Job 15 Cross References - Coverdale

¹ Then answered Eliphas the Themanite, and sayde: ² Shulde a wyse man geue soch an answere (as it were one that spake in the wynde) and fyll his stomacke with anger? ³ Thou reprouest wt wordes, that are nothinge wroth: and speakest the thinges, which can do no good. ⁴ As for shame, thou hast set it asyde, els woldest thou not make so many wordes before God: ⁵ but thy wickednesse teacheth thy mouth, and so thou hast chosen the a craftie tonge. ⁶ Thine owne mouth condemneth the, and not I: yee thine owne lippes shappe the an answere. ⁷ Art thou the first man, that euer was borne? Or, wast thou made before the hylles? 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? ¹⁰ With vs are olde and aged men, yee soch as haue lyued longer then thy forefathers. ¹¹ Dost thou nomore regarde the comforte of God? but thy wicked wordes wil not suffre the. ¹² Why doth thine herte make the so proude? Why stondest thou so greatly in thine owne conceate? Where vnto loke thine eyes, ¹³ yt thy mynde is so puft vp agaynst God & lettest soch wordes go out of thy mouth? ¹⁴ What is man, that he shulde be vncleane? what hath he (which is borne of a woman) wherby he might be knowne to be rightuous? ¹⁵ Beholde, he hath founde vnfaithfulnesse amoge his owne sanctes: yee the very heauens are vnclene in his sight. ¹⁶ How moch more then an abhominable and vyle ma, which dryncketh wickednesse like water? 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: ¹⁹ vnto whom only the londe was geuen, that no straunger shulde come amonge them. ²⁰ The vngodly despayreth all the dayes of his life, & the nombre of a tyrauntes yeares is vnknowne. ²¹ A fearfull sounde is euer in his eares, & when it is peace, yet feareth he destruccion: ²² He beleueth neuer to be delyuered out of darcknesse, the swearde is allwaye before his eyes. ²³ When he goeth forth to get his lyuinge, he thinketh planely, that the daye of darcknesse is at honde. ²⁴ Sorow and carefulnesse make him afrayed, & copasse him rounde aboute, like as it were a kinge with his hoost redy to the battayll. ²⁵ For he hath stretched out his honde agaynst God, & armed himself agaynst ye Allmightie. ²⁶ He runneth proudly vpon him, & with a stiff necke fighteth he agaynst him: ²⁷ where as he couereth his face with fatnesse, and maketh his body well lykynge. ²⁸ Therfore shall his dwellynge be in desolate cities, & in houses which no ma inhabiteth, but are become heapes of stones. ²⁹ He shall not be rich, nether shall his substaunce continue, ner encrease vpon earth. ³⁰ He shal neuer come out of darcknesse, the flame shal drye vp his braunches, with ye blast of the mouth of God shal he be take awaie. ³¹ He wil nether applye himself to faithfulnes ner treuth, so sore is he disceaued wt vanite. ³² He shall perish, afore his tyme be worne out, and his honde shal not be grene. ³³ He shalbe pluckte of as an vntymely grape from ye vyne, and shal let his floure fall, as the olyue doth. ³⁴ For the congregacion of Ypocrites is vnfrutefull, & the fyre shal consume the houses of soch, as are gredy to receaue giftes. ³⁵ He conceaueth trauayle, he beareth myschefe, & his body bryngeth forth disceate.

¹¹ Now when Iobs frendes herde of all ye trouble, that happened vnto him, there came thre off them, euery one from his owne place: namely, Eliphas the Themanite, Baldad the Suhite, and Sophar the Naamathite. For they were agreed together to come, to shewe their compassion vpon him, and to comforte him.

¹ Then answered Eliphas of Theman and sayde vnto him:

¹ So Eliphas the Themanite gaue answere, & sayde:

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.

⁹ So Eliphas the Themanite, Baldad ye Suhite and Sophar the Naamathite wete their waye, and did acordynge as the LORDE commaunded them. The LORDE also accepted the personne off Iob,

²⁶ which of you can reproue them? Sauynge only that ye are sotyll to check mens sayenges, and can speake many wordes in the wynde.

² How longe wilt thou talke of soch thinges? how longe shal yi mouth speake so proude wordes?

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?

² Loke what ye knowe, that same do I knowe also, nether am I inferior vnto you.

¹ Ephraim kepeth the ayre, and foloweth after the east wynde: he is euer increasinge lyes & destruction. They be confederate with the Assirians, their oyle is caried in to Egipte.

¹³ So can no fountayne geue bothe salt water and fresshe also. If eny man be wyse and endued with learnynge amonge you, let him shewe the workes of his good couersacion in meknes that is coupled with wissdome.

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.

² I haue oft tymes herde soch thinges. Miserable geuers of comforte are ye, all the sorte of you. ³ Shall not thy vayne wordes come yet to an ende? Or, hast thou yet eny more to saye?

¹ Iob answered, and sayde: ² O how helpest thou the weake? what comforte geuest thou vnto him that hath no stregth? ³ Where is ye coucell yt thou shuldest geue him, which hath no wy?dome? Wilt thou so shewe thine excellent rightuousnes?

¹³ Ye speake hard wordes agaynst me, sayeth the LORDE. And yet ye saye: What haue we spoken agaynst the? ¹⁴ Ye haue sayed: It is but lost laboure, to serue God: What profit haue we for kepynge his commaundementes, and for walkinge humbly before the LORDE off hoostes? ¹⁵ Therfore maye we saye, that the proude are happie, and that they which deale with vngodlynesse, are set vp: for they tempte God, and yet escape.

³⁶ But I saye vnto you, that of euery ydell worde that me haue spoken, they shal geue accomptes at ye daye of iudgmet. ³⁷ Out of thy wordes thou shalt be iustified, & out of thy wordes thou shalt be codemned.

⁶ Let youre speach be allwaye fauorable, seasoned with salt, that ye maye knowe how to answere euery man.

⁴ he is puft vp, and knoweth nothinge, but waysteth his brayne aboute questions and stryuynges of wordes: wherof sprynge envye, stryfe, raylinges, euell surmysinges, ⁵ vayne disputacios of soch men as haue corrupte myndes, and are robbed of the trueth, which thynke that godlynes is lucre: From soch separate thy selfe.

¹³ Thus dyed Saul in his trespace which he commytted agaynst the LORDE, because he kepte not the worde of the LORDE: & because he axed councell at the soythsayer, ¹⁴ and axed not at the LORDE, therfore slewe he him, & turned the kyngdome vnto Dauid.

⁵ But now that the plage is come vpon the, thou shreckest awaye: now that it hath touched thyself, thou art faint harted. ⁶ Where is now thy feare of God, thy stedfastnesse, thy pacience, and the perfectnesse of thy life?

⁸ But now will I speake off the LORDE, and talke of God:

¹⁴ like as yf one withdrewe a good dede from his frende, and forsoke the feare of God?

¹⁰ Hath he soch pleasure & delyte in the Allmightie, that he darre allwaye call vpon God?

¹ My hert sheweth me the wickednesse of the vngodly, that there is no feare of God before his eyes. ² For he dyssembleth before his face, so longe till his abhominable synne be founde out. ³ The wordes of his mouth are vnrightuousnesse and disceate, he wil not be lerned to do good.

¹²⁶ It is tyme for the (o LORDE) to laye to thine hode, for they haue destroyed thy lawe.

¹⁴ They call not vpon me with their hartes, but lye youlinge vpon their beddes. Where as they come together, it is but for meate & drincke, and me will they not obeye.

¹⁰ So their nexte kyn?folckes and the deed buriers shall take them, and cary awaye their bones, and saye vnto him, that is in the ynnermer house: is there yet eny mo by ye? And he shal answere: they are all gone, holde thy tunge (shall he saye) for they wolde not remembre the name of the LORDE.

⁶ which starte a backe from ye LORDE, and nether seke after the LORDE, ner regarde him.

