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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:1:4 @ And his sonnes went & banketted in their houses, euery one his day, and sent, & called their three sisters to eate and to drinke with them.
geneva@Job:1:5 @ And it was so, when the days of [their] feasting were gone about, that Job sent and (note:)That is, commanded them to be sanctified: meaning, that they should consider the faults that they had committed, and reconcile themselves for the same.(:note) sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and That is, he offered for each of his children an offering of reconciliation, which declared his religion toward God, and the care that he had for his children. offered burnt offerings [according] to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and In Hebrew it is, «blessed God», which is sometimes taken for blaspheming and cursing, as it is here and in (1Ki_21:10, 1Ki_21:13). cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job While the feast lasted. continually.
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:1:7 @ And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence (note:)This question is asked for our infirmity: for God knew where he had come from.(:note) comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, In this is described the nature of Satan, which is always seeking his prey, (1Pe_5:8). From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
geneva@Job:1:11 @ But put forth thine hand now, and (note:)This signifies that Satan is not able to touch us, but it is God that must do it.(:note) touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to Satan notes the vice to which men are commonly subjected, that is, to hide their rebellion and to be content with God in the time of prosperity which view is disclosed in the time of their adversity. thy face.
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:1:15 @ And the (note:)That is, the Arabians.(:note) Sabeans fell [upon them], and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
geneva@Job:1:17 @ And whiles he was yet speaking, another came, and sayd, The Caldeans set on three bands, and fell vpon the camels, and haue taken them, and haue slayne the seruantes with the edge of the sworde: but I onely 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:1:22 @ In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God (note:)But declared that God did all things according to justice and equity.(:note) foolishly.
geneva@Job:2:2 @ Then the Lord sayde vnto Satan, Whence commest thou? And Satan answered the Lorde, and sayd, From compassing the earth to and fro, and from walking in it.
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:2:6 @ 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:2:13 @ 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:3:1 @ 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:3:3 @ 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:3:13 @ 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:3:18 @ [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:3:20 @ 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:3:25 @ 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:4:1 @ Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, and sayde,
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:4:5 @ But now it is come vpon thee, and thou art grieued: it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
geneva@Job:4:6 @ [Is] not [this] thy (note:)He concludes that Job was a hypocrite and had no true fear or trust in God.(:note) fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
geneva@Job:4:8 @ Even as I have seen, they that (note:)They who do evil cannot but receive evil.(:note) plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
geneva@Job:4:9 @ By the (note:)He shows that God needs no great preparation to destroy his enemies: for he can do it with the blast of his mouth.(:note) blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.
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:4:14 @ Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones (note:)In these visions which God shows to his creatures, there is always a certain fear joined, that the authority of it might be had in greater reverence.(:note) to shake.
geneva@Job:4:16 @ It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image [was] before mine eyes, [there was] (note:)When all things were quiet or when the fear was relieved as God appeared to Elijah, (1Ki_19:12).(:note) silence, and I heard a voice, [saying],
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:4:20 @ They are destroyed from (note:)They see death continually before their eyes and daily approaching them.(:note) morning to evening: they perish for ever No man for all this considers it. without any regarding [it].
geneva@Job:4:21 @ Doth not their excellency [which is] in them go away? they die, even without (note:)That is, before any of them were so wise, as to think of death.(:note) wisdom.
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:5:4 @ His (note:)Though God sometimes allows the father's to pass in this world, yet his judgments will light on their wicked children.(:note) children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the By public judgment they will be condemned and no one will pity them. gate, neither [is there] any to deliver [them].
