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Geneva Bible Notes: Job 21

Job 21:2 a Your diligent marking of my wordes shalbe to me a great consolation

Job 21:4 b As thogh he wolde say, I do not talke with man, but with God, who wil not answer me & therefore my minde mest nedes by troubled.

Job 21:5 c He chargeth them as thogh they were not able to comprehend this his feling of Gods judgement, & exhorteth them therefore to silence.

Job 21:7 ! Job declareth how the prosperitie of the wicked maketh them proude.

Job 21:7 d Job proueth against his aduersaries that God punisheth not straight waies the wicked, but of times giueth them long life, and prosperitie: so that we must not judge God juste or vnjust by the things that appeare to our eye.

Job 21:11 e Thei haue score of children, lustie & helthful, & in these pointes he answereth to that which Zophar alledged before.

Job 21:13 f Not being tormented with long sickenes.

Job 21:14 g Thei desire nothing more then to be exempt from all subjection that thei shulde be are to God: this Job sheweth his aduersaries, that if they reason onely by that which is sene by commune experience, the wicked that hate God, are better delt that all, then they that loue him.

Job 21:15 ! In so muche that they blaspheme God.

Job 21:16 h It is not their owne but God onely lendeth it vnto them.

Job 21:16 ! Their destruction is at hand.

Job 21:16 i God kepe me from their propsertie.

Job 21:20 k When God recompenseth his wickednes he shal knowe that his prosperitie was but vanitie.

Job 21:22 l Who sendeth to the wicked prosperitie, & punisheth the godlie.

Job 21:23 ! None oght to be judged wicked for affliction, nether good for presperitie.

Job 21:23 m Meaning, the wicked.

Job 21:25 n To wit, the godlie.

Job 21:26 o As concerning their bodies: and this he speaketh according to the commune judgement.

Job 21:28 p Thus thei called Jobs house in derision, concluding that it was destroyed because he was wicked.

Job 21:29 q Which through long trauailing haue experience & tokens here of, to wit, that the wicked do prosper & the godlie liue in affliction.

Job 21:30 r Thogh the wicked florish here, yet God wil punish him in the last day.

Job 21:31 s Thogh men do flater him, and none dare reproue him in this worlde, yet death is a token that God wil bring him to an account.

Job 21:33 t He shal be glad to lie in a slimie pit, which before colde not be content with a royal palace.

Job 21:34 u Saying, that the just in his worlde haue prosperitie & the wicked aduersitie.

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