Job 13 Cross References - Coverdale

¹ Lo, all this haue I sene with myne eye, herde with myne eare, & vnderstonde it. ² Loke what ye knowe, that same do I knowe also, nether am I inferior vnto you. ³ Neuerthelesse I am purposed to talke with the Allmightie, and my desyre is to comon with God. ⁴ As for you, ye are workmasters of lyes: and vnprofitable Phisicians alltogether. ⁵ Wolde God ye kepte youre tonge, that ye might be taken for wyse men. ⁶ Therfore heare my wordes, and pondre the sentence of my lippes. ⁷ Will ye make answere for God with lyes, and mateyne him with disceate? ⁸ Wil ye accepte ye personne of God, and intreate for him? ⁹ Shal that helpe you, when he calleth you to rekenynge? Thynke ye to begyle him, as a man is begyled? ¹⁰ Punysh you shall he and reproue you, yf ye do secretly accepte eny personne. ¹¹ Shall he not make you afrayed, when he sheweth himself? Shal not his terrible feare fall vpo you? ¹² youre remembraunce shalbe like the dust, & youre pryde shalbe turned to claye. ¹³ Holde youre tonges now, and let me speake, for there is some thinge come in to my mynde. ¹⁴ Wherfore do I beare my flesh in my teth, and my soule in myne hondes? ¹⁵ Lo, there is nether coforte ner hope for me, yf he wil slaye me. But yf I shewe and reproue myne owne wayes in his sight, ¹⁶ he is euen the same, that maketh me whole: and why? there maye no Ypocrite come before him, ¹⁷ Heare my wordes, and pondre my sayenges with youre eares. ¹⁸ Beholde, though sentence were geuen vpon me, I am sure to be knowne for vngilty. ¹⁹ What is he, that will go to lawe with me? For yf I holde my tonge, I shal dye. ²⁰ Neuerthelesse graunte me ij. thinges, and then will I not hyde my self from the. ²¹ Withdrawe thine honde fro me, & let not the fearfull drede of the make me afrayed. ²² And then sende for me to the lawe, yt I maye answere for my self: or els, let me speake, and geue thou the answere. ²³ How greate are my my?dedes & synnes? Let me knowe my trasgressions & offences. ²⁴ Wherfore hydest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemye? ²⁵ Wilt thou be so cruell & extreme vnto a flyenge leaf, and folowe vpon drye stubble? ²⁶ that thou layest so sharply to my charge, and wilt vtterly vndoo me, for ye synnes of my yougth? ²⁷ Thou hast put my fote in the stockes: thou lokest narowly vnto all my pathes, & marckest the steppes of my fete: ²⁸ where as I (notwithstondinge) must consume like as a foule carion, and as a cloth that is moth eaten.

¹² There is spoken vnto me a thynge in councell, which hath geuen a terrible sounde in myne eare,

⁹ which doth thinges, that are vnsearcheable, and marueles without nobre: ¹⁰ Which geueth rayne vpo the earth, and poureth water vpon all thinges: ¹¹ which setteth vp them of lowe degre, and sendeth prosperite, to those that are in heuynesse: ¹² Which destroyeth the deuyces of the sotyll, so that they are not able to perfourme the thynges that they take in hode: ¹³ which compaseth ye wyse in their owne craftynesse, and ouertroweth the councell of the wicked: ¹⁴ In so moch that they runne in to darcknesse by fayre daye, and grope aboute them at the noone daye, like as in the night. ¹⁵ And so he delyuereth the poore from the swearde, from their mouth, and from the hode of the cruell: ¹⁶ that the poore maye haue hope, & that the mouth of the oppressoure maye be stopped.

²⁷ Lo, this is the matter, as we oure selues haue proued by experience. Therfore now that thou hearest it, take better hede to thy selff.

⁸ Enquere of them that haue bene before the, search diligently amonge thy forefathers: ⁹ Namely, yt we are but of yesterdaye, and considre not, that oure dayes vpon earth are buth a very shadow. ¹⁰ They shall shewe the, they shall tell the, yee they will gladly confesse the same.

⁹ What is he, but he knoweth, that ye hode of the LORDE made all these? ¹⁰ In whose honde is the soule of euery lyuynge thinge, and the breth of all men. ¹¹ Haue not the eares pleasure in hearinge, and the mouth in tastinge the thinge that it eateth? ¹² Amonge olde personnes there is wy?dome, and amonge the aged is vnderstodinge. ¹³ Yee with God is wy?dome and strength, it is he that hath councell & foreknowlege. ¹⁴ Yf he breake downe a thinge, who can set it vp agayne? Yf he shutt a thinge, who wil open it? ¹⁵ Beholde, yf he witholde the waters, they drye vp: Yf he let the go, they destroye the earth. ¹⁶ With him is strength and wy?dome: he knoweth both the disceauer, and him that is disceaued. ¹⁷ He carieth awaye the wyse men, as it were a spoyle, and bryngeth the iudges out of their wyttes. ¹⁸ He lowseth the gyrdle of kynges, and gyrdeth their loynes with a bonde. ¹⁹ he ledeth awaye the prestes into captiuyte, and turneth the mightie vp syde downe. ²⁰ He taketh the verite from out of the mouth, & disapoynteth ye aged of their wy?dome. ²¹ He poureth out confucion vpon prynces, and coforteth them that haue bene oppressed. ²² Loke what lyeth hyd in darcknesse, he declareth it opely: and the very shadowe of death bringeth he to light. ²³ He both increaseth the people, and destroyeth them: He maketh them to multiplie, and dryueth them awaye. ²⁴ He chaungeth the herte of the prynces and kynges of the earth, and disapoynteth them: so that they go wadringe out of the waye, ²⁵ and grope in the darke without light, stackeringe to and fro like droncken men.

¹⁷ I will tell the, heare me: I wil shewe the a thinge, that I knowe: ¹⁸ which wyse men haue tolde, & hath not bene hyd from their fathers:

³ For who can kepe his owne councell so secrete, but it shall be knowne? Therfore haue I spoken vnwysely, seynge these thinges are so hye, and passe myne vnderstondinge. ⁴ O herken thou vnto me also, and let me speake: answere me vnto the thinge that I will axe the. ⁵ I haue geuen diligent eare vnto the, and now I se ye with myne eyes. ⁶ Wherfore I geue myne owne self ye blame, and take repentaunce in the dust and asshes.

