cause

And the LORD said vnto Satan, Hast thou considered my seruant Iob, that there is none like him in the earth; a perfect and an vpright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth euill? and still hee holdeth fast his integritie, although thou moouedst mee against him, to destroy him without cause.

1611 marginal noteHebr. to swallow him vp.

1611 marginal noteChap.1. ver.1.&8.

I would seeke vnto God, and vnto God would I commit my cause:

Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause mee to vnderstand wherein I haue erred.

For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.

Behold now, I haue ordered my cause, I know that I shall be iustified.

Therefore doe my thoughts cause mee to answere, and for this I make haste.

1611 marginal noteHebr. my haste is in me.

I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they haue no couering in the cold.

They cause him to go naked without clothing: and they take away the sheafe from the hungry,

I was a father to the poore: and the cause which I knewe not, I searched out.