Job 13
1599 Geneva Bible
13 3 Job compareth his knowledge with the experience of his friends. 16 The penitent shall be saved, and the hypocrite condemned, 20 He prayeth unto God, that he would not handle him rigorously.
1 Lo, mine eye hath seen all this: mine ear hath heard, and understood it.
2 I know also as much as you know: I am not inferior unto you.
3 But I will speak to the Almighty, and I desire [a]to dispute with God.
4 For indeed ye forge lies, and all you are [b]physicians of no value.
5 Oh, that you would hold your tongue, that it might be imputed to you for wisdom!
6 Now hear my disputation, and give ear to the arguments of my lips.
7 Will ye speak [c]wickedly for God’s defense, and talk deceitfully for his cause?
8 Will ye accept his person? or will ye contend for God?
9 Is it well that he should seek of you? will you make a lie for him, as one lieth for a man?
10 He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept any person.
11 Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his fear fall upon you?
12 Your [d]memories may be compared unto ashes, and your bodies unto bodies of clay.
13 Hold your tongues in my presence, that I may speak, and let come upon what will.
14 Wherefore do I [e]take my flesh in my teeth, and put my soul in my hand?
15 Lo, though he slay me, yet will I trust in him, and I will reprove my ways in his sight.
16 He shall be my salvation also: for the [f]hypocrite shall not come before him.
17 Hear diligently my words, and mark my talk.
18 Behold now: if I prepare me to judgment, I know that I shall be [g]justified.
19 Who is he that will plead [h]with me? for if I now hold my tongue, I [i]die.
20 But do not these two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.
21 [j]Withdraw thine hand from me, and let not thy fear make me afraid.
22 Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.
23 How many are [k]mine iniquities and sins, show me my rebellion and my sin.
24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and takest me for thine enemy?
25 Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
26 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the [l]iniquities of my youth.
27 Thou puttest my feet also in the [m]stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths, and makest the print thereof in the [n]heels of my feet.
28 Such a one consumeth like a rotten thing, and as a garment that is moth-eaten.
Footnotes
- Job 13:3 For although he knew that God had a justice, which was manifest in his ordinary working and another in his secret counsel, yet he would utter his affection to God, because he was not able to understand the cause why he did thus punish him.
- Job 13:4 You do not well apply your medicine to the disease.
- Job 13:7 He condemneth their zeal, which had not knowledge, neither regarded they to comfort him, but always grated on God’s justice, as though it was not evidently seen in Job, except they had undertaken the probation thereof.
- Job 13:12 Your fame shall come to nothing.
- Job 13:14 Is not this a manifest sign of mine affliction, and that I do not complain without cause, seeing that I am thus tormented as though I should tear mine own flesh, and put my life in danger?
- Job 13:16 Whereby he declareth that he is not an hypocrite as they charged him.
- Job 13:18 That is, cleared and not cast off for my sins, as you reason.
- Job 13:19 To prove that God doth thus punish me for my sins.
- Job 13:19 If I defend not my cause, every man will condemn me.
- Job 13:21 He showeth what these two things are.
- Job 13:23 His pangs thus move him to reason with God, not denying but that he had sinned: but he desired to understand what were his great sins that had deserved such rigor, wherein he offended that he would know a cause of God why he did punish him.
- Job 13:26 Thou punishest me now for the faults that I committed in my youth.
- Job 13:27 Thou makest me thy prisoner, and dost so press me that I cannot stir hand nor foot.
- Job 13:27 Hebrew, roots.
Job 14
1599 Geneva Bible
14 1 Job describeth the shortness and misery of the life of man. 14 Hope sustaineth the godly. 21 The condition of man’s life.
1 Man [a]that is born of woman, is of short continuance and full of trouble.
2 He shooteth forth as a flower, and is cut down: he vanisheth also as a (A)shadow, and continueth not.
3 And yet thou openest thine eyes upon such [b]one, and causest me to enter into judgment with thee.
4 (B)Who can bring a clean thing out of filthiness? there is not one.
5 Are not his days determined? the number of his months are with thee: thou hast appointed his bound, which he cannot pass.
6 Turn from him that he may cease until his desired day, [c]as an hireling.
7 For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will yet sprout, and the branches thereof will not cease.
8 Though the root of it wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof be dead in the ground,
9 Yet by the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
10 [d]But man is sick, and dieth, and man perisheth, and where is he?
11 As the waters pass from the sea, and as the flood decayeth and drieth up,
12 So man sleepeth and riseth not: for he shall not wake again, nor be raised from his sleep till the heaven be no more.
13 Oh that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, and keep me secret, until thy [e]wrath were past, and wouldest give me term, and [f]remember me!
14 If a man die, shall he live again? All the days of mine appointed time will I wait, till [g]my changing shall come.
15 Thou shalt call me, and I will [h]answer thee: thou lovest the work of thine own hands.
16 But now thou (C)numberest my steps, and doest not delay my sins.
17 Mine iniquity is sealed up, as in a [i]bag, and thou addest unto my wickedness.
18 And surely as the mountain that falleth, cometh to nought, and the [j]rock that is removed from his place:
19 As the water breaketh the stones, when thou overflowest the things which grow in the dust of the earth: so thou destroyest the hope of man.
20 Thou prevailest always against him, so that he passeth away: he changeth his face when thou castest him away.
21 And he knoweth not if his sons shall be honorable, neither shall he understand concerning them, whether they shall be of low degree,
22 But while his [k]flesh is upon him, he shall be sorrowful, and while his soul is in him, it shall mourn.
Footnotes
- Job 14:1 Taking occasion of his adversary’s words, he describeth the state of man’s life from his birth to his death.
- Job 14:3 His meaning is, that seeing that man is so frail a creature, God should not handle him so extremely, wherein Job showeth the wickedness of the flesh, when it is not subject to the Spirit.
- Job 14:6 Until the time that thou hast appointed for him to die, which he desireth as the hireling waiteth for the end of his labor to receive his wages.
- Job 14:10 He speaketh not here as though he had not hope of the immortality, but as a man in extreme pain, when reason is overcome by affections and torments.
- Job 14:13 Hereby he declareth that the fear of God’s judgment was the cause why he desired to die.
- Job 14:13 That is, release my pains and take me to mercy.
- Job 14:14 Meaning, unto the day of the resurrection when he should be changed, and renewed.
- Job 14:15 Though I be afflicted in this life, yet in the resurrection I shall feel thy mercies and answer when thou callest me.
- Job 14:17 Thou layest them all together, and sufferest none of my sins unpunished.
- Job 14:18 He murmureth through the impatience of the flesh against God, as though he used as great severity against him as against the hard rocks, or waters that overflow, so that hereby all the occasion of his hope is taken away.
- Job 14:22 Yet while he shall be in pain, and misery.
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