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Footnote:
Job 13:4; 16. 19. David, Psalm 42:10; 52:2. Jeremiah 18:18-23. Lamentations 3:14. Paul, 2 Corinthians 10:1, 2, 10; 13:2, 3.
Job 13:4;
4 But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
Job 16.
1 ¶ Then Job answered and said, 2 I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all. {miserable: or, troublesome} 3 Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? {vain...: Heb. words of wind} 4 I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you. 5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief. 6 ¶ Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased? {what...: Heb. what goeth from me?} 7 But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company. 8 And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face. 9 He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me. 10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me. 11 God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked. {hath...: Heb. hath shut me up} 12 I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark. 13 His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground. 14 He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant. 15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust. 16 My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death; 17 ¶ Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure. 18 O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place. 19 Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high. {on high: Heb. in the high places} 20 My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God. {scorn me: Heb. are my scorners} 21 O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour! {neighbour: or, friend} 22 When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return. {a few...: Heb. years of number}
Job 19.
1 ¶ Then Job answered and said, 2 How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? 3 These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me. {make...: or, harden yourselves against me} 4 And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself. 5 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach: 6 Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net. 7 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment. {wrong: or, violence} 8 ¶ He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths. 9 He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. 10 He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree. 11 He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies. 12 His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle. 13 He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me. 14 My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. 15 They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight. 16 I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth. 17 My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body. {mine...: Heb. my belly} 18 Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me. {young...: or, the wicked} 19 All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me. {my...: Heb. the men of my secret} 20 My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. {and to: or, as to} 21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me. 22 Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh? 23 ¶ Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! {Oh...: Heb. Who will give, etc} 24 That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever! 25 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: 26 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: {And...: or, After I shall awake, though this body be destroyed, yet out of my flesh} 27 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me. {another: Heb. a stranger} {though...: or, my reins within me are consumed with earnest desire (for that day)} {within...: Heb. in my bosom} 28 But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me? {seeing...: or, and what root of matter is found in me?} 29 Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.
David,
Psalm 42:10;
10 As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God? {sword: or, killing}
Psalm 52:2
2 Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Jeremiah 18:18-23
18 ¶ Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words. {with...: or, for the tongue} 19 Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me. 20 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them. 21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle. {pour...: Heb. pour them out} 22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet. 23 Yet, LORD, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thus with them in the time of thine anger. {to slay...: Heb. for death}
Lamentations 3:14
14 I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
Paul,
2 Corinthians 10:1, 2, 10
1 ¶ Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you: {in presence: or, in outward appearance}
2 But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh. {think: or, reckon}
10 For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible. {say they: Gr. saith he}
2 Corinthians 13:2, 3
2 I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare: 3 Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.
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