³ Which we haue herde and knowne, and soch as oure fathers haue tolde vs. ⁴ That we shulde not hyde them from the children of the generacions to come: but to shewe the honoure of the LORDE, his might and wonderfull workes that he hath done.

³ That which we haue sene & herde, declare we vnto you, that ye also maye haue fellishippe with vs, and that oure fellishippe maye be with the father and with his sonne Iesus Christ.

³ But I haue vnderstodinge as well as ye, and am no lesse then ye. Yee who knoweth not these thinges?

⁸ hast thou herde the secrete councell of God, that all wy?dome is to litle for ye? ⁹ What knowest thou, yt we knowe not? What vnderstondest thou, but we can the same?

³⁵ As for Iob he hath nether spoken to the purpose ner wysely.

¹⁶ Therfore hath Iob opened his mouth but in vayne, ad folishly hath he made so many wordes.

² Heare then the sounde of his voyce, and the noyse yt goeth out of his mouth.

⁴ Beholde, I am to vyle a personne, to answere the, therfore will I laye my hande vpon my mouth. ⁵ Once or twyse haue I spoken, but I will saye nomore.

⁷ Now whe the LORDE had spoken these wordes vnto Iob, he sayde vnto Eliphas ye Themanite: I am displeased with the & thy two frendes, for ye haue not spoken the thinge yt is right before me, like as my seruaunt Iob hath done.

¹ As touchinge thinges offred vnto Idols we are sure yt we all haue knowlege. Knowlege puffeth a ma vp, but loue edifyeth. ² Neuertheles yf eny ma thinke yt he knoweth eny thinge, he knoweth not yet how he oughte to knowe.

⁴ For yf he that commeth vnto you, preach another Iesus, whom we haue not preached, or yf ye receaue another sprete, yt ye haue not receaued, or another Gospell which ye haue not accepted, ye might right well haue bene cotent. ⁵ For I suppose that I am no lesse the the hye Apostles are.

¹⁶ I saye agayne, lest eny man thynke that I am folish: or els take me euen now as a fole, yt I maye boast my selfe a litle also. ¹⁷ That I speake now, that speake I not after the LORDE, but as it were in folishnes, whyle we are now come to boastinge: ¹⁸ Seynge that many boaste them selues after ye flesh, I wil boast my selfe also.

¹¹ I am become a fole i boastinge my selfe: Ye haue copelled me. For I oughte to be comended of you, in so moch as I am in nothinge inferior to ye hye Apostles. Though I be nothinge,

³ Yf he wil argue with him, he shall not be able to answere him vnto one amonge a thousande.

¹⁴ How shulde I then answere him? or, what wordes shulde I fynde out agaynst him? ¹⁵ Yee though I be rightuous, yet will I not geue him one worde agayne, but mekely submytte my self to my iudge.

³⁴ Let him take his rod awaye fro me, yee let him make me nomore afrayed of him, ³⁵ and then shal I answere him without eny feare. For as longe as I am in soch fearfulnesse, I can make no answere: And why?

⁵ O that God wolde speake, and open his lippes agaynst the,

¹⁵ Lo, there is nether coforte ner hope for me, yf he wil slaye me. But yf I shewe and reproue myne owne wayes in his sight,

²² And then sende for me to the lawe, yt I maye answere for my self: or els, let me speake, and geue thou the answere.

³ O that I might se him & fynde him: O that I might come before his seate, ⁴ to pleate my cause before him, and to fyll my mouth with argumentes: ⁵ That I might knowe, what answere he wolde geue me: & that I might vnderstonde, what he wolde saye vnto me. ⁶ Wil he pleate agaynst me with his greate power & strength, or wyll he leane him self vtterly vpon me? ⁷ Oh no, let him not do so with me. But let hym geue me like power to go to lawe, then am I sure to wynne my matter.

³⁵ O that I had one which wolde heare me. Lo, this is my cause. Let ye Allmightie geue me answere: & let him that is my cotrary party, sue me with a lybell.

¹⁸ Now go to (saieth the LORDE) we wil talke together. Is it not so? Though youre synnes be as read as scarlet, shal they not be whyter then snowe? And though they were like purple, shall they not be like whyte woll? ¹⁹ Is it not so? Yf ye be louynge & obedient, ye shal enioye the best thinge that groweth in the londe. ²⁰ But yf ye be obstinate and rebellious, ye shalbe deuoured with the swerde: for thus the LORDE hath promised with his owne mouth.

²¹ Stonde at youre cause (saieth the LORDE) and bringe forth youre strogest grounde, counceleth the kinge of Iacob.

¹ O Lorde, thou art more rightuous, then that I shulde dispute with the: Neuertheles, let me talke with the in thinges reasonable. How happeneth it, that the waye off the vngodly is so prosperous? and that it goeth so wel with them, which (with out eny shame) offede and lyue in wickednesse? ² Thou plantest them, they take rote, they growe, and bringe forth frute. They boost moch off the, yet doest thou not punysh them.

² O Heare the punyshment of the LORDE, ye mountaynes, and ye mightie foundacios of ye earth: for the LORDE wil reproue his people, ad reason with Israel:

¹⁶ Thou shalt beare no false wytnesse agaynst thy neghboure.

⁷ Considre (I praye the) who euer peryshed, beynge an innocent? Or, when were the godly destroyed? ⁸ As for those that plowe wickednesse (as I haue sene myself) and sowe myschefe, they reape ye same. ⁹ For whe God bloweth vpon them, they perysh, and are destroyed thorow the blast of his wrath. ¹⁰ The roaringe of the lyon, the cryenge off the lyonesse, & ye teth off ye lyos whelpes are broke. ¹¹ The greate lyon perysheth, because he ca get no pray and the lyons whelpes are scatred abrode.

