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Job 4

3 Job is reprehended of impaciencie, 7 And unjustice, 17 And of the presumption of his owne righteousness.
1.Then Elipház the Temanite answered, and said,
2.If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but awho can withhold him self from speaking?
3.Behold, thou hast taught manie, and bhast strengthened the wearie hands.
4.Thy wordes have comfirmed him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the weak knees.
5.But now it is come upon thee, and thou art grieved: it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
6.Is not this thy cfeare, thy confidence, thy pacience, and the uprightness of thy wayes?
7.Remember, I pray thee: who ever perished being an dinnocent? or where were the upright destroyed?
8.As I have sene, they that eplowe iniquity, & sow wickedness, reap the same
9.With the fblast of God they perish, and with the breath of his nostrilles are they consumed.
10.The roring of the glion, and the voice of the lionesse, and the teeth of the lion’s whelps are broken. He condemneth Job. Job. 4:
11.The lion perisheth for lacke of praye, & the lion’s whelps are scatred abrode.
12.But a thing was broght to me hsecretly, and mine eare hathe received a little thereof.
13.In the thoghts of the visions of the night, when slepe falleth on men,
14.Feare came upon me, and dread which made all my bones ito tremble.
15.And the wind passed before me, and made the heeres of my flesh to stand up.
16.Then stode one, and I knew not his face: an image was before mine eyes, and in ksilence heard I a voyce, saying,
17.Shal man be more ljust then God? or shal a man be more pure then his maker?
18.Behold, he founde no stedfastnes in his Servants, and laied folie upon his mAngels.
19.How much more in them that dwell in houses of nclay, whose foundation is in the dust, which shalbe destroyed before the moth?
20.They be destroyed from omorning unto the evening: they perish for ever, pwithout regarde.
21.Doeth not their dignitie go away with them? do they not dye, and that without qwisdom.

Notes

2-a.
Seeing this your impaciencie.
3-b.
You have comforted others in their afflictions, and can not now comfort yourself.
6-c.
This he concludes that Job was but an hypocrite and had no true fear nor trust in God.
7-d.
He concludes that Job was reproved, seeing that God handled him so extremely, which is the argument that the carnal men make against the children of God.
8-e.
They that do evil, cannot but receive evil.
9-f.
He shows that God needs no great preparation to destroy his enemies for he can do it with the blast of his mouth.
10-g.
Though men according to their office do not punish tyrants (whom for their cruelty he compares to lions, and their children to their whelps) yet God both is able, and his justice will punish them.
12-h.
A thing that I knew not before, was declared unto me by visions that is, that whosoever thinks himself just, shall be found a sinner, when he comes before God.
14-i.
In these visions which God shows to his creatures, there is ever a certain fear joined, that the authority thereof might be had in great- er reverence.
16-k.
When all things were quite, or when the fear was somewhat assuaged, as God appeared to Elijah, 1 Kings 19.12.
17-l.
He proves that if God did punish the innocent, the creature should be more just then the Creator, which were a blaspheme.
18-m.
If God find imperfection in his Angels, when they are not maintained by his power, how much more shall he lay folly to man’s charge, when he would justify himself against God.
19-n.
That is, in this mortal body, subject to corruption, 2 Cor. 5.1.
20-o.
They see death continually before their eyes, & daily approach- ing toward them.
20-p.
No man for all this does consider it.
21-q.
That is, before that any of them were so wise as to think on death.