Job 27-28
1599 Geneva Bible
27 3 The constancy and perfectness of Job. 13 The reward of the wicked and of the tyrants.
1 Moreover Job proceeded and continued his parable, saying,
2 The living God hath taken away my [a]judgment: for the Almighty hath put my soul in bitterness.
3 Yet so long as my breath is in me, and the Spirit of God in my nostrils,
4 [b]My lips surely shall speak no wickedness, and my tongue shall utter no deceit.
5 God forbid, that I should [c]justify you: until I die, I will never take away mine [d]innocency from myself.
6 I will keep my righteousness, and will not forsake it: mine heart shall not reprove me of my [e]days.
7 Mine enemy shall be as the wicked, and he that riseth against me, as the unrighteous.
8 For what [f]hope hath the hypocrite when he hath heaped up riches, if God take away his soul?
9 Will God hear his cry, when trouble cometh upon him?
10 Will he set his delight on the Almighty? will he call upon God at all times?
11 I will teach you what is in the hand of [g]God, and I will not conceal that which is with the Almighty.
12 Behold, all ye yourselves [h]have seen it: why then do you thus vanish [i]vanity?
13 This is the [j]portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of tyrants, which they shall receive of the Almighty.
14 If his children be in great number, the sword shall destroy them, and his posterity shall not be satisfied with bread.
15 His remnant shall be buried in death, and his widows [k]shall not weep.
16 Though he should heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay,
17 He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.
18 He buildeth his house as the [l]moth, and as a lodge that the watchman maketh.
19 When the rich man sleepeth, [m]he shall not be gathered to his fathers: they opened their eyes, and he was gone.
20 Terrors shall take him as waters, and a tempest shall carry him away by night.
21 The East wind shall take him away, and he shall depart: and it shall hurl him out of his place.
22 And God shall cast upon him and not spare, though he would fain flee out of his hand.
23 Every man shall clap their hands at him, and hiss at him out of their place.
28 Job showeth that the wisdom of God is unsearchable.
1 The silver surely hath his vein, [n]and the gold his palace, where they take it.
2 Iron is taken out of the dust, and brass is molten out of the stone.
3 God putteth an end to darkness, [o]and he trieth the perfection of all things: he setteth a bond of darkness, and of the shadow of death.
4 The flood breaketh out against the [p]inhabitant, and the waters [q]forgotten of the foot, being higher than man, are gone away.
5 Out of the same earth cometh [r]bread, and under it, as it were fire is turned up.
6 The stones thereof are a place [s]of Sapphires, and the dust of it is gold.
7 There is a path which no fowl hath known, neither hath the kite’s eye seen it.
8 The Lion’s whelps have not walked it, nor the Lion passed thereby.
9 He putteth his hand upon the [t]rocks, and overthroweth the mountains by the roots.
10 He breaketh rivers in the roots, and his eye seeth every precious thing.
11 He bindeth the floods, that they do not overflow, and the thing that is hid, bringeth he to light.
12 But where is wisdom found? [u]and where is the place of understanding?
13 Man knoweth not [v]the price thereof: for it is not found in the land of the living.
14 The depth saith, It is not in me: the Sea also saith, It is not with me.
15 [w]Gold shall not be given for it, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
16 It shall not be valued with the wedge of gold of Ophir, nor with the precious onyx, nor the sapphire.
17 The gold nor the crystal shall be equal unto it, nor the exchange shall be for plate of fine gold.
18 No mention shall be made of coral, nor of the [x]gabish: for wisdom is more precious than pearls.
19 The Topaz of Ethiopia shall not be equal unto it, neither shall it be valued with the wedge of pure gold.
20 Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding,
21 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all the living, and is hid from the [y]fowls of the heaven?
22 Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
23 But God understandeth the [z]way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.
24 For he beholdeth the ends of the world, and seeth all that is under heaven,
25 To make the weight of the winds and to weigh the waters by measure.
26 When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunders,
27 Then did he see it, and counted it: he prepared it, and also considered it.
28 And unto man he said, Behold, (A)the [aa]fear of the Lord is wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding.
Footnotes
- Job 27:2 He hath so sore afflicted me, that men cannot judge of mine uprightness: for they judge only by outward signs.
- Job 27:4 However men judge of me, yet will I not speak contrary to that which I have said, and so do wickedly in betraying the truth.
- Job 27:5 Which condemns me as a wicked man, because the hand of God is upon me.
- Job 27:5 I will not confess that God doth thus punish me for my sins.
- Job 27:6 Of my life past.
- Job 27:8 What advantage hath the dissembler to gain never so much, seeing he shall lose his own soul?
- Job 27:11 That is, what God reserveth to himself, and whereof he giveth not the knowledge to all.
- Job 27:12 That is, these secret judgments of God, and yet do not understand them.
- Job 27:12 Why maintain you then this error?
- Job 27:13 Thus will God order the wicked, and punish him even unto his posterity.
- Job 27:15 None shall lament him.
- Job 27:18 Which breedeth in another man’s possession or garment, but is soon shaken out.
- Job 27:19 He meaneth, that the wicked tyrants shall not have a quiet death, nor be buried honorably.
- Job 28:1 His purpose is to declare that man may attain in this world to divers secrets of nature, but man is never able to comprehend the wisdom of God.
- Job 28:3 There is nothing but it is compassed within certain limits, and hath an end, but God’s wisdom.
- Job 28:4 Meaning, him that dwelleth thereby.
- Job 28:4 Which a man cannot wade through.
- Job 28:5 That is, come, and underneath is brimstone or coal, which easily conceiveth fire.
- Job 28:6 He alludeth to the mines and secrets of nature, which are under the earth, whereinto neither fowls nor beasts can enter.
- Job 28:9 After that he hath declared the wisdom of God in the secrets of nature he describeth his power.
- Job 28:12 Though God’s power and wisdom may be understood in earthly things, yet his heavenly wisdom cannot be attained unto.
- Job 28:13 It is too high a thing for man to attain unto in this world.
- Job 28:15 It can neither be bought for gold nor precious stones, but is only the gift of God.
- Job 28:18 Which is thought to be a kind of precious stone.
- Job 28:21 Meaning, that there is no natural means whereby man might attain to the heavenly wisdom: which he meaneth by the souls that fly high.
- Job 28:23 He maketh God only the author of this wisdom, and the giver thereof.
- Job 28:28 He declareth that man hath so much of this heavenly wisdom, as he showeth by fearing God, and departing from evil.
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