¹ Name me one els, yf thou canst fynde eny: yee loke aboute the, vpon eny of the holy men. ² As for the foolish man displeasure kylleth him, and anger slayeth ye ignoraunt. ³ I haue sene my self, when the foolish was depe roted, that his bewty was sodely destroyed: ⁴ that his children were without prosperite or health: that they were slayne in the dore, and no ma to delyuer them: ⁵ that his haruest was eaten vp off the hungrie: that the weapened man had spoyled it, and that the thurstie had droncke vp his riches. It is not the earth that bryngeth forth trauayle,

²¹ Eue so are ye also come vnto me: but now that ye se my mysery, ye are afrayed.

³ Doth God peruerte the thinge that is laufull? Or, doth the Allmightie destroye the thynge that is right? ⁴ Whe thy sonnes synned agaynst him, dyd not he punysh the for their wickednesse?

² I haue oft tymes herde soch thinges. Miserable geuers of comforte are ye, all the sorte of you.

⁵ Shal not the light of the vngodly be put out? yee the flame of his fyre shal not burne. ⁶ The light shalbe darcke in his dwellinge, & his candle shalbe put out with him. ⁷ His presumptuous goinges shal be kepte in, and his owne councell shal cast him downe. ⁸ For his fete shalbe taken in the nett, and he shal walke in the snare. ⁹ His fote shalbe holden in the gilder, and the thurstie shal catch him. ¹⁰ The snare is layed for him in the grounde, and a pytfall in the waye. ¹¹ Fearfulnesse shal make him afrayed on euery syde, that he shall not knowe, where to get out. ¹² Honger shalbe his substaunce, and my?fortune shall hange vpon him. ¹³ He shall eate his owne skynne, yee his owne armes shall he deuoure, beynge a firstborne of death. ¹⁴ All his comforte and hope shalbe roted out of his dwellynge, very fearfulnesse shall brynge him to the kynge. ¹⁵ Other men shall dwel in his house (which now is none of his) and brymstone shalbe scatered vpon his habitacion. ¹⁶ His rotes shalbe dryed vp beneth, & aboue shall his haruest be cut downe. ¹⁷ His remembraunce shall perish from the earth, & his name shall not be praysed in the stretes: ¹⁸ he shalbe dryuen from the light into darcknesse, and be cast clene out of the worlde. ¹⁹ He shall nether haue children ner kyn?folkes amonge his people, no ner eny posterite in his countre: ²⁰ yonge & olde shalbe astonyshed at his death. ²¹ Soch are now the dwellynges of the wicked, and this is ye place of him that knoweth not God.

²⁷ But I knowe what ye thinke, yee and what ye ymagin agaynst me vnrightuously. ²⁸ For ye saye: where is the prynces palace? where is the dwellynge of the vngodly: ²⁹ Axe eny man that goeth by the waye, and (yf ye will not regarde their tokens & dedes) he shal tell you, ³⁰ that the wicked is kepte vnto the daye of destruccion, and that the vngodly shalbe brought forth in the daye of wrath. ³¹ Who darre reproue him for his wayes to his face? who rewardeth him for the vngraciousnesse that he doth? ³² Yet shal he be brought to his graue, and watch amonge the heape of the deed. ³³ The shal he be fayne to be buried amoge the stones by the broke syde. All men must folowe him, & there are innumerable gone before him. ³⁴ O how vayne is the comforte yt ye geue me? Are not youre answeres cleane contrary to right and treuth?

⁶ Thou hast take the pledge from thy brethre for naught, & robbed the naked of their clothinge: ⁷ To soch as were weery, hast thou geue no water to drynke, thou hast withdrawe bred fro the hungrie: ⁸ Shulde soch one the as vseth violece, wroge & oppression (doinge all thinges of parcialyte, & hauynge respecte of personnes) dwell in the lode? ⁹ Thou hast sent wyddowes awaye emptie and oppressed the poore fatherlesse. ¹⁰ Therfore art thou compased aboute with snares on euery syde, & sodely vexed wt feare. ¹¹ Shuldest thou the se no darcknesse? Shulde not the water floude runne ouer the? ¹² Now because yt God is hyer the the heauens, & because thou seist yt the starres are so hye, ¹³ wilt thou therfore saye: Tush, how shulde God knowe? Doth his dominion reach beyonde the cloudes? ¹⁴ Tush, the cloudes couer him, yt he maye not se, for he dwelleth in heauen. ¹⁵ Well, thou wilt kepe the olde waye, yt all wicked me haue gone: ¹⁶ both olde & yonge, whose foundacion is a runnynge water, ¹⁷ which saye vnto God: go from vs, and after this maner: Tush, what wil the Allmightie do vnto vs? ¹⁸ where as he (not with stodinge) fylleth their houses wt all good. Which meanynge of the vngodly be farre fro me. ¹⁹ For wt ioy shal the godly, and with gladnesse shal the innocent se, ²⁰ that their increase shal be hewen downe, & their posterite consumed with the fyre. ²¹ Therfore recocile the vnto God, & be content, so shal all thinges prospere wt the right well. ²² Receaue the lawe at his mouth, & laye vp his wordes in thine herte. ²³ For yf thou wilt turne to the Allmightie, thou shalt stonde fast, & all vnrightuousnesse shall be farre from thy dwellinge: ²⁴ He shal geue the an haruest, which in plenty & abundaunce shall exceade the dust of the earth, and the golde of Ophir like ryuer stones. ²⁵ Yee the Allmightie his owne self shalbe thine haruest, & the heape of thy money. ²⁶ Then shalt thou haue thy delyte in the Allmightie, & lift vp thy face vnto God. ²⁷ The shalt thou make thy prayer vnto him, & he shal heare the, & thou shalt kepe thy promyses. ²⁸ The, loke what thou takest in honde, he shal make it to prospere with the, and the light shall shyne in thy wayes. ²⁹ For who so humbleth himself, him shal he set vp: and who so loketh mekely, shalbe healed. ³⁰ Yf thou be innocet, he shal saue the: and thorow the vngiltynesse of thyne handes shalt thou be delyuered.

⁶⁹ The proude ymagin lyes vpon me, but I kepe thy commaundemetes with my whole herte.

¹⁴ And besyde that, they heale the hurte of my people with swete wordes, sayenge: peace, peace, when there is no peace at all.

²² for there is no more Triacle at Galaad, and there is no Phisician, that ca heale the hurte of my people.

³² , that darre prophecy lies, and disceaue my people with their vanities and miracles, whom I neuer sent, ner commaunded them. They shal do this people greate harme, saieth the LORDE.

