Job:26-31
Seeker Overlay ON
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Bvt Iob answered ,
and sayde ,
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Whome counsellest thou ?
him that hath no wisedome ?
thou shewest right well as the thing is .
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To whom hast thou uttered words ?
and whose spirit (
note :)
That is ,
moves you to speak this ?(:
note )
came from thee ?
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Hell [
is ] (
note :)
There is nothing hidden in the bottom of the earth but he sees it .(:
note )
naked before him ,
and Meaning ,
the grave in which things putrify .
destruction hath no covering .
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He stretcheth out the (
note :)
He causes the whole earth to turn about the North pole .(:
note )
north over the empty place , [
and ]
hangeth the earth upon nothing .
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He bindeth the waters in his cloudes ,
and the cloude is not broken vnder them .
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He holdeth backe the face of his throne :
and spreadeth his cloude vpon it .
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He hath (
note :)
That is ,
he hid the heavens which are called his throne .(:
note )
compassed the waters with bounds ,
until the So long as this world endures .
day and night come to an end .
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The (
note :)
Not that heaven has pillars to uphold it ,
but he speaks by a similitude as though he would say heaven itself is not able to abide his reproach .(:
note )
pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof .
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The sea is calme by his power ,
and by his vnderstanding he smiteth the pride thereof .
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By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens ;
his hand hath formed the crooked (
note :)
Which is a figure of stars shaped like a serpent ,
because of the crookedness .(:
note )
serpent .
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Lo ,
these [
are ]
parts of his ways :
but (
note :)
If these few things which we see daily with our eyes ,
declare his great power and providence ,
how much more would they appear ,
if we were to comprehend all his works .(:
note )
how little a portion is heard of him ?
but the thunder of his power who can understand ?
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Moreouer Iob proceeded and continued his parable ,
saying ,
* [
As ]
God liveth , [
who ]
hath taken away my (
note :)
He has so sore afflicted me that men cannot judge my uprightness ;
for they judge only by outward signs .(:
note )
judgment ;
and the Almighty , [
who ]
hath vexed my soul ;
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Yet so long as my breath is in me ,
and the Spirit of God in my nostrels ,
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God forbid that I should (
note :)
Which condemns me as a wicked man ,
because the hand of God is on me .(:
note )
justify you :
till I die I will not remove mine I will not confess that God does thus punish me for my sins .
integrity from me .
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My righteousness I hold fast ,
and will not let it go :
my heart shall not reproach [
me ]
so long as I (
note :)
Of my life past .(:
note )
live .
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Mine enemie shal be as the wicked ,
and he that riseth against me ,
as the vnrighteous .
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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 ?
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Will God heare his cry ,
when trouble commeth vpon him ?
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Will he set his delight on the Almightie ?
will he call vpon God at all times ?
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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 .
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Behold ,
all ye yourselves (
note :)
That is ,
these secret judgments of God and yet do not understand them .(:
note )
have seen [
it ];
why then are ye thus altogether Why do you then maintain this error ?
vain ?
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This [
is ]
the (
note :)
Thus will God order the wicked ,
and punish him even to his posterity .(:
note )
portion of a wicked man with God ,
and the heritage of oppressors , [
which ]
they shall receive of the Almighty .
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If his children be in great nomber ,
the sworde shall destroy them ,
and his posteritie shall not be satisfied with bread .
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Those that remain of him shall be buried in death :
and his widows (
note :)
No one will lament him .(:
note )
shall not weep .
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Though he shoulde heape vp siluer as the dust ,
and prepare rayment as the clay ,
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He may prepare it ,
but the iust shall put it on ,
and the innocent shall deuide the siluer .
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He buildeth his house as a (
note :)
Which breeds in another man '
s possessions or garment ,
but is soon shaken out .(:
note )
moth ,
and as a booth [
that ]
the keeper maketh .
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The rich man shall lie down ,
but (
note :)
He means that the wicked tyrants will not have a quiet death ,
nor be buried honourably .(:
note )
he shall not be gathered :
he openeth his eyes ,
and he [
is ]
not .
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Terrours shal take him as waters , &
amp ;
a tempest shall cary him away by night .
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The East winde shall take him away , &
amp ;
he shal depart : &
amp ;
it shal hurle him out of his place .
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And God shal cast vpon him and not spare ,
though he would faine flee out of his hand .
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Euery man shall clap their hands at him , &
amp ;
hisse at him out of their place .
