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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: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:5:10 @ Who (note:)He shows by particular examples what the works of God are.(:note) giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:

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:6:11 @ What [is] my strength, that I should hope? and what [is] mine (note:)He fears lest he should be brought to inconveniences, if his sorrows should continue.(:note) end, that I should prolong my life?

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:7:17 @ 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:7:20 @ 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: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:9:12 @ 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:9:31 @ 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: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:11:12 @ 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: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:12:23 @ 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:13:13 @ Holde your tongues in my presence, that I may speake, and let come vpon what will.

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:15:9 @ What knowest thou that we knowe not? and vnderstandest that is not in vs?

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

geneva@Job:16:4 @ I also could speak as ye [do]: if your (note:)I would that you felt what I do.(:note) soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and That is, mock at your misery, as you do at mine. shake mine head at you.

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: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: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: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: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:21:21 @ For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the nomber of his moneths is cut off?

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:22:17 @ Which sayd vnto God, Depart from vs, & asked what the Almightie could do for them.

geneva@Job:23:5 @ I would knowe the wordes, that he would answere me, & would vnderstand what he would say vnto me.

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:23:13 @ 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:27:8 @ For what [is] the (note:)What advantage has the dissembler to gain, seeing he will lose his own soul?(:note) hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?

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

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

geneva@Job:31:14 @ 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:32:11 @ Behold, I waited for your words; I gave ear to your reasons, whilst ye searched out (note:)To prove that Job's affliction came for his sins.(:note) what to say.

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

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

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

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

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

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

geneva@Job:37:19 @ 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:38:24 @ By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the East winde vpon the earth?

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

geneva@Job:40:4 @ Behold, I am (note:)By which he shows that he repented and desired pardon for his faults.(:note) vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.

geneva@Job:40:24 @ {\cf2 (40:19)} Hee taketh it with his eyes, and thrusteth his nose through whatsoeuer meeteth him.

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

geneva@Job:42:5 @ I have (note:)I knew you only before by hearsay, but now you have caused me to feel what you are to me, that I may resign myself over to you.(:note) heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.

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

geneva@Psalms:8:4 @ What is (note:)It was sufficient for him to have set forth his glory by the heavens, though he had not come so low as to man who is but dust.(:note) man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

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

geneva@Psalms:12:4 @ Who have said, (note:)They think themselves able to persuade whatever they take in hand.(:note) With our tongue will we prevail; our lips [are] our own: who [is] lord over us?

geneva@Psalms:25:12 @ What (note:)Meaning, the number is very small.(:note) man [is] he that feareth the LORD? him shall he teach in the way [that] he shall He will direct such with his spirit to follow the right way. choose.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

geneva@Psalms:44:1 @ «To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil.» We have heard with our (note:)This psalm seems to have been made by some excellent prophet for the use of the people when the Church was in extreme misery, either at their return from Babylon or under Antiochus or in similar afflictions.(:note) ears, O God, our fathers have told us, [what] work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.

geneva@Psalms:46:8 @ Come, behold the works of the LORD, (note:)That is, how often he has destroyed his enemies, and delivered his people.(:note) what desolations he hath made in the earth.

geneva@Psalms:50:16 @ But unto the wicked God saith, (note:)Why do you pretend to be of my people and talk of my covenant, seeing that you are a hypocrite?(:note) What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or [that] thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?

geneva@Psalms:50:18 @ When thou sawest a thief, then (note:)He shows what the fruits of them who contemn God's word are.(:note) thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.

geneva@Psalms:56:4 @ In God I will praise his (note:)He stays his conscience on God's promise though he sees no present help.(:note) word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.

geneva@Psalms:56:11 @ In God doe I trust: I will not be afrayd what man can doe vnto me.

geneva@Psalms:64:9 @ And all men shall see it, and declare the worke of God, and they shall vnderstand, what he hath wrought.

