OT-POET.filter - geneva patience:

geneva@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:1:20 @ Then Job arose, and (note:)Which came not from impatience, but declares that the children of God are not insensible like blocks, but that in their patience they feel affliction and grief of mind: yet they do not rebel against God as the wicked do.(:note) rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,

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: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:6:8 @ Oh that I might have my (note:)In this he sins double, both in wishing through impatience to die, and also in desiring of God a thing which was not agreeable to his will.(:note) request; and that God would grant [me] the thing that I long for!

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:6:28 @ 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: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: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@Psalms:5:3 @ My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct [my prayer] unto thee, and will (note:)Or wait, with patience and trust till I am heard.(:note) look up.

geneva@Psalms:77:8 @ Is his (note:)As if he would say, It is impossible: by which he exhorts himself to patience.(:note) mercy clean gone for ever? doth [his] promise fail for evermore?

geneva@Psalms:78:65 @ Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, [and] like a mighty man that (note:)Because they were drunk in their sins, they judged God's patience to be slumbering, as though he were drunk, therefore he answering their beastly judgment, says, he will awake and take sudden vengeance.(:note) shouteth by reason of wine.

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

geneva@Psalms:105:19 @ Until (note:)So long he suffered adversity as God had appointed, and till he had sufficiently tried his patience.(:note) the time that his word came: the word of the LORD tried him.

geneva@Psalms:142:1 @ «Maschil of David; A Prayer when he was in the cave.» I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I (note:)David's patience and constant prayer to God condemns their wicked rage, who in their troubles either despair and murmur against God, or else seek other than God, to have relief in their miseries.(:note) make my supplication.

geneva@Psalms:145:18 @ The LORD [is] nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in (note:)Which only belongs to the faithful: and this virtue is contrary to infidelity, doubting, impatience and murmuring.(:note) truth.

geneva@Psalms:146:7 @ Which executeth judgment (note:)Whose faith and patience for a while he tries but at length he punishes the adversaries, that he may be known to be the judge of the world.(:note) for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners: