:3 @ I will praise thee, O LORD, among the (note:)He prophecies of the calling of the Gentiles: for unless they were called, they could not hear the goodness of God.(:note) people: and I will sing praises unto thee among the nations.

geneva@Psalms:109:3 @ They compassed me about also with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.

geneva@Psalms:109:30 @ I will greatly praise the LORD with my (note:)Not only in confessing it secretly in myself but also in declaring it before all the congregation.(:note) mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.

geneva@Psalms:109:31 @ For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save [him] from those that (note:)By this he shows that he had nothing to do with them who were of little power, but with the judges and princes of the world.(:note) condemn his soul.

geneva@Psalms:110:3 @ Thy people [shall be] willing in the day of (note:)By the word your people will be assembled into your Church...increase will be...anointed wonderful... drops of the...(:note) thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.

geneva@Psalms:111:3 @ His worke is beautifull and glorious, and his righteousnesse endureth for euer.

geneva@Psalms:112:3 @

geneva@Psalms:113:3 @ The Lordes Name is praysed from the rising of ye sunne, vnto ye going downe of the same.

geneva@Psalms:114:3 @ The Sea sawe it and fled: Iorden was turned backe.

geneva@Psalms:115:3 @ But our God [is] in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath (note:)No impediments can slow his work, but he uses even the impediments to serve his will.(:note) pleased.

geneva@Psalms:116:3 @ When the snares of death copassed me, and the griefes of the graue caught me: when I founde trouble and sorowe.

geneva@Psalms:118:3 @ Let the house of Aaron nowe say, That his mercy endureth for euer.

geneva@Psalms:119:3 @ They also do (note:)For they are ruled by God's Spirit and embrace no doctrine but his.(:note) no iniquity: they walk in his ways.

geneva@Psalms:119:30 @ I haue chosen the way of trueth, and thy iudgements haue I laied before me.

geneva@Psalms:119:31 @ I haue cleaued to thy testimonies, O Lord: confound me not.

geneva@Psalms:119:32 @ I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt (note:)By this he shows that we can neither choose good, cleave to God's word, nor turn forward in his way, unless he make our hearts large to receive grace, and willing to obey.(:note) enlarge my heart.

geneva@Psalms:119:33 @ HE. Teach (note:)He shows that he cannot follow on to the end, unless God teaches him often and leads him forward.(:note) me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it [unto] the end.

geneva@Psalms:119:34 @ Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with [my] whole (note:)Not only in outward conversation, but also with inward affection.(:note) heart.

geneva@Psalms:119:35 @ Direct mee in the path of thy commandements: for therein is my delite.

geneva@Psalms:119:36 @ Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to (note:)By this, meaning all other vices, because covetousness is the root of all evil.(:note) covetousness.

geneva@Psalms:119:37 @ Turn away mine (note:)Meaning, all his senses.(:note) eyes from beholding vanity; [and] quicken thou me in thy way.

geneva@Psalms:119:38 @ Stablish thy promesse to thy seruaunt, because he feareth thee.

geneva@Psalms:119:39 @ Turn away (note:)Let me not fall to your dishonour but let my heart still delight in your gracious word.(:note) my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments [are] good.

geneva@Psalms:120:3 @ What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou (note:)He assured himself that God would turn their craft to their own destruction.(:note) false tongue?

geneva@Psalms:121:3 @ He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not (note:)He shows that God's providence not only watches over his Church in general, but also over every member of it.(:note) slumber.

geneva@Psalms:122:3 @ Jerusalem is builded as a city that is (note:)By the artificial joining and beauty of the houses, he means the peace and love that was between the citizens.(:note) compact together:

geneva@Psalms:123:3 @ Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are (note:)He declares that when the faithful are so full that they cannot endure the oppression and scorning of the wicked any more, there is always help above, if with hungry desires they call for it.(:note) exceedingly filled with contempt.

geneva@Psalms:124:3 @ Then they had swallowed us up (note:)So unable were we to resist.(:note) quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:

geneva@Psalms:125:3 @ For the (note:)Though God permits his to be under the cross lest they embrace wickedness, yet this cross will not so rest on them, that it should drive them from hope.(:note) rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity.

geneva@Psalms:126:3 @ The Lord hath done great things for vs, whereof we reioyce.

geneva@Psalms:127:3 @ Beholde, children are the inheritance of the Lord, and the fruite of the wombe his rewarde.

geneva@Psalms:128:3 @ Thy wife [shall be] as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy (note:)Because God's favour appears in no outward thing more than in the increase of children, he promises to enrich the faithful with this gift.(:note) children like olive plants round about thy table.

geneva@Psalms:129:3 @ The plowers plowed vpon my backe, and made long furrowes.

geneva@Psalms:130:3 @ If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, (note:)He declares that we cannot be just before God but by forgiveness of sins.(:note) who shall stand?

geneva@Psalms:131:3 @ Let Israel waite on the Lord from hencefoorth and for euer.

geneva@Psalms:132:3 @ Surely I (note:)Because the chief charge of the king was to set forth God's glory, he shows that he would take no rest, neither would he go about any worldly thing, were it never so necessary before he had executed his office.(:note) will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed;

geneva@Psalms:133:3 @ As the dew of (note:)By Hermon and Zion he means the plentiful country about Jerusalem.(:note) Hermon, [and as the dew] that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for Where there is such concord. there the LORD commanded the blessing, [even] life for evermore.

