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Job 11

1 Job is unjustly reprehended of Zophár. 7 God is incomprehensible. 14 He is merciful to the repentant. 18 Their assurance that live godlie.
1.Then answered Zophár the Naamathite, & said,
2.Shulde not the multitude of wordes be answered? or shulde a great atalker be justified?
3.Shulde men holde their peace at thy lyes? and when thou mockest others, shal none make thee ashamed?
4.For thou hast said, bMy doctrine is pure, and I am cleane in thine eyes.
5.But oh, that God wolde speake and open his lippes against thee!
6.That he might shewe thee the csecrets of wisdom, how thou hast deserved double, according to right: knowe therefore that God hathe forgotten thee for thine iniquitie.
7.Canst thou by searching finde out God? canst thou find out the Almightie to his perfection?
8.The heavens are hie, what canst thou do? dit is deper then the hel, how canst thou knowe it?
9.The measure thereof is longer then the earth, and it is broder then the sea.
10.If he cut of & eshut up, or gather together, who can turne him back?
11.For he knoweth vaine men, and seeth iniquitie, and him that understandeth nothing.
12.Yet vaine man wolde be wise, thogh man newe borne is like a wilde asse fcotle. . The wisdome of God. Job. 11:1
13.If thou gprepare thine heart, and stretche out thine hands towarde him:
14.If iniquitie be in thine hhand, put it farre away, and let no wickedness dwel in thy tabernacle.
15.Then truly shalt thou lift up thy iface without spot, and shalt be stable, and shalt not feare.
16.But thou shalt forget thy miserie, and remember it as waters that are past.
17.Thine age also shal appeare more cleare then the noone day: thou shalt shine and be as the morning.
18.And thou shalt be bolde, because there is hope: and thou shalt dig pittes, and shalt lye down safely.
19.*For when thou takest thy rest, none shal make thee afraied: yea, manie shal make sute unto thee.
20.But the eyes kof the wicked shal faile, and their refuge shal perish, and their hope shalbe sorowe of minde.

Notes

2-a.
Should he persuade by his great talk, that he is just?
4-b.
He charges Job with this, that he should say, that the thing, which he spoke, was true, and that he was without sin in the sight of God.
6-c.
Which is, not to stand in justifying of yourself: he signifies that man will never be overcome, while he reasons with another, and therefore God must break off the controversy, and stop man’s mouth.
8-d.
That is, this perfection of God, and if man be not able to comprehend the height of the heaven, the depth of hell, the length of the earth, the breadth of the sea, which are but creatures: how can he attain to the perfection of the Creator?
10-e.
If God should turn the state of things, and establish a new order in nature, who could control him?
12-f.
That is, without understanding, so that whatsoever gifts he has afterward, come of God and not of nature.
13-g.
If you repent, pray unto him.
14-h.
Renounce your own evil works, and see that they offend not God, over whom you have charge.
15-i.
He declares what quietness of conscience and success in all things such shall have, which turn to God by true repentance.
19-*.
Lev. 26.5.
20-k.
He shows that contrary things shall come unto them that do not repent.