¹³ There is no man to medle with thy cause, or to bynde vp thy woundes: there maye no man helpe the.

¹¹ Go vp (o Galaad) & bringe triacle vnto the doughter off Egipte: But in vayne shalt thou go to surgery, for thy wounde shall not be stopped.

⁴ The weake haue ye not holden vp, the sicke haue ye not healed: the broken haue ye not bounde together, the outcastes haue ye not brought agayne: ye lost haue ye not sought, but churlishly and cruelly haue ye ruled the.

¹³ When Ephraim sawe his sicknesse, and Iuda his disease: Ephraim wente vnto Assur, and sent vnto kinge Iareb: yet coude not he helpe you, ner ease you of youre payne.

¹⁷ Whan Iesus herde that, he sayde vnto the: The whole nede not ye Phisician, but they that are sycke. I am not come to call the righteous, but the synners to repetaunce.

²⁶ and had suffred moch of many phisicians, and spent all that she had, and was not helped, but rather in worse case.

³ Shulde men geue eare vnto the only? Thou wilt laugh other men to scorne, & shal no body mocke the agayne?

¹³ Holde youre tonges now, and let me speake, for there is some thinge come in to my mynde.

³ Shall not thy vayne wordes come yet to an ende? Or, hast thou yet eny more to saye?

² when wil ye make an ende of youre wordes? Marcke well, and considre, we wil speake also.

² How loge wil ye vexe my mynde, & trouble me with wordes?

² O heare my wordes, and amende yor selues. ³ Suffre me a litle, that I maye speake also, and the laugh my wordes to scorne, yf ye will.

¹ So these thre men wolde stryue nomore wt Iob, because he helde himself a rightuous man.

²⁸ Yee a very foole (when he holdeth his tonge) is counted wyse, and to haue vnderstodinge, when he shutteth his lippes.

³ For where moch carefulnesse is, there are many dreames: & where many wordes are, there men maye heare fooles.

¹³ Therfore the wyse must now be fayne to holde his tuge, so wicked a tyme is it.

¹⁹ Wherfore deare brethren, let euery man be swifte to heare, slowe to speake, and slowe to wrath.

⁷ Whan this was tolde Iotham, he wente, and stode vpon the toppe of mount Grisim, and lifte vp his voyce, cried, and sayde: Heare me ye men of Sichem, that God maye heare you also

¹ Wherfore, heare my wordes (O Iob) & herken vnto all, that I wyll saye: ² Beholde, I wil open my mouth, & my tonge shal speake out of my chawes. ³ My hert shall ordre my wordes a right, & my lyppes shal talke of pure wy?dome.

² Heare my wordes (O ye wyse men) herken vnto me, ye yt haue vnderstondinge.

⁶ Geue eare, for I wil speake of greate matters, & open my lippes to tell thinges that be right. ⁷ For my throte shal be talkynge of ye trueth, & my lippes abhorre vngodlynesse.

⁷ Considre (I praye the) who euer peryshed, beynge an innocent? Or, when were the godly destroyed?

² Shulde not he that maketh many wordes, be answered? Shulde he that bableth moch, be commended therin? ³ Shulde men geue eare vnto the only? Thou wilt laugh other men to scorne, & shal no body mocke the agayne? ⁴ Wilt thou saye vnto God: The thinge that I take in honde, is perfecte, & I am clene in thy sight?

⁵ He promiseth his fredes parte of his good, but his owne childre spende it.

⁴ whyle my breth is in me, and as longe as the wynde (that God hath geuen me) is in my nostrels.

²¹ I will regarde no maner of personne, no man wil I spare. ²² For yf I wolde go aboute to please me, I knowe not how soone my maker wolde take me awaye.

⁴ True are my wordes, & no lye: and the knowlege wherwithall I argue agaynst the, is perfecte.

² They shal excomunicate you. The tyme commeth, that who soeuer putteth you to death, shal thynke that he doth seruyce vnto God.

⁵ But yf it be so, that oure vnrighteousnes prayseth ye righteousnes of God, what shal we saye? Is God then vnrighteous, that he is angrie therfore? (I speake thus after the maner off men) ⁶ God forbyd. How mighte God the iudge ye worlde? ⁷ For yf the trueth of God be thorow my lye the more excellent vnto his prayse, why shulde I the be iudged yet as a synner? ⁸ & not rather to do thus (as we are euell spoken of, and as some reporte, that we shulde saye) Let vs do euell, yt good maye come therof. Whose danacio is inste.

² but cast from vs the clokes of vnhonestye, and walke not in craftines: nether corruppe we the worde of God but open the trueth, and reporte oure selues to euery mans conscyence in the sighte of God.

² Thou shalt not folowe the multitude vnto euell, ner answere at the lawe that thou woldest (to folowe the multitude) turne a syde from the right. ³ Thou shalt not paynte a poore mas cause.

¹⁵ Ye shall not deale wrongeously in iudgment, nether shal ye accepte the personne of the poore, ner honoure the parsonne of the greate, but thou shalt iudge thy neghboure righteously.

²¹ I will regarde no maner of personne, no man wil I spare.

¹⁹ Vngodly men are ye He hath no respecte vnto the personnes of ye lordly, & regardeth not the rich more the poore. For they be all the worke of his hondes.

²³ These are also ye saieges of ye wyse. It is not good, to haue respecte of any personne in iudgmet.

⁹ Therfore wil I also make you to be despised, and to be of no reputacion amonge all ye people: because ye haue not kepte my wayes, but bene parciall in the lawe.

¹⁶ With him is strength and wy?dome: he knoweth both the disceauer, and him that is disceaued.

² I haue disceaued no man, yet must myne eye cotinue in heuynesse

³⁶ O father, let Iob be well tryed, because he he hath turned himself to ye wicked:

²¹ Yf we had forgotten the name of oure God, & holde vp oure hondes to eny straunge God: Shulde not God fynde it out? for he knoweth the very secretes of the hert.

²³ Trye me (o God) and seke the grounde of myne hert: proue me, & examen my thoughtes.

²² And therfore make no mockes at it, that youre captiuyte increase not: for I haue herde the LORDE of hoostes saye, that there shal come a soden destruction and plage vpon the whole earth.