geneva@Psalms:134:3 @ The LORD that (note:)And therefore has all power, bless you with his fatherly love declared in Zion. Thus the Levites used to praise the Lord, and bless the people.(:note) made heaven and earth bless thee out of Zion.

geneva@Psalms:135:3 @ Praise ye the Lord: for the Lorde is good: sing praises vnto his Name: for it is a comely thing.

geneva@Psalms:136:3 @ Praise ye the Lord of lordes: for his mercie endureth for euer:

geneva@Psalms:137:3 @ For there they that carried us away captive (note:)The Babylonians speak thus in mocking us, as though by our silence we should signify that we hoped no more in God.(:note) required of us a song; and they that wasted us [required of us] mirth, [saying], Sing us [one] of the songs of Zion.

geneva@Psalms:138:3 @ In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, [and] (note:)You have strengthened me against my outward and inward enemies.(:note) strengthenedst me [with] strength in my soul.

geneva@Psalms:139:3 @ Thou (note:)So that they are evidently known to you.(:note) compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted [with] all my ways.

geneva@Psalms:140:3 @ They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; (note:)He shows the weapons the wicked use, when power and force fail them.(:note) adders' poison [is] under their lips. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:141:3 @ Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; (note:)He desires God to keep his thoughts and ways either from thinking or executing vengeance.(:note) keep the door of my lips.

geneva@Psalms:142:3 @ Though my spirit was in perplexitie in me, yet thou knewest my path: in the way wherein I walked, haue they priuily layde a snare for me.

geneva@Psalms:143:3 @ For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been (note:)He acknowledges that God is the only and true physician and heal him: and that he is able to raise him to life, though he were dead long ago, and turned to ashes.(:note) long dead.

geneva@Psalms:144:3 @ LORD, what [is] man, that thou (note:)To give to God just praise, is to confess ourselves to be unworthy of so excellent benefits, and that he bestows them on us of his free mercy.(:note) takest knowledge of him! [or] the son of man, that thou makest account of him!

geneva@Psalms:145:3 @

geneva@Psalms:146:3 @ Put not your trust in (note:)That God may have the whole praise: in which he forbids all vain confidence showing that by nature we are more inclined to put our trust in creatures, than in God the Creator.(:note) princes, [nor] in the son of man, in whom [there is] no help.

geneva@Psalms:147:3 @ He healeth the (note:)With affliction, or sorrow for sin.(:note) broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.

geneva@Psalms:148:3 @ Praise ye him, (note:)In that God's glory shines in these insensible creatures, this their beauty is as a continual praising of God.(:note) sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light.

geneva@Psalms:149:3 @ Let them prayse his Name with the flute: let them sing prayses vnto him with the timbrell and harpe.

geneva@Psalms:150:3 @ Praise him with the sound of the (note:)Exhorting the people only to rejoice in praising God, he makes mention of those instruments which by God's commandment were appointed in the old law. (Ed.)(:note) trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp.

geneva@Proverbs:1:1 @ The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; (note:)The Argument - The wonderful love of God toward his Church is declared in this book: for as much as the sum and effect of the whole Scriptures is here set forth in these brief sentences, which partly contain doctrine, and partly manners, and also exhortations to both: of which the first nine Chapters are as a preface full of grave sentences and deep mysteries, to assure the hearts of men to the diligent reading of the parables that follow: which are left as a precious jewel to the Church, of those three thousand parables mentioned in (1Ki_4:32) and were gathered and committed to writing by Solomon's servants and incited by him.(:note)

geneva@Proverbs:1:3 @ To receive the (note:)To learn to submit ourselves to the correction of those who are wise.(:note) instruction of wisdom, By living justly and rendering to every man that which belongs to him. justice, and judgment, and equity;

geneva@Proverbs:1:30 @ They would none of my counsel: they (note:)Showing that without faith and obedience, we cannot call on God correctly.(:note) despised all my reproof.

geneva@Proverbs:1:31 @ Therefore shall they eat of the (note:)They will feel what convenience their wicked life will give them.(:note) fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

geneva@Proverbs:1:32 @ For (note:)That is, the prosperity and sensuality in which they delight.(:note) the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

geneva@Proverbs:1:33 @ But he that obeyeth me, shall dwell safely, and be quiet from feare of euill.

geneva@Proverbs:2:3 @ Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, [and] (note:)Meaning that we must seek the knowledge of God with care and diligence.(:note) liftest up thy voice for understanding;

geneva@Proverbs:3:1 @ My sonne, forget not thou my Lawe, but let thine heart keepe my commandements.

geneva@Proverbs:3:2 @ For length of (note:)Long life is the blessing of God which he gives to his, so far as it is expedient for them.(:note) days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.

geneva@Proverbs:3:3 @ Let not (note:)By mercy and truth he means the commandments of the first and second table, or else the mercy and faithfulness that we ought to use toward our neighbours.(:note) mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy Keep them as a precious jewel. neck; write them upon the table of thine Have them ever in remembrance. heart:

geneva@Proverbs:3:4 @ So shalt thou finde fauour and good vnderstanding in the sight of God and man.

geneva@Proverbs:3:5 @ Trust in the Lorde with all thine heart, and leane not vnto thine owne wisdome.

geneva@Proverbs:3:6 @ In all thy wayes acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy wayes.