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Surely there is a vein for the silver , (
note :)
His purpose is to declare that man may attain in this world to various secrets of nature ,
but man is never able to comprehend the wisdom of God .(:
note )
and a place for gold [
where ]
they fine [
it ].
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Yron is taken out of the dust ,
and brasse is molten out of the stone .
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He setteth an end to darkness , (
note :)
There is nothing but it is compassed within certain limits ,
and has an end ,
but God '
s wisdom .(:
note )
and searcheth out all perfection :
the stones of darkness ,
and the shadow of death .
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The flood breaketh out from the (
note :)
Meaning ,
him that dwells by it .(:
note )
inhabitant ; [
even the waters ]
Which a man cannot wade through .
forgotten of the foot :
they are dried up ,
they are gone away from men .
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As for ]
the earth ,
out of it cometh (
note :)
That is ,
come and underneath is brimstone or coal ,
which easily conceives fire .(:
note )
bread :
and under it is turned up as it were fire .
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The stones of it [
are ]
the place (
note :)
He alludes to the mines and secrets of nature ,
which are under the earth ,
into which neither souls nor beasts can enter .(:
note )
of sapphires :
and it hath dust of gold .
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There is a path which no foule hath knowen ,
neyther hath the kites eye seene it .
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The lyons whelpes haue not walked it ,
nor the lyon passed thereby .
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He putteth forth his hand upon the (
note :)
After he has declared the wisdom of God in the secrets of nature he describes his power .(:
note )
rock ;
he overturneth the mountains by the roots .
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He breaketh riuers in the rockes ,
and his eye seeth euery precious thing .
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He bindeth the floods ,
that they doe not ouerflowe ,
and the thing that is hid ,
bringeth he to light .
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But where shall wisdom be found ? (
note :)
Though God '
s power and wisdom may be understood in earthly things ,
yet his heavenly wisdom cannot be attained to .(:
note )
and where [
is ]
the place of understanding ?
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Man knoweth not (
note :)
It is too high a thing for man to attain to in this world .(:
note )
the price thereof ;
neither is it found in the land of the living .
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The depth sayth ,
It is not in mee :
the sea also sayth ,
It is not with me .
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It cannot be gotten for (
note :)
It can neither be bought for gold nor precious stones ,
but is only the gift of God .(:
note )
gold ,
neither shall silver be weighed [
for ]
the price thereof .
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It shall not be valued with the wedge of golde of Ophir ,
nor with the precious onix ,
nor the saphir .
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The golde nor the chrystall shall be equall vnto it ,
nor the exchange shalbe for plate of fine golde .
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No mention shall be made of coral ,
or of (
note :)
Which was thought to be a king of precious stone .(:
note )
pearls :
for the price of wisdom [
is ]
above rubies .
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The Topaz of Ethiopia shal not be equall vnto it ,
neither shall it be valued with the wedge of pure gold .
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Whence then commeth wisedome ?
And where is the place of vnderstanding ,
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Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living ,
and kept close from the (
note :)
Meaning that there is no natural means by which man can attain heavenly wisdom :
which he means by the souls ,
that fly high .(:
note )
fowls of the air .
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Destruction and death say ,
We haue heard the fame thereof with our eares .
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God understandeth the (
note :)
He makes God the only author of this wisdom ,
and the giver of it .(:
note )
way thereof ,
and he knoweth the place thereof .
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For he beholdeth the endes of the world ,
and seeth all that is vnder heauen ,
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To make the weight of the windes ,
and to weigh the waters by measure .
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When he made a decree for the rayne ,
and a way for the lightening of the thunders ,
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Then did he see it ,
and counted it :
he prepared it and also considered it .
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And unto man he said ,
Behold ,
the (
note :)
He declares that man has as much of this heavenly wisdom as he shows by fearing God and departing from evil .(:
note )
fear of the Lord ,
that [
is ]
wisdom ;
and to depart from evil [
is ]
understanding .
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So Iob proceeded and continued his parable ,
saying ,
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Oh that I were as in times past ,
when God preserued me !
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When his (
note :)
When I felt his favour .(:
note )
candle shined upon my head , [
and when ]
by his light I walked [
through ]
I was free from affliction .
darkness ;
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As I was in the days of my youth ,
when the (
note :)
That is ,
seemed by evident tokens to be more present with me .(:
note )
secret of God [
was ]
upon my tabernacle ;
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When the almightie was yet with me ,
and my children round about me .