¹⁰ Euen I the LORDE ripe out the grounde off the hert, ad search the reynes and rewarde euery ma acordinge to his wayes, and acordinge to the frute off his councels.

⁷ Be not disceaued, God wil not be mocked. For what soeuer a man soweth, that shal he reape. ⁸ He that soweth vpon the flesh, shal of the flesh reape destruccion: But he that soweth vpon ye sprete, shal of the sprete reape life euerlastinge.

⁷ Now whe the LORDE had spoken these wordes vnto Iob, he sayde vnto Eliphas ye Themanite: I am displeased with the & thy two frendes, for ye haue not spoken the thinge yt is right before me, like as my seruaunt Iob hath done. ⁸ Therfore take vij. oxen and seuen rammes, and go to my seruaunt Iob, offre vp also for youre selues a brentofferynge, and lat my seruaunt Iob praye for you. Him will I accepte, and not deale with you after youre foolishnesse: in that ye haue not spoke ye thinge which is right, like as my seruaunt Iob hath done.

²¹ This thou doest, whyle I holde my tonge: and thinkest me to be eue soch one as thy self: but I wil reproue the, & set my self agaynst the. ²² O considre this, ye that forget God: lest I plucke you awaie, and there be none to delyuer you.

² How longe wil ye geue wroge iudgment, & accepte the personnes of the vngodly?

⁹ But yf ye regarde one person more then another, ye comit synne, and are rebuked of the lawe as trsagressours.

¹⁶ Let feare and drede fall vpon them thorow thy greate arme, that they maye be as styll as a stone, tyll thy people (O LORDE) be gone thorow, tyll yi people whom thou hast gotten, be gone thorow.

²¹ Withdrawe thine honde fro me, & let not the fearfull drede of the make me afrayed.

²³ For I haue euer feared ye vengeaunce & punyshmet of God, & knew very well, yt I was not able to beare his burthe.

¹²⁰ My flesh trebleth for feare of the, and I am afrayed of thy iudgmetes.

¹³ but sanctifie the LORDE of hoostes, let him be youre feare and drede.

²² Feare ye not me, saieth the LORDE? Are ye not ashamed, to loke me in the face? which bynde the see with the sonde, so that it can not passe his boundes: For though it rage, yet can it do nothinge: and though the wawes therof do swell, yet maye they not go ouer.

¹⁰ But the LORDE is a true God, a lyuinge God, and an euerlastinge kinge. Yf he be wroth, the earth shaketh: all the Getiles maye not abyde his indignacion.

²⁸ And feare ye not them that kyll the body, and be not able to kyll the soule. But rather feare hi, which is able to destroye both soule and body in to hell.

³ and they songe the songe of Moses the seruaunt of God, and the songe of the lambe, saynge: Greate and maruellous are thy workes LORDE God almyghty, iust and true are thy wayes, thou kynge of sayntes. ⁴ Who shal not feare the O LORDE and gloryfie thy name? For thou only art holy, for all getiles shall come and worshippe before the, for thy iudgmentes are made manyfest.

⁷ And ye LORDE God shope man eue of the moulde of the earth, & brethed in to his face ye breth of life. And so was man made a lyuynge soule.

²⁷ Abraham answered, and sayde: O se, I haue taken vpon me to speake vnto the LORDE, howbeit I am but dust and asshes.

¹⁴ And ye LORDE sayde vnto Moses: Wryte this for a remebraunce in a boke, & comytte it vnto ye eares of Iosua: for I wyll rote out Amalek from vnder heauen, so that he shall nomore be remembred.

¹⁹ How moch more the shal they (that dwell in houses of claye, whose foundacion is but earth) be moth eaten?

¹⁷ His remembraunce shall perish from the earth, & his name shall not be praysed in the stretes:

¹⁶ But the face of the LORDE beholdeth them that do euel, to destroye the remembraunce of them out of the earth.

¹² But thou (o LORDE) endurest for euer, and thy remembraunce thorow out all generacions.

¹⁵ And that because his mynde was not to do good, but persecuted the poore helplesse, and him that was vexed at the herte, to slaye him.

⁷ The memoriall of the iust shall haue a good reporte, but the name of the vngodly shal stynke.

¹⁴ The malicious Tyrauntes whe they die, are nether in life nor in the resurrectio, for thou visitest the and rootest the out, and destroyest all the memoryall of them.

¹ We knowe surely, yt yf oure earthy house of this dwellynge were destroyed, we haue a buyldynge ordeyned of God, an house not made with handes, but euerlastynge in heauen.

⁹ That he wolde begynne and smyte me: that he wolde let his honde go, & hew me downe. ¹⁰ The shulde I haue some coforte: yee I wolde desyre him in my payne, that he shulde not spare, for I will not be agaynst ye wordes of the holy one.

¹¹ Therfore I will not spare my mouth, but will speake in the trouble of my sprete, in ye bytternesse of my mynde will I talke.

¹⁵ that my soule wyssheth rather to be hanged, and my bones to be deed. ¹⁶ I can se no remedy, I shall lyue nomore: O spare me then, for my dayes are but vayne

¹ it greueth my soule to lyue. Neuerthelesse, now will I put forth my wordes: I wil speake out of the very heuynesse off my soule,

⁵ Wolde God ye kepte youre tonge, that ye might be taken for wyse men.

³ Suffre me a litle, that I maye speake also, and the laugh my wordes to scorne, yf ye will.

³ Now whan I sawe yt there was no helper, I put my soule in my honde, and wente agaynst the children of Ammon, and the LORDE delyuered them in to my hande. Wherfore come ye vp to me, to fighte agaynst me?

⁵ he put his lyfe in his hande also, and smote the Philistyne, & the LORDE dyd a greate health vnto all Israel: this hast thou sene, and reioysed therof. Wherfore wylt thou then offende agaynst innocent bloude, that thou woldest kyll Dauid without a cause?

²¹ And the woman wente into Saul, & sawe that he was sore vexed, and sayde vnto him: Beholde, thy handmayde hath herkened vnto thy voyce, and I haue put my soule in my hande, so that I haue herkened vnto yi wordes which thou spakest vnto me.