geneva@Proverbs:3:7 @ Be not wise in thine owne eyes: but feare the Lord, and depart from euill.

geneva@Proverbs:3:8 @ It shall be health to thy (note:)By this part he comprehends the whole body, as by health he means all the benefits promised in the law both corporal and spiritual.(:note) navel, and marrow to thy bones.

geneva@Proverbs:3:9 @

geneva@Proverbs:3:10 @ So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall (note:)For the faithful distributor God gives in greater abundance.(:note) burst out with new wine.

geneva@Proverbs:3:11 @ My sonne, refuse not the chastening of the Lord, neither be grieued with his correction.

geneva@Proverbs:3:12 @ For the Lord correcteth him, whome he loueth, euen as the father doeth the childe in whom he deliteth.

geneva@Proverbs:3:13 @ Blessed is the man that findeth wisedome, and the man that getteth vnderstanding.

geneva@Proverbs:3:14 @ For the marchandise thereof is better then the marchandise of siluer, and the gaine thereof is better then golde.

geneva@Proverbs:3:15 @ It is more precious then pearles: and all things that thou canst desire, are not to be compared vnto her.

geneva@Proverbs:3:16 @ Length of days [is] in her right hand; (note:)Meaning, that he seeks wisdom, that is, suffers himself to be governed by the Word of God, will have all prosperity both corporal and spiritual.(:note) [and] in her left hand riches and honour.

geneva@Proverbs:3:17 @ Her wayes are wayes of pleasure, and all her pathes prosperitie.

geneva@Proverbs:3:18 @ She [is] a tree (note:)Which brings forth such fruit that they who eat of it have life and he alludes to the tree of life in paradise.(:note) of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy [is every one] that retaineth her.

geneva@Proverbs:3:19 @ The LORD by wisdom hath (note:)By this he shows that this wisdom of which he speaks is everlasting, because it was before all creatures and that all things even the whole world were made by it.(:note) founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.

geneva@Proverbs:3:20 @ By his knowledge the depthes are broken vp, and the cloudes droppe downe the dewe.

geneva@Proverbs:3:21 @ My sonne, let not these things depart from thine eyes, but obserue wisdome, and counsell.

geneva@Proverbs:3:22 @ So they shalbe life to thy soule, and grace vnto thy necke.

geneva@Proverbs:3:23 @ Then shalt thou walke safely by thy way: and thy foote shall not stumble.

geneva@Proverbs:3:24 @ If thou sleepest, thou shalt not bee afraide, and when thou sleepest, thy sleepe shalbe sweete.

geneva@Proverbs:3:25 @

geneva@Proverbs:3:26 @ For the Lorde shall be for thine assurance, and shall preserue thy foote from taking.

geneva@Proverbs:3:27 @ Withhold not good from (note:)Not only from them to whom the possession belongs but also you shall not keep it from them who have need of the use of it.(:note) them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do [it].

geneva@Proverbs:3:28 @ Say not vnto thy neighbour, Go and come againe, and to morow wil I giue thee, if thou now haue it.

geneva@Proverbs:3:29 @ Devise not evil against thy neighbour, seeing he dwelleth (note:)That is, puts his trust in you.(:note) securely by thee.

geneva@Proverbs:3:30 @ Striue not with a man causelesse, when he hath done thee no harme.

geneva@Proverbs:3:31 @

geneva@Proverbs:3:32 @ For the froward [is] abomination to the LORD: but his (note:)That is, his covenant and fatherly affection which is hid and secret from the world.(:note) secret [is] with the righteous.

geneva@Proverbs:3:33 @ The curse of the Lorde is in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the righteous.

geneva@Proverbs:3:34 @ Surely (note:)He will show by his plagues that their scorn will turn to their own destruction, (Pro_1:26).(:note) he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly.

geneva@Proverbs:3:35 @ The wise shall inherite glorie: but fooles dishonour, though they be exalted.

geneva@Proverbs:4:3 @ For I was my fathers sonne, tender and deare in the sight of my mother,

geneva@Proverbs:5:3 @ For the lips (note:)That is, a harlot who gives herself to someone other than her husband.(:note) of a strange woman drop [as] an honeycomb, and her mouth [is] smoother than By oil and honey he means flattering and crafty enticements. oil:

geneva@Proverbs:6:3 @ Doe this nowe, my sonne, and deliuer thy selfe: seeing thou art come into the hande of thy neighbour, goe, and humble thy selfe, and sollicite thy friends.

geneva@Proverbs:6:21 @ Bind them continually upon thine (note:)(Pro_3:3).(:note) heart, [and] tie them about thy neck.

geneva@Proverbs:6:30 @ [Men] do not (note:)He does not reprove theft, showing that it is not as abominable as whoredom, for theft can be restored, but adultery is permanent, and death by the law of God.(:note) despise a thief, if he stealeth to satisfy his Meaning, for necessity. soul when he is hungry;

geneva@Proverbs:6:31 @ But if he be founde, he shall restore seuen folde, or he shall giue all the substance of his house.

geneva@Proverbs:6:32 @ But he that committeth adulterie with a woman, he is destitute of vnderstanding: he that doeth it, destroyeth his owne soule.

geneva@Proverbs:6:33 @ A (note:)That is, death appointed by the Law.(:note) wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.