¹ He tolde them a symilitude, signifienge, yt men ought allwayes to praye, & not to leaue of,

³¹ Destroye we then the lawe thorow faith? God forbyd. But we mantayne the lawe.

²¹ I cast not awaye the grace of God. For yf righteousnes come by the lawe, then dyed Christ in vayne.

¹³ which compaseth ye wyse in their owne craftynesse, and ouertroweth the councell of the wicked:

²² This one thige wil I saye: He destroyeth both the rightuous & vngodly. ²³ And though he slaye sodenly wt the scourge, yet laugheth he at the punyshment of the innocent. ²⁴ As for the worlde, he geueth it ouer in to the power of the wicked, soch as the rulers be, wherof all londes are full. Is it not so? where is there eny, but he is soch one?

⁶ The houses of robbers are in wealth and prosperite, & they that maliciously medle agaynst God, dwel without care: yee God geueth all thinges richely with his honde.

¹⁹ Thou lettest yi mouth speake wickednesse, & thy tonge paynteth disceate. ²⁰ Thou syttest and speakest agaynst thy brother, yee and slaundrest thine owne mothers sonne.

² Where as the goodnesse of God endureth yet daylie. ³ Thy tonge ymagineth wickednesse, and with lyes it cutteth like a sharpe rasoure. ⁴ Thou louest vngraciousnesse more the good, to talke of lyes more then rightuousnesse.

³ Which whette their tuges like a swerde, & shute wt their venimous wordes like as wt arowes.

² Delyuer my soule (o LORDE) fro lyenge lippes, & fro a disceatfull toge. ³ What rewarde shalbe geuen or done vnto the, thou false tonge?

³ They bede their tuges like bowes, to shute out lies: As for the treuth, they maye nothinge awaye with all in the worlde. For they go from one wickednes to another, and holde nothinge of me, saieth the LORDE. ⁴ Yee one must kepe himself from another, no man maye safely trust his owne brother: for one brother vndermyneth another, & one neghboure begyleth another. ⁵ Yee one dissembleth with another, and they deale with no treuth. They haue practised their tunges to lye, and taken greate paynes to do myschefe.

⁸ Their tunges are like sharpe arowes, to speake disceate. With their mouth they speake peaceably to their neghboure, but preuely they laye waite for him.

²¹ that defyleth the man. For from within out of the hert of man proceade euell thoughtes, aduoutrye, whordome, murthur, ²² theft, coueteousnes, wickednes, disceate, vnclennes, a wicked eye, blasphemy, pryde, foolishnes.

⁴⁵ A good ma out of ye good treasure of his hert, bryngeth forth yt which is good: and an euell ma out of the euell treasure of his hert, bryngeth forth that which is euell. For of the abundaunce of the hert, the mouth speaketh.

²⁶ Yf eny man amonge you seme deuoute, & refrayne not his toge: but deceaue his awne herte, this mannes deuocion is in vayne.

⁵ Euen so the toge is a lyttell member, and bosteth great thinges. Beholde how gret a thinge a lyttell fyre kyndleth, ⁶ and the tonge is fyre, and a worlde of wyckednes. So is the tonge set amonge oure membres, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth a fyre all that we haue of nature, and is it selfe set a fyre euen of hell. ⁷ All the natures of beastes, and of byrdes, and of serpentes, and thinges of the see, are meked and tamed of the nature of ma. ⁸ But the toge can no man tame. Yt is an vnruely euell full of deedly poysou.

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:

⁸ Now hast thou spoken in myne eares, & I haue herde ye voyce of thy wordes: ⁹ I am clene without eny fawte, I am innocent, & there is no wickednesse in me. ¹⁰ But lo, he hath pyked a quarell agaynst me, & taketh me for his enemy: ¹¹ he hath put my fote in the stockes, & loketh narowly vnto all my pathes. ¹² Beholde, vnto these vnreasonable wordes of thyne wil I make answere. Shulde God be reproued of man?

⁵ And why? Iob hath sayde: I am rightuous, but God doth me wronge. ⁶ I must nedes be a lyar, though my cause be right: & violetly am I plaged, where as I made no fawte. ⁷ where is there soch one as Iob, yt drinketh vp scornefulnes like water? ⁸ which goeth in ye company of wicked doers, & walketh wt vngodly me? ⁹ For he saieth: Though a ma be good, yet is he naught before God.

² Thinkest thou it right that thou sayest: I am rightuous before God ³ Seinge thou sayest so, how doest thou knowe it? What thinge hast thou more excellet, the I yt am a synner?

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

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.

⁸ Yee their owne tunges shall make them fall, In so moch that who so seyth the, shal laugh the to scorne.

³⁷ Out of thy wordes thou shalt be iustified, & out of thy wordes thou shalt be codemned.

⁶⁵ Then the hye prest rente his clothes, and sayde: He hath blasphemed, what nede we eny mo wytnesses? Lo, now haue ye herde his blasphemy:

²² He sayde vnto him: Of thine awne mouth iudge I the thou euell seruaunt. Knewest thou thou that I am an harde man, takynge vp that I layde not downe, and reapynge that I dyd not sowe?

¹ Morouer Adam laye with Heua his wyfe, which coceaued & bare Cain, and sayde, I haue opteyned ye man of the LORDE.

¹² Amonge olde personnes there is wy?dome, and amonge the aged is vnderstodinge.

¹⁰ With vs are olde and aged men, yee soch as haue lyued longer then thy forefathers.

⁴ Where wast thou, when I layed ye foundacions of the earth? Tell planely yff thou hast vnderstondinge. ⁵ Who hath measured it, knowest thou? Or, who hath spred ye lyne vpon it? ⁶ Where vpon stode the pilers of it? Or, who layed ye corner stone? ⁷ where wast thou when the mornynge starres gaue me prayse, ad when all the angels of God reioysed? ⁸ Who shutt the see with dores, when it brake forth as a childe out off his mothers wombe? ⁹ When I made the cloudes to be a coueringe for it, and swedled it with ye darcke? ¹⁰ when I gaue it my comaundement, makynge dores & barres for it, ¹¹ sayenge: Hither to shalt thou come, but no further, and here shalt thou laye downe thy proude and hye wawes. ¹² Hast thou geue the mornynge his charge (as soone as thou wast borne) and shewed the dayespringe his place, ¹³ yt it might take holde of the corners of the earth, & yt the vngodly might be shake out? ¹⁴ Their tokes & weapes hast thou turned like claye, & set the vp agayne as the chaunginge of a garment. ¹⁵ Yee thou hast spoyled the vngodly off their light, & broke the arme of the proude. ¹⁶ Camest thou euer into the groude of the see, Or, hast thou walked in ye lowe corners of ye depe? ¹⁷ Haue the gates of death bene opened vnto the or hast thou sene the dore of euerlastige treasure? ¹⁸ Hast thou also perceaued, how brode ye earth is? Now yf thou hast knowlege of all, ¹⁹ the shewe me where light dwelleth, and where darcknes is: ²⁰ yt thou mayest bringe vs vnto their quarters, yf thou cast tell the waye to their houses. ²¹ Knewest thou (when thou wast borne) how olde thou shuldest be? ²² Wentest thou euer in to the treasuries off the snowe, or hast thou sene ye secrete places of the hale: ²³ which I haue prepared agaynst the tyme of trouble, agaynst the tyme of batell & warre? ²⁴ By what waye is the light parted, & the heate dealt out vpon earth? ²⁵ Who deuydeth the abundauce of waters in to ryuers, or who maketh a waye for the stormy wether, ²⁶ yt it watereth & moystureth ye drye & baren grounde: ²⁷ to make the grasse growe in places where no body dwelleth, & in the wildernes where no ma remayneth? ²⁸ Who is the father of rayne? Or, who hath begotten the droppes of dew? ²⁹ Out of whose wobe came the yse? who hath gendred the coldnes of ye ayre? ³⁰ yt the waters are as harde as stones, & lye congeeled aboue the depe. ³¹ Hast thou brought ye vij. starres together? Or, art thou able to breake the Circle of heaue? ³² Cast thou bringe forth the mornynge starre or the euenynge starre at couenient tyme, & coueye the home agayne? ³³ Knowest thou the course off heaue, yt thou mayest set vp the ordinaunce therof vpo earth? ³⁴ Morouer, cast thou lift vp thy voyce to ye cloudes, yt they maye poure downe a greate rayne vpo the? ³⁵ Canst thou thodre also yt they maye go their waye, & be obediet vnto the, sayege: lo, here are we? ³⁶ Who geueth sure wisdome, or stedfast vnderstodinge? ³⁷ who nombreth the cloudes in wisdome? who stilleth ye vehement waters of the heaue? ³⁸ who turneth the clottes to dust, & the to be clottes agayne? ³⁹ Huntest thou the praye fro the Lyon, or fedest thou his whelpes ⁴⁰ lyege in their denes & lurkinge in their couches? ⁴¹ who prouydeth meate for the rauen, whe his yonge ones crie vnto God, ad fle aboute for want of meate?

