Job:26-31
geneva@Job:26:1 @ Bvt Iob answered, and sayde,
geneva@Job:26:2 @
geneva@Job:26:3 @ Whome counsellest thou? him that hath no wisedome? thou shewest right well as the thing is.
geneva@Job:26:4 @ To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit (note:)That is, moves you to speak this?(:note) came from thee?
geneva@Job:26:5 @
geneva@Job:26:6 @ 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.
geneva@Job:26:7 @ 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.
geneva@Job:26:8 @ He bindeth the waters in his cloudes, and the cloude is not broken vnder them.
geneva@Job:26:9 @ He holdeth backe the face of his throne: and spreadeth his cloude vpon it.
geneva@Job:26:10 @ 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.
geneva@Job:26:11 @ 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.
geneva@Job:26:12 @ The sea is calme by his power, and by his vnderstanding he smiteth the pride thereof.
geneva@Job:26:13 @ 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.
geneva@Job:26:14 @ 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?
geneva@Job:27:1 @ Moreouer Iob proceeded and continued his parable, saying,
geneva@Job:27:2 @ [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;
geneva@Job:27:3 @ Yet so long as my breath is in me, and the Spirit of God in my nostrels,
geneva@Job:27:4 @
geneva@Job:27:5 @ 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.
geneva@Job:27:6 @ 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.
geneva@Job:27:7 @ Mine enemie shal be as the wicked, and he that riseth against me, as the vnrighteous.
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:27:9 @ Will God heare his cry, when trouble commeth vpon him?
geneva@Job:27:10 @ Will he set his delight on the Almightie? will he call vpon God at all times?
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:27:12 @ 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?
geneva@Job:27:13 @ 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.
geneva@Job:27:14 @ If his children be in great nomber, the sworde shall destroy them, and his posteritie shall not be satisfied with bread.
geneva@Job:27:15 @ Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows (note:)No one will lament him.(:note) shall not weep.
geneva@Job:27:16 @ Though he shoulde heape vp siluer as the dust, and prepare rayment as the clay,
geneva@Job:27:17 @ He may prepare it, but the iust shall put it on, and the innocent shall deuide the siluer.
geneva@Job:27:18 @ 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.
geneva@Job:27:19 @ 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.
geneva@Job:27:20 @ Terrours shal take him as waters, & a tempest shall cary him away by night.
geneva@Job:27:21 @ The East winde shall take him away, & he shal depart: & it shal hurle him out of his place.
geneva@Job:27:22 @ And God shal cast vpon him and not spare, though he would faine flee out of his hand.
geneva@Job:27:23 @ Euery man shall clap their hands at him, & hisse at him out of their place.
geneva@Job:28:1 @ 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].
geneva@Job:28:2 @ Yron is taken out of the dust, and brasse is molten out of the stone.
geneva@Job:28:3 @ 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.
geneva@Job:28:4 @ 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.
geneva@Job:28:5 @ [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.
geneva@Job:28:6 @ 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.
geneva@Job:28:7 @ There is a path which no foule hath knowen, neyther hath the kites eye seene it.
geneva@Job:28:8 @ The lyons whelpes haue not walked it, nor the lyon passed thereby.
geneva@Job:28:9 @ 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.
geneva@Job:28:10 @ He breaketh riuers in the rockes, and his eye seeth euery precious thing.
geneva@Job:28:11 @ He bindeth the floods, that they doe not ouerflowe, and the thing that is hid, bringeth he to light.
geneva@Job:28:12 @ 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?
geneva@Job:28:13 @ 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.
geneva@Job:28:14 @ The depth sayth, It is not in mee: the sea also sayth, It is not with me.
geneva@Job:28:15 @ 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.
geneva@Job:28:16 @ It shall not be valued with the wedge of golde of Ophir, nor with the precious onix, nor the saphir.
geneva@Job:28:17 @ The golde nor the chrystall shall be equall vnto it, nor the exchange shalbe for plate of fine golde.
geneva@Job:28:18 @ 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.
geneva@Job:28:19 @ The Topaz of Ethiopia shal not be equall vnto it, neither shall it be valued with the wedge of pure gold.
geneva@Job:28:20 @ Whence then commeth wisedome? And where is the place of vnderstanding,
geneva@Job:28:21 @ 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.
geneva@Job:28:22 @ Destruction and death say, We haue heard the fame thereof with our eares.
geneva@Job:28:23 @ 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.
geneva@Job:28:24 @ For he beholdeth the endes of the world, and seeth all that is vnder heauen,
geneva@Job:28:25 @ To make the weight of the windes, and to weigh the waters by measure.
geneva@Job:28:26 @ When he made a decree for the rayne, and a way for the lightening of the thunders,
geneva@Job:28:27 @ Then did he see it, and counted it: he prepared it and also considered it.
