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Job:1:1 @ There was a man in the land of (note:)That is, of the country of Idumea, (Lam_4:21), or bordering on it: for the land was called by the name of Uz, the son of Dishan, the son of Seir (Gen_36:28).(:note) Uz, whose name [was] Job; and that man was perfect and Since he was a Gentile and not a Jew and yet is pronounced upright and without hypocrisy, it declares that among the heathen God revealed himself. upright, and By this it is declared what is meant by an upright and just man. one that feared God, and eschewed evil. The Argument - In this history the example of patience is set before our eyes. This holy man Job was not only extremely afflicted in outward things and in his body, but also in his mind and conscience, by the sharp temptation of his wife and friends: who by their vehement words and subtle disputations brought him almost to despair. They set forth God as a sincere judge, and mortal enemy to him who had cast him off, therefore in vain he should seek him for help. These friends came to him under pretence of consolation, and yet they tormented him more than all his afflictions did. Even so, he constantly resisted them, and eventually succeeded. In this story we must note that Job maintains a good cause, but handles it badly. His adversaries have an evil matter, but they defend it craftily. Job held that God did not always punish men according to their sins, but that he had secret judgments, of which man knew not the cause, and therefore man could not reason against God in it, but he should be convicted. Moreover, he was assured that God had not rejected him, yet through his great torments and afflictions he speaks many inconveniences and shows himself as a desperate man in many things, and as one that would resist God, and this is his good cause which he handles well. Again the adversaries maintain with many good arguments that God punishes continually according to the trespass, grounding on God's providence, his justice and man's sins, yet their intention is evil; for they labour to bring Job into despair, and so they maintain an evil cause. Ezekiel commends Job as a just man, (Eze_14:14) and James sets out his patience for an example, (Jam_5:11).
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:1:6 @ Now there was a day when the (note:)Meaning the angels, who are called the sons of God because they are willing to execute his will.(:note) sons of God came to present themselves Because our infirmity cannot comprehend God in his majesty, he is set forth to us as a King, that our capacity may be able to understand that which is spoken of him. before the LORD, and Satan This declares that although Satan is an adversary to God, yet he is compelled to obey him, and do him all homage, without whose permission and appointment he can do nothing. came also among them.
geneva@Job:1:8 @ And the Lord saide vnto Satan, Hast thou not considered my seruant Iob, how none is like him in the earth? an vpright and iust man, one that feareth God, and escheweth euill?
geneva@Job:1:10 @ Hast not thou made (note:)Meaning, the grace of God, which served Job as a rampart against all temptations.(:note) an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.
geneva@Job:1:12 @ And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath [is] in (note:)God does not give Satan power over man to gratify him, but to declare that he has no power over man, but that which God gives him.(:note) thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the That is, went to execute that which God had permitted him to do for else he can never go out of God's presence. presence of the LORD.
geneva@Job:1:16 @ While he [was] yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The (note:)Which was also done by the craft of Satan, to tempt Job even more grievously, so he might see that not only men were his enemies, but that God made war against him.(:note) fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
geneva@Job:1:21 @ And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return (note:)That is, into the belly of the earth, which is the mother of all.(:note) thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; By this he confesses that God is just and good, although his hand is sore on him. blessed be the name of the LORD.
geneva@Job:2:1 @ Again there was a day when the (note:)That is, the angels, (Job_1:6).(:note) sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Read (Job_1:6). Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD.
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:2:4 @ And Satan answered the LORD, and said, (note:)By this he means that a man's own skin is dearer to him than another man's.(:note) Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.
geneva@Job:2:6 @ And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he [is] in thine hand; but save (note:)Thus Satan can go no further in punishing than God has limited him.(:note) his life.
geneva@Job:2:7 @ So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore (note:)This sore was most vehement, with which God also plagued the Egyptians, (Exo_9:9) and threatened to punish rebellious people, (Deu_28:27) so that this temptation was most grievous: for if Job had measured God's favour by the vehemency of his disease, he might have thought that God had cast him off.(:note) boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.
