Geneva Bible Notes: Job 34

Job 34:2 ^a Which are estemed wise of the worlde.

Job 34:4 ^b Let vs examine the matter vprightly.

Job 34:5 ^! Elhu chargeth Job,that he called him selfe righteous.

Job 34:5 ^c That is, hathe afflictied me without measure.

Job 34:6 ^d Shulde I say, I am wicked, being an innocent?

Job 34:6 ^e I am sorer punished, then my sinne deserueth.

Job 34:7 ^f Which is compelled to receiue the reproche & scornes of many for his foolish wordes.

Job 34:8 ^g Meaning, that Job was like to the wicked, because he semed not to glorifie God, & submit him selfe to his judgements.

Job 34:9 ^h He wrasteth Jobs wordes, who said that Gods children are oft times punished in this worlde, & the wicked go fre.

Job 34:9 ⁱ That is, liue godly, as {Gen 5,22}.

Job 34:12 ^! He sheweth that God is just in his judgements.

Job 34:14 ^k To destroye him.

Job 34:14 ^l The breath of life, which he gaue man.

Job 34:17 ^m If God were not just, how colde he gouerne the worlde?

Job 34:18 ⁿ If man of nature feare to speake euil of such as haue power, then muche more oght their to be afraid to speake euil of God.

Job 34:20 ^o When they loke not for it.

Job 34:20 ^p The messengers of or visitation that God shal send.

Job 34:23 ^q God doeth not afflict man aboue measure, so that he shulde haue occasion to contend with him.

Job 34:24 ^! God destroyeth the mightie.

Job 34:24 ^r For all his creatures are at hand to serue him. so that he nedeth not to seke for anie other armie.

Job 34:25 ^s Make them manifest that they are wicked.

Job 34:25 ^t Declare the things that were hid.

Job 34:26 ^u Meaning, openly in the fight of all men.

Job 34:28 ^x By their crueltie & extortion.

Job 34:30 ^y When tyrants sit in the throne of justice which vnder pretence of executing justice are but hypocrites & oppresse the people, it is a signe that God hathe drawen backe his countenance and sauour from that place.

Job 34:30 ^! By him the hypocrite reigneth.

Job 34:31 ^z Onely it belongeth to God to moderate his corrections, & not vnto man.

Job 34:32 ^a Thus Elihu speaketh in the persone of God, as it were mocking Job because he wolde be wiser then God.

Job 34:33 ^b Wil God vse thy counsel in doing his workes.

Job 34:33 ^c Thus he speaketh in the persone of God, as thogh Job shulde chuse & refuse affliction at his pleasure.

Job 34:36 ^d That he may speake as muche as he can, that we may answer him & all the wicked that shal vse suche arguments.

Job 34:37 ^e He standeth stubbernly in the maintenance of his cause.