Job 4

Great^{(i) 1} And Eliphas the Themanyte answered, and sayde: ² Yf we begynne to commen with the, wylt thou be discontent? but who can withhold him selfe from speakinge? ³ Behold, thou hast bene a chastener of many, and hast comforted the weery handes. ⁴ Thy wordes haue set vp those that were fallen, thou hast refresshed the weake, knees. ⁵ But now that the plage is come vpon the, thou art greued: now that it hath touched thy selfe, thou art faynt harted. ⁶ Is not this thy feare, thy stedfastnesse, thy pacience, and the perfectnesse of thy wayes? ⁷ Consydre (I praye the) whoeuer perysshed beynge an innocent? Or, when were the godly destroyed? ⁸ For (as I haue proued by experience) they that plowe iniquytie, & sowe wretchednesse, reape the same. ⁹ With the blast of God they perish, and with the breth of hys nastrels are they consumed awaye. ¹⁰ The roaryng of the lyon, and the voyce of the lyon, & the teeth of the lyons whelpes are pulled out. ¹¹ The lyon perissheth for lacke of praye, and the lyons whelpes are scatered abrode. ¹² And vnto me came the worde secretly, & myne eare hath receaueth a lytell therof. ¹³ In the thoughtes and visyons of the night (when slepe commeth on men) ¹⁴ feare came vpon me, and drede, which made all my bones to shake. ¹⁵ The wynde passed by, before my presence, and made the heares of my flesh to stande vp. ¹⁶ He stode there, and I knew not hys face, an ymage ther was before myne eyes, and in the stylnesse hearde I a voyce. ¹⁷ Shall man be more iust than God? Or shall a man be purer than hys maker? ¹⁸ Beholde, He founde no treuth in hys seruauntes, and in hys aungels ther was foly. ¹⁹ How moch more in them that dwell in houses of claye, and whose foundacyon is but dust: which shalbe consumed as it were with a Moth? ²⁰ They shalbe smitten from the mornynge vnto the euenyng: yee, they shall perysh for euer, when no man thincketh theron. ²¹ It is not their royaltye gone awaye with them: they shal dye trulye, and not in wysdome.