² Before the mountaynes were brought forth, or euer the earth & the worlde were made, thou art God from euerlastinge and worlde withoute ende.

²² The LORDE himself had me in possessio in the begynnynge of his wayes, or euer he begame his workes aforetyme. ²³ I haue bene ordened fro euerlastige, & fro ye beginnynge or euer the earth was made. ²⁴ When I was borne, there were nether depthes ner springes of water. ²⁵ Before the foundacions of ye mountaynes were layed, yee before all hilles was I borne.

²⁹ These are the secretes of the LORDE oure God, which are opened vnto vs and oure children for euer, yt we shulde do all the wordes of this lawe.

⁶ that he might shewe the (out of his secrete wy?dome) how manyfolde his lawe is: then shuldest thou knowe, that God had forgotten the, because of thy synnes.

² Then (no doute) ye are the men alone, and wy?dome shal perish with you.

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.

⁴ As it stode wt me, whe I was welthy & had ynough: whe God prospered my house:

¹⁴ The secrete of the LORDE is amonge them that feare him, and he sheweth them his couenaunt.

³² for the LORDE abhorreth the frowarde, but his secrete is amonge the righteous.

¹⁸ For who hath sytten in the councell of the LORDE, that he hath herde and vnderstonde, what he is aboute to do? Who hath marcked his deuyce, and herde it?

⁷ Now doth the LORDE God no maner of thinge, but he telleth his secrete before vnto his seruauntes ye prophetes.

²⁵ At ye same tyme Iesus answered, and sayde: I prayse the (O father and LORDE of heauen and earth) that thou hast hid these thinges from the wyse and prudent, and opened the vnto babes.

¹¹ He answered and sayde vnto the: Vnto you it is geuen to knowe the mystery of the kingdome of heauen, but vnto them it is not geuen.

³⁵ yt the thinge might be fulfilled, which was spoke by ye prophet, sayenge: I wil open my mouth in parables, and wil speake out the secretes from the begynnynge of the worlde.

¹⁵ Hence forth call I you not seruauntes, for a seruaunt knoweth not what his lorde doeth. But I haue sayde that ye are frendes: For all that I haue herde of my father, haue I shewed vnto you.

³⁴ For who hath knowne the mynde of the LORDE? Or who hath bene his councell geuer?

²⁵ To him yt is of power to stablyshe you, acordinge to my Gospell & preachinge of Iesu Christ, wherby is vttered ye mystery which hath bene kepte secrete, sence ye worlde begane, ²⁶ but now is opened, & shewed by the scriptures of ye prophetes, at the comaundemet of the euerlastinge God, to set vp ye obediece of the faith amonge all Heythen:

⁹ but as it is wrytten: The eye hath not sene, and the eare hath not herde, nether hath it entred in to the hert of man that God hath prepared for them that loue him. ¹⁰ But God hath opened it vnto vs by his sprete. For the sprete searcheth out all thinges, yee euen the depenesses of the God heade. ¹¹ For what ma knoweth what is in man, saue the sprete of ma which is in him? Euen so no man knoweth what is in God, saue ye sprete of God.

¹⁶ For who hath knowne ye mynde of the LORDE? Or who shal enfourme him? But we haue the mynde of Christ.

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

³ Where is ye coucell yt thou shuldest geue him, which hath no wy?dome? Wilt thou so shewe thine excellent rightuousnes? ⁴ Before whom hast thou spoken those wordes? Who made the breth to come out of ye mouth?

⁷ Loke ye on thinges after ye vtter appearauce?Yf eny man trust of himselfe yt he is Christes, let him thinke this also by himselfe, yt like as he is Christes, eue so are we Christes also.

⁵ For I suppose that I am no lesse the the hye Apostles are.

²¹ I speake concernynge rebuke, as though we were weake.Wherin so euer now eny man darre be bolde (I speake folishly) therin darre I be bolde also. ²² They are Hebrues, so am I. They are Israelites, euen so am I. They are the sede of Abraham, so am I. ²³ They are the mynisters of Christ (I speake as a fole) I am more: in laboures more abudaunt, in strypes aboue measure, in presonmentes more plenteously, in death oft. ²⁴ Of the Iewes receaued I fyue tymes fortye strypes, one lesse. ²⁵ Thryse was I beaten with roddes. I was once stoned, I suffred thryse shypwracke: nighte and daye haue I bene in the depe of the see: ²⁶ I haue oft iourneyed: I haue bene oft in parels of waters, in parels amonge murthurers, in parels amonge the Iewes, in parels amonge the Heythen, in parels in cities, in parels in the wylderners, in parels vpon the See, in parels amonge false brethre, ²⁷ in laboure & trauayle, in moch watchinges, in honger and thyrst, in moch fastinges in colde and nakednesse: ²⁸ Besyde those thynges which are outwarde, namely my daylie combraunce, my daylie care for all cogregacions. ²⁹ Who is weake, and I be not weake? Who is offended, & I burne not? ³⁰ Yf I must nedes make my boast, I wil boast my selfe of myne infirmyte.

⁷ Remembre the dayes that are past, considre the yeares of the generacions afore tyme. Axe thy father, he shall shewe the: thine elders, they shal tell the.

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.

²⁰ He taketh the verite from out of the mouth, & disapoynteth ye aged of their wy?dome.

⁶ so that he gaue answere himself, and sayde: Considerinve yt I am yonge, & ye be men of age, I was afrayed, & durst not shewe forth my mynde, ⁷ for I thought thus within my self: It becometh olde men to speake, & the aged to teach wy?dome.

³¹ Age is a crowne of worshipe, yf it be founde in the waye of righteousnes.

²⁴ Then stepte forth Sedechias the sonne of Cnaena, and smote Micheas vpon the cheke, and sayde: What, is the sprete of the LORDE departed fro me, to speake with the?

⁸ But now will I speake off the LORDE, and talke of God: 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. ¹⁷ Beholde, happie is the man, whom God punysheth: therfore, despyse not thou ye chastenynge of the Allmighty. ¹⁸ For though he make a wounde, he geueth a medicyne agayne: though he smyte, his honde maketh whole agayne. ¹⁹ He delyuereth the out of sixe troubles, so that in the seuenth there can no harme touch the. ²⁰ In the myddest of honger he saueth ye from death: and when it is warre, from the power of the swearde. ²¹ He shall kepe the from the perlous tonge so that when trouble commeth, thou shalt not nede to feare. ²² In destruccion and derth thou shalt be mery, and shalt not be afrayed for the beastes of the earth: ²³ But the castels in the londe shal be confederate with the, & the beastes of the felde shall geue the peace: ²⁴ Yee thou shalt se, that thy dwellynge place shalbe in rest: thou shalt beholde thy substaunce, and be nomore punyshed for synne. ²⁵ Thou shalt se also, that thy sede shall encreace, and that thy posterite shalbe as the grasse vpon the earth. ²⁶ Thou shalt come to thy graue in a fayre age, like as ye corne sheeues are brought in to the barne in due season.

