Jer. 18, 20.

e Isa. 63, 8.

f ch. 17, 10.

James 3,

13.

li Heh.5, 12.

a ch. 14, 14.

b Isa. 38, 5.

c1 Cor. 15,

58.

d Ps. 39, 5.

chap. 29, 2

e Deut. 28,

65.

28 Now, therefore, be content: look upon me: for it is evident unto you if I lie.

29 Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.

30 Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?

S there not

IS

CHAPTER VII.

Job excuseth his desire of death.

a

* an appointed time to man upon earth?
are not his days also like the days of a hireling?
2 As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and
as a hireling looketh for the reward of his work;
3 So am I made to possess a months of vanity, and
wearisome nights are appointed to me.

4 When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of 'tossings to (Ps. 88,4 and fro unto the dawning of the day.

g Isa. 14,11.

5 My flesh is clothed withworms and clods of h ch. 17,4. dust; my skin is broken, and become "loathsome.

i Psal. 90, 6.

i

6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle,

k Isa. 38,12. and are spent without * hope.

1 Ps. 105, 15.

m Eccl. 1.4,

5.

n Psh. 6, 5.

o 2 Sam. 12,

23.

7 O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.

8 The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me ■no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.

9 As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away; so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no

7 Though thy beginning was smali, yet thy latter Zech. 4, 10. end should greatly increase.

8 For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers :

9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow :)

10 Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?

11 Can the rush grow up without mire ? can the flag grow without water?

12 Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.

17 His roots are wrapped about the heap, and at 13, seeth the place of stones.

18 If he destroy him from his place, then it shall

deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.

s ch. 20, 22

19 Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of t PA. 113, 7 the earth shall others grow.

20 Behold, God will" not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil-doers;

u Isa. 8, 10.

21 Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy xIAR. 65.13 lips with rejoicing.

22 They that hate thee shall be clothed with y 18, 68, 7 shame; and the dwelling-place of the wicked shall come to nought.

CHAPTER IX.

Man's innocency is not to be condemned by afflictions.

a

THEN Job answered and said,

2 I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?

3 If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.

a ca. 4, 17.

b Ps. 143, 2.

e Rom. 5.

19.

4. He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who John 3, 20. hath hardened himself against him, and hath pros-Chr.,

18 And that thou shouldest visit him" every morn-pered? ing, and try him every moment ?

19 How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle ?

20 I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou Preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?

21 And why dost thou not † pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I John 1, 2 sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the mornmg, but I shall not be

Mal. 3, 13

3.

5 Which removeth the mountains, and they know Nahum t not; which overturneth them in his anger ;

6 Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and f Ps. 21, 1.

the pillars thereof tremble;

7 Which & commandeth the sun, and it riseth not, and sealeth up the stars;

EP. 35, 9.

8 Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea; 9 Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, Ps. 147,4 and the chambers of the south;

:

m ch. 34,29.

Rom. 9, 20.

n Isa. 30, 7.

& 31, 2

o ch. 42, 5.

Prov. 27, 19.

1 Pet. 3, 15.

13 If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.

14 How much less shall I o answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him ?

15 Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I Pnot answer, but I would make supplication to my

p Rom. 3, Judge.

19.

1 Cor. 4, 4.

16 If I had called, and he had answered me: q Phil. 3, 8, yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.

9.

Job complaineth of his afflictions.

5' Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days,

6 That thou inquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin ?

7h Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thy hand.

Before CHRIST cir. 1520.

f Acts 15, 18.

2 Peter 3,8

g Jer. 50, 2

8 Thy hands have made me, and fashioned me h Ps. 26, 1, together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.

2. & 139, 1,

2.

9 Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made i John 10, me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust 29. again?

10 Hast thou not1 poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?

11 Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.

12 Thou hast granted me " life and favour, and thy

17 For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multi-visitation hath preserved my spirit.

k Rom. 9, 21.

2 Cor. 5, 1.

1 Acts 17, 28,

m 2 Cor. 5,

4.

n Mat. 6, 25.

13 And these things hast thou hid in thy heart : o Ps. 22, 10. I know that this is with thee.

14 If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt P Ps. 139,1. not acquit me from mine iniquity.

15 If I be wicked, wo unto me; and if I be q Isa. 3, 10.

20 If I "justify myself, mine own mouth shall con-righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of

demn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove

me perverse.

21 Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.

22 This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.

23 If the scourge " slay suddenly, he will laugh at Ezek. 21, 3. the trial of the innocent.

Issiah 57, 1.

2 Ps. 37, 1.

24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: a Dan. 7,27. he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not,

where, and who is he?