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:5:6 @ Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, (note:)That is, the earth is not the cause of barrenness and man's misery, but his own sin.(:note) neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
geneva@Job:5:7 @ Yet man is born unto (note:)Which declares that sin is always in our corrupt nature: for before sin it was not subject to pain and affliction.(:note) trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
geneva@Job:5:8 @ I would seek unto (note:)If I suffered as you do, I would seek God.(:note) God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
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:5:14 @ They meet with (note:)In things plain and evident they show themselves fools instead of wise men.(:note) darkness in the daytime, and This declares that God punishes the worldly wise as he threatened in (Deu_28:29). grope in the noonday as in the night.
geneva@Job:5:16 @ So the poor hath hope, and iniquity (note:)If the wicked are compelled by God's works to shut their mouths, how much more they who profess God.(:note) stoppeth her mouth.
geneva@Job:5:18 @ For he maketh the wound, and bindeth it vp: he smiteth, and his handes make whole.
geneva@Job:5:21 @ Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue, and thou shalt not be afraid of destruction when it commeth.
geneva@Job:5:22 @ At destruction and famine thou shalt (note:)While the wicked lament in their troubles, you will have occasion to rejoice.(:note) laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
geneva@Job:5:23 @ For thou (note:)When we are in God's favour, all creatures will serve us.(:note) shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
geneva@Job:5:24 @ And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle [shall be] in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not (note:)God will so bless you that you will have opportunity to rejoice in all things, and not be offended.(:note) sin.
geneva@Job:5:25 @ Thou shalt perceiue also, that thy seede shalbe great, and thy posteritie as the grasse of the earth.
geneva@Job:5:26 @ Thou shalt come to [thy] grave in (note:)Though the children of God have not always carried out this promise, yet God recompenses it otherwise to their advantage.(:note) a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in his season.
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:6:2 @ Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the (note:)To know whether I complain without just cause.(:note) balances together!
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:6:4 @ For the arrows of the Almighty [are] within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do (note:)Which declares that he was not only afflicted in body, but wounded in conscience, which is the greatest battle that the faithful can have.(:note) set themselves in array against me.
geneva@Job:6:5 @ Doth the (note:)Do you think that I cry without cause, seeing the brute beasts do not complain when they have what they want.(:note) wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
geneva@Job:6:6 @ Can that which is (note:)Can a man's taste delight in that, which has no savour? meaning that no one takes pleasure in affliction seeing they cannot do away with things that are unsavoury to the mouth.(:note) unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there [any] taste in the white of an egg?
geneva@Job:6:13 @ [Is] not my (note:)Have I not sought to help myself as much as was possible?(:note) help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?
geneva@Job:6:15 @ My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a (note:)He compares friends who do not comfort us in our misery to a brook which in summer when we need water is dry, in winter is hard frozen and in the time of rain when we have no need overflows with water.(:note) brook, [and] as the stream of brooks they pass away;
geneva@Job:6:16 @ Which are blackish with yee, and wherein the snowe is hid.
geneva@Job:6:17 @ But in time they are dryed vp with heate and are consumed: and when it is hote they faile out of their places,
geneva@Job:6:19 @ The troops of Tema (note:)They who pass by it to go into the hot countries of Arabia, think to find water there to quench their thirst but they are deceived.(:note) looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.
geneva@Job:6:20 @ But they were confounded: when they hoped, they came thither and were ashamed.
geneva@Job:6:27 @ Ye make your wrath to fall vpon the fatherlesse, and dig a pit for your friende.
geneva@Job:6:28 @ Now therefore be content, (note:)Consider whether I speak as one who is driven to this impatience through sorrow, or as a hypocrite as you condemn me.(:note) look upon me; for [it is] evident unto you if I lie.
geneva@Job:6:29 @ Turne, I pray you, let there be none iniquitie: returne, I say, and ye shall see yet my righteousnesse in that behalfe.