geneva@Proverbs:6:34 @ For jealousy [is] the rage of a man: therefore he will not (note:)He shows that man by nature seeks the death of he that has abused his wife, and so concludes that neither God's law nor the law of nature admits any ransom for the adultery.(:note) spare in the day of vengeance.

geneva@Proverbs:6:35 @ He cannot beare the sight of any raunsome: neither will he consent, though thou augment the giftes.

geneva@Proverbs:7:3 @ Binde them vpon thy fingers, and write them vpon the table of thine heart.

geneva@Proverbs:8:3 @ She crieth at (note:)Where the people resorted most and which was the place of justice.(:note) the gates, at the entry of the city, at the entrance of the doors.

geneva@Proverbs:8:30 @ Then I was by him, (note:)Some read, a chief worker signifying that this wisdom, Christ Jesus, was equal with God his father, and created, preserves and still works with him, as in (Joh_5:17).(:note) [as] one brought up [with him]: and I was daily [his] delight, rejoicing always before him;

geneva@Proverbs:8:31 @

geneva@Proverbs:8:32 @ Therefore nowe hearken, O children, vnto me: for blessed are they that keepe my wayes.

geneva@Proverbs:8:33 @ Heare instruction, and be ye wise, and refuse it not:

geneva@Proverbs:8:34 @ Blessed is the man that heareth mee, watching dayly at my gates, & giuing attendance at the postes of my doores.

geneva@Proverbs:8:35 @ For he that findeth me, findeth life, and shal obteine fauour of the Lord.

geneva@Proverbs:8:36 @ But he that sinneth against me, hurteth his owne soule: and all that hate me, loue death.

geneva@Proverbs:9:3 @ She hath sent forth her (note:)Meaning, true preachers, who are not infected with man's wisdom.(:note) maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city,

geneva@Proverbs:10:3 @ The LORD will (note:)Though he permits the just to want for a time, yet he will send him comfort in due season.(:note) not allow the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.

geneva@Proverbs:10:30 @ The righteous shall (note:)They enjoy in this life by faith and hope, their everlasting life.(:note) never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.

geneva@Proverbs:10:31 @ The mouth of the iust shall be fruitfull in wisdome: but the tongue of the froward shall be cut out.

geneva@Proverbs:10:32 @ The lips of the righteous knowe what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh froward things.

geneva@Proverbs:11:3 @ The vprightnes of the iust shal guide them: but the frowardnes of the transgressers shall destroy them.

geneva@Proverbs:11:30 @ The fruit of the righteous [is] a tree of life; and he that (note:)That is, brings them to the knowledge of God.(:note) winneth souls [is] wise.

geneva@Proverbs:11:31 @ Behold, the righteous shall be (note:)Will be punished as he deserves, (1Pe_4:18).(:note) recompensed upon the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner.

geneva@Proverbs:12:3 @ A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the (note:)They are so grounded in the favour of God, that their root will prosper continually.(:note) root of the righteous shall not be moved.

geneva@Proverbs:13:3 @ Hee that keepeth his mouth, keepeth his life: but he that openeth his lips, destruction shal be to him.

geneva@Proverbs:14:3 @ In the mouth of the foolish [is] a (note:)His proud tongue will cause him to be punished.(:note) rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.

geneva@Proverbs:14:30 @ A sounde heart is the life of the flesh: but enuie is the rotting of the bones.

geneva@Proverbs:14:31 @ He that oppresseth the poore, reprooueth him that made him: but hee honoureth him, that hath mercie on the poore.

geneva@Proverbs:14:32 @ The wicked shall be cast away for his malice: but the righteous hath hope in his death.

geneva@Proverbs:14:33 @ Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding: but [that which is] (note:)Forasmuch as they are convicted by it, and silenced.(:note) in the midst of fools is made known.

geneva@Proverbs:14:34 @ Iustice exalteth a nation, but sinne is a shame to the people.

geneva@Proverbs:14:35 @ The pleasure of a King is in a wise seruant: but his wrath shalbe toward him that is lewde.

geneva@Proverbs:15:3 @ The eyes of the Lorde in euery place beholde the euill and the good.

geneva@Proverbs:15:30 @ The light of the eyes reioyceth the heart, and a good name maketh the bones fat.

geneva@Proverbs:15:31 @ The ear that heareth the (note:)That suffers himself to be admonished by God's word, which brings life: and so amends.(:note) reproof of life abideth among the wise.

geneva@Proverbs:15:32 @ Hee that refuseth instruction, despiseth his owne soule: but he that obeyeth correction, getteth vnderstanding.

geneva@Proverbs:15:33 @ The fear of the LORD [is] the instruction of wisdom; and before honour [is] (note:)Meaning, that God exalts no one but them that are truly humbled.(:note) humility.

geneva@Proverbs:16:3 @ Commit thy workes vnto the Lorde, and thy thoughts shalbe directed.

geneva@Proverbs:16:30 @

geneva@Proverbs:16:31 @ The hoary head [is] a crown of glory, [if] it is found in the way of (note:)That is, when it is joined with virtue, or else the older that the wicked are, the more they are to be abhorred.(:note) righteousness.

geneva@Proverbs:16:32 @ He that is slowe vnto anger, is better then the mightie man: and hee that ruleth his owne minde, is better then he that winneth a citie.

geneva@Proverbs:16:33 @ The lot is cast into the lap; but its whole disposing [is] (note:)So that there is nothing that ought to be attributed to fortune: for all things are determined in the counsel of God which will come to pass.(:note) from the LORD.

