21 A dreadful sound is in his ears: "in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.

22 He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.

23 He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that p ch. 18. 12. Pthe day of darkness is ready at his hand. 24 Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

25 For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.

26 He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:

27 Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.

28 And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.

29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.

30 He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and "by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.

31 Let not him that is deceived 'trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.

32 It shall be || accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be

Job sheweth his calamity.

Before cir. 1520.

shall be desolate, and fire shall consume T the tabernacles of bribery.

Isai. 59-4

35 "They conceive mischief, and bring u Ps. 7. 14. forth || vanity, and their belly prepareth Hos. 10. 13. deceit.

CHAP. XVI.

1 Job reproveth his friends of unmercifulness. 7 He sheweth the pitifulness of his case. 17 He maintaineth his innocency. HEN Job answered and said,

I have heard many such things:

|| miserable comforters are ye all. 3 Shall + vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?

| Or, iniquity.

I Or, trou. blesome.

a ch. 13. 4. Heb.words

of wind.

4 I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine bPs.22.7. head at you.

b

5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.

6 Though speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what I eased?

am

7 But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.

8 And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.

& 109. 25.

Lam. 2. 15.

+ Heb. what goeth from me?

17.

9 He teareth me in his wrath, who ch. 10. 16, hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his d ch. 13. 24. eyes upon me.

e Ps. 22. 13.

10 They have gaped upon me with f Lam. 3. 30.

their mouth; they have smitten me Mic... upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against & Ps. 35. 15

g

me.

17.

11 God hath delivered me to the hch. 1. 15, ungodly, and turned me over into the +Heb. hath hands of the wicked.

12 I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and iset me up for his mark.

13 His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.

14 He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.

15 Í have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.

16 My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death; 17 Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.

18 O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.

19 Also now, behold, m 'my witness is in heaven, and my record is on thigh. 20 My friends +scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.

Or, spirit

is spent.

a P's. 88. 3,4

return.

CHAP. XVII.

1 Job appealeth from men to God. 6 The unmerciful dealing of men with the afflicted may astonish, but not discourage the righteous. 11 His hope is not in life, but

in death.

Y breath my

Bildad reproveth him.

Before CHRIST cir. 1520.

3 Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight? 4 He teareth thimself in his anger: Ps. 73. 22. shall the earth be forsaken for thee? bch. 13-14and shall the rock be removed out of his place?

Heb. his

soul.

Prov. 13.9.

& 20, 20. &

5 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall 24 20.

not shine.

6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his || candle shall be put out deh. 21. 17. with him.

The steps be

Ps. 18. 28. Or, lamp.

1 Bildad reproveth Job of presumption and impatience. 5 The calamities of the wicked. Tand said, HEN answered Bildad the Shuhite,

2 How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.

12 His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side, i ch. 15. 2313 It shall devour the + strength of his + Heb. barz. skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.

14 His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.

15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

16 'His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off. 17 m His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.

19 "He shall neither have son nor ne- Isai. 14. 7% phew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.

20 They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that || went before were affrighted.

21 Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.

THE

CHAP. XIX.

Ps-37-15

1 Or, lived with him...

Heb.id re

hold on bar

Jer. 9. 2 & 10 25

1 Thess 45 2 Thess it Tit. 1. 16.

1 Job, complaining of his friends' cruelty, sheweth there is misery enough in him to feed their cruelty. 21, 28 He craveth pity. 23 He believeth the resurrection. HEN Job answered and said, 2 How long will ye vex my soul, me in pieces with words? 3 These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye || make Or are yourselves strange to me.

and break

4 And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.

5 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves

d Pr. 89. 44.

6 Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.

7 Behold, I cry out of || wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.

XX. we him, || seeing the root of the matter is found in me?

The state and portion of the wicked.

Before CHRIST cir. 1520.

Or, and

matter is

29 Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the what root of sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.

CHAP. XX.

Zophar sheweth the state and portion of the wicked.

my paths.

9 He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

10 He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.

11 He hath also kindled his wrath ch. 13.24. against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.

Lam. 2.5

12 His troops come together, and f ch. 30. 12. fraise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.

g Ps. 3r. 11. & 38. 11. &

13 He hath put my brethren far from 698 & 88.8, me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.

18.

HEN answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,

found in me?

p Ps. 58. 10,

11.

haste is in

2 Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste. + Heb. my 3 I have heard the check of my re- me. proach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.

4 Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,

5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?

6 Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the + clouds;

7 Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

24" He shall flee from the iron weaAmos 519. pon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.

ch. 16. 13. p ch. 18. 11.

Ps. 21. 9.

r ch. 27. 13. & 31.2, 3.