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When I washed my steps (
note :)
By these comparisons he declares the great prosperity that he was in ,
so that he had no opportunity to be such a sinner as they accused him .(:
note )
with butter ,
and the rock poured me out rivers of oil ;
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When I went out to the gate ,
euen to the iudgement seat ,
and when I caused them to prepare my seate in the streete .
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The young men saw me ,
and (
note :)
Being ashamed of their lightness and afraid of my gravity .(:
note )
hid themselves :
and the aged arose , [
and ]
stood up .
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The princes refrained talking ,
and laid [
their ]
hand on their (
note :)
Acknowledging my wisdom .(:
note )
mouth .
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The voyce of princes was hidde ,
and their tongue cleaued to the roofe of their mouth .
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When the (
note :)
All that heard me ,
praised me .(:
note )
ear heard [
me ],
then it blessed me ;
and when the eye saw [
me ],
it gave witness to me :
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Because I delivered the (
note :)
Because his adversaries did so much charge him with wickedness ,
he is compelled to render account of his life .(:
note )
poor that cried ,
and the fatherless ,
and [
him that had ]
none to help him .
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I put on (
note :)
I delighted to do justice ,
as others did to wear costly apparel .(:
note )
righteousness ,
and it clothed me :
my judgment [
was ]
as a robe and a diadem .
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I was the eyes to the blinde ,
and I was the feete to the lame .
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I was a father vnto the poore ,
and when I knewe not the cause ,
I sought it out diligently .
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I brake also the chawes of the vnrighteous man ,
and pluckt the praye out of his teeth .
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Then I said ,
I shall die in my (
note :)
That is ,
at home in my bed without all trouble and unquietness .(:
note )
nest ,
and I shall multiply [
my ]
days as the sand .
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My root [
was ] (
note :)
My happiness increases .(:
note )
spread out by the waters ,
and the dew lay all night upon my branch .
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My glory shall renue towarde me ,
and my bowe shall be restored in mine hand .
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Vnto me men gaue eare ,
and wayted ,
and helde their tongue at my counsell .
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After my words they spake not again ;
and my speech (
note :)
That is ,
was pleasant to them .(:
note )
dropped upon them .
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And they waited for me as for the rain ;
and they opened their mouth wide (
note :)
As the dry ground thirsts for the rain .(:
note ) [
as ]
for the latter rain .
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If ]
I (
note :)
That is ,
they thought it not to be a rest ,
or they did not think that I would condescend to them .(:
note )
laughed on them ,
they believed [
it ]
not ;
and the light of my countenance they They were afraid to offend me and cause me to be angry .
cast not down .
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I chose out (
note :)
I had them at commandment .(:
note )
their way ,
and sat chief ,
and dwelt as a king in the army ,
as one [
that ]
comforteth the mourners .
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But now [
they that are ]
younger than I (
note :)
That is ,
my estate is changed and while before the ancient men were glad to revere me ,
the young men now contemn me .(:
note )
have me in derision ,
whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the Meaning to be my shepherds or to keep my dogs .
dogs of my flock .
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Yea ,
whereto [
might ]
the strength of their hands [
profit ]
me ,
in whom old age was (
note :)
That is ,
their fathers died of hunger before they came to age .(:
note )
perished ?
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For pouertie and famine they were solitary ,
fleeing into the wildernes ,
which is darke ,
desolate and waste .
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They cut vp nettels by the bushes , &
amp ;
the iuniper rootes was their meate .
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They were (
note :)
Job shows that those who mocked him in his affliction were like their fathers ,
wicked and lewd fellows ,
such as he here describes .(:
note )
driven forth from among [
men ], (
they cried after them as [
after ]
a thief ;)
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Therfore they dwelt in the clefts of riuers ,
in the holes of the earth and rockes .
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They roared among the bushes ,
and vnder the thistles they gathered themselues .
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They were the children of fooles and the children of villaines ,
which were more vile then the earth .
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And now am I their (
note :)
They make songs of me ,
and mock my misery .(:
note )
song ,
yea ,
I am their byword .
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They abhorre me , &
amp ;
flee farre from mee ,
and spare not to spit in my face .
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Because he hath loosed my (
note :)
God has taken from me the force ,
credit ,
and authority with which I kept them in subjection .(:
note )
cord ,
and afflicted me ,
He said that the young men when they saw him ,
hid themselves as in (
Job_29
:8 ),
and now in his misery they were impudent and licentious .
they have also let loose the bridle before me .
