Job — Chapter 2
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Verse 1
A man of plaine & true dealing mixed with meeknes without al guile is called a simple right man. S. Greg. li. c. Moral. c. 2. &c.
Verse 4
his lite: 5, ocherwift put thy hand, and touch his bone and fle:th , and then thale thou fee that he wil bleffe thee in the Face. 6.. Our Lord therfore fayd ro Satan: Behold he is in chy hand, but yet faue his life. 7. Satan chertore going out trom the tace of foot euento the top of his head : 8, who with a thel {craped the cor- thou yet continue inthy fimplicitie 2 bleffe God-and die, ro, Who fayd to her : Thou halt fpoken like-one of the foolifh women: if we haue re- ‘cetued good things of the hand of God , euil things why (hould we not receiue? Inal chefe things lob finned not with his lippes, 11. Therfore ” Tobs three freinds hearing al the cuil , that had chanced to him, came euerie one out of their place, Eliphaz a Themanite, and Baldad a Su- 5 together they would vifice him , and comfort him, 12, And when they wept, aud renting their clothes {prinkled duit ouer their head toward heauen. 13, And they fate with him on the ground (¢) feuen daies and Teuen nights , and no man fpake to him a word : for they faw the paine ‘tobe vehement. ANNOTATIONS,
Verse 9
His wife perswading him to desperation & blasphemie, signified carnal cogitations, which corrupt the soule inwardly, as afflictions doe assault the flesh outwardly. S. Greg. li. 3. c. 4.
Verse 11
Iobs three freinds.] For better intelligence of these conflicts betweene holie Iob and his freinds, it may here be obserued, that they were indeed his freinds, as the text simply calleth them: that they belieued rightly in God almightie, and were not idolaters: that they came of freinuly good affection to comfort him, though they fell into words of reprouing him (as S. Gregorie teacheth:) li. 3. 6. they alleadged also many excellent diuine sentences very truly, which therfore 24. Iobreproued not. But they erred in rations against Iob: and that of ignorance rather then of set malice, concluding that Iob was guiltie of some enormous sinnes, because they saw him so grieuously punished, and heard him complaine thereof; his owne conscience knowen to him and hid to them (wherot they raihly iudged, testifying that he was innocent, in respect of so great crimes. And prefigured Heretikes, in this their particular errour, though they were not heretikes, being not obstinate after that the truth was sufficiently reueiled vnto them, yet they prefigured heretikes, endeauouring by one truth to destroy an other, and by arrogating knowledge which they had not: promising also new things and vnheard of; rathers to draw others to admire them, then to edification. Li. 5. c. 18.
Verse 13
Seuen dayes together euerie day & night some good part.