¹³ Yf thou haddest now a right herte, & liftest vp thine hondes towarde him: ¹⁴ yf thou woldest put awaye the wickednesse, which thou hast in honde, so that no vngodlynesse dwelt in thy house: ¹⁵ Then mightest thou lift vp thy face without shame, the shuldest thou be sure, and haue no nede to feare. ¹⁶ Then shuldest thou forget thy misery, and thynke nomore vpon it, then vpon the waters that runne by. ¹⁷ Then shulde thy life be as cleare as the noone daye, and sprynge forth as the mornynge. ¹⁸ Then mightest thou haue comforth, in the hope that thou hast: & slepe quyetly, when thou art buried. ¹⁹ Then shuldest thou take thy rest, and no ma to make the afrayed, yee many one shulde set moch by the.

⁸ hast thou herde the secrete councell of God, that all wy?dome is to litle for ye?

¹⁶ Euen so shall he kepe the (yf thou wilt be content) from the bottomlesse pytte that is beneth: & yf thou wilt holde the quyete, he shal fyll thy table with plenteousnesse.

³ Blessed be God the father of oure LORDE Iesus Christ, the father of mercy and ye God of all comforte, ⁴ which comforteth vs in all oure trouble: in so moch yt we are able to comforte them that are in eny maner of trouble, with the same comforte wher with we oure selues are comforted of God. ⁵ For as the affliccios of Christ are plenteous in vs, euen so is or cosolacion plenteous by Christ.

⁶ Neuertheles God that comforteth the abiecte, comforted vs by the comynge of Titus.

¹³ Yf thou haddest now a right herte, & liftest vp thine hondes towarde him:

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

¹⁹ O let the not triuphe ouer me, that are myne enemies for naught: O let them not wyncke wt their eyes, that hate me without a cause.

¹³ he wyncketh with his eyes, he tokeneth wt his fete, he poynteth wt his fyngers,

⁹ Be glad then (O thou yonge man) in thy youth, and lat thine hert be mery in thy yonge dayes: folowe the wayes of thine owne hert, and the lust of thine eyes: but be thou sure, that God shal bringe the in to iudgment for all these thinges.

³ But Peter sayde: Ananias, Wherfore hath Sathan fylled thine hert, that thou shuldest lye vnto the holy goost, and withdrawe awaye parte of the money of the lyuelod? ⁴ Mightest thou not haue kepte it, whan thou haddest it? And whan it was solde, the money was also in thy power: Why hast thou then conceaued this thinge in thine hert? Thou hast not lyed vnto me, but vnto God.

²² Repente therfore of this yi wickednesse, and praye vnto God, yf happly the thought of thy hert maye be forgeue ye.

¹⁴ But euery ma is tepted, drawne awaye, & entysed of his awne cocupiscece. ¹⁵ The whe lust hath conceaued, she bringeth forth synne, & synne when it is fynished, bringeth forth deeth.

⁴ He is wyse of hert, and mightie in strength. Who euer prospered, that toke parte agaynst him?

³ Thinkest thou it well done, to oppresse me, to cast me of (beinge a worke of thy hondes) and to manteyne the councell of the vngodly?

²⁵ For he hath stretched out his honde agaynst God, & armed himself agaynst ye Allmightie. ²⁶ He runneth proudly vpon him, & with a stiff necke fighteth he agaynst him: ²⁷ where as he couereth his face with fatnesse, and maketh his body well lykynge.

¹³ Let him refrayne his tonge from euell, and his lippes that they speake no gyle.

¹³ Ye speake hard wordes agaynst me, sayeth the LORDE. And yet ye saye: What haue we spoken agaynst the?

⁷ For to be fleshly mynded is enemyte agaynst. God, syth it is not subdued vnto ye lawe of God, for it can not also. ⁸ As for the that are fleshlye, they can not please God.

² for in many thinges we synne all. Yf a man synne not in worde, the same is a parfecte man, & able to tame all the body. ³ Beholde, we put bittes into the horses mouthes yt they shulde obeye vs, and we turne aboute all the body. ⁴ Beholde also ye shyppes, which though they be so gret, and are dryuen of fearce windes, yet are they turned about with a very smale helme, whither soeuer the violence of the gouerner wyll. ⁵ Euen so the toge is a lyttell member, and bosteth great thinges. Beholde how gret a thinge a lyttell fyre kyndleth, ⁶ and the tonge is fyre, and a worlde of wyckednes. So is the tonge set amonge oure membres, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth a fyre all that we haue of nature, and is it selfe set a fyre euen of hell.

⁴⁶ Whan they synne agaynst the (for there is no ma that synneth not) & thou be wroth, and delyuer the vnto their enemyes, so that they cary them awaye captyue in to the enemyes londe farre or nye,

³⁶ Whan they synne agaynst the ( for there is no man that synneth not) and thou be wroth at them, and geue them ouer before their enemyes, so that they cary them awaye captyue in to a countre farre or nye,

² As for yt I knowe it is so of a treuth, yt a man compared vnto God, can not be iustified.

⁴ Who can make it cleane, that commeth of an vncleane thinge? No body.

⁴ But how maye a man copared vnto God, be iustified? Or, how can he be clene, that is borne of a woman? ⁵ Beholde, the Moone shyneth nothinge in comparison to him, & the starres are vnclene in his sight. ⁶ How moch more the, ma, that is but corrupcion: and the sonne of man, which is but a worme?

³ Their throte is an open sepulcre, with their tonges they haue disceaued, the poyson of Aspes is vnder their lippes.

⁵ Beholde, I was borne in wickednesse, and in synne hath my mother conceaued me.

⁹ Who can saye: my hert is cleane, I am innocent from synne?

²⁰ for there is not one iust vpo earth, yt doth good, & sinneth not.

²⁹ Lo, this onely haue I founde, that God made man iust & right, but they seke dyuerse sotylties,

⁶ That which is borne of flesh, is flesh: & that which is borne of the sprete, is sprete.

¹⁸ for I knowe that in me (yt is, in my flesh) there dwelleth no good thinge.To wyll is present wt me, but to perfourme yt which is good,

²² But ye scripture hath shut vp all vnder synne, that ye promes shulde come by the faith on Iesus Christ, geue vnto the that beleue.

² in the which in tyme past ye walked, acordinge to the course off this worlde, and after the prynce that ruleth in the ayre namely, after ye sprete, which now worketh in the children of vnbeleue, ³ amonge whom we also had oure conuersacion in tyme past in the lustes of oure flesh, and dyd the wyll of the flesh and of the mynde, and were naturally the children of wrath, euen as well as other.

⁸ Yf we saye that we haue no synne, we disceaue oure selues, and the trueth is not in vs. ⁹ But yf we knowlege oure synnes, he is faithfull and iust to forgeue vs oure synnes, & to clense vs from all vnrighteousnes. ¹⁰ Yf we saye, we haue not synned, we make him a lyar, and his worde is not in vs.

¹⁸ Beholde, he hath founde vnfaythfulnesse amonge his owne seruauntes, and proude disobedience amonge his angels.

¹ Name me one els, yf thou canst fynde eny: yee loke aboute the, vpon eny of the holy men.

⁵ Beholde, the Moone shyneth nothinge in comparison to him, & the starres are vnclene in his sight.

² From aboue flakred the Seraphins, wherof euery one had sex wynges. With twayne ech couered his face, wt twayne his fete, and with twayne dyd he flye. ³ They cried also ech one to other on this maner: holy, holy, holy is the LORDE of hoostes. The whole worlde is ful of his glory. ⁴ Yee the geastes and dorechekes moued at their crienge, and the house was ful of smoke. ⁵ Then I sayde: O wo is me. For I was astonished: that I (which am a man of vnclene lippes, and dwell amonge people yt hath vnclene lippes also:) Shulde se ye Kynge and LORDE of hoostes with myne eyes.