geneva@Job:2:8 @ And he took him a (note:)As destitute of all other help and means and wonderfully afflicted with the sorrow of his disease.(:note) potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.
geneva@Job:2:9 @ Then said his (note:)Satan uses the same instrument against Job, as he did against Adam.(:note) wife unto him, Dost thou Meaning, what do you gain from serving God, seeing he thus plagues you, as though he were your enemy? This is the most grievous temptation for the faithful, when their faith is assailed, and when Satan goes about to persuade them that they trust in God in vain. still retain thine integrity? For death was appointed to the blasphemer and so she meant that he would quickly be rid of his pain. curse God, and die.
geneva@Job:2:10 @ But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not (note:)That is, to be patient in adversity as we rejoice when he sends prosperity, and so to acknowledge him to be both merciful and just.(:note) receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his He so bridled his desires that his tongue through impatience did not murmur against God. lips.
geneva@Job:2:11 @ Now when Job's three (note:)Who were men of authority, wise and learned, and as the Septuagint writes, kings, and came to comfort him, but when they saw how he was visited, they conceived an evil opinion of him, as though he was a hypocrite and so justly plagued by God for his sins.(:note) friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.
geneva@Job:2:12 @ And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled (note:)This was also a ceremony which they used in those countries as the renting of their clothes in sign of sorrow etc.(:note) dust upon their heads toward heaven.
geneva@Job:2:13 @ So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that [his] grief was very (note:)And therefore thought that he would not have listened to their counsel.(:note) great.
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:3:20 @ 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:4:2 @ [If] we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but (note:)Seeing your impatience.(:note) who can withhold himself from speaking?
geneva@Job:4:4 @ Thy wordes haue confirmed him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the weake knees.
geneva@Job:4:7 @ Remember, I pray thee, who [ever] perished, being (note:)He concludes that Job was reproved seeing that God handles him so extremely, which is the argument that the carnal men make against the children of God.(:note) innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
geneva@Job:4:12 @ Now a thing was (note:)A thing I did not know before was declared to me by vision, that is that whoever thinks himself just will be found a sinner when he comes before God.(:note) secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof.
geneva@Job:4:18 @ Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his (note:)If God finds imperfection in his angels when they are not maintained by his power, how much more shall he lay folly to man's charge when he would justify himself against God?(:note) angels he charged with folly:
geneva@Job:5:1 @ Call now, if there be any that will (note:)He wills Job to consider the example of all who have lived or live godly, whether any of them are like him in raging against God as he does.(:note) answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?
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:5:5 @ Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the (note:)Though there are only two or three ears left in the hedges, yet these will be taken from him.(:note) thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
geneva@Job:5:9 @ Which (note:)He counsels Job to humble himself to God to whom all creatures are subject and whose works declare that man is inexcusable unless he glorifies God in all his works.(:note) doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:
geneva@Job:5:15 @ But he saveth the (note:)That is, he who humbles himself before God.(:note) poor from the sword, from their He compares the slander of the wicked to sharp swords. mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
geneva@Job:5:19 @ He shall deliver thee in (note:)He will send trouble after trouble that his children may not for one time, but continually trust in him: but they sill have a comfortable issue, even in the greatest and the last, which is here called the seventh.(:note) six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
geneva@Job:5:27 @ Lo (note:)We have learned these points by experience, that God does not punish the innocent, that man cannot compare in justice with him, that the hypocrites will not prosper for long, and that the affliction which man sustains comes for his own sin.(:note) this, we have searched it, so it [is]; hear it, and know thou [it] for thy good.
geneva@Job:6:10 @ Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; (note:)That is, let me die at once before I come to distrust God's promise through my impatience.(:note) for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
geneva@Job:6:22 @ Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your (note:)He touches the worldlings who for need will give part of their goods, and much more these men, who would not give him comfortable words.(:note) substance?
geneva@Job:6:25 @ How (note:)He who has a good conscience does not shrink at the sharp words or reasonings of others, unless they are able to persuade him by reason.(:note) forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
geneva@Job:7:6 @ My days are swifter than (note:)Thus he speaks in respect for the brevity of man's life, which passes without hope of returning: in consideration of which he desires God to have compassion on him.(:note) a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
geneva@Job:7:10 @ He shall returne no more to his house, neither shall his place knowe him any more.
