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Then Iob answered ,
and sayd ,
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I know [
it is ]
so of a truth :
but how should man be (
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Job here answers Eliphaz and Bildad '
s oration ,
touching the justice of God ,
and his innocency ,
confessing God to be infinite in justice and man to be nothing in respect .(:
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just with God ?
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If he will contend with him ,
he cannot answer him one of a (
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Of a thousand things ,
which God could lay to his charge ,
man cannot answer him one .(:
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thousand .
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He is wise in heart , &
amp ;
mighty in stregth :
who hath bene fierce against him &
amp ;
hath prospered ?
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He remoueth the mountaines ,
and they feele not when he ouerthroweth them in his wrath .
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Which (
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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 .(:
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shaketh the earth out of her place ,
and the pillars thereof tremble .
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He commandeth the sunne , &
amp ;
it riseth not :
hee closeth vp the starres ,
as vnder a signet .
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Hee himselfe alone spreadeth out the heauens ,
and walketh vpon the height of the sea .
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Which maketh (
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These are the names of certain stars by which he means that all stars both known and unknown are at his appointment .(:
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Arcturus ,
Orion ,
and Pleiades ,
and the chambers of the south .
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He doeth great things ,
and vnsearcheable :
yea ,
marueilous things without nomber .
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Lo ,
he goeth (
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I am not able to comprehend his works ,
which are common and daily before my eyes ,
much less in those things ,
which are hid and secret .(:
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by me ,
and I see [
him ]
not :
he passeth on also ,
but I perceive him not .
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Behold ,
he taketh away ,
who can hinder him ? (
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He shows that when God executes his power ,
he does it justly ,
as no one can control him .(:
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who will say unto him ,
What doest thou ?
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If ]
God (
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God will not be appeased for anything that man can say for himself for his justification .(:
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will not withdraw his anger ,
the proud helpers That is ,
all the reasons that men can lay to approve their cause .
do stoop under him .
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How much less shall I answer him , [
and ]
choose out (
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How should I be able to answer him by eloquence ?
By which he notes his friends ,
who although they were eloquent in talk ,
did not believe in their hearts ,
that which they spoke .(:
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my words [
to reason ]
with him ?
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Whom ,
though I were righteous , [
yet ]
would I (
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Meaning ,
in his own opinion ,
signifying that man will sometimes flatter himself to be righteous which before God is an abomination .(:
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not answer , [
but ]
I would make supplication to my judge .
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If I (
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While I am in pain I cannot break forth into many inconveniences although I still know that God is just .(:
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had called ,
and he had answered me ; [
yet ]
would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice .
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For he breaketh me with a tempest ,
and multiplieth my wounds (
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I am not able to feel my sins so great ,
as I feel the weight of his plagues ;
and this he speaks to condemn his dullness and to justify God .(:
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without cause .
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He wil not suffer me to take my breath ,
but filleth me with bitternesse .
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If [
I speak ]
of strength ,
lo , [
he is ] (
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After he has accused his own weakness ,
he continues to justify God and his power .(:
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strong :
and if of judgment ,
who shall set me a time [
to plead ]?
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If I justify myself ,
mine own mouth shall condemn me : (
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If I stood in my own defence yet God would have just cause to condemn me if he examined my heart and conscience .(:
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if I say ],
I [
am ]
perfect ,
it shall also prove me perverse .
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Though I were perfite ,
yet I knowe not my soule :
therefore abhorre I my life .
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This [
is ]
one [
thing ],
therefore I said [
it ],
He destroyeth the (
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If God punishes according to his justice ,
he will destroy them who are counted perfect as well as them that are wicked .(:
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perfect and the wicked .
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If the scourge (
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That is ,
the wicked .(:
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slay suddenly ,
he will This is spoken according to our apprehension ,
as though he would say ,
If God destroyed only the wicked , (
Job_5
:3 ),
why would he allow the innocent to be so long tormented by them ?
laugh at the trial of the innocent .
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The earth is given into the hand of the wicked : (
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That they cannot see to do justice .(:
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he covereth the faces of the judges thereof ;
if not ,
where , [
and ]
who That can show the contrary ? [
is ]
he ?
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My dayes haue bene more swift then a post :
they haue fled ,
and haue seene no good thing .
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They are passed as with the most swift ships ,
and as the eagle that flyeth to the pray .
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If (
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I think not to fall into these afflictions ,
but my sorrows bring me to these manifold infirmities ,
and my conscience condemns me .(:
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I say ,
I will forget my complaint ,
I will leave off my heaviness ,
and comfort [
myself ]:
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Then I am afrayd of all my sorowes ,
knowing that thou wilt not iudge me innocent .
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If ]
I be wicked ,
why then (
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Why does God not destroy me at once ?
thus he speaks according to the infirmity of the flesh .(:
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labour I in vain ?