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

¹² Whe wickednesse is swete in his mouth, he hydeth it vnder his tonge.

⁷ where is there soch one as Iob, yt drinketh vp scornefulnes like water?

⁶ Wherfore I geue myne owne self ye blame, and take repentaunce in the dust and asshes.

¹ The foolish bodyes saye in their hertes: Tush, there is no God. They are corrupte, ad become abhominable in their doynges, there is not one yt doth good. ² The LORDE loked downe fro heaue vpo the children of men, to se yf there were eny, that wolde vnderstonde & seke after God. But they are all gone out of the waye, they are alltogether become vnprofitable: there is none that doth good, no not one. ³ Their throte is an open sepulcre, with their tonges they haue disceaued, the poyson of Aspes is vnder their lippes.

³ But they are all gone out of ye waye, they are all become vnprofitable: there is none yt doth good, no not one.

²⁸ A false wytnes laugheth iudgmet to scorne, & the mouth of the vngodly eateth vp wickednes.

²⁸ And as they regarded not to knowe God, euen so God gaue the vp in to a lewde mynde, to do those thinges which were not comly, ²⁹ beynge full of all vnrighteousnes, whordome, wickednes, couetousnes, maliciousnes, full of enuye, murthur, strife, disceate, euell codicioned whisperers, ³⁰ backbyters, despysers of God, doers of wronge, proude, boosters, bryngers vp of euell thinges, disobedient to their Elders,

⁹ What saye we then? Are we better then they? No, in no wyse: for we haue proued afore, yt both the Iewes and Grekes are all vnder synne. ¹⁰ As it is wrytte: There is none righteous, no not one. ¹¹ There is none yt vnderstondeth, there is none that seketh after God. ¹² They are all gone out of the waye, they are alltogether become vnprofitable: there is none that doeth good, no not one. ¹³ Their throte is an open sepulcre, with their tunges they haue disceaued, the poyson off Aspes is vnder their lippes. ¹⁴ Their mouth is full of cursynge and bytternesse. ¹⁵ Their fete are swifte to shed bloude. ¹⁶ Destruccion & wrechidnes are in their wayes, ¹⁷ and ye waye of peace haue they not knowne. ¹⁸ There is no feare of God before their eyes. ¹⁹ But we knowe, yt, what soeuer the lawe sayeth, it sayeth it vnto them which are vnder the lawe, yt euery mouthe maye be stopped, & yt all the worlde maye be detter vnto God,

³ For we oure selues also were in tymes past, vnwyse, dishobedient, in erroure, seruynge lustes and dyuerse maners of voluptuousnes, lyuynge in maliciousnes and envye, full of hate, hatynge one another.

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.

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

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

² holde the still a litle, and I shal shewe the, what I haue yet to speake on Gods behalfe.

⁸ Enquere of them that haue bene before the, search diligently amonge thy forefathers:

¹⁸ O what greate troubles & aduersite hast thou shewed me? & yet didest thou turne & refresh me, yee & broughtest me from the depe of the earth agayne.

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. ⁵ He made a couenaunt with Iacob, and gaue Israel a lawe, which he comaunded oure forefathers to teach their children. ⁶ That their posterite might knowe it, and the children which were yet vnborne.

¹⁹ but the lyuynge, yee the lyuynge acknowlege the, like as I do this daye. The father telleth his children of thy faithfulnesse.

²⁵ Eber begat two sonnes: the name of the one was Peleg, because that in his tyme the worlde was deuyded, and his brothers name was Iaketan,

³² This is now ye generacion of ye children of Noe in their kynredes & people. Of these were ye people vpon earth spred a brode after ye floude.

⁸ Whan the most Hyghest deuyded ye nacions and scatred the children of men. Then set he the borders of the nacions acordinge to the nombre of the children of Israel.

¹⁷ Thus shal ye knowe, yt I the LORDE youre God dwell vpo my holy mount of Sion. Then shal Ierusale be holy, & there shal no straungers go thorow her eny more.

¹ Consideringe then that there is no tyme hyd from the Allmightie, how happeneth it, that they which knowe him, wil not regarde his dayes?

¹³ sayege: This is the porcion that the wicked shall haue of God, & the heretage that Tyrauntes shal receaue of ye Allmightie.

³ Thou turnest man to destruccion, Agayne, thou sayest: come agayne ye children of men. ⁴ For a thousande yeares in thy sight are but as yesterdaye that is past, and like as it were a night watch.

¹² O teach vs to nombre oure dayes, that we maye applie oure hertes vnto wy?dome.

³ Amonge all thinges yt come to passe vnder the Sonne, this is a misery, that it happeneth vnto all alyke. This is the cause also that the hertes of men are full of wickednesse, & madd foolishnesse is in their hertes as longe as they lyue, vntill they dye.

¹⁹ & wil saye vnto my soule: Soule, thou hast moch goodes layed vp in stoare for many yeares, take now thine ease, eate, drinke, and be mery. ²⁰ But God sayde vnto him: Thou foole, this night shal they requyre thy soule from the, and whose shal it be that thou hast prepared? ²¹ Thus goeth it with him yt gathereth treasure for himself, and is not riche in God.

²² For we knowe, that euery creature groneth, and trauayleth with vs in payne vnto the same tyme.

¹ Goo to now ye riche men. Wepe, and howle on yor wretchednes that shal come vpon you. ² Youre riches is corrupte, youre garmetes are motheaten. ³ Youre golde & yor siluer are cancred, & the rust of them shalbe a witnes vnto you, & shal eate youre flesshe, as it were fyre. Ye haue heaped treasure togedder in yor last dayes: ⁴ Beholde, the hyre of the labourers which haue reped downe youre feldes (which hyer is of you kept backe by fraude) cryeth: and the cryes of the which haue reped, are entred in to the eares of the LORDE Sabaoth. ⁵ Ye haue liued in pleasure on the earth and in wantannes. Ye haue norysshed youre hertes, as in a daye of slaughter. ⁶ Ye haue codempned and haue killed the iust, and he hath not resisted you.

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.

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.

³⁶ But whan Abigail came to Nabal, beholde, he had prepared a feast in his house like a kynges feast, and his hert was mery, for he was very dronken. And she tolde him nothinge, nether small ner greate vntyll ye cleare mornynge. ³⁷ But whan it was daye, & the wyne was come from Nabal, his wife tolde him these thinges. Then was his hert deed in his body, so that he became euen as a stone: ³⁸ and ouer ten dayes the LORDE smote him, so yt he dyed.

⁶ For the LORDE had made the Syrians to heare a noyse of horses, charettes, and of a mightie greate hoost, so that they sayde one to another amonge the selues: Beholde, the kynge of Israel hath hyred the kynge of the Hethites, and the kynge of the Egipcians agaynst vs, to come vpo vs.

¹³ Now vpon a certayne daye when his sonnes and doughters were eatinge, and drynkinge wyne in their eldest brothers house, ¹⁴ there came a messaunger vnto Iob, and sayde: Whyle the oxen were a plowinge, and the Asses goinge in the pasture besyde them: ¹⁵ the Sabees came in violetly, and toke them all awaye: yee they haue slayne the seruauntes with the swearde, and I only ranne my waye, to tell the. ¹⁶ And whyle he was yet speakynge, there came another, and sayde: The fyre of God is fallen from heauen, it hath consumed & bret vp all the shepe and seruauntes: and I only ranne my waye, to tell the. ¹⁷ In the meane season whyle he was yet speakinge, there came another, and sayde: The Caldees made thre armies, and fell in vpon the camels, which they haue caried awaye, yee and slayne the seruauntes with the swearde: and I only am gotte awaye, to tell the. ¹⁸ Whyle he was speakinge, there came yet another, ad sayde: Thy sonnes and doughters were eatinge ad drynkinge wyne in their eldest brothers house, ¹⁹ ad sodenly there came a mightie greate wynde out off the South, and smote the iiij. corners of the house: which fell vpon thy children, so that they are deed: and I am gotten awaye alone, to tell the.

