1 a That is, mine estate is changed, & where as before the ancient men were glad to do me reuerence, the young men, the yong men now contemne me.
1 b Meaning, to be my shepherdes, or to kepe my dogges.
1 ! Job complaineth that he is contemned of the moste contemptible.
2 c That is, their fathers dyed for famine before, they came to age.
5 d Job sheweth that these that mocked him in his affliction, were like to their fathers,wicked, and lewde fellowes, suche as he here describeth.
9 e That make songs of me, & moacke at my miserie.
11 f God, hathe taken from me the force, credit & autoritie, wherewith I kept them in subjection.
11 g He said that they yong men when they saw him, hid them selues, as {chap. 29,8}, and now in his miserie they were impudent and licencious.
11 ! Because of his aduersitie and affliction.
12 h That is, thei soght by all meanes how thei might destroy me.
13 i They nede none to helpe them.
14 k By my calamitie they toke an occasion against me.
16 l My life faileth me, and I am as halfe dead.
19 n That is, God hathe broght me into contempt.
21 o He speaketh not thus to accuse God, but to declare the vehemencie of his affliction, whereby he was caryed beside himself.
22 p He compareth his afflictions to a tempest, or whirle winde.
22 / Or, wisdome, or Law.
23 ! Death is the house of all flesh.
24 q None can deliuer me thence thogh they lament at my death.
26 r Instead of comforting they mocked at me.
28 s Not deliting in anie worldely thing, no not so muche, as in the vse of the sunne.
28 t Lamenting them that were in affliction, & mouing others to pitie them.
29 u I am like the wilde beastes that desire moste solitarie places.
30 x With the heat of affliction.