Geneva Bible Notes: Job 6

Job 6:0 (k) He compareth those friends which comfort vs not in miserie, to a broke, which in fommer, when we nede waters, is drye: in winter is hard frosen, & in the time of raine, when we haue no nede, ouerfloweth with water.

Job 6:1 (!) Job swereth that his peine is more grieuous then his faute.

Job 6:2 (a) To knowe whether I complaine without just cause.

Job 6:3 (b) My grief is so great, that I lacke wordes to expresse it.

Job 6:4 (c) Which declareth that he was not onely afflicted in body, but wounded in conscience, which is the greatest battel that the faithful can haue.

Job 6:5 (d) Thinke you that I crye without cause, seing the brute beastes do not complaine when thei haue what their wolde?

Job 6:6 (e) Can a mans taste delite in that that hath no sauour? meaning that none take pleasure in affliction, seing thei can not away with things that are vnsauery to the mouth.

Job 6:8 (!) He wisheth death.

Job 6:8 (f) Herein he sinneth double, bothe in wishing through impaciencie to dye, and also in desiring of God a thing which was not agreable to his wil.

Job 6:10 (g) That is, let me dye at once, before I come to distrust in Gods promes through mine inpaciencie.

Job 6:11 (h) He feareth lest he shulde be broght to inconueniencies, if his sorowes shulde continue.

Job 6:13 (i) Or, wisdome, or Law.

Job 6:13 (i) Haue I not soght to helpe my selfe as muche as was possible?

Job 6:14 (!) He complaineth of his frends.

Job 6:19 (l) Thei that passe thereby to go into the hote countreies of Arabia, thinke to finde water there, to qench their thirst, but they are deceiued.

Job 6:21 (m) That is, like to this broke, which deceiueth them that thinke to haue water there in their nede, as I loked for consolation at your hands.

Job 6:22 (n) He toucheth the worldelings, which for no necessitie wil giue parte of their goods, and muche more these men, which wolde not giue him comfortable.

Job 6:24 (o) Shew me wherein I haue erred, and I wil confesse my faute.

Job 6:25 (p) He that hathe a good conscience, doeth not shrinke at the sharpe wordes or reasonings of others except thei be able to persuade him by reason.

Job 6:26 (q) Do you cauil at my wordes, because I shulde be thoght to speake foolishly, which am now in miserie?

Job 6:28 (r) Consider whether I speake as one that is driuen to this impaciencie through very sorowe, or as an hypocrite, as you condemne me.