geneva@Job:7:17 @ What [is] man, that thou (note:)Seeing that man of himself is so vile, why do you give him that honour to contend against him? Job uses all kinds of persuasion with God, that he might stay his hand.(:note) shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?
geneva@Job:7:18 @ And doest visite him euery morning, and tryest him euery moment?
geneva@Job:7:20 @ I have (note:)After all temptations faith steps forth and leads Job to repentance: yet it was not in such perfection that he could bridle himself from reasoning with God, because he still tried his faith.(:note) sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?
geneva@Job:8:4 @ If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their (note:)That is, has rewarded them according to their iniquity, meaning that Job should be warned by the example of his children, that he not offend God.(:note) transgression;
geneva@Job:8:15 @ He shall leane vpon his house, but it shall not stand: he shal holde him fast by it, yet shall it not endure.
geneva@Job:8:18 @ If he destroy him from his place, then [it] shall (note:)That is, so that there remains nothing there to prove whether the tree had grown there or not.(:note) deny him, [saying], I have not seen thee.
geneva@Job: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:9:4 @ He is wise in heart, & mighty in stregth: who hath bene fierce against him & hath prospered?
geneva@Job:9:8 @ Hee himselfe alone spreadeth out the heauens, and walketh vpon the height of the sea.
geneva@Job:9:11 @ Lo, he goeth (note:)I am not able to comprehend his works, which are common and daily before my eyes, much less in those things, which are hid and secret.(:note) by me, and I see [him] not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not.
geneva@Job:9:12 @ Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? (note:)He shows that when God executes his power, he does it justly, as no one can control him.(:note) who will say unto him, What doest thou?
geneva@Job:9:13 @ [If] God (note:)God will not be appeased for anything that man can say for himself for his justification.(:note) will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers That is, all the reasons that men can lay to approve their cause. do stoop under him.
geneva@Job:9:14 @ How much less shall I answer him, [and] choose out (note:)How should I be able to answer him by eloquence? By which he notes his friends, who although they were eloquent in talk, did not believe in their hearts, that which they spoke.(:note) my words [to reason] with him?
geneva@Job:9:15 @ Whom, though I were righteous, [yet] would I (note:)Meaning, in his own opinion, signifying that man will sometimes flatter himself to be righteous which before God is an abomination.(:note) not answer, [but] I would make supplication to my judge.
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:10:2 @ I will say unto God, Do not (note:)He would not that God would proceed against him by his secret justice, but by the ordinary means that he punishes others.(:note) condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
geneva@Job:10:8 @ Thine (note:)In these eight verses following he describes the mercy of God, in the wonderful creation of man: and on it grounds that God should not show himself rigorous against him.(:note) hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.
geneva@Job:11:10 @ If he cut off, and (note:)If God should turn the state of things and establish a new order in nature, who could control him?(:note) shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him?
geneva@Job:11:11 @ For hee knoweth vaine men, and seeth iniquitie, and him that vnderstandeth nothing.
geneva@Job:11:13 @ If thou (note:)If you repent, pray to him.(:note) prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;
geneva@Job:12:4 @ I am (note:)He reproves his friends for two faults: one, that they thought they had better knowledge than they did: and the other, that instead of true consolation, they derided and despised their friend in his adversity.(:note) [as] one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he Who being a mocker and a wicked man, thinks that no man is in God's favour but he, because he has all things that he desires. answereth him: the just upright [man is] laughed to scorn.
geneva@Job:12:7 @ But ask now the beasts, (note:)He declares to them that disputed against him, that their wisdom is common to all, and such as the very brute beasts teach daily.(:note) and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:
geneva@Job:12:13 @ With him is wisedome and strength: he hath counsell and vnderstanding.
geneva@Job:12:16 @ With him [is] strength and wisdom: the deceived and the (note:)He shows that there is nothing done in this world without God's will and ordinance, else he would not be Almighty.(:note) deceiver [are] his.
geneva@Job:12:23 @ He (note:)In this discourse of God's wonderful works, Job shows that whatever is done in this world both in the order and change of things, is by God's will and appointment, in which he declares that he thinks well of God, and is able to set forth his power in words as they that reasoned against him were.(:note) increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them [again].