⁴ Why destroyest thou thy self with anger? Shal ye earth be forsaken, or the stones remoued out of their place because of ye?

¹⁰⁹ My soule is allwaye in my hode, yet do not I forget thy lawe.

⁵ The foole foldeth his handes together, & eateth vp his owne flesh.

²⁰ Yf a man do turne him to the right honde, he shal famesh, or to the lefte hande to eat, he shal not haue ynough. Euery man shal eate the flesh of his owne arme:

²⁶ And wil fede thine enemies with their owne fleshe, and make the drinke of their owne bloude, as of swete wyne. And all flesh shal knowe (o Iacob) that I am the LORDE thy Sauioure, and stronge auenger.

⁶ my dayes passe ouer more spedely, the a weeuer can weeue out his webbe, and are gone, or I am awarre.

⁷ where as (notwithstondinge) thou knowest that I am no wicked person, & that there is no man able to delyuer me out of thine honde.

¹⁸ Beholde, though sentence were geuen vpon me, I am sure to be knowne for vngilty.

¹⁷ Howbeit there is no wickednesse in my hondes, and my prayer is clene.

²¹ Though a body might pleate wt God, as one man doth with another,

²⁵ For I am sure, that my redemer lyueth, and that I shall ryse out of the earth in the latter daye: ²⁶ that I shal be clothed againe with this skynne, and se God in my flesh. ²⁷ Yee I my self shal beholde him, not with other but with these same eyes. My reynes are consumed within me, ²⁸ when yee saye: Why do not we persecute him? we haue founde an occasion agaynst him.

¹⁰ But as for my waye, he knoweth it: & trieth me as ye golde in ye fyre.

⁵ God forbydde, that I shulde graunte youre cause to be right. As for me, vntill myne ende come wil I neuer go fro myne innocency.

³¹ Yet they of myne owne housholde saye: who shal let vs, to haue oure bely ful of his flesh? ³² I haue not suffred a straunger to lye wt out, but opened my dores vnto him. ³³ Haue I euer done eny wicked dede where thorow I shamed my self before men: Or eny abhominacion, yt I was fayne to hyde it? ³⁴ For yf I had feared eny greate multitude of people: Or yf I had bene dispysed of ye symple, Oh then shulde I haue bene afrayed. Thus haue I quyetly spent my lyfe, and not gone out at ye dore. ³⁵ O that I had one which wolde heare me. Lo, this is my cause. Let ye Allmightie geue me answere: & let him that is my cotrary party, sue me with a lybell. ³⁶ Then shall I take it vpon my shulder, & as a garlade aboute my heade. ³⁷ I haue tolde the nombre of my goinges, and delyuered them vnto him as to a prynce.

² Can he that stryueth with the Allmightie, be at rest? Shulde not he which disputeth with God, geue him an answere?

⁸ Wilt thou disanulle my iudgment? Or, wilt thou condemne me, yt thou thy self mayest be made rightuous?

⁴ Though I shulde walke now in the valley of the shadowe of death, yet I feare no euell, for thou art with me: thy staffe & thy shepehoke coforte me.

³² The vngodly is afrayed of euery parell, but the rightuous hath a good hope eue in death.

³⁸ For sure I am, that nether death ner life, nether angell, ner rule, nether power, nether thinges present, nether thinges to come, ³⁹ nether heyth, ner loweth, nether eny other creature shalbe able to separate vs from the loue of God, which is in Christ Iesu oure LORDE.

²⁰ But yf oure hert condemne vs, God is greater the oure hert, and knoweth all thinges.

² The LORDE is my strength, and my songe, and is become my saluacion. This is my God, I wil magnifie him: He is my fathers God, I wil exalte him.

¹³ Euen so goeth it with all them, that forget God: and euen thus also shal the ypocrytes hope come to naught.

⁸ What hope hath ye Ypocrite, though he haue greate good, and though God geue him riches after his hertes desyre? ⁹ Doth God heare him the sooner, whe he crieth vnto him in his necessite? ¹⁰ Hath he soch pleasure & delyte in the Allmightie, that he darre allwaye call vpon God?

¹³ As for soch as be fayned, dyssemblers and ypocrytes, they heape vp wrath for them selues: for they call not vpon him, though they be his presoners.

¹ The LORDE is my light and my health: whom then shulde I feare? the LORDE is the strength of my life, for whom the shulde I be afrayed?

⁶ He only is my stregth, my saluacion, my defence: so yt I shal not fall. ⁷ In God is my health, my glory, my might, & in God is my trust.

¹⁴ The LORDE is my stregth, & my songe, & is become my saluacion.

²¹ I thanke the, yt thou hast herde me, & art become my saluacio.

¹ So that then thou shalt saye: O LORDE, I thanke the, for thou wast displeased at me, but thou hast refrayned thy wrath, and hast mercy vpon me. ² Beholde, God is my health, in whom I trust, and am not afrayde. For the LORDE God is my strength, and my prayse, he also shalbe my refuge.

¹⁴ The synners at Sion are afrayde, a sodane fearfulnesse is come vpon the ypocrytes. What is he amonge us (saye they) that will dwell by that consumynge fyre? which of vs maye abyde that euerlastinge heate?

²³ The hilles fall, and all the hie pryde of the mountaynes, but the health of Israel stondeth only vpon God oure LORDE.

⁴⁷ For so hath the LORDE comaunded vs: I haue set the to be a lighte vnto ye Gentyles, yt thou be ye Saluacion vnto the ende of the earth.

⁶ Therfore heare my wordes, and pondre the sentence of my lippes.

² O heare my wordes, and amende yor selues.

¹ Wherfore, heare my wordes (O Iob) & herken vnto all, that I wyll saye:

² As for yt I knowe it is so of a treuth, yt a man compared vnto God, can not be iustified. ³ Yf he wil argue with him, he shall not be able to answere him vnto one amonge a thousande.

²⁰ yf I will iustifie my self, myne owne mouth shall codemne me: yf I will put forth my self for a perfecte man, he shal proue me a wicked doer:

⁴ to pleate my cause before him, and to fyll my mouth with argumentes:

⁷ gyrde vp yi loynes like a man, and tell me the thige that I will axe the. ⁸ Wilt thou disanulle my iudgment? Or, wilt thou condemne me, yt thou thy self mayest be made rightuous?