¹¹ Fearfulnesse shal make him afrayed on euery syde, that he shall not knowe, where to get out.

⁵ the prayse of the vngodly hath bene shorte, and that the ioye of Ypocrytes continued but ye twincklinge of an eye? ⁶ Though he be magnified vp to the heaue, so that his heade reacheth vnto the cloudes: ⁷ yet he perisheth at the last like donge: In so moch yt they which haue sene him, saye: Where is he?

²² Though he had plenteousnesse of euerythinge, yet was he poore, & therfore he is but a wretch on euery syde. ²³ For though ye wicked haue neuer so moch to fyll his bely, yet God shal sende his wrath vpon him, and cause his battayll to rayne ouer him: ²⁴ so that yf he fle the yron weapens, he shall be shott with the stele bowe. ²⁵ The arowe shal be taken forth, & go out at his backe, and a glisteringe swearde thorow ye gall of him, feare shal come vpo him.

²⁰ Destruccion taketh holde vpo him as a water floude, & ye tepest stealeth him awaye in the night season.

¹⁸ Namely, how thou hast set the in a slippery place, that thou maiest cast the downe headlynges & destroye the. ¹⁹ O how sodenly do they consume, perish, & come to a fearfull ende? ²⁰ Yee euen like as a dreame when one awaketh, so makest thou their ymage to vanish out of the cite.

⁷ That the vngodly are grene as the grasse, and that all the workes of wickednes do florish, to be destroyed for euer.

²⁶ Therfore shal I also laugh in yor destruccion, and mocke you, when ye thinge that ye feare cometh vpon you: ²⁷ euen whe ye thinge that ye be afrayed of, falleth in sodenly like a storme, and yor misery like a tempest: yee wha trouble and heuynesse cometh vpon you.

²¹ But vpon a daye appoynted, Herode put on ye kyngly apparell, sat him downe vpon the iudgment seate, and made an oracion vnto them. ²² As for the people, they cried therto: This is a voyce of God, and not of a man. ²³ Immediatly the angell of the LORDE smote him, because he gaue not God the honoure: And he was eaten vp of wormes, and gaue vp the goost.

¹⁰ Nether murmur ye, as some of them murmured, and were destroyed thorow the destroyer.

³ For whan they shal saye: Tush, It is peace, there is no daunger, then shall soden destruccion come vpo the, euen as the payne of a woman trauaylinge with childe, and they shal not escape.

¹¹ And they had a kinge ouer them, which is the angel of the bottomlesse pyt, whose name in the hebrew tonge, is Abadon: but in the greke tonge, Apollion.

³³ Whyle he was thus talkynge wt them, beholde, ye messaunger came to him, & sayde: Beholde, this euell cometh of ye LORDE, and what more shal I loke for of the LORDE?

¹¹ What power haue I to endure? Or? what is myne ende, that my soule might be paciet?

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

²⁹ But bewarre of the swearde, for the swearde wylbe avenged of wickednesse, and be sure, that there is a iudgment.

¹⁴ Yf he get many childre, they shal perish wt the swearde, & his posterite shall haue scarcenesse of bred.

²¹ Yf he do not this, he stombleth and suffreth huger. And yf he suffre honger, he is out of pacience, and blasphemeth his kynge and his God. Then loketh he vpwarde, and downewarde to the earth, ²² and beholde, there is trouble and darcknesse, vexacion is rounde aboute him, and the cloude of erroure And out of soch aduersite, shall he not escape.

⁵ And he cast the syluer pens in the teple, and gat him awaye, and wente and hanged him self.

¹² Whan thou tyllest ye grounde, she shall hensforth not geue hir power vnto the. A vagabunde and a rennagate shalt thou be vpon ye earth.

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.

¹² Honger shalbe his substaunce, and my?fortune shall hange vpon him.

¹⁸ he shalbe dryuen from the light into darcknesse, and be cast clene out of the worlde.

³ For very misery & honger, they wente aboute in the wildernesse like wretches & beggers, ⁴ pluckynge vp herbes from amonge the bu?shes, & the Iunipers rote was their meate.

¹⁵ Let the runne here & there for meate, and grudge when they haue not ynough.

¹⁰ Let the extorcioner cosume all that he hath, and let straungers spoyle his laboure.

⁸ Yf a man lyue many yeares, and be glad in them all, let him remembre the dayes of darcknesse, which shalbe many: & when they come, all thinges shalbe but vanite.

⁶ Afore tyme we yelded oure selues to the Egipcians, and now to the Assirians, only that we might haue bred ynough.

⁹ We must get or lyuynge with the parell of oure lyues, because of the drouth of the wildernesse.

² a darcke daye, a gloomynge daye, a cloudy daye, yee & a stormy daye, like as the mornynge spredeth out vpo the hilles: Namely, a great & mightie people: soch as haue not bene sens ye begynnynge, nether shal be after them for euermore.

²⁰ Shall not the daye of the LORDE be darcke, and not cleare? shal it not be cloudy, and no shyne in it?

¹⁵ for that daye is a daye of wrath, a daye of trouble & heuynesse, a daye of vtter destruccion & mysery, a darcke & glomynge daye, a cloudy & stormy daye,

²⁷ but a fearfull lokynge for iudgment, and violente fyre, which shal deuoure ye aduersaries.

³⁷ were stoned, were hewen a sunder, were tempted, were slayne with the swerde, wente aboute in shepe skynnes and goates skynnes, in nede, in tribulacion, in vexacion, ³⁸ which (men) the worlde was not worthy of: they wandred aboute in wyldernesses, vpon mountaynes, in dennes and caues of the earth.

² O that my misery weere weyed, and my punyshment layed in the balaunces: ³ for then shulde it be heuyer, then the sonde of the see. This is the cause, that my wordes are so soroufull. ⁴ For the allmighty hath shott at me with his arowes, whose indignacion hath droncke vp my sprete, and ye terrible feares of God fight agaysnt me.

¹⁴³ Trouble and heuynesse haue take holde vpo me, yet is my delite in thy commaundementes.

²⁷ euen whe ye thinge that ye be afrayed of, falleth in sodenly like a storme, and yor misery like a tempest: yee wha trouble and heuynesse cometh vpon you.

¹¹ so shal pouerte come vnto the as one yt trauayleth by the waye, & necessite like a wapened man.

³⁴ so shall pouerte come vnto the as one yt trauayleth by ye waye, & necessite like a wapened man.

³ For I will sende for my debites and my gyautes (sayeth the LORDE) and in my wrath I will call for soch, as tryumphe in my glory.

³⁷ And he toke with him Peter, and the two sonnes of Zebede, and beganne to wexe soroufull and to be in an agonye. ³⁸ Then sayde Iesus vnto them: My soule is heuy euen vnto the death. Tary ye here, and watch with me.

⁹ trouble and anguysh vpo all the soules of me that do euell, of the Iewe first and also of the Greke:

² Pharao answered: What felowe is the LORDE, that I must heare his voyce, and let Israel go? ³ I knowe not the LORDE, nether wil I let Israel go.They sayde: The God of the Hebrues hath called vs. Let vs go now therfore thre dayes iourney in the wildernes, & do sacrifice vnto the LORDE or God, yt there happen not vnto vs pestilece or swerde.

¹⁷ Thou holdest my people yet, & wilt not let them go,

²³ But yf ye wyl not yet be refourmed here withall, and wyll walke contrary vnto me,

⁷ they were afrayed & sayde: God is come in to the hoost. And they sayde morouer: Wo vnto vs, for it hath not bene thus afore tyme. ⁸ Wo vnto vs. Who wil delyuer vs fro the hande of these hye goddes? These are the goddes that smote Egipte wt all maner of plages in the wyldernesse. ⁹ Be stronge now and manly ye Philistynes, that ye serue not the Hebrues as they haue serued you. Be manly and fighte.

