1 ! Elihu sheweth the power of God.
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.
4 b Thou shalt perceiue that I am a faithful instructour, & that I speak to thee in the name of God.
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.
6 d Therefore he wil not preserue the wicked: but to the humble & afflicted heart he wil shewe grace.
7 e He preferreth the godlie to honour.
9 ! And wherefore he punisheth.
9 f He wil moue their heartes to fele their sinnes that thei may come to him by repentance as he did Manasseh.
12 g That is, in their follie, or obstination & so shalbe cause of their owne destruction.
13 h Which are maliciously bent against God and flatter them selues in their vices.
13 i When they are in affliction they seke not to God for succour, as Asa. {2Chro. 16,12}, {reuel. 16,11}
13 ! The propertie of the wicked.
14 k Thei dye of some vile death and that before they come to age.
16 l If thou hadest bene obedient to God, he wolde haue broght thee to libertie & welth.
17 m Thou art altogether after the maner of the wicked: for thou doest murmure against the justice of God.
18 n God doeth punish thee, lest thou shuldest forget God in thy welth and so perish.
20 o Be not thou curious in seking the cause fo Gods judgements, when he destroyeth any.
21 p And so murmur against God through impaciencie.
25 q The workes of God are so manifest, that a man may se them a farre of and knowe God by the same.
26 r Our infirmitie hindereth vs so, that we can not atteine to he perfite knowledge of God.
27 s That is, the raine cometh of those dropes of water, which he kepeth in the cloudes.
29 t Meaning, of the cloudes, which he calleth the Tabernacle of God.
30 x That men can not come to the knowledge or the springs thereof.
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.
32 z That is, one cloude to dash against another.
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.