1 ! Job sayth that he consumeth away, and yet doeth paciently abide it.
2 a Instead of comforte, being now at deaths dore, he had but them that mocked at him and discouraged him.
2 b I se stil that they seke but to vexe me.
3 c He reasoneth with God as a man beside him selfe to the intent that his cause might be broght to light.
4 e That these mine afflictions are thy juste judgements thogh man know not the cause.
5 f He He that flattereth a man, and onely judgeth him happy in his prosperitie, shal not him self onely, but in his posteritie be punished.
6 g God hathe made all the worlde to speake of me, because of mine afflictions.
6 h That is, as a continual sounde in their eares.
8 i To wit, when they se the godlie punished: but in the end they shal come to vnderstanding, and knowe what shal be the reward of the hypocrite.
9 k That is, wil not be discouraged, considering that the godlie are punished aswel as the wicked.
10 l Job speaketh to them thre, that came to comfort him.
10 ! He exhorteth his friends to repentance.
12 m That is, haue broght me sorow instead of comfort.
13 ! Shewing that he loketh but for death.
13 n Thogh I shulde hope to come from aduersitie to prosperitie, as your discours pretendeth.
14 o I haue no more hope in father, mother, sister, or anie worldely thing: for the dust and wormes shalbe to me instead of them.
16 p All worldely hope, and prosperitie faile, which you say, are onely signes of Gods fauour: but seing that these things perish, I set mine hope in God, and in the lie euerlasting.