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:13:7 @ Will ye speak (note:)He condemns their zeal, who did not have knowledge, nor regarded they to comfort him, but always granted on God's justice, as though it was not evidently seen in Job, unless they had undertaken the probation of it.(:note) wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
geneva@Job:13:9 @ Is it well that he shoulde seeke of you? will you make a lye for him, as one lyeth for a man?
geneva@Job:13:15 @ Loe, though he slay me, yet will I trust in him, and I will reprooue my wayes in his sight.
geneva@Job:13:16 @ He also [shall be] my salvation: for an (note:)By which he declares that he is not a hypocrite as they charged him.(:note) hypocrite shall not come before him.
geneva@Job:13:23 @ How many [are] (note:)His pangs move him to reason with God, not denying that he had sinned: but he desired to understand what his great sins were that he deserved such rigor, in which he sinned by demanding a reason from God why he punished him.(:note) mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
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:14:6 @ Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, (note:)Until the time you have appointed him to die, which he desires as the hireling waits for the end of his labour to receive his wages.(:note) as an hireling, his day.
geneva@Job:14:18 @ And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and the (note:)He murmurs through the impatiency of the flesh against God, as though he used great severity against him as against the hard rocks, or waters that overflow, so that by this the opportunity of his hope is taken away.(:note) rock is removed out of his place.
geneva@Job:14:20 @ Thou preuailest alway against him, so that he passeth away: he changeth his face when thou castest him away.
geneva@Job:14:22 @ But his (note:)Yet while he is in pain and misery.(:note) flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.
geneva@Job:15:21 @ A sounde of feare is in his eares, and in his prosperitie the destroyer shall come vpon him.
geneva@Job:15:24 @ Trouble and (note:)He shows the weapons God uses against the wicked, who lift up themselves against him, that is, terror of conscience and outward afflictions.(:note) anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
geneva@Job:15:25 @ For he hath stretched out his hand against God, and made him selfe strong against the Almightie.
geneva@Job:15:26 @ Therefore God shall runne vpon him, euen vpon his necke, and against the most thicke part of his shielde.
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:16:12 @ I was in welth, but he hath brought me to nought: he hath taken me by the necke, and beaten me, and set me as a marke for himselfe.
geneva@Job:17:2 @ [Are there] not (note:)Instead of comfort, being now at death's door, he had but them that mocked at him, and discouraged him.(:note) mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in I see still that they seek but to vex me. their provocation?
geneva@Job:17:8 @ Upright [men] shall be astonied at (note:)That is, when they see the godly punished: but in the end they will come to understanding and know what will be the reward of the hypocrite.(:note) this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
geneva@Job:17:10 @ But as for (note:)Job speaks to the three who came to comfort him.(:note) you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find [one] wise [man] among you.
geneva@Job:18:6 @ The light shalbe darke in his dwelling, and his candle shalbe put out with him.
geneva@Job:18:7 @ The steps of his strength shalbe restrained, and his owne counsell shall cast him downe.
geneva@Job:18:9 @ The grenne shall take him by the heele, and the theefe shall come vpon him.
geneva@Job:18:10 @ A snare is layed for him in the ground, and a trappe for him in the way.
geneva@Job:18:11 @ Fearefulnesse shall make him afrayde on euery side, and shall driue him to his feete.
geneva@Job:18:12 @ His strength shall be (note:)That which should nourish him will be consumed by famine.(:note) hungerbitten, and destruction [shall be] ready at his side.
geneva@Job:18:14 @ His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the (note:)That is, with great fear.(:note) king of terrors.
geneva@Job:18:15 @ It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because [it is] none of his: (note:)Though all the world would favour him, yet God would destroy him and his.(:note) brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
geneva@Job:18:20 @ They that come after [him] shall be astonied at his (note:)When they will see what came to him.(:note) day, as they that went before were affrighted.
