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Job 33

5 Elihú accuseth Job of ignorance. 14 He sheweth that God hathe divers meanes to instruct man and to drawe him from sinne. 19.29 He afflicteth man and sodenly delivereth him. 26 Man being delivered, giveth thankes to God.
1.Wherefore, Job, I pray thee, heare my talke and hearken unto all my wordes.
2.Beholde now, I have opened my mouth: my tongue hathe spoken in my mouth.
3.My wordes are in the uprightenes of mine heart, and my lippes shal speake pure knowledge.
4.The aSpirit of God hathe made me, and the breath of the Almightie hathe given me life.
5.If thou canst give me answer, prepare thy selfe and stand before me.
6.Beholde, I am according to thy wish in bGod’s stead: I am also formed of the clay.
7.Beholde, my terrour shal not feare thee, nether shal mine hand cbe heavy upon thee.
8.Douteles thou hast spoken in mine eares, and I have A token of God’s mercie. Job. 33 heard the voyce of thy wordes.
9.I am dcleane, without sinne: I am innocent, and there is none iniquitie in me.
10.Lo, he hathe founde occasions against me, and counted me for his enemie.
11.He hathe put my fete in the stockes, and loketh narowly unto all my paths.
12.Beholde, in this hast thou not done right: I wil answer thee, that God is greater then man.
13.Why doest thou strive against him? for he doeth not egive account of all his matters.
14.For God speaketh fonce or twise, and one seeth it not.
15.In dreames and gvisions of the night, when slepe falleth upon men, and they slepe upon their beddes,
16.Then he openeth the eares of men, even by their corrections, which he hhad sealed,
17.That he might cause man to turne away from his enterprise, and that he might hide the ipride of man,
18.And kepe backe his soule from the pit, and that his life shulde not passe by the sworde.
19.He is also striken with sorow upon his bed, and the grief of his bones is sore,
20.So that his klife causeth him to abhorre bread, and his soule daintie meat.
21.His flesh faileth that it can not be sene, and his bones which were not sene, clatter.
22.So his soule draweth to the grave, and him life lto the buriers.
23.If there be a mmessenger with him, or an interpreter, one of a thousand nto declare unto man his righteousnes,
24.Then wil he have omercie upon him, and wil saie, pDeliver him, that he go not downe into the pit: for I have received a reconciliation.
25.Then shal his flesh be qas fresh as a childs, and shal returne as in the daies of his youth.
26.He shal pray unto God, and he wil be favourable unto him, and he shal se his face with joy: for he wil rendre unto man his rrighteousnes.
27.He loketh upon men, & if one say, I have sinned, & spreverted righteousnes, and it did not profit tme,
28.uHe wil deliver his soule from going into the pit, and his life shal se the light.
29.Lo, all these things wil God worke xtwise or thrise with a man,
30.That he may turne backe his soule from the pit, to be illuminate in the light of the living.
31.Marke wel, ô Job, and heare me: kepe silence, and I wil speake.
32.If there be ymatter, answer me, and speake: for I desire to zjustifie thee.
33.If thou hast not, heare me: holde thy tongue, and I wil teache thee wisdome.

Notes

4-a.
I confess the power of God, and am one of his therefore you ought to hear me.
6-b.
Because Job had wished to dispute his cause with God, Ch. 16.21, so that he might do it without fear, Elihú says, he will reason in God’s stead, whom he needs not to fear, because he is a man made of the same matter that he is.
7-c.
I will not handle you so roughly as these others have done. 2
9-d.
He repeats Job’s words, whereby he protests his innocence in divers places, but specially in 13:16 and chapter 30.
13-e.
The cause of his judgements is not always declared to man.
14-f.
Though God by sundry examples of his judgements speak unto man, yet the reason thereof is not known: yea and though God should speak, yet he is not understood.
15-g.
God, says he, speaks commonly, either by visions to teach us the cause of his judgements, or els by afflictions, or by his messenger.
16-h.
That is, determined to send upon them.
17-i.
He shows for what end God sends afflictions: to beat down man’s pride, and to turn from evil.
20-k.
That is, his painful and miserable life.
22-l.
To them that shall bury him.
23-m.
A man sent of God to declare his will.
23-n.
A singular man, and as one chosen out of a thousand, which is able to declare the great mercies of God unto sinners: and wherein man’s righteousness stands, which is through the justice of Jesus Christ and faith therein.
24-o.
He shows that it is a sure token of God’s mercy towards sinners, when he causes his word to be preached unto them.
24-p.
That is, the minister shall by the preaching of the word pro- nounce unto him the forgiveness of his sins.
25-q.
He shall feel God’s favour and rejoice: declaring hereby, wherein stands the true joy of the faithful: and that God will restore him to health of body, which is a token of his blessing.
26-r.
God will forgive his sins and accept him as just.
27-s.
That is, done wickedly. 2 Geneva Bible 1560
27-t.
But my sin has been the cause of God’s wrath toward me.
28-u.
God will forgive the penitent sinner.
29-x.
Meaning, ofttimes, even as oft as a sinner does repent.
32-y.
If you doubt of anything, or see occasion to speak against it.
32-z.
That is, to show you, wherein man’s justification consists.