Geneva Bible Notes (1560): Job 36

^{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 !} And his justice.

^{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 u} Vpon the cloude.

^{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.