²⁶ Put me now in remembraunce (for we will reason together) & shewe what thou hast for the, to make the quyte.

³³ Who wyl laye enythinge to ye charge of Gods chosen? Here is God that maketh righteous, ³⁴ who wil then condemne? Here is Christ that is deed, yee rather which is raysed vp agayne, which is also on ye righte hande of God, and maketh intercession for vs.

¹² For oure reioysinge is this, euen the testimony of oure conscience, that in synglenes & godly purenesse, not in fleshlye wyssdome, but in the grace of God, we haue had oure conuersacion in the worlde, but most of all with you.

⁸ Thy hondes haue made me, & fashioned me alltogether rounde aboute, wilt thou then destroye me sodely?

⁵ But yf ye wil enhaunce yor selues agaynst me, & accuse me to be a wicked personne because of the shame that is come vpon me:

⁵ Yf thou cast, then geue me answere: prepare thy self to stode before me face to face. ⁶ Beholde, before God am I euen as thou, for I am fashioned and made eue of the same moulde. ⁷ Therfore, thou nedest not be afrayed of me, nether nedest thou to feare, that my auctorite shal be to heuy for the.

³² But yf thou hast eny thinge to saye, then answere me and speake, for thy answere pleaseth me.

⁷ for the LORDE God helpeth me, therfore shal I not be cofounded. I haue hardened my face like a flynt stone, for I am sure, that I shal not come to confucion. ⁸ Myne aduocate speaketh for me, who wil then go with me to lawe? Let vs stode one agaynst another: yf there be eny that wil reason with me, let him come here forth to me.

⁹ Wherfore, I thought from hence forth, not to speake of him, ner to preach eny more in his name. But the worde off the LORDE was a very burnynge fyre in my hert and in my bones, which when I wolde haue stopped, I might not.

³³ Who wyl laye enythinge to ye charge of Gods chosen? Here is God that maketh righteous,

⁸ And they herde the voyce of the LORDE God, which walked in the garden in the coole of the daye. And Adam hyd him self with his wyfe, from the presence of ye LORDE God amonge the trees of the garden. ⁹ And ye LORDE God called Adam, and sayde vnto him: Where art thou? ¹⁰ And he saide: I herde thy voyce in the garden, and was afrayed, because I am naked, and therfore I hyd my self.

¹² For my reynes are thyne, thou hast couered me in my mothers wombe.

¹⁵ And the kynges of ye earth, and the grete men, and the riche men, and the chefe captaynes, and the myghte men, and euery free man, hyd them selues in dennes, and in rockes of ye hylles, ¹⁶ and sayde to the hylles, and rockes: fall on vs, and hyde vs from the presence of him that sytteth on the seate, and from the wrath of the lambe,

³⁴ Let him take his rod awaye fro me, yee let him make me nomore afrayed of him,

²⁰ Shall not my short life come soone to an ende? O holde the fro me, let me alone, that I maye ease myself a litle:

¹¹ Shall he not make you afrayed, when he sheweth himself? Shal not his terrible feare fall vpo you?

¹⁵ Well, thou wilt kepe the olde waye, yt all wicked me haue gone: ¹⁶ both olde & yonge, whose foundacion is a runnynge water, ¹⁷ which saye vnto God: go from vs, and after this maner: Tush, what wil the Allmightie do vnto vs?

⁷ Therfore, thou nedest not be afrayed of me, nether nedest thou to feare, that my auctorite shal be to heuy for the.

¹⁰ I kepe sylece, and open not my mouth, for thou hast done it. Turne thy plages awaye fro me, for I am cosumed thorow the feare of thy hade.

¹⁶ All be it that I call vpon him, and he heare me, yet am I not sure, yt he hath herde my voyce:

³² For he yt I must geue answere vnto, and with whom I go to lawe, is not a man as I am.

¹⁵ Yf thou woldest but call me, I shulde obeie the: only despyse not the worke of thine owne hondes.

³ Gyrde vp thy loynes like a ma, for I will question the, se thou geue me a dyrecte answere.

⁵ Cometh not this for ye greate wickednesse, & for thine vngracious dedes which are innumerable?

⁸ But yf they be layed in preson and cheynes, or bounde with the bondes of pouerte: ⁹ then sheweth he them their workes ad dedes and the synnes wherwt they haue vsed cruell violence.

²⁰ That thou smytest vs so in the place of the serpet, & couerest vs with ye shadowe of death. ²¹ Yf we had forgotten the name of oure God, & holde vp oure hondes to eny straunge God: Shulde not God fynde it out? for he knoweth the very secretes of the hert.

²⁰ And he sayde: I wyll hyde my face from them, I wyll se what their ende shal be: for it is a frowarde generacion, they are childre in whom is no fayth.

¹⁶ Samuel sayde: What wilt thou axe at me, seynge the LORDE is departed from the, and is become thine enemye?

² and will saye vnto God: O do not condemne me, but shewe me the cause, wherfore thou iudgest me on this maner.

⁹ He is angrie at me, he hateth me, and gnassheth vpon me with his teth. Myne enemy skouleth vpon me with his eyes.

¹¹ His wrath is kyndled agaynst me, he taketh me, as though I were his enemy.

² O yt I were as I was in the monethes by past, & in the dayes whe God preserued me: ³ when his light shyned vpon my heade: whe I wente after the same light & shyne eue thorow the darcknesse.

²¹ Thou art become myne enemye, & wt yi violet hade thou takest parte agaynst me.

¹⁰ But lo, he hath pyked a quarell agaynst me, & taketh me for his enemy:

¹ Why art thou gone so farre of, o LORDE? wilt thou hyde thyselff in tyme of trouble?

¹ How longe wilt thou forget me, o LORDE? for euer? how longe wilt thou hyde thy face fro me?

²⁴ Wherfore hydest thou thy face? wilt thou clene forget oure misery and oppressio?

⁶ I called to remembraunce my songe in the night, I commoned with myne owne herte, and sought out my sprete. ⁷ Wil the LORDE cast out for euer? Wil he be nomore intreated? ⁸ Is his mercy cleane gone? Is his promyse come vtterly to an ende for euermore? ⁹ Hath the LORDE forgotten to be gracious? Or, hath he shut vp his louynge kyndnesse in displeasure?