geneva@Proverbs:17:3 @ As is the fining pot for siluer, and the fornace for golde, so the Lord trieth the heartes.

geneva@Proverbs:18:3 @ When the wicked cometh, [then] cometh also (note:)Meaning, such a one as condemns all others.(:note) contempt, and with ignominy reproach.

geneva@Proverbs:19:3 @ The foolishnesse of a man peruerteth his way, and his heart freateth against the Lord.

geneva@Proverbs:20:3 @ It is a mans honour to cease from strife: but euery foole will be medling.

geneva@Proverbs:20:30 @

geneva@Proverbs:21:3 @ To doe iustice and iudgement is more acceptable to the Lord then sacrifice.

geneva@Proverbs:21:30 @ There is no wisedome, neither vnderstanding, nor counsell against the Lord.

geneva@Proverbs:21:31 @ The horse is prepared against the day of battell: but saluation is of the Lord.

geneva@Proverbs:22:3 @ A prudent [man] (note:)That is, the punishment, which is prepared for the wicked and flees to God for help.(:note) foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.

geneva@Proverbs:23:3 @ Be not desirous of his dainties: (note:)For often the rich when they bid their inferiors to their tables, it is not for the love they bear them, but for their own secret purposes.(:note) for they [are] deceitful food.

geneva@Proverbs:23:30 @ They that tarry long at the wine; they that go (note:)Who by art make wine stronger and more pleasant.(:note) to seek mixed wine.

geneva@Proverbs:23:31 @ Looke not thou vpon the wine, when it is red, and when it sheweth his colour in the cup, or goeth downe pleasantly.

geneva@Proverbs:23:32 @ In the ende thereof it will bite like a serpent, and hurt like a cockatrise.

geneva@Proverbs:23:33 @ Thy (note:)That is, drunkenness will bring you to whoredom.(:note) eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall utter perverse things.

geneva@Proverbs:23:34 @ And thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the (note:)In such great danger will you be.(:note) sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.

geneva@Proverbs:23:35 @ They have stricken me, [shalt thou say, and] I was not sick; they have beaten me, [and] I felt [it] not: when shall I awake? I will (note:)Though drunkenness makes them more insensible then beasts, yet they can not refrain.(:note) seek it yet again.

geneva@Proverbs:24:3 @ Through wisdome is an house builded, and with vnderstanding it is established.

geneva@Proverbs:24:30 @ I passed by the fielde of the slouthfull, and by the vineyarde of the man destitute of vnderstanding.

geneva@Proverbs:24:31 @ And lo, it was al growen ouer with thornes, and nettles had couered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken downe.

geneva@Proverbs:24:32 @ Then I saw, [and] considered [it] well: I looked upon [it, and] received (note:)That I might learn by another man's fault.(:note) instruction.

geneva@Proverbs:24:33 @ [Yet] a little sleep, (note:){{See Pro_6:10}}(:note) a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

geneva@Proverbs:24:34 @ So thy pouertie commeth as one that traueileth by the way, and thy necessitie like an armed man.

geneva@Proverbs:25:3 @ The heaven for height, and the earth for depth, and the heart of (note:)He shows that it is too hard for man to attain the reason of all the secret doings of the king, even when he is upright and does his duty.(:note) kings [is] unsearchable.

geneva@Proverbs:26:3 @ Vnto the horse belongeth a whip, to the asse a bridle, and a rod to the fooles backe.

geneva@Proverbs:27:3 @ A stone is heauie, and the sand weightie: but a fooles wrath is heauier then them both.

geneva@Proverbs:28:3 @ A poore man, if he oppresse the poore, is like a raging raine, that leaueth no foode.

geneva@Proverbs:29:3 @ A man that loueth wisdome, reioyceth his father: but he that feedeth harlots, wasteth his substance.

geneva@Proverbs:30:1 @ The words of (note:)Who was an excellent man in virtue and knowledge in the time of Solomon.(:note) Agur the son of Jakeh, [even] the prophecy: the man spoke to Ithiel, even to Who were Agur's scholars or friends. Ithiel and Ucal,

geneva@Proverbs:30:2 @ Surely I [am] more (note:)In this he declares his great humility who would not attribute any wisdom to himself but all to God.(:note) senseless than [any] man, and have not the understanding of a man.

geneva@Proverbs:30:3 @ For I haue not learned wisedome, nor atteined to the knowledge of holy things.

geneva@Proverbs:30:4 @ Who hath ascended into (note:)Meaning, to know the secrets of God, as though he would say, «None».(:note) heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what [is] his name, and what [is] his son's name, if thou canst tell?

geneva@Proverbs:30:5 @ Euery worde of God is pure: he is a shield to those, that trust in him.

geneva@Proverbs:30:6 @ Put nothing vnto his wordes, least he reproue thee, and thou be found a lyar.

geneva@Proverbs:30:7 @ Two (note:)He makes this request to God.(:note) [things] have I required of thee; deny [them] not to me before I die:

geneva@Proverbs:30:8 @ Remooue farre from me vanitie and lyes: giue me not pouertie, nor riches: feede me with foode conuenient for me,

geneva@Proverbs:30:9 @ Lest I be full, and deny [thee], and say, (note:)Meaning, that they who put their trust in their riches forget God and that by too much wealth men have an opportunity to the same.(:note) Who [is] the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God [in vain].