25 Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee b Juin 7,.. away, they see no good.

26 They are passed away as the swift ships; as

1. Cor. 7, the eagle that hasteth to the prey.

27 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself;

28 I aın afraid of all my sorrows, I know that
thou wilt not hold me innocent.

29 If I be wicked, why then labour I ' in vain ?
30 If I wash myself with snow water, and make
my hands never so clean ;

31 Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and
mine own clothes shall abhor me.

32 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judg

ment.

33 Neither is there any * days-man betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.

34 Let him take his rod away from me, and let

m ch. 33, 6. not his fear terrify me;

o ver. 21, 31.

At Kirgs

19.4.

35 Then would I speak, and not fear him: but " it

is not so with me.

CHAPTER X.

Job expostulateth with God about his afflictions.

Y soul is weary of my life:

My soulant

4bitterness of my soul.

I will leave my
I will speak in the

2 I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew

Rom. 8,34. me wherefore thou contendest with me.

d Ps. 158,8.

3 Is it good unto thee, that thou shouldest oppress, Eph. 2, 10. that thou shouldest despise the work of thy hands,

7.

1 Sam. 16,

Rev. 1, 14.

and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
4 Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man
seeth P

s Isa. 27, 8.

confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction; r Ex. 3, 7.
16 For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a
fierce lion; and again thou shewest thyself marvel- t ch. 42, 10.
lous upon me.

17 Thou renewest thy "witnesses against me, and u Ruth 1,21. increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and x Ps. 73, 4 war are against me.

18 Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out y ch. 3, 11. of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and "no eye had seen me!

19 I should have been as though I had not been ; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

S Col. 1, 17.

Heb. 1, 9.

Dan. 5, 23.

k chu 34, 3.

1 ch. 32, 7.

m James 1,

5.

8 Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee; and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.

9 Who knoweth not in all these, that the hand of? the LORD hath wrought this?

10 In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.

11 Doth not the ear try words; and the mouth taste his meat?

12 With the 'ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.

13 With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding.

14 Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be Mal. 1,4. built again; he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.

15 Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they Acts 14, dry up; also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.

t

20 He removeth away the speech of the trusty,
and taketh away the understanding of the aged.
21 He poureth "contempt upon princes, and weak-
eneth the strength of the mighty.

Betore CHRIST cir. 1520.

t 2 Sam. 1,

37.

22 He discovereth deep things out of darkness, u Acts 12, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.

22

1 Cor. 2, 10.

23 He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth x Ecel. 7,24. them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again.

y Gen. 5, 6. & 11, 12.

24 He taketh away the heart of the chief of the z Rom. 1,21 people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

25 They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man. CHAPTER XIII.

Job reproveth his friends of partiality.

TO, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath

heard and understood it.

a Gen. 19.

2 Kings 6 18.

18 Behold now, I have ordered my cause; 'Iknow that I shall be justified.

19 Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.

20 Only do not "two things unto me; then will I not hide myself from thee.

21 Withdraw thy hand far from me; and let not thy dread make me afraid:

22 Then call thou, and I will answer; or let me speak, and answer thou me.

23a How many are mine iniquities and sins! make me to know my transgression and my sin.

24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?

r Rom. 8,29.

25 Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro ? and 20. wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?

26 For thou writest bitter things against me, and d ch. 20, 11 makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.

The condition of man's life.

Before

JOB.

27 Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and CHRIST lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.

e ch. 36, 8.

Eliphaz reproveth Job, &c. 5 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty. 6 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I,

28 And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a gar-yea, thine own lips testify against thee. Ps. 102,26. ment that is moth-eaten.

Befurc CHRIST cir. 1520.

'd ch. 16, 5.
22
e Luke 19,

7 Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?

8 Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?

9 What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?

of ch. 15, 5.

g Rom. 11 33.

w ch. 12, 2

i ch. 15, 2.

10 With us are both the gray-headed and very k1 Cor. 8,2

aaged men, much elder than thy father.

4 Who can bring a clean thing out of dan unclean?

not one.

5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee; thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass :

6 Turn from him that he may rest, till he shall itev. 14, 13. accomplish, as a hireling, his day.

7 For there is & hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.

8 Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;

9 Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.

10 But man dieth, and wasteth away; yea, man

Eccl. 1, 11. giveth up the ghost, and where is he?

k. Deut. 31,

16.

11 As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up;

12 So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the 12 Pet. 3, heavens beno more, they shall not awake, nor be

10. Rev. 11, 1.

m Ps. 91,1.

raised out of their sleep.