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Upon [
my ]
right [
hand ]
rise the youth ;
they push away my feet ,
and they raise up against me the (
note :)
That is ,
they sought by all means how they might destroy me .(:
note )
ways of their destruction .
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They mar my path ,
they set forward my calamity ,
they have no (
note :)
They need no one to help them .(:
note )
helper .
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They came [
upon me ]
as a wide breaking in [
of waters ]:
in the (
note :)
By my calamity they took an opportunity against me .(:
note )
desolation they rolled themselves [
upon me ].
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Feare is turned vpon mee :
and they pursue my soule as the winde ,
and mine health passeth away as a cloude .
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And now my soul is (
note :)
My life fails me ,
and I am as half dead .(:
note )
poured out upon me ;
the days of affliction have taken hold upon me .
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For the great vehemencie is my garment changed ,
which compasseth me about as the colar of my coate .
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Whe I cry vnto thee ,
thou doest not heare me ,
neither regardest me ,
when I stand vp .
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Thou art become (
note :)
He does not speak this way to accuse God ,
but to declare the vehemency of his affliction ,
by which he was carried beside himself .(:
note )
cruel to me :
with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me .
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Thou liftest me up to the (
note :)
He compares his afflictions to a tempest or whirlwind .(:
note )
wind ;
thou causest me to ride [
upon it ],
and dissolvest my substance .
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Surely I knowe that thou wilt bring mee to death ,
and to the house appoynted for all the liuing .
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Howbeit he will not stretch out [
his ]
hand (
note :)
No one can deliver me from there ,
though they lament my death .(:
note )
to the grave ,
though they cry in his destruction .
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Did not I weepe with him that was in trouble ?
was not my soule in heauinesse for the poore ?
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When I looked for good ,
then (
note :)
Instead of comforting they mocked me .(:
note )
evil came [
unto me ]:
and when I waited for light ,
there came darkness .
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My bowels did boyle without rest :
for the dayes of affliction are come vpon me .
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I went mourning (
note :)
Not delighting in any worldly thing ,
no not so much as in the use of the sun .(:
note )
without the sun :
I stood up ,
Lamenting them that were in affliction and moving others to pity them . [
and ]
I cried in the congregation .
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I am a brother to (
note :)
I am like the wild beasts that desire solitary places .(:
note )
dragons ,
and a companion to owls .
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My skin is black upon me ,
and my bones are burned with (
note :)
With the heat of affliction .(:
note )
heat .
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Therefore mine harpe is turned to mourning ,
and mine organs into the voyce of them that weepe .
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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 ?
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For what portion should I haue of God from aboue ?
and what inheritance of the Almightie from on hie ?
* [
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 ?
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Doeth not he beholde my wayes and tell all my steps ?
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If I haue walked in vanitie ,
or if my foote hath made haste to deceite ,
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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 .
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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 ;
* [
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 .
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If mine heart hath bene deceiued by a woman ,
or if I haue layde wayte at the doore of my neighbour ,
* [
Then ]
let my wife (
note :)
Let her be made a slave .(:
note )
grind unto another ,
and let others bow down upon her .
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For this is a wickednes ,
and iniquitie to bee condemned :
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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 .
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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 ;
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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 ?
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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 ?
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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 ;
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Or haue eaten my morsels alone ,
and the fatherles hath not eaten thereof ,
* (
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 ;)
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If I haue seene any perish for want of clothing ,
or any poore without couering ,
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If his loynes haue not blessed me ,
because he was warmed with the fleece of my sheepe ,
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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 :
* [
Then ]
let mine (
note :)
Let me rot in pieces .(:
note )
arm fall from my shoulder blade ,
and mine arm be broken from the bone .
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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 .
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If I made gold mine hope ,
or haue sayd to the wedge of golde ,
Thou art my confidence ,
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If I reioyced because my substance was great ,
or because mine hand had gotten much ,
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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 ;
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And my heart hath been secretly enticed ,
or my mouth hath kissed my (
note :)
If my own doings delighted me .(:
note )
hand :
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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 .
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If I reioyced at his destruction that hated me ,
or was mooued to ioye when euill came vpon him ,
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Neither haue I suffred my mouth to sinne ,
by wishing a curse vnto his soule .
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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 .
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The stranger did not lodge in the streete ,
but I opened my doores vnto him ,
that went by the way .
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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 :
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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 ?
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 ;
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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 :
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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 .
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So these three men ceased to answere Iob ,
because he esteemed himselfe iust .
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