geneva@Proverbs:30:10 @ Accuse not a servant to his master, lest he curse thee, (note:)In accusing him without cause.(:note) and thou be found guilty.

geneva@Proverbs:30:11 @ There is a generation that curseth their father, and doeth not blesse their mother.

geneva@Proverbs:30:12 @ There is a generation that are pure in their owne conceite, and yet are not washed from their filthinesse.

geneva@Proverbs:30:13 @ There is a generation, whose eies are hautie, and their eye liddes are lifted vp.

geneva@Proverbs:30:14 @ There is a generation, whose teeth are as swordes, and their chawes as kniues to eate vp the afflicted out of the earth, and the poore from among men.

geneva@Proverbs:30:15 @ The horseleach hath two (note:)The leach has two forks in her tongue, which here he calls her two daughters, by which she sucks the blood, and is never satisfied: even so, the covetous extortioners are insatiable.(:note) daughters, [crying], Give, give. There are three [things that] are never satisfied, [yea], four [things] say not, [It is] enough:

geneva@Proverbs:30:16 @ The graue, and the barren wombe, the earth that cannot be satisfied with water, and the fire that sayeth not, It is ynough.

geneva@Proverbs:30:17 @ The eye [that] mocketh at [its] father, and despiseth to obey [its] mother, the ravens (note:)Which hunt in the valley for carrion.(:note) of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

geneva@Proverbs:30:18 @ There be three thinges hid from me: yea, foure that I knowe not,

geneva@Proverbs:30:19 @ The way of an eagle in the aire, the way of a serpent vpon a stone, ye way of a ship in ye middes of the sea, and the way of a man with a maide.

geneva@Proverbs:30:20 @ Such [is] the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and (note:)She has her desires, and later counterfeits as though she were an honest woman.(:note) wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.

geneva@Proverbs:30:21 @ For three things the earth is moued: yea, for foure it cannot susteine it selfe:

geneva@Proverbs:30:22 @ For (note:)These commonly abuse the state to which they are called.(:note) a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with food;

geneva@Proverbs:30:23 @ For an odious [woman] when she is married; and an handmaid that is (note:)Who is married to her master after the death of her mistress.(:note) heir to her mistress.

geneva@Proverbs:30:24 @ There are four [things which are] little upon the earth, but they [are] very (note:)They contain great doctrine and wisdom.(:note) wise:

geneva@Proverbs:30:25 @ The pismires a people not strong, yet prepare they their meate in sommer:

geneva@Proverbs:30:26 @ The conies a people not mightie, yet make their houses in the rocke:

geneva@Proverbs:30:27 @ The grashopper hath no King, yet goe they forth all by bandes:

geneva@Proverbs:30:28 @ The spider taketh hold (note:)If man is not able to compass these common things by his wisdom, we cannot attribute wisdom to man, but folly.(:note) with her hands, and is in kings' palaces.

geneva@Proverbs:30:29 @ There be three thinges that order well their going: yea, foure are comely in going,

geneva@Proverbs:30:30 @ A lyon which is strong among beastes, and turneth not at the sight of any:

geneva@Proverbs:30:31 @ A lusty grayhound, and a goate, and a King against whom there is no rising vp.

geneva@Proverbs:30:32 @ If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, [lay] thy hand (note:)Make a stay and continue not in doing evil.(:note) upon thy mouth.

geneva@Proverbs:30:33 @ When one churneth milke, he bringeth foorth butter: and he that wringeth his nose, causeth blood to come out: so he that forceth wrath, bringeth foorth strife.

geneva@Proverbs:31:1 @ The words of king (note:)That is, of Solomon who was called Lemuel, that is, of God, because God had ordained him to be king over Israel.(:note) Lemuel, the The doctrine which his mother Bathsheba taught him. prophecy that his mother taught him.

geneva@Proverbs:31:2 @ What, my son? and what, the son of (note:)By this often repetition of one thing, she declares her motherly affection.(:note) my womb? and what, the son of my vows?

geneva@Proverbs:31:3 @ Give not thy strength to women, (note:)Meaning, that women are the destruction of kings, if they hunt them.(:note) nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.

geneva@Proverbs:31:4 @ [It is] not for kings, O Lemuel, [it is] not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes (note:)That is, the king must not give himself to wantonness, and neglect of his office, which is to execute judgment.(:note) strong drink:

geneva@Proverbs:31:5 @ Lest he drinke and forget the decree, and change the iudgement of all the children of affliction.

geneva@Proverbs:31:6 @ Giue ye strong drinke vnto him that is readie to perish, and wine vnto them that haue griefe of heart.

geneva@Proverbs:31:7 @ Let him drink, and forget (note:)For wine comforts the heart as in (Psa_104:15).(:note) his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

geneva@Proverbs:31:8 @ Open thy mouth for the (note:)Defend their cause that are not able to help themselves.(:note) dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.

geneva@Proverbs:31:9 @ Open thy mouth: iudge righteously, and iudge the afflicted, and the poore.

geneva@Proverbs:31:10 @ Who shall finde a vertuous woman? for her price is farre aboue the pearles.

geneva@Proverbs:31:11 @ The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of (note:)He will not need to use any unlawful means to gain his living.(:note) spoil.

geneva@Proverbs:31:12 @ She will doe him good, and not euill all the dayes of her life.