13 Oh that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me m secret until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

14 If a man die, shall he "live again? All the days of my appointed time, will I wait, till my change come. 15 Thou shalt call; and I will answer thee: thou

Thess. 4, wilt have a desire to the work of thy hands.

Ps. 139, 2,

q ch. 13, 25.

r fleb. 8, 13,

Jer. 17, 6.

16 For now thou numberest my steps; dost thou not watch over my sin ?

17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.

18 And surely the mountain falling 'cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place. 19 The waters wear the stones: thou washest L219 away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man. 20 Thou prevailest for ever against him; and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.

11 Are the consolations of God small with thee? 12 Cor. 1, 3 is there any secret thingTM with thee?

12 Why doth thy heart carry thee away? and what do thine eyes wink at,

13 That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?

Heb. 12, 5. m 1 Kings

n ch. 7, 20. & 9, 30. &

o Prov. 20,

14 What is man, that he should be clean? and he 13, 26. which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? 15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, 9. the heavens are not clean in his sight:

16 How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?

17 I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;

P ch. 4, 18. 2 Pet. 3, 10.

q Ps. 14, 4

r 1 Cor. 11,

23.

18 Which wise men have told from their fathers, & Gen. 18,

and have not hid it :

18.

tno Amos

19 Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.

t Joel 3, 17. 5,47 u ch. 36, 16. 10.

20 The wicked man "travaileth with pain all Tin. 6, 9 his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.

21 A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.

x Lev. 26,
36.
Prov. 11,26

y 2 Kings Mat. 27, 5.

22 He believeth not that he shall return out of 6, 33. darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.

2 Gen. 4, 12 7. &

23 He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready 109, 10. at his hand.

13.

24 Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle. a 1 Cor. 10, 25 For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.

26 He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers;

27 Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.

b Mal. 3, 15

c Rev.17,

d Ps. 17, 10.

23 And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in ech.314 houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.

29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.

30 He shall not depart out of darkness: the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.

f 1 Tim. 6,9.

2 Thes-2,

Rev. 19, 15.

31 Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity; h Prov. 11,

for vanity shall be his recompense.

4

32 It shall be accomplished before his time, and i Prov. 18,

his branch shall not be green.

33 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.

19.

k 1 Kings 21, 21.

34 For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the 'tabernacles of 1 ch. 22, 8. bribery.

35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.

m Esth.5,9, 10. & 7, 9,

CHAPTER XVI.

Job maintaineth his innocence.

Betore

CHRIST

cir. 1520.

THEN Job answered and said,

2 I have heard many such things:

miserable

a chap. 12,

23. & 15, 2.

b ch. 13. 4.

Phil 1, 16,

1 Cor. 4,

comforters are ye all.

The calamities of the wicked.

CHRIST сіт. 1520.

h Rom. 11,

8 Upright men shall be astonished at this, and the Before innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite. 9 The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger. 36. 10 But as for you all, do you return, and come now: i Acts 13.46. 11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, 1. even the thoughts of my heart.

3 Shall vain words have an end? or what em-for I cannot find one wise man among you. boldeneth thee that thou answerest?

4 I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were 1 Pet. 3, 9. in my soul'sstead, I could heap up words against you,

1 ch. 31, 33.

k lohe 19,

1

1 ch. 1, 1, 8

me weary: thou hast

7 But now he hath made made desolate all my company.

8 And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.

9h He teareth me in his wrath who hateth me : he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.

10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth;
they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; } puted vile in your sight?
they have gathered themselves together against me.

11 God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and
turned me over into the hands of the wicked.

12 I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.

13 His archers compass me round about; he cleav m Lev. 2,2 eth my reins asunder, and dothTM not spare; he poureth

4 He teareth himself in his anger : shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?

e

3. & 34, 4. c ch. 17, 4, Ps. 73, 22.

d ch. 13, 14

2 Cor. 7, 11

9. & 20, 20.

5 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, Pro and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.

7 The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.

9 The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.

14 His confidence shall be rooted out of his taber-nch. 8, 14. nacle; and it shall bring him to the king of terrors. Heb. 2, 15, 15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is p Isa. 13, 19. none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above 9 Ps. 37, 35, shall his branch be cut off.

17' His remembrance shall perish from the earth,

MY breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the and he shall have no namo in the street.

r Prov. 10,7

s Luke 12, 20.

CHAPTER XVII.

Job appealeth from men to God..

A P. 28, 4.

7.

Sam. 1, mine eye continue in their provocation?

Rom. 8,33.

18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

3 Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; { his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.

Heb. 7, 22. who is he that will strike hands with me?

4 For thou hast d hid their heart from understand