Geneva Study Bible My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me. My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation? Are there not {a} mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in {b} their provocation?
(a) Instead of comfort, being now at death's door, he had but them that mocked at him, and discouraged him. Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me? {c} Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that {d} will strike hands with me?
(c) He reasons with God as a man beside himself, so that his cause might be brought to light. (d) And answers for you? For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them. For thou hast hid their heart from {e} understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
(e) That these my afflictions are your just judgments, though man does not know the reason. He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail. {f} He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
(f) He who flatters a man, and only judges him happy in his prosperity, will not himself only but in his posterity be punished. He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret. He hath made me also a {g} byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
(g) God has made all the world speak of me, because of my afflictions. Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow. Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite. Upright men shall be astonied at {i} this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
(i) That is, when they see the godly punished: but in the end they will come to understanding and know what will be the reward of the hypocrite. The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger. The righteous also shall hold on his {k} way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
(k) That is, will not be discouraged, considering that the godly are punished as well as the wicked. But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you. But as for {l} you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.
(l) Job speaks to the three who came to comfort him. My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart. My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness. They change the {m} night into day: the light is short because of darkness.
(m) That is, have brought me sorrow instead of comfort. If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness. If I wait, {n} the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
(n) Though I should hope to come from adversity to prosperity, as your discourse pretends. I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister. I have said to corruption, Thou art my {o} father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
(o) I have no more hope in father, mother, sister, or any worldly thing: for the dust and worms will be to me instead of them. And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it? And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust. {p} They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust. (p) All worldly hope and prosperity fail which you say, are only signs of God's favour but seeing that these things perish, I set my hope in God and in the life everlasting. The Geneva Bible Translation Notes [1599] Bible Hub |
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