geneva@Proverbs:31:13 @ She seeketh wooll and flaxe, and laboureth cheerefully with her handes.

geneva@Proverbs:31:14 @ She is like the shippes of marchants: shee bringeth her foode from afarre.

geneva@Proverbs:31:15 @ She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth food to her household, and a (note:)She prepares their food early.(:note) portion to her maidens.

geneva@Proverbs:31:16 @ She considereth a field, and (note:)She purchases it with the gains of her travail.(:note) buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.

geneva@Proverbs:31:17 @ She girdeth her loynes with strength, and strengtheneth her armes.

geneva@Proverbs:31:18 @ She feeleth that her marchandise is good: her candle is not put out by night.

geneva@Proverbs:31:19 @ She putteth her handes to the wherue, and her handes handle the spindle.

geneva@Proverbs:31:20 @ She stretcheth out her hand to the poore, and putteth foorth her hands to the needie.

geneva@Proverbs:31:21 @ She feareth not the snowe for her familie: for all her familie is clothed with skarlet.

geneva@Proverbs:31:22 @ She maketh her selfe carpets: fine linen and purple is her garment.

geneva@Proverbs:31:23 @ Her husband is known in the (note:)In the assemblies and places of judgment.(:note) gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.

geneva@Proverbs:31:24 @ She maketh sheetes, and selleth them, and giueth girdels vnto the marchant.

geneva@Proverbs:31:25 @

geneva@Proverbs:31:26 @ She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and on her tongue [is] the (note:)Her tongue is a book by which one might learn many good things: for she delights to talk of the word of God.(:note) law of kindness.

geneva@Proverbs:31:27 @ She ouerseeth the wayes of her housholde, and eateth not the bread of ydlenes.

geneva@Proverbs:31:28 @ Her children rise up, and (note:)That is, do her reverence.(:note) call her blessed; her husband [also], and he praiseth her.

geneva@Proverbs:31:29 @ Many daughters haue done vertuously: but thou surmountest them all.

geneva@Proverbs:31:30 @ Fauour is deceitfull, and beautie is vanitie: but a woman that feareth the Lorde, she shall be praysed.

geneva@Proverbs:31:31 @ Give (note:)Confess her diligent labours, and commend her therefore.(:note) her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the Forasmuch as the most honourable are clad in the apparel that she made. gates.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:1:3 @ What profit hath a man of all his (note:)Solomon does not condemn man's labour or diligence, but shows that there is no full contentment in anything under the heavens, nor in any creature, as all things are transitory.(:note) labour which he taketh under the sun?

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:3 @ I sought in my heart to give myself to wine, yet acquainting my heart with (note:)Even though I gave myself to pleasures, yet I thought to keep wisdom and the fear of God in my heart, and govern my affairs by the same.(:note) wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what [was] that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:8 @ I gathered me also silver and gold, and the special treasure of kings and of the provinces: I procured me male and female singers, and the (note:)That is, whatever men take pleasure in.(:note) delights of the sons of men, Or, the most beautiful of the women that were taken in war, as in (Jdg_5:30). [as] musical instruments, and of all sorts.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:1 @ To every [thing there is] a (note:)He speaks of this diversity of time for two causes first to declare that there is nothing in this world perpetual: next to teach us not to be grieved, if we have not all things at once according to our desires, neither enjoy them so long as we would wish.(:note) season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:2 @ A time to bee borne, and a time to die: a time to plant, and a time to plucke vp that which is planted.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:3 @ A time to slay, and a time to heale: a time to breake downe, and a time to builde.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:4 @ A time to weepe, and a time to laugh: a time to mourne, and a time to dance.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:5 @ A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones: a time to embrace, and a time to be farre from embracing.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:6 @ A time to seeke, and a time to lose: a time to keepe, and a time to cast away.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:7 @ A time to rent, and a time to sowe: a time to keepe silence, and a time to speake.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:8 @ A time to loue, and a time to hate: a time of warre, and a time of peace.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:9 @ What profite hath hee that worketh of the thing wherein he trauaileth?

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:10 @ I have seen the labour, which God hath given to the sons of men (note:)Read (Ecc_1:13).(:note) to be exercised in it.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:11 @ He hath made every [thing] beautiful in its time: also he hath set the (note:)God has given man a desire and affection to seek out the things of this world, and to labour in it.(:note) world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:12 @ I know that there is nothing good in them, but to reioyce, and to doe good in his life.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:13 @ And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it [is] the (note:)Read (Ecc_2:24) and these places declare that we should do all things with sobriety and in the fear of God, as he gives not his gifts to the intent that they should be abused.(:note) gift of God.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:14 @ I know that, whatever God doeth, it shall be for (note:)That is, man will never be able to prevent God's work, but as he has determined so it will come to pass.(:note) ever: nothing can be added to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth [it], that [men] should fear before him.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:15 @ That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God (note:)God only causes what which is past, to return.(:note) requireth that which is past.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:16 @ And moreouer I haue seene vnder the sunne the place of iudgement, where was wickednesse, and the place of iustice where was iniquitie.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:17 @ I said in my heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for [there is] a time (note:)Meaning, with God, however man neglects his duty.(:note) there for every purpose and for every work.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:18 @ I said in my heart concerning the state of the sons of men, that God might (note:)And made them pure in their first creation.(:note) tempt them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:19 @ For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing (note:)Man is not able by his reason and judgment to put differences between man and beast, as concerning those things to which both are subject: for the eye cannot judge any otherwise of a man being dead than of a beast, which is dead: yet by the word of God and faith we easily know the diversity as in (Ecc_3:21).(:note) befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all [is] vanity.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:20 @ All goe to one place, & all was of the dust, and all shall returne to the dust.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:21 @ Who (note:)Meaning, that reason cannot comprehend that which faith believes in.(:note) knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:22 @ Wherefore I perceive that [there is] nothing better, than that a man should (note:)By the often repetition of this sentence as in (Ecc_2:24, Ecc_3:12, Ecc_3:22, Ecc_5:17, Ecc_8:15) he declares that man by reason can comprehend nothing better in this life than to use the gifts of God soberly and comfortably: for to know further, is a special gift of God revealed by his Spirit.(:note) rejoice in his own works; for that [is] his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?

