Job 42 · Geneva Bible Notes (1560) · Commentaries (Good Books Free)

² ^a No thought so secret, but thou doest se it, nor anie thing that you thinkest, but thou canst bring it to passe.

³ ^b Is there anie but I? for this God laid to his charge, {Chap. 38,2}

³ ^c I confesse herein mine ignorance, and that I spake I wist not what.

⁴ ^d He sheweth that he wil be Gods scholer to learn of him.

⁵ ^e I knowe thee onely before by hearesay: but now thou hast caused me to fele what you art to me, that I may resigne my self ouer vnto thee.

⁶ ^! The repentance of Job.

⁷ ^g Who had a good cause, but handeled it euil.

⁷ ^f You toke in hand an euil cause in that you condemned him by his outward afflictions and not comforted him with my mercies.

⁸ ^h When you haue reconciled your selues to him for the fautes that you haue committed against him, he shal pray for you, & I wil heare him.

⁹ ^! He prayeth for his friends

¹⁰ ⁱ He deliuered him out of the affliction wherein he was.

¹¹ ^k That is, all his kinred, read {Chap. 19,13}

¹¹ ^/ Or, lambe, or money so marked.

¹² ^! His goods are restored double vinto him.

¹² ^l God made him twise so riche in cattel as he was afore, & gaue him as manie children, as he had taken from him.

¹³ ^! His children, age and death.

¹⁴ ^m That is, of long life, or beautiful as the day.

¹⁴ ⁿ As pleasant as caffia, or swete spice.

¹⁴ ^o That is, the horne of beautie.

Geneva Bible Notes (1560)Job 42