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:7:4 @ If I layed me downe, I sayde, When shall I arise? and measuring the euening I am euen full with tossing to and fro vnto the dawning of the day.
geneva@Job:7:5 @ My flesh is (note:)This signifies that his disease was rare and most horrible.(:note) clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
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:7:11 @ Therefore I will not (note:)Seeing I can by no other means comfort myself I will declare my grief in words, and thus he speaks as one overcome with grief of mind.(:note) refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
geneva@Job:7:13 @ When I say, My couch shal relieue me, and my bed shall bring comfort in my meditation,
geneva@Job:7:14 @ Then thou scarest me (note:)So that I can have no rest, night or day.(:note) with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:
geneva@Job:7:15 @ So that my soul (note:)He speaks as one overcome with sorrow, and not of judgment, or of the examination of his faith.(:note) chooseth strangling, [and] death rather than my life.
geneva@Job:7:16 @ I loathe [it]; I would not live alway: (note:)Seeing my term of life is so short, let me have some rest and ease.(:note) let me alone; for my days [are] vanity.
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:7:19 @ Howe long will it be yer thou depart from me? thou wilt not let me alone whiles I may swallowe my spettle.
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:7:21 @ And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I [shall] (note:)That is, I will be dead.(:note) not [be].
geneva@Job:8:1 @ Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and saide,
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:8:6 @ If thou be pure and vpright, then surely hee will awake vp vnto thee, and he wil make the habitation of thy righteousnesse prosperous.
geneva@Job:8:7 @ Though thy beginning (note:)Though the beginning is not as pleasant as you would like, yet in the end you will have sufficient opportunity to please yourself.(:note) was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
geneva@Job:8:8 @ For (note:)He wills Job to examine all antiquity and he will find it true which he here says.(:note) enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:
geneva@Job:8:9 @ (For we [are but of] (note:)Meaning, that it is not enough to have the experience of ourselves, but to be confirmed by the examples of those who went before us.(:note) yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth [are] a shadow:)
geneva@Job:8:11 @ Can the rush (note:)As a rush cannot grow without moisture, so the hypocrite because he does not have faith which is watered with God's Spirit.(:note) grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?
geneva@Job:8:12 @ Though it were in greene and not cutte downe, yet shall it wither before any other herbe.
geneva@Job:8:13 @ So are the paths of al that forget God, and the hypocrites hope shall perish.
geneva@Job:8:15 @ He shall leane vpon his house, but it shall not stand: he shal holde him fast by it, yet shall it not endure.
geneva@Job:8:16 @ He [is] (note:)He compares the just to a tree, which although it is moved from one place to another, yet flourishes: so the affliction of the godly turns to their profit.(:note) green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.
geneva@Job:8:18 @ If he destroy him from his place, then [it] shall (note:)That is, so that there remains nothing there to prove whether the tree had grown there or not.(:note) deny him, [saying], I have not seen thee.
geneva@Job:8:19 @ Behold, this [is] the joy (note:)To be planted in another place, where it may grow as it pleases.(:note) of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.
geneva@Job:8:20 @ Behold, God will not cast away an vpright man, neither will he take the wicked by the hand,
geneva@Job:8:21 @ Till he fill thy mouth with (note:)If you are godly, he will give you opportunity to rejoice and if not your affliction will increase.(:note) laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.
geneva@Job:8:22 @ They that hate thee, shall be clothed with shame, and the dwelling of the wicked shall not remaine.
geneva@Job:9:2 @ I know [it is] so of a truth: but how should man be (note:)Job here answers Eliphaz and Bildad's oration, touching the justice of God, and his innocency, confessing God to be infinite in justice and man to be nothing in respect.(:note) just with God?
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:9:6 @ Which (note:)He declares the infirmity of man, by the mighty and incomprehensible power that is in God, showing what he could do if he would set forth his power.(:note) shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
geneva@Job:9:7 @ He commandeth the sunne, & it riseth not: hee closeth vp the starres, as vnder a signet.
geneva@Job:9:10 @ He doeth great things, and vnsearcheable: yea, marueilous things without nomber.