geneva@Job:18:21 @ Surely such are the habitations of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
geneva@Job:19:6 @ Know now that God hath (note:)He breaks out again into his passions and declares still that his affliction comes from God though he is not able to feel the cause in himself.(:note) overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
geneva@Job:19:9 @ He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the (note:)Meaning, his children, and whatever was dear to him in this world.(:note) crown [from] my head.
geneva@Job:19:16 @ I called my seruant, but he would not answere, though I prayed him with my mouth.
geneva@Job:19:24 @ That they were graven with (note:)He protests that despite his sore passions his religion is perfect and that he in not a blasphemer as they judged him.(:note) an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
geneva@Job:19:28 @ But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the (note:)Though his friends thought that he was only persecuted by God for his sins, yet he declares that there was a deeper consideration that is, the trial of his faith and patience, and so to be an example for others.(:note) matter is found in 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:20:6 @ Though (note:)His purpose is to prove Job to be a wicked man, and a hypocrite, because God punished him, and changed his prosperity into adversity.(:note) his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;
geneva@Job:20:7 @ Yet shall hee perish for euer, like his dung, and they which haue seene him, shall say, Where is hee?
geneva@Job:20:8 @ He shal flee away as a dreame, and they shal not finde him, and shall passe away as a vision of the night,
geneva@Job:20:9 @ So that the eye which had seene him, shall do so no more, & his place shal see him no more.
geneva@Job:20:11 @ His bones are full [of the sin] of his youth, which (note:)Meaning that he will carry nothing away with him but his sin.(:note) shall lie down with him in the dust.
geneva@Job:20:14 @ Then his meat in his bowels was turned: the gall of Aspes was in the middes of him.
geneva@Job:20:16 @ He shall suck the (note:)He compares ill-gotten goods to the venom of asps, which is a dangerous serpent, noting that Jobs great riches were not truly come by and therefore God plagues him justly for the same.(:note) poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.
geneva@Job:20:22 @ In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand (note:)The wicked will never be in rest: for one wicked man will seek to destroy another.(:note) of the wicked shall come upon him.
geneva@Job:20:23 @ [When] he is about to fill his belly, [God] shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, (note:)Some read, upon his flesh, alluding to Job, whose flesh was smitten with a scab.(:note) and shall rain [it] upon him while he is eating.
geneva@Job:20:24 @ He shall flee from the yron weapons, and the bow of steele shal strike him through.
geneva@Job:20:25 @ It is drawn, and cometh out of the (note:)Some read, of the quiver.(:note) body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors [are] upon him.
geneva@Job:20:27 @ The heauen shal declare his wickednes, & the earth shal rise vp against him.
geneva@Job:20:29 @ This [is] the portion of a wicked man from (note:)Thus God will plague the wicked.(:note) God, and the heritage appointed unto him by Against God, thinking to excuse himself, and to escape God's hand. God.
geneva@Job:21:14 @ Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the (note:)They desire nothing more than to be exempt from all subjection that they should bear to God, thus Job shows his adversaries, that if they reason only by that which is seen by common experience the wicked who hate God are better dealt withal than they who love him.(:note) knowledge of thy ways.
geneva@Job:21:15 @ Who is the Almightie, that we should serue him? and what profit should we haue, if we should pray vnto him?
geneva@Job:21:19 @ God wil lay vp the sorowe of the father for his children: when he rewardeth him, hee shall knowe it.
geneva@Job:21:21 @ For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the nomber of his moneths is cut off?
geneva@Job:21:30 @ 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:21:33 @ 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:22:2 @ Can a man be (note:)Though man was just, yet God could not profit from this his justice; and therefore when he punished him, he had no regard to his justice, but to his sin.(:note) profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?
geneva@Job:22:3 @ Is it any thing vnto the Almightie, that thou art righteous? or is it profitable to him, that thou makest thy wayes vpright?
geneva@Job:22:4 @ Will he reprove thee for fear (note:)Lest you should reprove or hurt him?(:note) of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment?
