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¹⁸These things haue I suffred ^[1] without the iniquitie of my hand, wheras I had cleane prayers to God. ¹⁹Earth couer not my bloud, neither let my crie find place in thee to be hid. ²⁰For behold my witnesse is in heauen, and he that knoweth my conscience on high. ²¹My freinds ful of wordes: mine eie distilleth vnto God. ²²And would God a man might so be iudged with God, as the sonne of man is iudged with his companion. ²³For behold the short yeares passe away, and I walke the path, by the which I shal not returne.

 

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CHAP. XVII.

 

For the grieuousnes of his paine Iob expecteth speedie death, 4. chargeth his freinds with folie for holding only remuneration in this life. 6. Himself hopeth happie rest in the other World.

 

MY spirit shal be extenuated, my daies shal be shortned, and the graue only remaineth for me. ²I haue ^[2] not sinned, and mine eie abideth in bitternesse. ³Deliuer me, and set me beside thee, and let anie mans hand fight against me. ⁴Thou hast made their hart far from discipline, and therfore they shal not be exalted. ⁵He promiseth a praye to his felowes, and the eies of his children shal faile. ⁶He hath set me as it were for a prouerbe of the common people, and I am an example before them. ⁷Mine eie is dimme for indignation, and my members are brought as it were to nothing. ⁸The iust shal be astonished vpon this, and the innocent shal be raised vp against the hypocrite. ⁹And the iust shal hold his way, & with cleane hands shal adde strength. ¹⁰Be al you therfore conuerted, and come, and I shal not find among you anie wise man. ¹¹My daies haue passed, my cogitations are dissipated, tormenting my hart: ¹²Night they haue turned into day, and againe after darkenesse I hope for light. ¹³If I shal expect, * Seol
Αδης
Infernos.* ^[3] hel is my house, and in darknesse I haue made my bed. ¹⁴I haue sayd to rottenes: Thou art my father, my mother, and my sister, to wormes. ¹⁵Where is now then my expectation, and my patience who considereth. ¹⁶Al my things shal descend into most deep hel: there at the least, shal I haue rest thinkest thou?

1. As the aduersaries stil obiect great iniquitie to him so he yealdeth them the same true answer.
2. Not hauing committed such sinnes as he was charged withal, in this double bitternes of corporal paine & calumniation, his eye was stil vpon God, expecting to be deliuered.
3. This text sheweth euidently that there was a place of rest called hel.