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. IIII,

5 Iob is reprehended of impaciencie, 7 And vniustice, 17 And of the presumption of his owne righteousnes.

1 THen Elipház the Temanite answered, & said,

2 If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieued? buta who can withholde him self from speaking?

3 Beholde, thou hast taught manie, andb hast strengthened the wearie hands.

4 Thy wordes haue confirmed him that was falling, & thou hast strengthened the weake knees.

5 But now it is come vpon thee, and thou art grieued: it toucheth thee, and thou art trou∣bled.

6 Is not this thyc feare, thy confidence, thy pa∣cience, and the oprightnes of thy wayes?

7 Remember, I pray thee: who (euer) perished being and innocent? or where were the vp∣right destroyed?

8 As I haue sene, they thate plowe iniquitie, & sowe wickednes, reape the same.

9 With thef blast of God they perish, & with the breath of his nostrilles are they consu∣med.

10 The roring of theg lion, and the voyce of the lionesse, and the teeth of the lions whel∣pes are broken.

11 The lion perisheth for lacke of praye, & the lions whelpes are scatred abrode.

12 But a thing was broght to meh secretly, and mine eare hathe receiued a litle thereof.

13 In the thoghts of the visions ofthe night, when slepe falleth on men,

14 Feare came vpon me, and dread which made all my bonesi to tremble.

15 And the winde passed before me, and made the heeres of my flesh to stand vp.

16 (Then) stode (one,) & I knewe not his face: an image (was) before mine eyes, (&) ink si∣lence heard I a voyce, (saying,)

17 Shal man be morel iust then God? or shal a man be more 〈◊〉〈◊〉 then his maker?

18 Beholde, he founde no stedfastnes in his Ser uants, and layed folie vpon hism Angels.

19 How muche more in them that dwel in hou ses ofn clay, whose fundacion is in the dust, which shalbe destroyed before the moth?

20 They be destroyed fromo the morning vnto the euening: they perish for euer,p without regarde.

21 Doeth not their dignitie go away with thē? do they notdye, and that withoutq wisdome

Notes

• a

  Seing this thine impaciencie.
• b

  Thou haste cō∣forted others in their afflictions, & canst not now comfort thy selfe
• c

  This he conclu∣deth that Iob was but an hypo crite and had no true feare not trust in God.
• d

  He concludeth that Iob was re∣proued, seing that God handeled, him so extreme∣ly, whiche is the argument that the carnal men make against the children of God.
• e

  They that do euil, can not but receiue euil.
• f

  He sheweth that God nedeth no great preparatiō to destrove his enemies: for he cā do it with the blastof his mouth
• g

  Thogh men ac cording to 〈◊〉〈◊〉 office do not pu∣nish tyrants (whome for their crueltie he compareth to lions, and their children to their whelpes) yet God bothe is able, and his iustice wil pu nish them.
• h

  A thing that I knew not before was declared vn to me by vision that is, that who soeuer thinketh him selfe iuste, shalbe founde a sinner, when he commeth before God.
• i

  In these visions whiche GOD sheweth to his creatures, there is euer a certeine feare ioyned, that the autoritie the reof mightbehad in greater reue∣rence.
• k

  Whē all things were quiet, or when the feare was some what as waged, as God appeared to 〈◊〉〈◊〉. 1. Kīg 19, 12.
• l

  He proueth that if God did punish the innocent, the creature shulde be more iust then the Creator, which were a blasphemie.
• m

  If God finde imperfection in his Angels, when they 〈◊〉〈◊〉 not 〈◊〉〈◊〉 by his power, how muche more shal he lay foly to mans charge, when he wolde 〈◊〉〈◊〉 him selfe against God?
• n

  That is, in this 〈◊〉〈◊〉, body sub∣iect to corruption, 2, Cor. 5, 1.
• o

  They se death 〈◊〉〈◊〉 before their eyes, and daily ap∣pioc ing toward them.
• p

  No man for all this doeth consider it.
• q

  That is, before that any of them were so wise as to thinke on death.