⁶ Why harden ye youre hert, as the Egipcians and Pharao hardened their hert? Whan he shewed him selfe vpon them dyd not they let them departe to go their waye?

⁹ then sheweth he them their workes ad dedes and the synnes wherwt they haue vsed cruell violence.

⁹ Is thine arme then like the arme of God? Maketh thy voyce soch a soude as his doth? ¹⁰ Then arme thy self with thine owne power, vp, decke the in thy ioly araye, ¹¹ poure out the indignacion of thy wrath: se that thou cast downe all ye proude,

⁷ Sela.The rightuous shal se this, & feare, and laugh him to scorne.

⁹ They stretch forth their mouth vnto the heauen, & their tonge goeth thorow the worlde.

¹¹ Tush (saye they) how shulde God perceaue it? is there knowlege in the most hyest?

⁹ Go together ye people, and gather you, herken to all ye of farre countrees. Mustre you, and gather you: mustre you and gather you, ¹⁰ take youre councel together, yet must youre councel come to nought: go in honde withal, yet shal it not prospere. Excepte Emanuel: (that is God) be with

¹² Wherfore the LORDE saieth: As soone as I haue perfourmed my whole worcke vpon the Hyl of Syon and Ierusalem: the will I also vyset the noble and stoute kynge of Assiria, with his wysdome and pryde. ¹³ For he stondeth thus in his owne coceate: This do I, thorow the power of myne owne honde, and thorow my wisdome: For I am wyse, I am he that remoue the londes of the people, I robbe their prynces: and (like one of the worthies) I dryue them from their hie seates. ¹⁴ My honde hath founde out the hoostes of the people, as it were a nest. And like as egges, that were layde here and there, are gathered together: So do I gather all countrees. And there is no man, yt darre be so bolde, as to touch a fether, that darre open his mouth, or once whisper.

⁴ Who will compell me, that I greatly forgettinge all faithfulnesse, shulde burne it vp at once wt thornes & bushes?

⁴ Who hath made, created, and called the generacions from the begynnynge? Euen I the LORDE, which am the first, and with the last. ⁵ Beholde ye Iles, that ye maye feare, and ye endes of the earth, that ye maye be abasshed, draw nye, and come hither. ⁶ Euery man hath exorted his neghboure, and brother, and bydden him be stronge. ⁷ The Smyth conforted the moulder, & the Ironsmyth the hammerman, sayenge: It shalbe good, that we fasten this cast worke: and then they fastened it with nales, that it shulde not be moued.

²³ but hast magnified thy selff aboue the LORDE off heauen, so that the vessels off his house were brought before the: that thou, and thy lordes, with thy quene and concubynes, might drynke wyne therout: And hast praysed the Idols of syluer and golde, copper and yron, off wodde & stone: As for the God, in whose honde consisteth thy breth ad all thy wayes: thou hast not loaued him.

⁵ He sayde: LORDE, who art thou? The LORDE sayde: I am Iesus, who thou persecutest. It shalbe harde for ye to kycke agaynst the prycke.

¹ At the same tyme layed kynge Herode handes vpon certayne of the congregacion, to vexe them.

²³ Immediatly the angell of the LORDE smote him, because he gaue not God the honoure: And he was eaten vp of wormes, and gaue vp the goost.

⁸ Iuda, thou art he. Thy brethren shall prayse the: for thy hade shal be in thine enemies neck: thy fathers children shall stoupe vnto the.

²² Morouer kinge Achas trespaced yet more against the LORDE euen in his trouble,

¹³ Knowe ye not what I and my fathers haue done to all ye people in the londes? Haue the goddes of the Heythen in the londes bene able to delyuer their countrees fro my hande? ¹⁴ What is he amonge all the goddes of these Heythen (whom my father damned) that was able to delyuer his people fro my hande? yt youre God shulde be able to delyuer fro my hande. ¹⁵ Therfore let not Ezechias now disceaue you, and let him not persuade you eny soch thinge, and beleue him not. For yf no god of all the Heythe and kyngdomes might delyuer his people fro my hande and from the hande of my progenitours, then shal not youre goddes be able to delyuer you fro my hande. ¹⁶ His seruautes also spake yet more against the LORDE God, and agaynst his seruaunt Ezechias. ¹⁷ And he wrote a letter to blaspheme the LORDE God of Israel, and spake of him, and sayde: Like as the goddes of the Heythen in their londes haue not bene able to delyuer their people from my hande, euen so shal not the God of Ezechias delyuer his people fro my hande.

¹² I was somtyme in wealth, but sodenly hath he brought me to naught. He hath taken me by the neck, he hath rente me, and set me, as it were a marck for him to shute at.

⁴⁰ Thou hast made myne enemies to turne their backes vpon me, thou hast destroyed the yt hated me.

¹⁵ And whan he was fat and had ynough, he waxed wanton. He is fat, and thicke, and smothe, & hath letten God go, that made him, and despysed the rocke of his saluacion.

¹⁰ As for you, turne you, & get you hence, for I can not se one wyse ma amonge you.

¹⁰ Which manteyne their owne welthynesse with oppression, & their mouth speaketh proude thinges.

⁷ Their eyes swell for fatnesse, they do euen what they lyst.

³¹ But whyle ye meate was yet in theyr mouthes: The heuy wrath of God came vpo the, slewe ye welthiest of the, & smote downe ye chosen men of Israel.

¹⁰ Harden the harte of this people, stoppe their eares, and shut their eyes, that they se not wt their eyes, heare not with their eares, and vnderstonde not with their hartes, and conuerte and be healed.

²⁸ herof are they fat and welthy, and are runne awaye fro me with shamefull blasphemies. They ministre not the lawe, they make no ende of the fatherlesses cause, they iudge not the poore acordinge to equite.

¹⁴ like as the kynges ad lordes of ye earth, which buylde them selues speciall places:

¹⁵ Other men shall dwel in his house (which now is none of his) and brymstone shalbe scatered vpon his habitacion.

⁸ Wo to you that ioyne one house to another, and bringe one londe so nigh vnto another, till ye can get no more grounde. Wil ye dwell vpon the earth alone? ⁹ The LORDE of hoostes rowneth me thus i myne eare: shal not many greater and more gorgions houses be so waist, that no man shall dwell in the? ¹⁰ And ten akers of vynes shal geue but a Quarte, and xxx. bushels of sede shal geue but thre.

¹¹ I will make Ierusalem also an heape of stones, and a denne of venymous wormes. And I wil make the cities of Iuda so waist, that no man shal dwell therin.

¹⁸ Micheas the Morascite, which was a prophet vnder Ezechias kinge of Iuda, spake to all the people of Iuda: Thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes: Sion shalbe plowed like a felde, Ierusale shalbe an heape of stones, & the hill of the LORDES house shalbe turned to an hie wod.

³⁷ Babilon shal become an heape of stones, a dwellinge place for dragons, a fearfulnes & wondringe, because no man dwelleth there.

¹² Therfore shal Sion (for youre sakes) be plowed like a felde: Ierusale shall become an heape of stones, and the hill of ye temple shal be turned to an hye wodde.

¹⁸ Where is there soch a God as thou? that pardonest wickednes, and forgeuest the offences of the remnaunt of thine heretage? He kepeth not his wrath for euer. And why? his delyte is to haue compassion:

²² Though he had plenteousnesse of euerythinge, yet was he poore, & therfore he is but a wretch on euery syde. ²³ For though ye wicked haue neuer so moch to fyll his bely, yet God shal sende his wrath vpon him, and cause his battayll to rayne ouer him: ²⁴ so that yf he fle the yron weapens, he shall be shott with the stele bowe. ²⁵ The arowe shal be taken forth, & go out at his backe, and a glisteringe swearde thorow ye gall of him, feare shal come vpo him. ²⁶ There shal no darcknes be able to hyde him. An vnkyndled fyre shal consume him, and loke what remayneth in his house, it shall be destroyed. ²⁷ The heauen shall declare his wickednesse, & the earth shal take parte agaynst him. ²⁸ The substaunce that he hath in his house, shalbe taken awaye and perish, in the daye of the LORDES wrath.

