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. II.

6 Satán hathe permission to afflict Iob. 9 His wife tēpteth him to forsake God. 11 His thre friends visite him.

1 ANd on a day thea 1.1 children of God came and stode before the Lord, andb 1.2 Satán came also among them, and stode before the Lord.

2 Then the Lord said vnto Satán, Whence com¦mest thou? And Satán answered the Lord, & said, From compassing the earth to and fro, and from walking in it.

3 And the Lord said vnto Satan, Hast thou not* 1.3 considered my seruāt Iob, how none (is) like him in the earth? * an vpright and iuste man, one that feareth God, and eschueth equil? for yet he cōtinueth in his vprightnes,c 1.4 althogh thou mouedst me against him, to destroyed 1.5 him without cause.

4 And Satan answered the Lord, & said,e 1.6 Skin for skin, and all that euer a man hathe, wil he giue for his life.

5 But stretche now out thine hand, and touche hisf 1.7 bones and his flesh, (to se) if he wil not blaspheme thee to thy face.

6 Then the Lord said vnto Satan, Lo, he is in thine hand, but saueg 1.8 his life.

7 ¶ So Satan departed from the presence of the Lord, and smote Iob with soreh 1.9 boyles, from the sole of his fote vnto his crowne.

8 And he toke ai 1.10 potsharde to scrape him, and he sate downe among the ashes.

9 Then said hisk 1.11 wife vnto him, Doest thoul 1.12 cōtinueyet in thine vprightnes?m 1.13 Blasphe∣me God, and dye.

10 But he said vnto her, Thou speakest like a foolish woman: what? shal we receiue good at the hand of God, and notn 1.14 receiue euil? In all this did not Iob sinne with hiso 1.15 lippes.

11 Now when Iobs threp 1.16 friends heard of all this euil that was come vpon him, thei came euerie one from his owne place, (to wit.) Eli phaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they were agreed to get her to come to lament with him and to comfort him.

12 So whē they lift vp their eyes a farre of, they knewe him not: therefore they lift vp their voyces and wept, and euerie one of them rēt his garment, and sprinkledq 1.17 dust vpon their heades toward the heauen.

13 So they sate by him vpon the grounde seuē dayes, & seuen nights, & none spake a word vnto him: for they sawe, that the grief (was) veryr 1.18 great.

Notes

• a 1.1

  That is, the An gels, as Chap. 1, 6.
• b 1.2

  Read Chap. 1, 13
• * 1.3

  Ezek 14, 14.
• c 1.4

  He proueth Iobs integritie by this that he ceased not to fea∣re God when his plagues were grie uously vpon him
• d 1.5

  That is, when thou hadst noght against him, or when thou wast not able to bring thy purpose to passe.
• e 1.6

  Hereby he mēt that a mās owne skinne is dearer vnto him then another mans.
• f 1.7

  Meaning his owne persone.
• g 1.8

  Thus Satán can go no further in punishing then God hathe limi∣ted vnto him.
• h 1.9

  This sore was moste vehement, where with also God plagued the Egyptians, Exo. 9, 9. and threate∣neth to punish there belliouspeo ple Deut. 28, 27. so that this tentatiō was moste grie∣uous: for if Iob had measured Gods fauour by the vehemencie of his disease, he might haue thoght that God had cast him of.
• i 1.10

  As destitute of all other helpe and mea∣nes, and wonderfully afflicted with the soro we of his disease.
• k 1.11

  Satán vseth the same instrument against Iob, as he did against Adám.
• l 1.12

  Meaning, what gainest thou to serue God, seing he thus plagueth thee as thogh he were thine enemie? This is the moste grie∣uous tentacion of the faithful, when their faith is assailed, and when Satán goeth about to persuade them, that thei trust in God in vayne.
• m 1.13

  For death was appointed to the blasphemer, and so she ment that he shulde be sone ridde out of his 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• n 1.14

  That is, to be pacient in 〈◊〉〈◊〉, as we reioy ce, when he sen∣deth prosperitie, & so to acknow∣ledge him to be bothe merciful & Iusle.
• o 1.15

  He so 〈◊〉〈◊〉 his affectiōs, that his tongue 〈◊〉〈◊〉 impaciencie did not murmure against God.
• p 1.16

  Which were men of autoritie wise and learned, and as the Septuagint write, King, and came to comfort him, but when they saw how he was visiced, they conceiued an euil opinion of him, as thogh he had bene but an hypocrite, and so iustely plagued of God for his sinnes.
• q 1.17

  This was also a ceremonie, which they vsed in those countreis, as the renting of their clothes in si∣gne of sorowe &c.
• r 1.18

  And therefore thoght that he wolde not haue hearkened to their counsel.