geneva Job:12-14

geneva@Job:12:1 @ Then Iob answered, and sayde,

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:12:3 @ But I haue vnderstanding aswel as you, and am not inferior vnto you: yea, who knoweth not such things?

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:12:5 @

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:12:7 @ But ask now the beasts, (note:)He declares to them that disputed against him, that their wisdom is common to all, and such as the very brute beasts teach daily.(:note) and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:

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:12:9 @ Who is ignorant of all these, but that the hande of the Lord hath made these?

geneva@Job:12:10 @ In whose hande is the soule of euery liuing thing, and the breath of all mankinde.

geneva@Job:12:11 @ Doth not the ear (note:)He exhorts them to be wise in judging, and as well to know the right use of their God-given ears, as well as their mouths.(:note) try words? and the mouth taste his meat?

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:12:17 @ He causeth the counsellers to goe as spoyled, and maketh the iudges fooles.

geneva@Job:12:18 @

geneva@Job:12:19 @ He leadeth away the princes as a pray, and ouerthroweth the mightie.

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:12:21 @ He powreth contempt vpon princes, and maketh the strength of the mightie weake.

geneva@Job:12:22 @ He discouereth the deepe places from their darkenesse, and bringeth foorth the shadowe of death to light.

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:12:24 @ He taketh away the heartes of the that are the chiefe ouer the people of the earth, & maketh them to wander in the wildernes out of the way.

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:13:2 @ I knowe also as much as you knowe: I am not inferiour vnto you.

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:13:4 @ But ye [are] forgers of lies, ye [are] all (note:)You do not well apply your medicine to the disease.(:note) physicians of no value.

geneva@Job:13:5 @ Oh, that you woulde holde your tongue, that it might be imputed to you for wisedome!

geneva@Job:13:6 @ Nowe heare my disputation, and giue eare to the arguments of my lips.

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:13:8 @ Will ye accept his person? or will ye contende for God?

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:13:10 @ He will surely reprooue you, if ye doe secretly accept any person.

geneva@Job:13:11 @ Shall not his excellencie make you afraid? and his feare fall vpon you?

geneva@Job:13:12 @ Your (note:)Your fame will come to nothing.(:note) remembrances [are] like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

geneva@Job:13:13 @ Holde your tongues in my presence, that I may speake, and let come vpon what will.

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:13:15 @ Loe, though he slay me, yet will I trust in him, and I will reprooue my wayes in his sight.

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:13:17 @ Heare diligently my wordes, and marke my talke.

geneva@Job:13:18 @ Behold now, I have ordered [my] cause; I know that I shall be (note:)That is, cleared and not cut off for my sins, as you think.(:note) justified.

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:13:20 @ But doe not these two things vnto me: then will I not hide my selfe from thee.

geneva@Job:13:21 @

geneva@Job:13:22 @ Then call thou, and I will answere: or let me speake, and answere thou me.

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:13:24 @ Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and takest me for thine enemie?

geneva@Job:13:25 @ Wilt thou breake a leafe driuen to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the drie stubble?

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:13:27 @ Thou puttest my feet also in the (note:)You make me your prisoner, and so press me that I cannot stir hand or foot.(:note) stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.

geneva@Job:13:28 @ Such one consumeth like a rotten thing, and as a garment that is motheaten.

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:14:2 @ He shooteth foorth as a flowre, and is cut downe: he vanisheth also as a shadowe, and continueth not.

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:14:4 @ Who can bring a cleane thing out of filthinesse? there is not one.

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:14:10 @

geneva@Job:14:11 @ As the waters passe from the sea, and as the flood decayeth and dryeth vp,

geneva@Job:14:12 @ So man sleepeth and riseth not: for hee shall not wake againe, nor be raised from his sleepe till the heauen be no more.

geneva@Job:14:13 @ O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy (note:)By this he declares that the fear of God's judgment was the reason why he desired to die.(:note) wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and That is, relieve my pain and take me to mercy. remember me!

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:14:15 @ Thou shalt call, and I will (note:)Though I am afflicted in this life, yet in the resurrection I will feel your mercies and answer when you call me.(:note) answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.

geneva@Job:14:16 @ But nowe thou nombrest my steppes, and doest not delay my sinnes.

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:14:19 @ As the water breaketh the stones, when thou ouerflowest the things which growe in the dust of ye earth: so thou destroyest ye hope of man.

geneva@Job:14:20 @ Thou preuailest alway against him, so that he passeth away: he changeth his face when thou castest him away.

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,

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