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If I wash (
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Though I seem pure in my own eyes ,
yet all is but corruption before God .(:
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myself with snow water ,
and make my hands never so clean ;
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Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch ,
and mine own (
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Whatever I would use to cover my filthiness with ,
it would disclose me even more .(:
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clothes shall abhor me .
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For he is not a man as I am ,
that I shoulde answere him ,
if we come together to iudgement .
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Neither is there any daysman betwixt us , (
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Who might make an accord between God and me ,
speaking of impatience ,
and yet confessing God to be just in punishing him .(:
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that ]
might lay his hand upon us both .
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Let him take his rod away from me ,
and let not his feare astonish me :
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Then ]
would I speak ,
and not fear him ; (
note :)
Signifying that God '
s judgments keep him in awe .(:
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but [
it is ]
not so with me .
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My soul is (
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I am more like a dead man ,
than to one that lives .(:
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weary of my life ;
I will leave my I will make an ample declaration of my torments ,
accusing myself and not God .
complaint upon myself ;
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul .
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I will say unto God ,
Do not (
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He would not that God would proceed against him by his secret justice ,
but by the ordinary means that he punishes others .(:
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condemn me ;
shew me wherefore thou contendest with me .
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Is it ] (
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Is it agreeable to your justice to do me wrong ?(:
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good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress ,
that thou shouldest despise the Will you be without compassions ?
work of thine hands ,
and shine upon the Will you gratify the wicked and condemn me ?
counsel of the wicked ?
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Hast thou eyes of (
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Do you do this of ignorance .(:
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flesh ?
or seest thou as man seeth ?
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Are ]
thy days as the (
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Are you inconstant and changeable as the times ,
today a friend ,
tomorrow an enemy ?(:
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days of man ? [
are ]
thy years as man '
s days ,
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That thou inquirest of mine iniquitie ,
and searchest out my sinne ?
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Thou knowest that I am not (
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By affliction you keep me as in a prison ,
and restrain me from doing evil ,
neither can any set me free .(:
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wicked ;
and [
there is ]
none that can deliver out of thine hand .
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Thine (
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In these eight verses following he describes the mercy of God ,
in the wonderful creation of man :
and on it grounds that God should not show himself rigorous against him .(:
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hands have made me and fashioned me together round about ;
yet thou dost destroy me .
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Remember ,
I beseech thee ,
that thou hast made me as (
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As brittle as a pot of clay .(:
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the clay ;
and wilt thou bring me into dust again ?
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Hast thou not powred me out as milke ? &
amp ;
turned me to cruds like cheese ?
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Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh ,
and ioyned me together with bones and sinewes .
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Thou hast granted me life and (
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That is ,
reason and understanding ,
and many other gifts ,
by which man excels all earthly creatures .(:
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favour ,
and thy That is ,
the fatherly care and providence by which you preserved me ,
and without which I would perish immediately .
visitation hath preserved my spirit .
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And these [
things ]
hast thou hid in thine heart :
I know (
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Though I am not fully able to comprehend these things ,
yet I must confess that it is so .(:
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that this [
is ]
with thee .
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If I haue sinned ,
then thou wilt streightly looke vnto me ,
and wilt not holde mee giltlesse of mine iniquitie .
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If I be wicked ,
woe unto me ;
and [
if ]
I be righteous , [
yet ]
will I not (
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I will always walk in fear and humility ,
knowing that no one is just before you .(:
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lift up my head . [
I am ]
full of confusion ;
therefore see thou mine affliction ;
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For it increaseth .
Thou huntest me as a fierce lion :
and again thou shewest thyself (
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Job being sore assaulted in this battle between the flesh and the spirit ,
breaks out into these affections ,
wishing rather for short days than long pain .(:
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marvellous upon me .
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Thou renewest thy witnesses against me ,
and increasest thine indignation upon me ; (
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That is ,
diversity of diseases and in great abundance ;
showing that God has infinite means to punish man .(:
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changes and war [
are ]
against me .
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Wherfore then hast thou brought me out of the wombe ?
Oh that I had perished ,
and that none eye had seene me !
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And that I were as I had not bene ,
but brought from the wombe to the graue !
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Are ]
not my days few ? (
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He wishes that God would leave off his affliction ,
considering his great misery and the shortness of his life .(:
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cease [
then ,
and ]
let me alone ,
that I may take comfort a little ,
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Before I go [
whence ]
I shall not (
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He speaks this in the person of a sinner ,
that is overcome with passions and with the feeling of God '
s judgments and therefore cannot apprehend in that state the mercies of God ,
and the comfort of the resurrection .(:
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return , [
even ]
to the land of darkness and the shadow of death ;
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A land of darkness ,
as darkness [
itself ;
and ]
of the shadow of death ,
without any (
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No distinction between light and darkness but where there is very darkness itself .(:
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order ,
and [
where ]
the light [
is ]
as darkness .
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Then answered Zophar the Naamathite ,
and sayde ,