Job 20

Job 20:2

THerefore] because thou threatnest us with Gods judgements, I will answer thee being very certaine that I am in the right.

Job 20:3

The spirit] my soule, or the spirit of God: [understanding] with reason and understanding, and not with passion, and recrimination.

Job 20:5

Is short] the Italian, from neere, that is to say, it begun but a little while since, and will shortly end.

Job 20:10

Shall seeke] either because they doe nor revenge themselves of their fathers injuries; or because they shall make use of them in tei extreame need: [restore] being forced to it, or to redeem his own life, out of his angry euen its hands.

Job 20:11

His bones] hee shall bee rotten with the excesses and dissolutions of his youth, which shall ing him to his grave.

Job 20:12

Though wickednesse] the pleasure which hee hath taken in the delights of sin, shall at last be changed into horrible torments and sufferings. A phrase taken from some poison that hath been swallowed in some pleasing meat or drink.

Job 20:17

The rivers] a figurative description of Gods blessings bestowed upon his children in this and in the other life, taken from the qualities of the land of promise flowing with milke and hony, see Psal. 36. 18.

Job 20:18

Restore] hee shall cast it up againe, and shall restore to others that which hee had gotten from them, as v. 10 [according] hee shall bee as poore and wretched as hee hath been rich and mighty: [his substance] the Italian, his power, namely his wealth and strength: [restitution] the Italian, his change, see Iob 15. 31.

Job 20:19

And hath forsaken the poore] the Italian hath it, hee shall leave poore behind him, namely his own children: [which he builded not] the Italian, hee shall not build his own, hee shall not found, nor establish his businesse, nor his family in any way to make it endure long, see Exod. 1. 21. 1. Sam. 2. 35. 2 Samuel 7:27.

Job 20:20

Shall not feele] hee hath been continually enflamed with an unsatiable coveous desire.

Job 20:22

In straits] hee shall be brought into extreame wants and sufferings: [every hand] hee shall be exposed as a prey to the poore.

Job 20:24

Of steele] the Italian, of brasse, for in those dayes they could give brasse such a kind of temper, that it was more usefull for weapons than any steele.

Job 20:26

All darkenesse] wheresoever hee shall thinke to finde a place of safeguard, there shall hee meet with some horrible mischance: [not blowen] that is to say, calamities whose causes shall be unknown, and shall proceed immediately from God, see Isaiah 30:33.

Job 20:27

The heaven] all the creatures high and low, conspiring his ruine, shall testifie the curse of God upon him for his sinnes.

Job 20:28

〈◊〉 away] shall be carried away as by a deluge of water.

Job 20:29

By God] the Italian addeth, by God for his words, namely for his blasphemies, which is the greatest sinne, of the wicked; for which hee also taxeth Iob in some sort, see 1 Sam 2. 3. 10. Others the inheritance which was assigned unto him by Gods sentence.