geneva@Job:28:28 @ 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.
geneva@Job:29:1 @ So Iob proceeded and continued his parable, saying,
geneva@Job:29:2 @ Oh that I were as in times past, when God preserued me!
geneva@Job:29:3 @ 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;
geneva@Job:29:4 @ 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;
geneva@Job:29:5 @ When the almightie was yet with me, and my children round about me.
geneva@Job:29:6 @ 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;
geneva@Job:29:7 @ When I went out to the gate, euen to the iudgement seat, and when I caused them to prepare my seate in the streete.
geneva@Job:29:8 @ 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.
geneva@Job:29:9 @ The princes refrained talking, and laid [their] hand on their (note:)Acknowledging my wisdom.(:note) mouth.
geneva@Job:29:10 @ The voyce of princes was hidde, and their tongue cleaued to the roofe of their mouth.
geneva@Job:29:11 @ 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:
geneva@Job:29:12 @ 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.
geneva@Job:29:13 @
geneva@Job:29:14 @ 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.
geneva@Job:29:15 @ I was the eyes to the blinde, and I was the feete to the lame.
geneva@Job:29:16 @ I was a father vnto the poore, and when I knewe not the cause, I sought it out diligently.
geneva@Job:29:17 @ I brake also the chawes of the vnrighteous man, and pluckt the praye out of his teeth.
geneva@Job:29:18 @ 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.
geneva@Job:29:19 @ My root [was] (note:)My happiness increases.(:note) spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.
geneva@Job:29:20 @ My glory shall renue towarde me, and my bowe shall be restored in mine hand.
geneva@Job:29:21 @ Vnto me men gaue eare, and wayted, and helde their tongue at my counsell.
geneva@Job:29:22 @ After my words they spake not again; and my speech (note:)That is, was pleasant to them.(:note) dropped upon them.
geneva@Job:29:23 @ 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.
geneva@Job:29:24 @ [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.
geneva@Job:29:25 @ 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.
geneva@Job:30:1 @ 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.
geneva@Job:30:2 @ 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?
geneva@Job:30:3 @ For pouertie and famine they were solitary, fleeing into the wildernes, which is darke, desolate and waste.
geneva@Job:30:4 @ They cut vp nettels by the bushes, & the iuniper rootes was their meate.
geneva@Job:30:5 @ 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;)
geneva@Job:30:6 @ Therfore they dwelt in the clefts of riuers, in the holes of the earth and rockes.
geneva@Job:30:7 @ They roared among the bushes, and vnder the thistles they gathered themselues.
geneva@Job:30:8 @ They were the children of fooles and the children of villaines, which were more vile then the earth.
geneva@Job:30:9 @ And now am I their (note:)They make songs of me, and mock my misery.(:note) song, yea, I am their byword.
geneva@Job:30:10 @ They abhorre me, & flee farre from mee, and spare not to spit in my face.
geneva@Job:30:11 @ 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.
geneva@Job:30:12 @ 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.
geneva@Job:30:13 @ They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no (note:)They need no one to help them.(:note) helper.
geneva@Job:30:14 @ 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].
geneva@Job:30:15 @ Feare is turned vpon mee: and they pursue my soule as the winde, and mine health passeth away as a cloude.
geneva@Job:30:16 @ 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.
geneva@Job:30:17 @
geneva@Job:30:18 @ For the great vehemencie is my garment changed, which compasseth me about as the colar of my coate.
geneva@Job:30:19 @
geneva@Job:30:20 @ Whe I cry vnto thee, thou doest not heare me, neither regardest me, when I stand vp.
geneva@Job:30:21 @ 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.
geneva@Job:30:22 @ 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.
geneva@Job:30:23 @ Surely I knowe that thou wilt bring mee to death, and to the house appoynted for all the liuing.
geneva@Job:30:24 @ 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.
geneva@Job:30:25 @ Did not I weepe with him that was in trouble? was not my soule in heauinesse for the poore?
geneva@Job:30:26 @ 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.
geneva@Job:30:27 @ My bowels did boyle without rest: for the dayes of affliction are come vpon me.
geneva@Job:30:28 @ 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.
geneva@Job:30:29 @ I am a brother to (note:)I am like the wild beasts that desire solitary places.(:note) dragons, and a companion to owls.
geneva@Job:30:30 @ My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with (note:)With the heat of affliction.(:note) heat.
geneva@Job:30:31 @ Therefore mine harpe is turned to mourning, and mine organs into the voyce of them that weepe.
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:31:4 @ Doeth not he beholde my wayes and tell all my steps?
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:31:11 @ For this is a wickednes, and iniquitie to bee condemned:
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.
geneva@Job:32:1 @ So these three men ceased to answere Iob, because he esteemed himselfe iust.
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