geneva@Job:22:12 @ [Is] not God in the (note:)He accuses Job of impiety and contempt of God, as thought he would say, If you pass not for men, yet consider the height of God's majesty.(:note) height of heaven? and behold the height of the That so much the more by that excellent work you may fear God, and reverence him. stars, how high they are!
geneva@Job:22:14 @ The cloudes hide him that he can not see, and he walketh in the circle of heauen.
geneva@Job:22:19 @ The righteous see [it], and are glad: (note:)The just rejoice at the destruction of the wicked for two reasons, first because God shows himself judge of the world and by this means continues his honour and glory: secondly because God shows that he had care over his in that he punished their enemies.(:note) and the innocent laugh them to scorn.
geneva@Job:22:21 @ Acquaint now thyself (note:)He exhorts Job to repentance, and to return to God.(:note) with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.
geneva@Job:22:27 @ Thou shalt make thy praier vnto him, & he shal heare thee, & thou shalt render thy vowes.
geneva@Job:23:2 @ Even to day [is] my complaint (note:)He shows the just cause of his complaining and concerning that Eliphaz had exhorted him to return to God, (Job_22:21) he declares that he desires nothing more, but it seems that God would not be found of him.(:note) bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
geneva@Job:23:3 @ Would God yet I knew how to finde him, I would enter vnto his place.
geneva@Job:23:4 @ I would pleade the cause before him, & fill my mouth with arguments.
geneva@Job:23:6 @ Will he (note:)Using his absolute power and saying because I am God, I may do what I will.(:note) plead against me with [his] great power? No; but he would Of his mercy he would give me power to answer him. put [strength] in me.
geneva@Job:23:9 @ If to the North where he worketh, yet I cannot see him: he wil hide himselfe in the South, and I cannot beholde him.
geneva@Job:23:10 @ But he knoweth the (note:)God has this preeminence about me, that he knows my way: that is, that I am not able to judge his work, he shows also his confidence, that God uses him for his profit.(:note) way that I take: [when] he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
geneva@Job:23:13 @ But he [is] in one [mind], and who can (note:)Job confesses that at the present he did not feel God's favour and yet was assured that God had appointed him to a good end.(:note) turn him? and [what] his soul desireth, even [that] he doeth.
geneva@Job:23:14 @ For he performeth [the thing that is] appointed for me: and (note:)In many points man is not able to attain to God's judgments.(:note) many such [things are] with him.
geneva@Job:23:15 @ Therefore I am troubled at his presence, & in considering it, I am afraid of him.
geneva@Job:24:1 @ Why, seeing times (note:)Thus Job speaks in his passions, and after the judgment of the flesh: that is, that he does not see the things that are done at times, nor yet has a peculiar care over all, because he does not punish the wicked or avenge the godly.(:note) are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his When he punishes the wicked and rewards the good. days?
geneva@Job:24:10 @ They cause him to go naked without clothing, and take the glening from the hungrie.
geneva@Job:24:23 @ Though men giue him assurance to be in safetie, yet his eyes are vpon their wayes.
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:26:6 @ Hell [is] (note:)There is nothing hidden in the bottom of the earth but he sees it.(:note) naked before him, and Meaning, the grave in which things putrify. destruction hath no covering.
geneva@Job:26:14 @ Lo, these [are] parts of his ways: but (note:)If these few things which we see daily with our eyes, declare his great power and providence, how much more would they appear, if we were to comprehend all his works.(:note) how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?
geneva@Job:27:9 @ Will God heare his cry, when trouble commeth vpon him?
geneva@Job:27:11 @ I will teach you by the hand of (note:)That is, what God reserves for himself, and of which he gives not knowledge to all.(:note) God: [that] which [is] with the Almighty will I not conceal.
geneva@Job:27:13 @ This [is] the (note:)Thus will God order the wicked, and punish him even to his posterity.(:note) portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, [which] they shall receive of the Almighty.
geneva@Job:27:15 @ Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows (note:)No one will lament him.(:note) shall not weep.
geneva@Job:27:20 @ Terrours shal take him as waters, & a tempest shall cary him away by night.
