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for anguish are my meats. ⁸Who wil grant that my petition may come: and that God would giue me that which I expect? ⁹And he that hath begun, the same would loose his hand, and cut me off? ¹⁰And this might be my comfort, that afflicting me with sorrow, he spare not, nor I gaynesay the words of the Holie one. ¹¹For what is my strength, that I can susteyne it? or what is mine end, that I should doe patiently? ¹²Neither is my strength the strength of stones, neither is my flesh of brasse. ¹³Behold there is no help for me in my self, and my familiar freinds also are departed from me. ¹⁴He that taketh away mercie from his freind, forsaketh the feare of our Lord. ¹⁵My brethren haue passed by me, as the torrent that passeth swiftly in the valleys. ¹⁶They that feare the hoarefrost, snow shal fal vpon them. ¹⁷At the time, when they shal be dissipated they shal perish: & after they waxe hote they shal be disolued out of their place. ¹⁸The paths of their steps are intangled: they shal walke in vaine, & shal perish. ¹⁹Consider ye the paths ^[1] of Thema, the wayes of Saba, & expect a litle while. ²⁰They are confounded, because I haue hoped: they are come also euen vnto me, and are couered with shame. ²¹Now you are come: and euen now seeing my plague you are afraid. ²²Haue I sayd: Bring ye to me, and of your substance giue to me? ²³Or deliuer me from the hand of the enemie, and out of the hand of the strong deliuer me? ^{24 [2]} Teach ye me, and I wil hold my peace: and if I perhaps haue been ignorant in anie thing, instruct ye me. ²⁵Why haue you detracted from the words of truth, whereas there is none of you that can controle me? ²⁶To rebuke only you frame speaches, and you vtter words in the wind. ²⁷You rush in vpon a pupil, and you endeauour to ouerthrow your freind. ²⁸Notwithstanding accomplish that which you haue begune: giue eare, and see whether I lie. ²⁹Answer I beseech you without contention: and speaking that which is iust, iudge ye. ³⁰And you shal not finde iniquitie in my tongue, neither shal folie sound in my iawes.

 

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ANNOTATIONS.
CHAP. VI.

 

The vse of Hyperbole in holy Scripture.3. As the sand of the sea.) Scarce anie figure is more common in holie Scripture then Hyperbole: wherby our vnderstanding is drawne to conceiue the greatnes of things that otherwise surpasse vulgar capacitie. So Iob signifieth here that his calamitie being weighed with his sinnes in a balance, would appeare heauier, not precisely in proportion of the number of sands in the sea, but exceeding much in true comparison. Treasure of satisfactorie workes in the Church.Of which superabundance of paines patiently suffered by holie Iob, and other Saints, more then their sinnes deserued, especially of our B. Sauiour, who could not sinne, and of our B. Ladie, who neuer sinned, remayneth an infinitie treasure of satisfactorie workes, applicable by the

1. Sandie was without water.
2. Iobs aduersaries presumed to teach him, but because they erred in their applying of true assertions in his case, which himself vnderstood and not they, he accounted not their discourses for good doctrine.