Geneva Bible Notes: Job 36

Job 36:1 ^! Elihu sheweth the power of God.

Job 36:3 ^a He sheweth that when we speake of God we must lift our spirits more hie, then our natural sense is able to reache.

Job 36:4 ^b Thou shalt perceiue that I am a faithful instructour, & that I speak to thee in the name of God.

Job 36:5 ^c Strong and constant, & of vnderstanding: for these are the gifts of God, & he loueth them in man: but for asmuche as God punished now Job, it is a signe that these are not in him.

Job 36:6 ^! And his justice.

Job 36:6 ^d Therefore he wil not preserue the wicked: but to the humble & afflicted heart he wil shewe grace.

Job 36:7 ^e He preferreth the godlie to honour.

Job 36:9 ^! And wherefore he punisheth.

Job 36:9 ^f He wil moue their heartes to fele their sinnes that thei may come to him by repentance as he did Manasseh.

Job 36:12 ^g That is, in their follie, or obstination & so shalbe cause of their owne destruction.

Job 36:13 ^h Which are maliciously bent against God and flatter them selues in their vices.

Job 36:13 ⁱ When they are in affliction they seke not to God for succour, as Asa. {2Chro. 16,12}, {reuel. 16,11}

Job 36:13 ^! The propertie of the wicked.

Job 36:14 ^k Thei dye of some vile death and that before they come to age.

Job 36:16 ^l If thou hadest bene obedient to God, he wolde haue broght thee to libertie & welth.

Job 36:17 ^m Thou art altogether after the maner of the wicked: for thou doest murmure against the justice of God.

Job 36:18 ⁿ God doeth punish thee, lest thou shuldest forget God in thy welth and so perish.

Job 36:20 ^o Be not thou curious in seking the cause fo Gods judgements, when he destroyeth any.

Job 36:21 ^p And so murmur against God through impaciencie.

Job 36:25 ^q The workes of God are so manifest, that a man may se them a farre of and knowe God by the same.

Job 36:26 ^r Our infirmitie hindereth vs so, that we can not atteine to he perfite knowledge of God.

Job 36:27 ^s That is, the raine cometh of those dropes of water, which he kepeth in the cloudes.

Job 36:29 ^t Meaning, of the cloudes, which he calleth the Tabernacle of God.

Job 36:30 ^u Vpon the cloude.

Job 36:30 ^x That men can not come to the knowledge or the springs thereof.

Job 36:31 ^y He sheweth that the raine hathe double vse: the one it declareth Gods judgements, when it doeth ouerflowe any places, & the other that it maketh the land fruteful.

Job 36:32 ^z That is, one cloude to dash against another.

Job 36:33 ^a The colde vapour sheweth him: that is, the cloude of the hote exhalacion, which being taken in the colde cloude mounteth vp towarde the place where the fyre is, and so angre is ingendred: that is , noise and thunder claps.