geneva@Job:27:21 @ The East winde shall take him away, & he shal depart: & it shal hurle him out of his place.
geneva@Job:27:22 @ And God shal cast vpon him and not spare, though he would faine flee out of his hand.
geneva@Job:27:23 @ Euery man shall clap their hands at him, & hisse at him out of their place.
geneva@Job:28:4 @ The flood breaketh out from the (note:)Meaning, him that dwells by it.(:note) inhabitant; [even the waters] Which a man cannot wade through. forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.
geneva@Job:29:6 @ When I washed my steps (note:)By these comparisons he declares the great prosperity that he was in, so that he had no opportunity to be such a sinner as they accused him.(:note) with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;
geneva@Job:29:12 @ Because I delivered the (note:)Because his adversaries did so much charge him with wickedness, he is compelled to render account of his life.(:note) poor that cried, and the fatherless, and [him that had] none to help him.
geneva@Job: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:30:11 @ 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:30:21 @ 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:30:25 @ Did not I weepe with him that was in trouble? was not my soule in heauinesse for the poore?
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:31:14 @ 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:31:21 @ 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:31:28 @ 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:31:31 @ 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:31:37 @ 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: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:32:13 @ 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: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:33:22 @ 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: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:34:13 @ 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:34:17 @ 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:34:19 @ 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:34:23 @ 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:34:27 @ 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:34:36 @ 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: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:35:6 @ 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:35:9 @ 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:35:14 @ 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: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:36:9 @ 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:36:11 @ If they obey and serue him, they shal end their dayes in prosperity, & their yeres in pleasures.
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:36:26 @ 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: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:37:18 @ 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:37:23 @ [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:38:3 @ 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:38:32 @ 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: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:39:19 @ 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:39:23 @ {\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:40:2 @ Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty (note:)Is this the way for a man that will learn, to strive with God? which he reproves in Job.(:note) instruct [him]? he that reproveth God, let him answer it.
geneva@Job:40:9 @ {\cf2 (40:4)} Or hast thou an arme like God? or doest thou thunder with a voyce like him?
geneva@Job:40:11 @ {\cf2 (40:6)} Cast abroad the indignation of thy wrath, and beholde euery one that is proude, and abase him.
geneva@Job:40:12 @ {\cf2 (40:7)} Looke on euery one that is arrogant, and bring him lowe: and destroy the wicked in their place.
geneva@Job:40:14 @ Then will I also confess unto thee that thine own right hand can (note:)Proving by this that whoever attributes to himself power and ability to save himself, makes himself God.(:note) save thee.
geneva@Job:40:15 @ Behold now (note:)This beast is thought to be the elephant, or some other, which is unknown.(:note) behemoth, which I made Whom I made as well as you. with thee; he eateth This commends the providence of God toward man: for if he were given to devour as a lion, nothing would be able to resist him, or content him. grass as an ox.
geneva@Job:40:20 @ {\cf2 (40:15)} Surely the mountaines bring him foorth grasse, where all the beastes of the fielde play.
geneva@Job:40:22 @ {\cf2 (40:17)} Can the trees couer him with their shadow? or can the willowes of the riuer compasse him about?
geneva@Job:40:24 @ {\cf2 (40:19)} Hee taketh it with his eyes, and thrusteth his nose through whatsoeuer meeteth him.
geneva@Job:41:2 @ Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or (note:)Because he fears lest you should take him.(:note) bore his jaw through with a thorn?
geneva@Job:41:4 @ Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take (note:)To do your business, and be at your command?(:note) him for a servant for ever?
geneva@Job:41:5 @ {\cf2 (40:24)} Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bynd him for thy maydes?
geneva@Job:41:6 @ {\cf2 (40:25)} Shall the companions baket with him? shal they deuide him among the marchants?
geneva@Job:41:8 @ Lay thine hand upon him, remember (note:)If you once consider the danger, you will not meddle with him.(:note) the battle, do no more.
geneva@Job:41:9 @ Behold, (note:)That is, that trusts to take him.(:note) the hope of him is in vain: shall not [one] be cast down even at the sight of him?