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

geneva@Psalms:79:2 @ The (note:)The prophets show to what extremities God sometimes allows his Church to fall to exercise their faith, before he sets his hand to deliver them.(:note) dead bodies of thy servants have they given [to be] meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.

geneva@Psalms:85:8 @ I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak (note:)He will send all prosperity to his Church, when he has sufficiently corrected them, also by his punishments the faithful will learn to beware that they not return the same offences.(:note) peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.

geneva@Psalms:89:7 @ God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the (note:)If the angels tremble before God's majesty and infinite justice, what earthly creature by oppressing the Church dares to set himself against God?(:note) saints, and to be had in reverence of all [them that are] about him.

geneva@Psalms:89:48 @ What man liueth, and shall not see death? shall hee deliuer his soule from the hande of the graue? Selah.

geneva@Psalms:96:5 @ For all the gods of the nations [are] idols: but the LORD (note:)Then the idols or whatever did not make the heavens, are not God.(:note) made the heavens.

geneva@Psalms:101:1 @ «A Psalm of David.» I will (note:)David considers what manner of King he would be, when God would place him in the throne, promising openly, that he would be merciful and just.(:note) sing of mercy and judgment: unto thee, O LORD, will I sing.

geneva@Psalms:101:6 @ Mine eyes [shall be] upon the (note:)He shows what the true use of the sword is, to punish the wicked and to maintain the good.(:note) faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me.

geneva@Psalms:106:29 @ Thus they (note:)Signifying that whatever man invents of himself to serve God by, is detestable and provokes his anger.(:note) provoked [him] to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.

geneva@Psalms:107:23 @ They that go down to the (note:)He shows by the sea what care God has over man, for when he delivers them from the great danger of the sea, he delivers them as it were from a thousand deaths.(:note) sea in ships, that do business in great waters;

geneva@Psalms:112:5 @ A good man sheweth favour, and (note:)He shows what the fruit of mercy is, to lend freely and not for gain, and so to measure his doings that he may be able to help where need requires and not to bestow all on himself.(:note) lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion.

geneva@Psalms:113:4 @ The LORD [is] high above all (note:)If God's glory shines through all the world, and therefore of all ought to be praised, what great condemnation were it to his people, among whom chiefly it shines, if they should not earnestly extol his Name?(:note) nations, [and] his glory above the heavens.

geneva@Psalms:114:5 @ What ailed thee, O Sea, that thou fleddest? O Iorden, why wast thou turned backe?

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

geneva@Psalms:115:7 @ They have (note:)He shows what great vanity it is to ask help from them who not only have no help in them, but lack sense and reason.(:note) hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat.

geneva@Psalms:116:12 @ What shall I render vnto the Lord for all his benefites toward me?

geneva@Psalms:118:6 @ The LORD [is] on my side; I will not fear: what can (note:)Being exalted to this estate, he assured himself to have man ever to be his enemy. Yet he did not doubt that God would maintain him, because he had placed him.(:note) man do unto me?

geneva@Psalms:119:19 @ I [am] a (note:)Seeing man's life in this world is only a passage, what should become of him, if your word were not his guide?(:note) stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.

geneva@Psalms:119:128 @ Therefore I esteem all [thy] precepts [concerning] all [things to be] right; [and] I hate every false (note:)That is, whatever dissents from the purity of your word.(:note) way.

geneva@Psalms:119:136 @ Rivers of waters (note:)He shows what should be the zeal of God's children when they see his word contemned.(:note) run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.

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

geneva@Psalms:120:7 @ I [am for] (note:)He declares what he means by Meshech and Kedar, that is, the Israelites who had degenerated from their godly fathers, and hated and contended against the faithful.(:note) peace: but when I speak, they [are] for war.

geneva@Psalms:121:8 @ The LORD shall preserve thy (note:)Whatever you attempt will have good success.(:note) going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.

geneva@Psalms:132:10 @ For thy (note:)As you first made promise to David, so continue it to his posterity that whatever they ask for their people, it may be granted.(:note) servant David's sake turn not away the face of thine anointed.

geneva@Psalms:135:6 @ Whatsoever the LORD pleased, [that] (note:)He joined God's power with his will, to the intent that we should not separate them and by this he wills God's people to depend on his power which he confirms by examples.(:note) did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places.

geneva@Psalms:135:12 @ And (note:)He shows what fruit the godly conceive of God's power, by which they see how he destroys his enemies, and delivers his people.(:note) gave their land [for] an heritage, an heritage unto Israel his people.