geneva@Ecclesiastes:4:3 @ Yea, (note:)He speaks according to the judgment of the flesh which cannot abide to feel or see troubles.(:note) better [is he] than both they, who hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:5:3 @ {\cf2 (5:2)} For as a dreame commeth by the multitude of businesse: so the voyce of a foole is in the multitude of wordes.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:6:3 @ If a man begetteth an hundred [children], and liveth many years, so that the days of his years are many, and his soul is not (note:)If he can never have enough.(:note) filled with good, and also [that] he hath no As we see often that the covetous man either falls into crimes that deserve death, or is murdered or drowned or hangs himself or such like and so lacks the honour of burial, which is the last office of humanity. burial; I say, [that] an untimely birth [is] better than he.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:3 @ {\cf2 (7:5)} Anger is better then laughter: for by a sad looke the heart is made better.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:28 @ {\cf2 (7:30)} And yet my soule seeketh, but I finde it not: I haue found one man of a thousand: but a woman among them all haue I not founde.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:8:3 @

geneva@Ecclesiastes:9:3 @ This [is] an evil among all [things] that are done under the sun, that [there is] one (note:)In outward things, as riches and poverty, sickness and health, there is no difference between the godly and the wicked but the difference is that the godly are assured by faith of God's favour and assistance.(:note) event to all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness [is] in their heart while they live, and after that [they go] to the dead.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:10:3 @ Also, when he that is a fool walketh by the way, his wisdom faileth [him], and he (note:)By his doings he betrays himself.(:note) saith to every one [that] he [is] a fool.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:11:3 @ If the (note:)As the clouds that are full pour out rain, so the rich that have abundance must distribute it liberally.(:note) clouds are full of rain, they empty [themselves] upon the earth: and if the He exhorts to be liberal while we live: for after, there is no power. tree falleth toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:12:3 @ In the day when the (note:)The hands which keep the body.(:note) keepers of the house shall tremble, and the The legs. strong men shall bow themselves, and the The teeth. grinders cease because they are few, and those that The eyes. look out of the windows shall be darkened,

geneva@Songs:1:3 @ Because of the (note:)The feeling of your great benefits.(:note) savour of thy good ointments thy name [is as] ointment poured forth, therefore do the They that are pure in heart and conversation. virgins love thee.

geneva@Songs:2:3 @

geneva@Songs:3:1 @ By (note:)The Church by night, that is, in troubles, seeks Christ, but is not incontinently heard.(:note) night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

geneva@Songs:3:2 @ I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will (note:)Showing that although we are not heard at first, yet we must still continue in prayer, till we feel comfort.(:note) seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

geneva@Songs:3:3 @ The (note:)Which declares that we must seek to all of whom we hope to have any help.(:note) watchmen that go about the city found me: [to whom I said], Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?

geneva@Songs:3:4 @ When I had past a litle from them, then I found him whom my soule loued: I tooke holde on him and left him not, till I had brought him vnto my mothers house into the chamber of her that conceiued me.

geneva@Songs:3:5 @

geneva@Songs:3:6 @ Who [is] this that cometh out of the (note:)This refers to the Church of Israel which was led in the wilderness for forty years.(:note) wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?

geneva@Songs:3:7 @ Behold his (note:)By the bed is meant the temple which Solomon made.(:note) bed, which [is] Solomon's; sixty valiant men [are] about it, of the valiant of Israel.

geneva@Songs:3:8 @ They all hold swords, [being] expert in war: every man [hath] his sword upon his thigh because of fear (note:)He alludes to the watch which kept the temple.(:note) in the night.

geneva@Songs:3:9 @ King Salomon made himselfe a palace of the trees of Lebanon.

geneva@Songs:3:10 @ Hee made the pillars thereof of siluer, and the pauement thereof of gold, the hangings thereof of purple, whose middes was paued with the loue of the daughters of Ierusalem.

geneva@Songs:3:11 @ Go forth, O ye (note:)All you that are of the number of the faithful.(:note) daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the Christ became man, was crowned by the love of God with the glorious crown of his divinity. crown with which his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.

geneva@Songs:4:3 @ Thy lippes are like a threede of scarlet, and thy talke is comely: thy temples are within thy lockes as a piece of a pomegranate.

geneva@Songs:5:3 @ I have put off my (note:)The spouse confesses her nakedness, and that of herself she has nothing, or seeing that she is once made clean she promises not to defile herself again.(:note) coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?

geneva@Songs:6:3 @ I am my welbeloueds, and my welbeloued is mine, who feedeth among the lilies.

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