geneva@Job:41:10 @ None [is so] fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to (note:)If no one dare stand against a whale, which is but a creature, who is able to compare with God the creator?(:note) stand before me?
geneva@Job:41:11 @ Who hath prevented me, that I should (note:)Who has taught me to accomplish my work?(:note) repay [him? whatsoever is] under the whole heaven is mine.
geneva@Job:41:13 @ Who can discover the face (note:)That is, who dare pull off his skin?(:note) of his garment? [or] who can come [to him] with his double Who dare put a bridle in his mouth? bridle?
geneva@Job:41:22 @ In his neck remaineth strength, and (note:)Nothing is painful or hard for him.(:note) sorrow is turned into joy before him.
geneva@Job:41:26 @ {\cf2 (41:17)} When the sword doeth touch him, he will not rise vp, nor for the speare, dart nor habergeon.
geneva@Job:41:28 @ {\cf2 (41:19)} The archer canot make him flee: ye stones of the sling are turned into stubble vnto him:
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:41:32 @ 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:42:4 @ Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, (note:)He shows that he will be God's scholar to learn of him.(:note) and declare thou unto me.
geneva@Job:42:7 @ And it was [so], that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me [the thing that is] (note:)You took in hand an evil cause, in that you condemned him by his outward afflictions, and not comforted him with my mercies.(:note) right, as my servant Who had a good cause, but handled it evil. Job [hath].
geneva@Job:42:8 @ Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall (note:)When you have reconciled yourselves to him for the faults that you have committed against him, he will pray for you, and I will hear him.(:note) pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you [after your] folly, in that ye have not spoken of me [the thing which is] right, like my servant Job.
geneva@Job:42:10 @ And the LORD turned the (note:)He delivered him out of the affliction he was in.(:note) captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.
geneva@Job:42:11 @ Then came there unto him all his (note:)That is, all his kindred, read (Job_19:13).(:note) brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.
geneva@Job:42:12 @ So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had (note:)God made him twice as rich in cattle as he was before, and gave him as many children as he had taken from him.(:note) fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.
geneva@Psalms:1:1 @ Blessed [is] the man that walketh not in the (note:)When a man has once given place to evil counsel, or to his own sin nature, he begins to forget himself in his sin, and so falls into contempt of God, which is called the seat of the scorners.(:note) counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. The Argument - This book of psalms is given to us by the Holy Spirit, to be esteemed as a precious treasure in which all things are contained that bring to true happiness in this present life as well as in the life to come. For the riches of true knowledge and heavenly wisdom, are here set open for us, to take of it most abundantly. If we would know the great and high majesty of God, here we may see the brightness of it shine clearly. If we would seek his incomprehensible wisdom, here is the school of the same profession. If we would comprehend his inestimable bounty, and approach near to it, and fill our hands with that treasure, here we may have a most lively and comfortable taste of it. If we would know where our salvation lies and how to attain to everlasting life, here is Christ our Redeemer, and Mediator most evidently described. The rich man may learn the true use of his riches. The poor man may find full contentment. He who will rejoice will know true joy, and how to keep measure in it. They who are afflicted and oppressed will see what their comfort exists in, and how they should praise God when he sends them deliverance. The wicked and the persecutors of the children of God will see how the hand of God is always against them: and though he permits them to prosper for a while, yet he bridles them, so much so that they cannot touch a hair of ones head unless he permits them, and how in the end their destruction is most miserable. Briefly here we have most present remedies against all temptations and troubles of mind and conscience, so that being well practised in this, we may be assured against all dangers in this life, live in the true fear and love of God, and at length attain the incorruptible crown of glory, which is laid up for all who love the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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: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:4:8 @ I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, (note:)This word in Hebrew may be referred to God, as it is here translated, or to David, signifying that he should dwell as joyfully alone, as if he had many about him, because the Lord is with him.(:note) only makest me dwell in safety.
geneva@Psalms:5:12 @ For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour (note:)So that he will be safe from all dangers.(:note) wilt thou compass![[pBiblx2]](/img/menu.png)