¹⁴ LORDE, why puttest thou awaye my soule? Wherfore hydest thou thy face fro me?

¹⁷ Thus I waite vpon the LORDE, that hath turned his face from the house of Iacob, and I loke vnto him.

⁵ The LORDE is become, like as it were an enemie, he hath cast downe Israel & all his places: yee all his stronge holdes hath he destroyed, and fylled the doughter of Iuda wt moch sorow and heuynesse.

¹⁵ Yet counte him not as an enemye, but warne him as a brother.

³⁶ And as for them that remayne of you, I wyll make them faynte harted in the londe of their enemies, so that a shakynge leaf shall chace them. And they shall flye from it, as though a swerde persecuted them, and shal fall noman folowynge vpon them.

¹⁴ Whom persecutest thou O kynge of Israel, whom persecutest thou? a deed dogg? a flee?

³ Thinkest thou it now well done, to open thine eyes vpon soch one, and to brynge me before the in iudgment?

¹⁸ Yee they shal be euen as chaffe before the wynde, and as dust that the storme carieth awaye.

¹³ For though so many people increase as the flowinge waters, and though they be armed, yet they fle farre of, and vanish awaye like the dust with the wynde vpon an hill, and as the whyrle wynde thorow a storme.

²⁰ A brosed rede shal he not breake, and flax that beginneth to burne shal he not quench, tyll he sende forth iudgment vnto victory.

²⁰ Neuerthelesse she sayde vnto them: call me not Naemi, but Mara: for the Allmightie hath made me very sory.

²⁰ Wherfore is the light geuen, to him that is in mysery? and life vnto them, that haue heuy hertes?

¹¹ From his youth his bones are ful of vyce, which shal lie downe wt him in ye earth.

⁷ Oh remebre not ye synnes & offences of my youth, but acordinge vnto thy mercy thynke vpon me (O LORDE) for thy goodnesse.

³ I am couted as one of the that go downe vnto the pytte, I am eue as a ma that hath no stregth. ⁴ Fre amoge the deed, like vnto the yt lye in the graue, which be out of remembrauce, and are cutt awaye from thy honde. ⁵ Thou hast layed me in the lowest pytte, in ye darcknesse and in the depe. ⁶ Thy indignacion lieth hard vpon me, and thou vexest me with all thy floudes. ⁷ Sela. Thou hast put awaye myne acquataunce farre fro me, & made me to be abhorred of them: ⁸ I am so fast in preson, that I can not get forth. ⁹ My sight fayleth for very trouble: LORDE, I call daylie vpo the, and stretch out my hondes vnto the. ¹⁰ Doest thou shewe wonders amonge the deed? Can the physicias rayse them vp agayne, that they maye prayse the? ¹¹ Maye thy louynge kyndnes be shewed in the graue, or thy faithfulnesse in destruccion? ¹² Maye thy wonderous workes be knowne in the darcke, or thy righteousnes in the londe where all thinges are forgotte? ¹³ Vnto the I crie (o LORDE) and early cometh my prayer before the. ¹⁴ LORDE, why puttest thou awaye my soule? Wherfore hydest thou thy face fro me? ¹⁵ My strength is gone for very sorow and misery, with fearfulnesse do I beare thy burthens. ¹⁶ Thy wroth full displeasure goeth ouer me, the feare of the oppresseth me. ¹⁷ They come rounde aboute me daylie like water, and compase me together on euery syde. ¹⁸ My louers and fredes hast thou put awaye fro me, and turned awaye myne acquantaunce.

¹¹ Yee that thou mourne not at the last (when thou hast spent thy body and goodes) ¹² and then saye: Alas, why hated I nurtoure? why dyd my hert despyse correccion? ¹³ Wherfore was not I obedient vnto the voyce of my teachers, & herkened not vnto them that infourmed me?

¹⁹ Yee as soone as thou turnest me, I shall refourme my self: and when I vnderstonde, I shall smyte vpon my thee. For verely I haue comitted shamefull thinges: O let my youth beare this reprofe and confucion.

⁵ And there was a man, which had lyen sicke eight and thirtie yeares.

¹⁴ Afterwarde founde Iesus him in the teple, and sayde vnto him: Beholde, thou art made whole, synne no more, lest a worse thinge happen vnto the.

¹⁰ But Asa was wroth at ye Seer, and put him in preson: for he murmured with him ouer this thinge. And Asa oppressed certayne of the people at ye same tyme. ¹¹ These actes of Asa both first and last, beholde, they are wrytten in the boke of ye kynges of Iuda & Israel. ¹² And Asa was diseased in his fete in the nyne and thirtieth yeare of his reigne, and endured ther ouer. Nether soughte he the LORDE in his sicknesse, but trusted vnto Phisicians.

⁷ So wente Sathan forth from the LORDE, and smote Iob with maruelous sore byles, from the sole off the fote vnto his crowne:

⁶ that thou makest soch inquisicion for my wickednesse, and searchest out my synne?

¹⁶ For thou hast nombred all my goynges, yet be not thou to extreme vpon my synnes.

¹¹ he hath put my fote in the stockes, & loketh narowly vnto all my pathes.

²² Immediatly he foloweth her, as it were an oxeled to the slaughter (and like as it were to the stockes, where fooles are punyshed)

²⁴ Which whan he had receaued soch commaundement, he cast the in to the ynner preson, and put their fete in the stockes.

¹² that she be not as one that commeth deed out of his mothers wombe: It hath eaten vp half hir flesh allready.

¹⁷ My bones are pearsed thorow in ye night season, & my synewes take no rest. ¹⁸ With all their power haue they chaunged my garmet, & gyrded me therwith, as it were wt a coate. ¹⁹ I am eue as it were claye, & am become like asshes & dust.

²⁹ But now. I am a copanyon of dragons, & a felowe of Esiriches. ³⁰ My skynne vpo me is turned to black, & my bones are bret wt heate:

¹¹ When thou punyshest man for synne, thou chastenest him: so that his beutie consumeth awaye, like as it were a mothe. O how vayne are all men?

¹² Therfore will I be vnto Ephraim as a moth, & to the house of Iuda as a caterpiller.