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:9:17 @ For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds (note:)I am not able to feel my sins so great, as I feel the weight of his plagues; and this he speaks to condemn his dullness and to justify God.(:note) without cause.
geneva@Job:9:18 @ He wil not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitternesse.
geneva@Job:9:20 @ If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: (note:)If I stood in my own defence yet God would have just cause to condemn me if he examined my heart and conscience.(:note) [if I say], I [am] perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
geneva@Job:9:21 @ Though I were perfite, yet I knowe not my soule: therefore abhorre I my life.
geneva@Job:9:22 @ This [is] one [thing], therefore I said [it], He destroyeth the (note:)If God punishes according to his justice, he will destroy them who are counted perfect as well as them that are wicked.(:note) perfect and the wicked.
geneva@Job:9:26 @ They are passed as with the most swift ships, and as the eagle that flyeth to the pray.
geneva@Job:9:27 @ If (note:)I think not to fall into these afflictions, but my sorrows bring me to these manifold infirmities, and my conscience condemns me.(:note) I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort [myself]:
geneva@Job:9:29 @ [If] I be wicked, why then (note:)Why does God not destroy me at once? thus he speaks according to the infirmity of the flesh.(:note) labour I in vain?
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:9:33 @ 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:9:35 @ [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:10:1 @ My soul is (note:)I am more like a dead man, than to one that lives.(:note) weary of my life; I will leave my I will make an ample declaration of my torments, accusing myself and not God. complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
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:10:3 @ [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:10:6 @ That thou inquirest of mine iniquitie, and searchest out my sinne?
geneva@Job:10:7 @ Thou knowest that I am not (note:)By affliction you keep me as in a prison, and restrain me from doing evil, neither can any set me free.(:note) wicked; and [there is] none that can deliver out of thine hand.
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:10:9 @ Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as (note:)As brittle as a pot of clay.(:note) the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
geneva@Job:10:11 @ Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and ioyned me together with bones and sinewes.
geneva@Job:10:12 @ Thou hast granted me life and (note:)That is, reason and understanding, and many other gifts, by which man excels all earthly creatures.(:note) favour, and thy That is, the fatherly care and providence by which you preserved me, and without which I would perish immediately. visitation hath preserved my spirit.
geneva@Job:10:13 @ And these [things] hast thou hid in thine heart: I know (note:)Though I am not fully able to comprehend these things, yet I must confess that it is so.(:note) that this [is] with thee.
geneva@Job:10:14 @ If I haue sinned, then thou wilt streightly looke vnto me, and wilt not holde mee giltlesse of mine iniquitie.
geneva@Job:10:15 @ If I be wicked, woe unto me; and [if] I be righteous, [yet] will I not (note:)I will always walk in fear and humility, knowing that no one is just before you.(:note) lift up my head. [I am] full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;
geneva@Job:10:16 @ For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself (note:)Job being sore assaulted in this battle between the flesh and the spirit, breaks out into these affections, wishing rather for short days than long pain.(:note) marvellous upon me.
geneva@Job:10:17 @ Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; (note:)That is, diversity of diseases and in great abundance; showing that God has infinite means to punish man.(:note) changes and war [are] against me.
geneva@Job:10:20 @ [Are] not my days few? (note:)He wishes that God would leave off his affliction, considering his great misery and the shortness of his life.(:note) cease [then, and] let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
geneva@Job:10:21 @ Before I go [whence] I shall not (note:)He speaks this in the person of a sinner, that is overcome with passions and with the feeling of God's judgments and therefore cannot apprehend in that state the mercies of God, and the comfort of the resurrection.(:note) return, [even] to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
geneva@Job:10:22 @ A land of darkness, as darkness [itself; and] of the shadow of death, without any (note:)No distinction between light and darkness but where there is very darkness itself.(:note) order, and [where] the light [is] as darkness.
geneva@Job:11:1 @ Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and sayde,
geneva@Job:11:2 @ Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man (note:)Should he persuade by his great talk that he is just?(:note) full of talk be justified?
