Geneva Bible Notes (1560)Job 20

^{1 !} Zophar sheweth, that the wicked and the couetous shal haue a shorte end

^{3 a} He declareth that two things moued him to speake: to wit, because Job semed to touche him & because he thoght he had knowledge sufficient to confute him.

^{6 b} His purpose is to proue Job to be a wicked man, & an hypocrite, because God punished him, and changed his prosperitie into aduersitie.

^{10 c} Where as the father through ambition & tyrannie appressed the poore, the children through pouertie & miserie that seke fauour at the pore.

^{10 d} So that the thing, which he hathe taken away by violence, shalbe restored againe by force.

^{11 e} Meaning, that he shal cary nothing away with him, but his sinne.

^{12 f} As poyson that is swete in the mouthe bringeth destruction, when it cometh into the body: so all vice at the first is pleasant, but afterward God turneth it to destruction.

^{16 g} We compareth euil gotten goods to the venum of aspes, which serpent is moste dangerous: noting that Jobs great riches were not truly come by, & therefore God did plague him justely for the same.

^{17 h} Thogh God giue to all other abundance of his blessings, yet he shal haue no parte thereof.

^{18 i} That is, these raueners & spoilers of the poore shal enjoye their theft but for a time: for after God wil take it from them and cause them to make restitution, so that it is but an exchange.

^{21 k} He shal leaue nothing to his posteritie.

^{22 l} The wicked shal neuer be in rest: for one wicked man shal seke to destroy another.

^{22 !} Thogh for a time they florish.

^{23 m} Some read, vpon his flesh, alluding to Job, whose flesh was smiten with a scabbe.

^{25 n} Some read, of the quiuer.

^{26 o} All feare & sorow shal light vpon him, when he thinketh to escape.

^{26 p} That is, fyre from heaven, or the fyre of Gods wrath.

^{28 q} Meaning, the children of the wicked shal flowe like riuers and be dispersed in diuers places.

^{29 r} Thus God will plague the wicked.

^{29 s} Against God, thinking to excuse himselfe and to escape Gods hand.