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

geneva@Psalms:145:8 @ The LORD [is] gracious, and full of (note:)He describes after what sort God shows himself to all his creatures though our sins have provoked his vengeance against all: that is, merciful not only in pardoning the sins of his elect, but in doing good even to the reprobate, although they cannot feel the sweet comfort of the same.(:note) compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.

geneva@Proverbs:1:2 @ To know wisdom (note:)That is, what we ought to know and follow, and what we ought to refuse.(:note) and instruction; to perceive the words Meaning, the word of God in which is the only true knowledge. of understanding;

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

geneva@Proverbs:4:11 @ I have (note:)Solomon declares what care his father had to bring him up in the true fear of God: for this was David's protest.(:note) taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths.

geneva@Proverbs:6:2 @ Thou art (note:)He forbids us not to become surety one for another, according to the rule of charity, but that we consider for whom and after what sort, so that the creditor may not be defrauded.(:note) snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.

geneva@Proverbs:6:12 @ A naughty person, (note:)He shows to what inconvenience the idle persons and sluggards come, by calling them unthrifty, or the men of Belial, and slanderous.(:note) a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.

geneva@Proverbs:6:18 @ An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, (note:)Meaning, the raging affections, which carry a man away in such sort that he cannot tell what he does.(:note) feet that be swift in running to mischief,

geneva@Proverbs:9:10 @ The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the Holy One [is] (note:)He shows what true understanding is, to know the will of God in his word which is meant by holy things.(:note) understanding.

geneva@Proverbs:10:6 @ Blessings [are] upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of (note:)When their wickedness is discovered, they will be as dumb and not know what to say.(:note) the wicked.

geneva@Proverbs:10:32 @ The lips of the righteous knowe what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh froward things.

geneva@Proverbs:17:16 @ Why [is there] a (note:)What good does it do the wicked to be rich, seeing he does not set his mind to wisdom?(:note) price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing [he hath] no heart [to it]?

geneva@Proverbs:18:2 @ A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may (note:)That is, that he may talk licentiously of whatever comes to mind.(:note) reveal itself.

geneva@Proverbs:22:19 @ That thy trust may be in (note:)He shows what the end of wisdom is: that is, to direct us to the Lord.(:note) the LORD, I have made known to thee this day, even to thee.

geneva@Proverbs:23:1 @ When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, (note:)Eat with sobriety.(:note) consider diligently what [is] before thee:

geneva@Proverbs:24:29 @ Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me: I (note:)He shows what is the nature of the wicked, to revenge wrong for wrong.(:note) will render to the man according to his work.

geneva@Proverbs:25:8 @ Goe not foorth hastily to strife, least thou know not what to doe in the ende thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.

geneva@Proverbs:27:1 @ Boast not thyself of to (note:)Do not delay the time, but take the opportunity when it is offered.(:note) morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.

geneva@Proverbs:29:26 @ Many seek the ruler's favour; but [every] man's (note:)He does not need to flatter the ruler, for what God has appointed will come to him.(:note) judgment [cometh] from the LORD.

geneva@Proverbs:30:4 @ Who hath ascended into (note:)Meaning, to know the secrets of God, as though he would say, «None».(:note) heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what [is] his name, and what [is] his son's name, if thou canst tell?

geneva@Proverbs:31:2 @ What, my son? and what, the son of (note:)By this often repetition of one thing, she declares her motherly affection.(:note) my womb? and what, the son of my vows?

geneva@Ecclesiastes:1:3 @ What profit hath a man of all his (note:)Solomon does not condemn man's labour or diligence, but shows that there is no full contentment in anything under the heavens, nor in any creature, as all things are transitory.(:note) labour which he taketh under the sun?

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:2 @ I saide of laughter, Thou art mad: and of ioy, What is this that thou doest?

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:3 @ I sought in my heart to give myself to wine, yet acquainting my heart with (note:)Even though I gave myself to pleasures, yet I thought to keep wisdom and the fear of God in my heart, and govern my affairs by the same.(:note) wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what [was] that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:8 @ I gathered me also silver and gold, and the special treasure of kings and of the provinces: I procured me male and female singers, and the (note:)That is, whatever men take pleasure in.(:note) delights of the sons of men, Or, the most beautiful of the women that were taken in war, as in (Jdg_5:30). [as] musical instruments, and of all sorts.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:10 @ And whatever my eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my (note:)This was the fruit of all my labour, a certain pleasure mixed with care, which he calls vanity in the next verse.(:note) portion of all my labour.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:12 @ And I turned myself to behold (note:)I thought to myself whether it was better to follow wisdom, or my own affections and pleasures, which he calls madness.(:note) wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what [can] the man [do] that cometh after the king? [even] that which hath been already done.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:22 @ For what hath man of all his trauaile and griefe of his heart, wherein he hath trauailed vnder the sunne?