geneva@Job:11:4 @ For thou hast said, (note:)He charges Job with this, that he should say, that the thing which he spoke was true, and that he was without sin in the sight of God.(:note) My doctrine [is] pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.
geneva@Job:11:6 @ And that he would shew thee the (note:)Which is not to stand in justifying of yourself: he signifies that man will never be overcome while he reasons with another, and therefore God must break off the controversy, and stop man's mouth.(:note) secrets of wisdom, that [they are] double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacteth of thee [less] than thine iniquity [deserveth].
geneva@Job:11:8 @ [It is] as high as heaven; what canst thou do? (note:)That is, this perfection of God, and if man is not able to comprehend the height of the heavens, the depth of the earth, the breadth of the sea, which are but creatures, how can he attain to the perfection of the creator.(:note) deeper than hell; what canst thou know?
geneva@Job:11:9 @ The measure thereof is longer then the earth, and it is broader then the sea.
geneva@Job:11:11 @ For hee knoweth vaine men, and seeth iniquitie, and him that vnderstandeth nothing.
geneva@Job:11:12 @ For vain man would be wise, though man be born [like] a wild (note:)That is, without understanding, so that whatever gifts he has afterward come from God, and not from nature.(:note) ass's colt.
geneva@Job:11:14 @ If iniquity [be] in thine (note:)Renounce your own evil works and see that they do not offend God, over whom you have charge.(:note) hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.
geneva@Job:11:15 @ For then shalt thou lift up thy (note:)He declares the quietness of conscience and success in all things that they shall have who turn to God in true repentance.(:note) face without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear:
geneva@Job:11:16 @ But thou shalt forget thy miserie, and remember it as waters that are past.
geneva@Job:11:18 @ And thou shalt bee bolde, because there is hope: and thou shalt digge pittes, and shalt lye downe safely.
geneva@Job:12:2 @ No doubt but ye [are] the people, and (note:)Because you do not feel what you speak, you think the whole stands in words, and so flatter yourselves as though no one else knew anything, or could know except you.(:note) wisdom shall die with you.
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:12:6 @ The tabernacles of robbers doe prosper, and they are in safetie, that prouoke God, whome God hath enriched with his hand.
geneva@Job:12:8 @ Or speake to the earth, and it shall shewe thee: or the fishes of the sea, and they shall declare vnto thee.
geneva@Job:12:12 @ With the (note:)Though men by age and continuance of time attain wisdom, yet it is not comparable to God's wisdom, nor able to comprehend his judgments, in which he answers to that which was alleged, (Job_8:8).(:note) ancient [is] wisdom; and in length of days understanding.
geneva@Job:12:13 @ With him is wisedome and strength: he hath counsell and vnderstanding.
geneva@Job:12:14 @ Beholde, he will breake downe, and it can not be built: he shutteth a man vp, and he can not be loosed.
geneva@Job:12:15 @ Beholde, he withholdeth the waters, and they drie vp: but when he sendeth them out, they destroy the earth.
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:12:20 @ He removeth away the speech of the (note:)He causes their words to have no credit, which is when he will punish sin.(:note) trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged.
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:12:25 @ They grope in the darke without light: and he maketh the to stagger like a drunken ma.
geneva@Job:13:1 @ Loe, mine eye hath seene all this: mine eare hath heard, and vnderstande it.
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:13:5 @ Oh, that you woulde holde your tongue, that it might be imputed to you for wisedome!
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:13:14 @ Wherefore do I (note:)Is not this a revealed sign of my affliction and that I do not complain without cause, seeing that I am thus tormented as though I should tear my own flesh, and put my life in danger?(:note) take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
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:13:19 @ Who [is] he [that] will plead (note:)To prove that God punishes me for my sins.(:note) with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall If I do not defend my cause, every man will condemn me. give up the ghost.
