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Job 5

1.2 Elipház sheweth the difference betwene the children of God and the wicked 3 The fall of the wicked 9 God’s power who destroieth the wicked and delivereth his.
1.aCall now, if anie wil answer thee, and to which of the Saintes wilt thou turne?
2.Douteles bangre killeth the foolish, and envie slayeth the idiote.
3.I have sene the cfoolish wel rooted, and sodenly I dcursed his habitation, saying,
4.His echildren shalbe farre from salvation, and they shalbe destroyed in the fgate, and none shal deliver them.
5.The hungrie shal eat up his harvest: yea, thei shal take it from among the gthrones, and the thirstie shal drinke up their substance.
6.For miserie commeth not forthe of the dust, hnether doeth affliction spring out of the earth.
7.But man is borne unto itravail, as the sparkes flye upward.
8.But I wolde inquire kat God, and turne my talke unto God:
9.Which ldoeth great things & unsearcheable, and marvelous things without nomber.
10.He mgiveth raine upon the earth, and powreth water upon the stretes,
11.And setteth up on hie them that be lowe, that the sorrowful may be exalted to salvation.
12.He scatereth the devises of the craftie: so that their hands can not accomplish that which they do enterprise.
13.*He taketh the wise in their craftines, and the counsel of the wicked is made foolish.
14.They mete with ndarknes in the day time, and ogrope at noone day, as in the night.
15.But he saveth the ppoore from the sword, from their qmouth, and from the hand of the violent man,
16.So that the poore hathe his hope, but iniquitie shal rstop her mouth.
17.Behold, blessed is the man whom God correcteth: therefore refuse not thou the chastising of the Almightie.
18.For he maketh the wound, and bindeth it up: he smiteth, and his hands make whole.
19.He shal deliver thee sin six troubles, and in the sevent the evil shal not touch thee.
20.In famine he shal deliver thee from death: and in battel from the power of the sworde.
21.Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue, and thou shalt not be affraied of destruction when it cometh.
22.But thou shalt tlaugh at destruction and dearth, and shalt not be afrayd of the beast of the earth.
23.For the stones of the field ushalbe in league with thee, and the beasts of the field shalbe at peace with thee.
24.And thou shalt knowe, that peace shalbe in thy tabernacle, & thou shalt visite thine habitacion, & shalt not xsinne. The godlie rewarded. Job. 5:2
25.Thou shalt perceive also, that thy sede shalbe great, and thy posteritie as the grasse of the earth.
26.Thou shalt go to thy grave in ya ful age, as a ricke of cometh in due season
27.Lo, zthus have we inquired of it, and so it is: heare this and knowe it for thy self.

Notes

1-a.
He wills Job to consider the example of all them that have lived or do live godly, whether any of them be like unto him in raging against God as he does.
2-b.
Murmuring against God in afflictions increases the pain, and utters man’s folly.
3-c.
That is, the sinner that has not the fear of God.
3-d.
I was not moved with his prosperity, but knew that God has cursed him and his.
4-e.
Though God sometime suffer the fathers to pass in this world, yet his judgements will light upon their children.
4-f.
By public judgement they shall be condemned, and none shall pity them. 4 Geneva Bible 1560
5-g.
Though there be but two or three ears left in the hedges, yet these shall be taken from him.
6-h.
That is, the earth is not the cause of bareness and man’s misery, but his own sin.
7-i.
Which declares that sin is ever in our corrupt nature: for before sin it was not subject to pain and affliction.
8-k.
If I suffered as you do, I would seek unto God.
9-l.
He counsels Job to humble himself unto God, to whom all creatures are subject, & whose works declare that man is inexcus- able, except he glorify God in all his works.
10-m.
He shows by particular examples, what the works of God are.
13-*.
1 Cor. 3.19.
14-n.
In things plain and evident they show themselves fools instead of wise men.
14-o.
This declares that God punishes the worldly wise, as he threatened, Deut. 28.29.
15-p.
That is, he that humbles himself before God.
15-q.
He compares the slander of the wicked to sharp swords.
16-r.
If the wicked be compelled at God’s works to stop their mouths, much more they that possess God.
19-s.
He will send trouble after trouble, that his children may not for one time, but continually trust in him: but they shal have a comfort- able issue, even in the greatest and the last.
22-t.
Whereas the wicked lament in their troubles, you shall have occasion to rejoice.
23-u.
When we are in God’s favour, all creatures shall serve us.
24-x.
God shall so bless you that you shall have occasion to rejoice in all things, and not to be offended.
26-y.
Though the children of God have not always this promise per- formed, yet God does recompense it otherwise to their advantage.
27-z.
We have learned these points by experience, that God punishes not the innocent, that man cannot compare in justice with him, that the hypocrites shall not long prosper, and that the affliction which man sustains, comes from his own sin.