Geneva Study Bible Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it. Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.
What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you. What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.
Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God. Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire {a} to reason with God.
(a) For although he knew that God was just, which was revealed in his ordinary working and another in his secret counsel, yet he uttered his affection to God, because he was not able to understand the reason he punished him. But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value. But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all {b} physicians of no value.
(b) You do not well apply your medicine to the disease. O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom. O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips. Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him? Will ye speak {c} wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
(c) He condemns their zeal, who did not have knowledge, nor regarded they to comfort him, but always granted on God's justice, as though it was not evidently seen in Job, unless they had undertaken the probation of it. Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God? Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him? Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?
He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons. He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you? Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay. Your {d} remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
(d) Your fame will come to nothing. Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will. Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand? Wherefore do I {e} take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
(e) Is not this a revealed sign of my affliction and that I do not complain without cause, seeing that I am thus tormented as though I should tear my own flesh, and put my life in danger? Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him. Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him. He also shall be my salvation: for an {f} hypocrite shall not come before him.
(f) By which he declares that he is not a hypocrite as they charged him. Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears. Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.
Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified. Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be {g} justified.
(g) That is, cleared and not cut off for my sins, as you think. Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost. Who is he that will plead {h} with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall {i} give up the ghost.
(h) To prove that God punishes me for my sins. (i) If I do not defend my cause, every man will condemn me. Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee. Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.
Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid. {k} Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.
(k) He shows what these two things are. Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me. Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.
How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin. How many are {l} mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
(l) His pangs move him to reason with God, not denying that he had sinned: but he desired to understand what his great sins were that he deserved such rigor, in which he sinned by demanding a reason from God why he punished him. Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy? Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble? Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth. For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess {m} the iniquities of my youth.
(m) You punish me now for the sins that I committed in my youth. Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet. Thou puttest my feet also in the {n} stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.
(n) You make me your prisoner, and so press me that I cannot stir hand or foot. And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten. And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten. The Geneva Bible Translation Notes [1599] Bible Hub |
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