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:13:26 @ For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess (note:)You punish me now for the sins that I committed in my youth.(:note) the iniquities of my youth.
geneva@Job:14:1 @ Man (note:)Taking the opportunity of his adversaries words he describes the state of man's life from his birth to his death.(:note) [that is] born of a woman [is] of few days, and full of trouble.
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:14:5 @ Are not his dayes determined? the nober of his moneths are with thee: thou hast appointed his boundes, which he can not passe.
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:14:7 @ For there is hope of a tree, if it bee cut downe, that it will yet sproute, and the branches thereof will not cease.
geneva@Job:14:8 @ Though the roote of it waxe olde in the earth, & the stocke thereof be dead in ye ground,
geneva@Job:14:9 @ Yet by the sent of water it will bud, and bring foorth boughes like a plant.
geneva@Job:14:14 @ If a man die, shall he live [again]? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till (note:)Meaning, to the day of the resurrection when he would be changed and renewed.(:note) my change come.
geneva@Job:14:17 @ My transgression [is] sealed up in a (note:)You lay them all together and do not allow any of my sins to go unpunished.(:note) bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.
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:14:21 @ And he knoweth not if his sonnes shall be honourable, neither shall he vnderstand concerning them, whether they shalbe of lowe degree,
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:15:1 @ Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and saide,
geneva@Job:15:2 @ Should a wise man utter (note:)That is, vain words, and without consolation?(:note) vain knowledge, and fill his belly Meaning, with matters that are of no importance, which are forgotten as soon as they are uttered, as the East wind dries up moisture as soon as it falls. with the east wind?
geneva@Job:15:3 @ Shall he dispute with wordes not comely? or with talke that is not profitable?
geneva@Job:15:5 @ For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the (note:)You speak as the mockers and contemners of God do.(:note) tongue of the crafty.
geneva@Job:15:10 @ With vs are both auncient and very aged men, farre older then thy father.
geneva@Job:15:11 @ [Are] the consolations of God (note:)He accuses Job's pride and ingratitude, that will not be comforted by God, but by their counsel.(:note) small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?
geneva@Job:15:12 @ Why doth thine heart (note:)Why do you stand in your own conceit?(:note) carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,
geneva@Job:15:14 @ What [is] man, that he should be clean? and [he which is] born of a woman, that he should (note:)His purpose is to prove that Job, as an unjust man and a hypocrite, is punished for his sins, as he did before, (Job_4:8).(:note) be righteous?
geneva@Job:15:16 @ How much more abominable and filthy [is] man, which (note:)Who has a desire to sin, as he who is thirsty to drink.(:note) drinketh iniquity like water?
geneva@Job:15:18 @ Which wise men haue tolde, as they haue heard of their fathers, and haue not kept it secret:
geneva@Job:15:20 @ The wicked man travaileth with pain all [his] days, and the number (note:)The cruel man is always in danger of death, and is never quiet in conscience.(:note) of years is hidden to the oppressor.
geneva@Job:15:21 @ A sounde of feare is in his eares, and in his prosperitie the destroyer shall come vpon him.
geneva@Job:15:22 @ He believeth not that he shall return out of (note:)Out of that misery to which he once fell.(:note) darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
geneva@Job:15:23 @ He wandereth (note:)God not only impoverishes the wicked often, but even in their prosperity he punishes them with a greediness to gain even more: which is as a beggary.(:note) abroad for bread, [saying], Where [is it]? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
geneva@Job:15:27 @ Because he covereth his face with (note:)That is, he was so puffed up with prosperity and abundance for all things, that he forgave God: noting that Job in his happiness did not have the true fear of God.(:note) his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on [his] flanks.
geneva@Job:15:28 @ And he dwelleth (note:)Though he build and repair ruinous places to gain fame, yet God will bring all to nothing, and turn his great prosperity into extreme misery.(:note) in desolate cities, [and] in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
geneva@Job:15:29 @ He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the (note:)Meaning, that his sumptuous buildings would never come to perfection.(:note) perfection thereof upon the earth.
