geneva@Job:31:1 @ I made a covenant with mine (note:)I kept my eyes from all wanton looks.(:note) eyes; why then should I think upon Would not God then have punished me? a maid?
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:31:3 @ [Is] not destruction to the wicked? and a strange [punishment] to (note:)Job declares that the fear of God was a bridle to stay him from all wickedness.(:note) the workers of iniquity?
geneva@Job:31:5 @ If I haue walked in vanitie, or if my foote hath made haste to deceite,
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:31:7 @ If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart (note:)That is, has accomplished the lust of my eyes.(:note) walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;
geneva@Job:31:8 @ [Then] let me sow, and let another (note:)According to the curse of the law, (Deu_28:33).(:note) eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.
geneva@Job:31:9 @ If mine heart hath bene deceiued by a woman, or if I haue layde wayte at the doore of my neighbour,
geneva@Job:31:10 @ [Then] let my wife (note:)Let her be made a slave.(:note) grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.
geneva@Job:31:12 @ For it [is] a fire [that] consumeth (note:)He shows that although man neglects the punishment of adultery, yet the wrath of God will never cease till such are destroyed.(:note) to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
geneva@Job:31:13 @ If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they (note:)When they thought themselves evil intreated by me.(:note) contended with me;
geneva@Job:31:14 @ What then shall I do when (note:)If I had oppressed others, how would I have escaped God's judgment.(:note) God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
geneva@Job:31:15 @ Did not he that made me in the womb make (note:)He was moved to show pity to servants, because they were God's creatures as he was.(:note) him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
geneva@Job:31:16 @ If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow (note:)By long waiting for her request.(:note) to fail;
geneva@Job:31:17 @ Or haue eaten my morsels alone, and the fatherles hath not eaten thereof,
geneva@Job:31:18 @ (For from my youth he was brought up with me, (note:)He nourished the fatherless, and maintained the widows cause.(:note) as [with] a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)
geneva@Job:31:19 @ If I haue seene any perish for want of clothing, or any poore without couering,
geneva@Job:31:20 @ If his loynes haue not blessed me, because he was warmed with the fleece of my sheepe,
geneva@Job:31:21 @ If I have lifted (note:)To oppress him and to do him harm.(:note) up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
geneva@Job:31:22 @ [Then] let mine (note:)Let me rot in pieces.(:note) arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.
geneva@Job:31:23 @ For destruction [from] God [was] a (note:)I did not refrain from sin for fear of men, but because I feared God.(:note) terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.
geneva@Job:31:24 @ If I made gold mine hope, or haue sayd to the wedge of golde, Thou art my confidence,
geneva@Job:31:25 @ If I reioyced because my substance was great, or because mine hand had gotten much,
geneva@Job:31:26 @ If I beheld the (note:)If I was proud of my worldly prosperity and happiness, which is meant by the shining of the sun, and brightness of the moon.(:note) sun when it shined, or the moon walking [in] brightness;
geneva@Job:31:27 @ And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my (note:)If my own doings delighted me.(:note) hand:
geneva@Job:31:28 @ This also [were] an iniquity [to be punished by] the judge: for I should have denied the God [that is] (note:)By putting confidence in anything but in him alone.(:note) above.
geneva@Job:31:29 @ If I reioyced at his destruction that hated me, or was mooued to ioye when euill came vpon him,
geneva@Job:31:30 @ Neither haue I suffred my mouth to sinne, by wishing a curse vnto his soule.
geneva@Job:31:31 @ If the men of my (note:)My servants moved me to be avenged of my enemy, yet I never wished him harm.(:note) tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
geneva@Job:31:32 @ The stranger did not lodge in the streete, but I opened my doores vnto him, that went by the way.
geneva@Job:31:33 @ If I covered (note:)Not confessed it freely, by which it is evident that he justified himself before men, and not before God.(:note) my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:
geneva@Job:31:34 @ Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families (note:)That is, I reverenced the most weak and contemned and was afraid to offend them.(:note) terrify me, that I kept I suffered them to speak evil of me, and went not out of my house to avenge it. silence, [and] went not out of the door?
geneva@Job:31:35 @ Oh that one would hear me! behold, my (note:)This is a sufficient token of my righteousness, that God is my witness and will justify my cause.(:note) desire [is, that] the Almighty would answer me, and [that] mine adversary had written a book.
geneva@Job:31:36 @ Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, [and] bind it [as] a (note:)Should not this book of his accusations be a praise and commendation to me?(:note) crown to me.
geneva@Job:31:37 @ I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a (note:)I will make him account of all my life, without fear.(:note) prince would I go near unto him.
geneva@Job:31:38 @ If my land (note:)As though I had withheld their wages that laboured in it.(:note) cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;
geneva@Job:31:39 @ If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused (note:)Meaning, that he was not a briber or extortioner.(:note) the owners thereof to lose their life:
geneva@Job:31:40 @ Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The (note:)That is, the talk which he had with his three friends.(:note) words of Job are ended.