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Job 10

1 Job is weary of his life, and setteth out his fragilitie before God. 20 He desireth him to stay his hand. 22 A description of death.
1.My soule is cut of athogh I live: I wil leave my bcomplaint upon my self, & wil speake in the bitterness of my soul
2.I wil say unto God, cCondemne me not: shewe me, wherefore thou contendest with me.
3.Thinkest thou it dgood to oppress me, and to cast of the elabour of thine hands, and to favour the fcounsel of the wicked?
4.Hast thou gcarnal eyes? or doest thou se as man seeth?
5.Are thy dayes as man’s hdayes? or thy yeres, as the time of man?
6.That thou inquirest of mine iniquitie, and searchest out my sinne.
7.Thou knowest that I can not do iwickedly: for none can deliver me out of thine hand.
8.Thine khands have made me, and facioned me wholy rounde about, and wilt thou destroye me?
9.Remember, I pray thee, that thou hast made me as lthe clay, and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
10.Hast thou not powred me out as mylke? and turned me to curds like chese?
11.Thou hast clothed me with skinne and flesh, and joined me together with bones and sinews.
12.Thou hast given me life, and mgrace: and thy nvisitation hathe preserved my spirit.
13.Thogh thou hast hid these things in thine heart, yet I knowe othat it is so with thee.
14.If I have sinned, then thou wilt straightly loke unto me, and wilt not holde me giltles of mine iniquitie.
15.If I have done wickedly, wo unto me: if I have done righteously, I wil not plift up mine head, being ful of confusion, because I se mine affliction.
16.But let it increase: hunt thou me as a lyon: returne and shewe thy self qmarvelous upon me.
17.Thou renuest thy plagues against me, and thou increasest thy wrath against me: rchanges and armies of sorowes are against me.
18.Wherefore then hast thou broght me out of the womb? Oh that I had perished, and that none eye had sene me!
19.And that I were as I had not bene, but broght from the womb to the grave.
20.Are not my dayes fewe? Let him scease, & leave of from me, that I may take a litle comfort,
21.Before I go and shal not treturn, even to the land of darkenes and shadowe of death:
22.Into a land, I say, darke as darkenes it self, and into the shadow of death, where is none uorder, but the light is there as darkenes.

Notes

1-a.
I am more like to a dead man then to one that lives.
1-b.
I will make an ample declaration of my torments, accusing myself and not God.
2-c.
He would not that God should proceed against him by his secret justice, but by the ordinary means that he punishes others.
3-d.
Is it agreeable to your justice to do me wrong?
3-e.
Will you be without compassion?
3-f.
Will you gratify the wicked and condemn me?
4-g.
Do you this in ignorance?
5-h.
Are you inconstant and changeable, as the times, today a friend, tomorrow an enemy?
7-i.
By affliction you keep me as in a prison, and restrain me from doing evil, neither can any set me at liberty.
8-k.
In these eight verses following he describes the mercy of God in the wonderful creation of man: and thereon grounds that God should not show himself rigorous against him.
9-l.
As brittle as a pot of clay.
12-m.
That is, reason and understanding, & many other gifts whereby man excels all earthly creatures.
12-n.
That is, your fatherly care and providence, whereby you preserve me, and without the which I should perish straight way.
13-o.
Though I be not fully able to comprehend these things, yet I must needs confess that it is so.
15-p.
I will always walk in fear and humility, knowing that none is just before you.
16-q.
Job being sore assaulted in this battle between the flesh and the Spirit, brastes out into these affections, wishing rather short days then long pain.
17-r.
That is, diversity of diseases and in great abundance, showing that God has infinite means to punish man. 8 Geneva Bible 1560
20-s.
He wishes that God would leave off his affliction, considering his great misery and the brevity of his life.
21-t.
He speaks thus in the person of a sinner, that is overcome with passions and with the feeling of God’s judgements, and therefore cannot apprehend in that state the mercies of God and comfort of the resurrection.
22-u.
No distinction between light and darkness, but where all is very darkness itself.