Job 10

^{1 !} Job is weary of his life, and setteth out his fragilitie before God.

^{1 a} I am more like to a dead man then to one that liueth.

^{1 b} I wil make an ample declaration of my torments, accusing my self & not God.

^{2 c} He wolde not that God shulde procede against him by his secret justice, but by the ordinarie meanes that he punisheth others.

^{3 e} Wilt thou be without compassion?

^{3 f} Wilt thou gratifie the wicked & condemne me?

^{3 d} Is it agreable to thy justice to do men wrong?

^{4 g} Doest thou this of ignorance?

^{5 h} Art thou inconstant and change able, as the times, to daie a friend, to morowe an enemie?

^{7 i} By affliction thou kepest me as in a prison, & restaynest me from doing euil, nether can any set me at libertie.

^{8 k} In these eight verses following he describethe the mercie of God in the wonderful creation of man: & thereon groundeth that God shulde not shew him self rigorous against him.

^{9 l} As brittel as a pot of clay.

^{12 m} That is, reason and vnderstanding, and many other giftes whereby man excelleth all earthlie creatures.

^{12 n} That is, thy fatherlie care & prouidence, whereby thou preseruest me, and without the which I shulde perish streight way.

^{13 o} Thogh I be not fully able to comprehend these things, yet I must nedes cofesse that it is so.

^{15 p} I wil alway walke in feare and humilitie, knowing that none is juste before thee.

^{16 q} Job being sore assalted in this battel betwene the flesh and the Spirit, brasteth out into these affections, wishing rather short dayes then long peine.

^{17 r} That is, diuersitie of diseases and in great abundance, shewing that God hathe infinitie meanes to punish man.

^{20 !} He desireth him to stay his hand.

^{20 s} He wisheth that God wolde leaue of his affliction, considering his great miserie & the breuitie of his life.

^{21 t} He speaketh thus in the persone of a sinner, that is ouercome with passions & with the feling of Gods judgements, & therefore can not apprehend in the state the mercies of God & comfort of the resurrection.

^{22 u} No distraction betwene light and darkenes, but where all is verie darkenes it selfe.

^{22 !} A description of death.