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:9 @ What profite hath hee that worketh of the thing wherein he trauaileth?

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:14 @ I know that, whatever God doeth, it shall be for (note:)That is, man will never be able to prevent God's work, but as he has determined so it will come to pass.(:note) ever: nothing can be added to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth [it], that [men] should fear before him.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:15 @ That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God (note:)God only causes what which is past, to return.(:note) requireth that which is past.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:22 @ Wherefore I perceive that [there is] nothing better, than that a man should (note:)By the often repetition of this sentence as in (Ecc_2:24, Ecc_3:12, Ecc_3:22, Ecc_5:17, Ecc_8:15) he declares that man by reason can comprehend nothing better in this life than to use the gifts of God soberly and comfortably: for to know further, is a special gift of God revealed by his Spirit.(:note) rejoice in his own works; for that [is] his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?

geneva@Ecclesiastes:5:1 @ Keep thy (note:)That is, with what affection you come to hear the word of God.(:note) foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of Meaning, of the wicked, who think to please God with common uses, and have neither faith nor repentance. fools: for they consider not that they do evil.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:5:11 @ {\cf2 (5:10)} When goods increase, they are increased that eate them: and what good commeth to the owners thereof, but the beholding thereof with their eyes?

geneva@Ecclesiastes:5:16 @ And this also [is] a grievous evil, [that] in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the (note:)Meaning, in vain and without profit.(:note) wind?

geneva@Ecclesiastes:6:8 @ For what hath the wise man more then the foole? what hath the poore that knoweth how to walke before the liuing?

geneva@Ecclesiastes:6:11 @ {\cf2 (7:1)} Svrely there be many things that increase vanitie: and what auaileth it man?

geneva@Ecclesiastes:6:12 @ For who knoweth what [is] (note:)There is no state in which man can live to have perfect quietness in this life.(:note) good for man in [this] life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:10 @ Say not thou, What is [the cause] that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire (note:)Murmur not against God when he sends adversities for man's sins.(:note) wisely concerning this.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:14 @ In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity (note:)Consider why God sends it and what may comfort you.(:note) consider: God also hath appointed the one as well as the other, to the end that man should find That man should be able to control nothing in his works. nothing after him.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:18 @ [It is] good that thou shouldest take hold of (note:)That is, on these admonitions that go before.(:note) this; yea, also from Consider what desolation and destruction will come, if you do not obey them. this withdraw not thy hand: for he that feareth God shall escape from them all.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:8:4 @ Where the word of ye King is, there is power, and who shall say vnto him, What doest thou?

geneva@Ecclesiastes:9:1 @ For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, [are] in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or (note:)Meaning, what things he ought to chose or refuse: or man knows not by these outward things that is, by prosperity or adversity, whom God favours or hates, for he sends them as well to the wicked as to the godly.(:note) hatred [by] all [that is] before them.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:9:12 @ For man also knoweth not his (note:)That is, he does not foresee what will come.(:note) time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so [are] the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:10:10 @ If the iron is blunt, and he doth not whet the edge, then must he use more (note:)Without wisdom, whatever a man takes in hand, turns to his own hurt.(:note) strength: but wisdom [is] profitable to direct.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:10:14 @ For the foole multiplieth woordes, saying, Man knoweth not what shall be: and who can tell him what shall be after him?

geneva@Ecclesiastes:11:2 @ Giue a portion to seuen, & also to eight: for thou knowest not what euill shalbe vpon ye earth.

geneva@Songs:6:11 @ I went down into the (note:)He went down into the synagogue to see what fruits came from the law, and the prophets.(:note) garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, [and] to see whether the vine flourished, [and] the pomegranates budded.

geneva@Songs:6:13 @ Return, return, O (note:)O ye people of Jerusalem, for Jerusalem was called Shalem which signifies peace.(:note) Shulamite; return, return, that we may look upon thee. What will ye see in the Shulamite? As it were the company of two armies.