The Bible and Holy Scriptures conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament. Translated according to the Ebrue and Greke, and conferred with the best translations in diuers languges. VVith moste profitable annotations vpon all the hard places, and other things of great importance as may appeare in the epistle to the reader

CHAP. X.

1 Iob is weary of his life, and setteth out his fragilitie be∣fore God. 20 He desireth him to stay his hand. 22 A de∣scription of death,

1 MY soule is cut ofa 1.1 thogh I liue: I wil leaue myb 1.2 complaint vpon my self, (and) wil speake in the bitternes of my soule.

2 I wil say vnto God,c 1.3 Condēne me not: she we me, wherefore thou contendest with me.

3 Thinkest thou itd 1.4 good to oppresse me, (&) to cast of thee 1.5 labour of thine hands, and to fauour thef 1.6 counsel of the wicked?

4 Hast thoug 1.7 carnal eyes? or doest thou se as man seeth?

5 Are thy dayes as mansh 1.8 dayes? or thy yeres, as the time of man?

6 That thou inquirest of mine iniquitie, and searchest out my sinne.

7 Thou knowest that I can not doi 1.9 wickedly: for none can deliuer me out of thine hand.

8 Thinek 1.10 hands haue made me, and facioned me wholy rounde about, and wilt thou de∣stroye me?

9 Remember, I pray thee, that thou hast made me asl 1.11 the clay, and wilt thou bring me into dust againe?

10 Hast thou not powred me out as mylke? and turned me to cruds like chese?

11 Thou hast clothed me with skinne and flesh and ioyned me together with bones and si∣newes.

12 Thou hast giuen me life, andm 1.12 grace: & thyn 1.13 visitacion hathe preserued my spirit.

13 Thogh thou hast hid these things in thine heart, (yet) I knoweo 1.14 that it is so with thee.

14 If I haue sinned, then thou wilt streightly loke vnto me, and wilt not holde me giltles of mine iniquitie.

15 If I haue done wickedly, wo vnto me: if I ha∣ue done righteously, I wil notp 1.15 lift vp mine head, being ful of cōfusiō, because I se mine affliction.

16 But let it increase: hunt thou me as a lyon: returne & shewe thy selfq 1.16 maruelous vpóme

17 Thou renuest thy plagues againste me, and thou increasest thy wrath against me:r 1.17 chan∣ges and armies (of sorowes) are against me.

18 Wherefore thē hast thou broght me out of the wombe? Oh that I had perished, and that none eye had sene mel

19 (And) that I were as I had not bene, (but) broght from the wombe to the graue.

20 Are notmy dayes fewe? let him s 1.18 cease, (and) leaue of from me, that I may take a litle com¦fort,

21 Before I go and shal nott 1.19 returne, (euen) to the land of dark enes and shad owe of death:

22 Into a land, (I say,) dark as darkenes it self (&) into the shadow of death, where is noneu 1.20 order, but the light (is there) as dark enes.

Notes

• a 1.1

  I am more like to a deadmā then to one that 〈◊〉〈◊〉
• b 1.2

  I wil make an ample declaratiō of my torments, accusing my self and not God.
• c 1.3

  He wolde not that God shulde procede against him by his secret iustice but by the ordinarie meanes that he punisheth others.
• d 1.4

  Is it agreable to thy iustice to do me wrong?
• e 1.5

  Wilt thou be without compas∣sion?
• f 1.6

  Wilt thou gra∣tifie the wicked and condēne me?
• g 1.7

  Doest thou this of ignoráce?
• h 1.8

  Art thou in∣constant & chāge able, as the times to daie a friend, to morowe an enemie?
• i 1.9

  By affliction thou kepest me as in a prison, and restraynest me from doing euil, nether can any set meat libertie.
• k 1.10

  In these eight verses following he describeth the mercie of God in the Wonderful creation of man: and there on gro∣undeth that God shulde not shew himself rigorous against him.
• l 1.11

  As brittel as a pot of clay.
• m 1.12

  That is, reason and vnderstāding and many other giftes whereby man excelleth all earth he creatures
• n 1.13

  That is, thy fá∣therlie care and prouidēce where by thou preser∣uest me, and with out the which I shulde perish streight way.
• o 1.14

  Thogh I be not fully able to cōprehēd these things, yet I 〈◊〉〈◊〉 nedes confesse that it is so.
• p 1.15

  I Wil alway Walke in feare and humilitie, knowing that none is iuste before thee.
• q 1.16

  Iob being sore assalted in this battel betwene the flesh & the Spirit, brasketh out into these affections, wishing rather short dayes then long peins.
• r 1.17

  That is, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of diseases & in great abundā ceshewing that God hathe infini temeanes to pu∣nish 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• s 1.18

  We 〈◊〉〈◊〉 that God 〈◊〉〈◊〉 leaue of his 〈◊〉〈◊〉, considering 〈◊〉〈◊〉 great miserie & 〈◊〉〈◊〉 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of his life.
• t 1.19

  He speaketh thus in the persone of a sinner, that is ouercome with passions and with the feling of Gods iudgements, and therefore can not apprehend in that 〈◊〉〈◊〉 〈◊〉〈◊〉 mer∣c es of God and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of the 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• u 1.20

  No distinction 〈◊〉〈◊〉 light and darkenes, but where all is 〈◊〉〈◊〉 darkenes it self.