OT-POET.filter - geneva torment:

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:7:1 @ [Is there] not an appointed time to man upon earth? [are not] his days also like the days of an (note:)Has not a hired servant some rest and ease? Then in this my continual torment I am worse than a hireling.(:note) hireling?

geneva@Job:9:23 @ If the scourge (note:)That is, the wicked.(:note) slay suddenly, he will This is spoken according to our apprehension, as though he would say, If God destroyed only the wicked, (Job_5:3), why would he allow the innocent to be so long tormented by them? laugh at the trial of the innocent.

geneva@Job: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: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: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:19:2 @ Howe long will yee vexe my soule, and torment me with wordes?

geneva@Job:21:13 @ They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment (note:)Not being tormented with long sickness.(:note) go down to the grave.

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@Psalms:22:1 @ «To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David.» My (note:)Here appears that horrible conflict, which he sustained between faith and desperation.(:note) God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? [why art thou so] far from helping me, [and from] the words of my Being tormented with extreme anguish. roaring?

geneva@Psalms:22:14 @ I am poured out like (note:)Before he spoke of the cruelty of his enemies, and now he declares the inward grief of the mind, so that Christ was tormented both in soul and body.(:note) water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

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

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

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

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

geneva@Psalms:42:10 @ [As] with a sword in my (note:)That is, I am most grievously tormented.(:note) bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where [is] thy God?

geneva@Ecclesiastes:12:7 @ Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the (note:)The soul unconsciously goes either to joy or torment, and sleeps not as the wicked imagine.(:note) spirit shall return to God who gave it.