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:15:34 @ 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:16:5 @ [But] I would strengthen you (note:)If this were in my power, yet I would comfort you and not do as you do to me.(:note) with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage [your grief].
geneva@Job:16:6 @ Though I speak, my grief is (note:)If you would say, «Why do you not then comfort yourself?» he answers that the judgments of God are more heavy than he is able to assuage either by words or silence.(:note) not asswaged: and [though] I forbear, what am I eased?
geneva@Job:16:8 @ And thou hast filled me with (note:)In token of sorrow and grief.(:note) wrinkles, [which] is a witness [against me]: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.
geneva@Job:16:10 @ They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the (note:)That is, has handled me contemptuously: for so slapping the cheek signified, (1Ki_22:24; Mar_14:65)(:note) cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.
geneva@Job:16:14 @ He hath broken me with one breaking vpon another, and runneth vpon me like a gyant.
geneva@Job:16:16 @ My face is withered with weeping, and the shadow of death is vpon mine eyes,
geneva@Job:16:17 @ Not for [any] injustice in (note:)Signifying that he is not able to understand the cause of this his grievous punishment.(:note) mine hands: also my prayer That is, unfeigned and without hypocrisy. [is] pure.
geneva@Job:16:19 @ Also now, behold, my (note:)Though man condemn me, yet God is witness of my cause.(:note) witness [is] in heaven, and my record [is] on high.
geneva@Job:16:21 @ O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man (note:)Thus by his great torments he is carried away, and breaks out into passions, and speaks unadvisedly, as though God would intreat man more gently, seeing he has only a short time here to live.(:note) [pleadeth] for his neighbour!
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:17:13 @ If I wait, (note:)Though I should hope to come from adversity to prosperity, as your discourse pretends.(:note) the grave [is] mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
geneva@Job:18:1 @ Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
geneva@Job:18:2 @ How long [will it be ere] (note:)Who count yourselves just as (Job_12:4).(:note) ye make an end of words? Whom you take to be only beasts, as in (Job_12:7). mark, and afterwards we will speak.
geneva@Job:18:5 @ Yea, the light of the wicked shall be (note:)When the wicked is in his prosperity, then God changes his state: and this is his ordinary working for their sins.(:note) put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
geneva@Job:18:6 @ The light shalbe darke in his dwelling, and his candle shalbe put out with him.
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:18:13 @ It shall devour the strength of his skin: [even] the (note:)That is, some strong and violent death will consume his strength: or as the Hebrew word signifies his members or parts.(:note) firstborn of death shall devour his strength.
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:18:18 @ He shall be driven from (note:)He will fall from prosperity to adversity.(:note) light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
geneva@Job:18:19 @ Hee shall neither haue sonne nor nephewe among his people, nor any posteritie in his dwellings.
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:19:2 @ Howe long will yee vexe my soule, and torment me with wordes?
geneva@Job:19:4 @ And be it indeed [that] I have erred, mine error (note:)That is, I myself will be punished for it, or you have not yet consulted it.(:note) remaineth with myself.
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:19:16 @ I called my seruant, but he would not answere, though I prayed him with my mouth.
geneva@Job:19:20 @ My bone (note:)Besides these great losses and most cruel unkindness, he was touched in his own person as follows.(:note) cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
geneva@Job:19:21 @ Have pity upon me, have (note:)Seeing I have these just causes to complain, condemn me not as a hypocrite, especially you who should comfort me.(:note) pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
geneva@Job:19:22 @ Why do ye persecute me as (note:)Is it not enough that God punishes me, unless you by reproaching increase my sorrow?(:note) God, and are not satisfied with my To see my body punished, unless you trouble my mind? flesh?
geneva@Job:19:23 @ Oh that my wordes were nowe written! oh that they were written euen in a booke,
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:19:27 @ Whome I my selfe shall see, and mine eyes shall beholde, and none other for me, though my reynes are consumed within me.
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?
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