25 It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: 'terrors are upon him.

26 All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.

27 The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.

28 The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.

29 This is the portion of a wicked Heb. of his man from God, and the heritage tappointed unto him by God.

decree from God.

& 17.2.

CHAP. XXI.

1 Job sheweth that even in the judgment of man he hath reason to be grieved. 7 Sometimes the wicked do so prosper, as they de spise God. 16 Sometimes their destruction is manifest. 22 The happy and unhappy are alike in death. 27 The judgment of the

wicked is in another world."

Job answered said,

BUT Her diligently my speech, and

let this be your consolations.

3 Suffer me that I may speak; and ach. 16. 10. after that I have spoken, amock on. 4 As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit + Heb.short be troubled?

ened.

Before

All are alike in death. 15 What is the Almighty, that we CHRIST should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?

cir. 1520. h Exod. 5. 2.

i cb. 35-3.

k ch. 22. 18.

16 Lo, their good is not in their hand: h 34.9. * the counsel of the wicked is far from me. Mal. 3-14 17 How oft is the || candle of the P wicked put out? and how oft cometh their Prov. 1. 10. destruction upon them? God "distributor, lamp. eth sorrows in his anger.

1 ch. 18. 6,

m Luke 12. 46.

n Ps. 1. 4. & Isa

18 "They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth 355

away.

5. Hos. 13 3+ Heb. steal

That is, the

19 God layeth up his iniquity for tha || his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.

20 His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

punishment of his intquity.

Exod. 20.5.
Ps. 75-8-

Isai. 51. 17.
Jer. 25-15.
Rev. 14. 10.

1915

Isa. 40. 13.

& 459 Rom. 11.341 Cor. 2. 16.

Heb. in his

very perfec tion, or, in

21 For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst? 22 Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high. 23 One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet. 24 His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow. 25 And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure. 26 They shall lie down alike in the ch.011. dust, and the worms shall cover them.

27 Behold, I know your thoughts, and` the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.

28 For ye say,

the

strength

of his perfec

tion.

or milk

pails.

Eccles. 9.2.

ch. 20. 7.

the prince sad where is the house of t then the

ing places of the wicked?

tent of the tabernacles of the wick

29 Have ye not asked them that go d by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,

t Prov. 164

30 That the wicked is reserved to P the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.

+ Heb. the day of

u Gal. 2

31 Who shall declare his way "to his rat face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?

32 Yet shall he be brought to the +grave, and shall remain in the tomb. 33 The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, there are innumerable before him.

34 How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth

f ch. 36. 11.

1 Or, in mirth.

g ch. 22. 17.

1 They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.

12 They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.

13 They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.

14 Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

CHAP. XXII.

1 Eliphaz sheweth that man's goodness profiteth not God. 5 He accuseth Job of divers sins. 21 He exhorteth him to repentance, with promises of mercy.

+ Heb. graves.

bh br. 5.

x Hebr. 9.

THEN Eliphaz the Temanite answered Lake 17

and said,

2 Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?

thewe

13 And thou sayest, || How doth God know? can he judge through the dark 11. & 94-7 cloud? h Ps. 139. 11, 14 Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.

12

Job longeth to appear before God. light in the Almighty, and shalt lift up Before T thy face unto God.

cir. 1520.

27 "Thou shalt make thy prayer unto t ch. 11. 15. him, and he shall hear thee, and thou u Ps. 50. 14, shalt pay thy vows.

28 Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.

x

29 When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person. 30 | He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.

CHAP. XXIII.

15. Isai. 58.

9.

Prov. 29.

23. James 4. 6. 1 Pet. 5-5

+ Heb. him tower.

that hath

Or, The innocent shall deliver the

island, Gen.

1 Job longeth to appear before God, 6 in confi- 18. 26, &c. dence of his mercy. 8 God, who is invisible, observeth our ways. 11 Job's innocency. 13 God's decree is immutable.

Even to day is my complaint bitter: +my stroke is heavier than my groaning.

HEN Job answered and said,

+ Heb. my

16. 21.

3a Oh that I knew where I might find a ch.13.3.& him! that I might come even to his seat! 4 I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

5 I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.

8. & 57. 16.

6 Will he plead against me with his b Isai. 27. 4, great power? No; but he would put strength in me.

7 There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.

8 Behold, I go forward, but he is not c ch. 9. 11. there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:

9 On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:

10 But he knoweth + the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

11 'My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined. 12 Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth than my necessary food.

13 But he is in one mind, and can turn him? and what his soul sireth, even that he doeth.

14 For he performeth the thing that appointed for me: and many such things

are with him.

15 Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him. 16 For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:

17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.

Rom. 9. 19. 1 Thess. 3.

i Ps. 115. 3.

3.

1 Ps. 22. 14.