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.

¹⁶ Though he haue as moch money as the dust of the earth, & raymet as ready as the claye, ¹⁷ he maye well prepare it: but the godly shal put it vpon him, and the innocet shal deale out the money.

¹⁶ Sela. O be not thou afrayed, whan one is made riche, & the glory of his house increased. ¹⁷ For he shal cary nothinge awaye wt him when he dyeth, nether shal his pompe folowe him.

² And he called him, and sayde vnto him: How is it, that I heare this of the? geue acomptes of yi stewardshipe, for thou mayest be no longer stewarde.

¹⁹ There was a certayne riche man, which clothed him self with purple and costly lynnen, and fared deliciously euery daye. ²⁰ And there was a poore man named Lazarus which laye at his gate full of sores, ²¹ and desyred to be fylled with the crommes, that fell from the riche mans table. Yet came the dogges, and licked his sores. ²² But it fortuned, that the poore man dyed, and was caried of the angels in to Abrahams bosome. The riche man dyed also, and was buried.

¹¹ The Sonne ryseth wt heat and the grasse wydereth, & his floure falleth awaye, and the beautie of the fassion of it perissheth: euen so shal the ryche man perisshe with his abundaunce.

¹ Goo to now ye riche men. Wepe, and howle on yor wretchednes that shal come vpon you. ² Youre riches is corrupte, youre garmetes are motheaten. ³ Youre golde & yor siluer are cancred, & the rust of them shalbe a witnes vnto you, & shal eate youre flesshe, as it were fyre. Ye haue heaped treasure togedder in yor last dayes:

⁹ For whe God bloweth vpon them, they perysh, and are destroyed thorow the blast of his wrath.

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.

²¹ afore I go thyther, from whence I shal not turne agayne: Namely, to that londe of darcknesse & shadowe of death: ²² yee into that darck clowdy londe & deadly shadowe, where as is no ordre, but terrible feare as in the darcknesse.

²² He beleueth neuer to be delyuered out of darcknesse, the swearde is allwaye before his eyes.

²⁶ There shal no darcknes be able to hyde him. An vnkyndled fyre shal consume him, and loke what remayneth in his house, it shall be destroyed.

²⁰ that their increase shal be hewen downe, & their posterite consumed with the fyre.

⁴ but with rightousnesse shal he iudge the poore, and with holynes shal he refourme the symple of the worlde. He shal smyte ye worlde with ye staff of his mouth, & with ye breath of his mouth shal he slaye the wicked.

³³ For he hath prepared the fyre of payne from the begynnynge, yee euen for kynges also. This hath he made depe & wyde, ye norishinge therof is fyre and wodde innumerable, which the breath ofte LORDE kyndleth, as it were a match of brymstone.

⁴ Beholde, it is cast in the fyre to be brent, the fyre consumeth both the endes of it, the myddest is brent to a?shes. Is it mete then for eny worke? No. ⁵ Seinge then, that it was mete for no worke, beinge whole: moch lesse maye there eny thinge be made of it, when the fyre hath consumed and brent it. ⁶ And therfore thus saieth the LORDE God: Like as I cast the vyne in to the fyre for to be brent, as other trees of the wod: Euen so wil I do with them that dwell in Ierusalem, ⁷ and set my face agaynst them: they shall go out from the fyre, and yet the fyre shall consume them. Then shal ye knowe, that I am the LORDE, when I set my face agaynst them,

⁴⁷ and saye to the wodde towarde the souht: Heare the worde of the LORDE, thus saieth the LORDE God: Beholde, I wil kyndle a fyre in the, yt shal cosume the grene trees wt the drye. No man shal be able to quench his flame, but all that loketh from the south to the north, shal be brent therin: ⁴⁸ & all flesh shal se, that I the LORDE haue kyndled it, so that no man maye quench it.

¹² and the chyldren of the kyngdome shalbe cast out in to vtter darcknes: there shalbe wepinge & gnasshing of teth.

¹³ Then sayde the kynge vnto his seruauntes: Take and bynde him hande and fote, & cast him into ye vtter darcknes: there shal be waylinge and gnasshinge of teth.

⁴¹ Then shal he saye also vnto them that shalbe on the left hande: Departe fro me ye cursed in to the euerlastinge fyre, which is prepared for the deuell and his angels.

⁴³ Yf thy hade offende the, cut him of. Better it is for the to entre in to life lame, the hauynge two hondes to go in to hell in to the euerlastinge fyre, ⁴⁴ where their worme dyeth not, and their fyre goeth not out. ⁴⁵ Yf thy fote offende the, cut him of. Better it is for the to entre into life crepell, the hauynge two fete to be cast in to hell in the fyre euerlastynge, ⁴⁶ where their worme dyeth not, and their fyre goeth not out. ⁴⁷ Yf thine eye offende the, cast him from the. Better it is for the to entre in to ye kyngdome of God with one eye, then hauynge two eyes to be cast in to the fyre of hell: ⁴⁸ where their worme dyeth not, and their fyre goeth not out. ⁴⁹ For euery ma must be salted wt fyre, & euery offerynge shalbe seasoned wt salt.

⁸ and with flammynge fyre, to geue vengeauce vnto them that knowe not God, and to them that obeye not the Gospell of oure LORDE Iesus Christ. ⁹ Which shalbe punyshed with euerlastinge damnacion, from ye presence of the LORDE, and from the glory of his power,

¹⁷ These are welles without water, & cloudes caried aboute of a tepest: to who ye myst of darknesse is reserued foreuer.

¹³ They are the ragynge waues of the see, fominge out their awne shame. They are wandrynge starres, to who is reserued the myst of darcknes for euer.

¹⁵ and out of his mouthe wente a sharppe swerde, that with it he shulde smyte the Heithen: And he shall rule them with a rodde of yron, and he trode the wynefatte of the fearcenesse and wrath of allmightye God.

⁸ As for those that plowe wickednesse (as I haue sene myself) and sowe myschefe, they reape ye same.

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

¹⁰ O trust not in wronge & robbery, geue not yor selues vnto vanite: yf riches increase, set not yor herte vpon them.

⁸ He yt soweth wickednesse, shal reape sorowe, & the rodde of his plage shal destroye him.

¹⁰ So shalt thou (o Damascus) be desolate, because thou hast forgotte God yi Sauioure, & hast not called to remebraunce ye rock of thi stregth, Wherfore thou hast also set a fayre plate, & grafted a straunge braunch. ¹¹ In the daye when thou diddest plante it, it was greate, and gaue soone the frute of thi sede: But in the daye of haruest, thou shalt reape an heape of sorowes & miseries.

²⁰ The kepinge of dust, and folishnesse of herte hath turned them a syde: so that none of them can haue a fre conscience to thinke: maye not I erre?

⁴ No man regardeth righteousnes, & no ma iudgeth truly Euery man hopeth in vayne thinges, and ymagineth disceate, coceaueth weerynesse, & bringeth forth euell.

⁷ They haue sowne wynde, therfore shal they reepe a storme. Their sede shal beare no corne, there shal no meel be made of their increase: though yere be, yet shall straungers deuoure it vp.

⁸ They that holde of vayne vanyties, wil forsake his mercy.

³ But yf eny man thinke himselfe to be somwhat (whan in dede he is nothinge) the same disceaueth himselfe.

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.

⁶ (Let no man disceaue you with vayne wordes) for because of these commeth the wrath of God vpon the children of vnbeleue.

¹⁶ Oft tymes a thinge doth florish, and men thynke that it maye abyde the Sonneshyne: it shuteth forth the braunches in his garden, ¹⁷ it taketh many rotes, in so moch that it is like an house off stones. ¹⁸ But yf it be taken out off his place, euery man denyeth it, sayenge: I knowe the not. ¹⁹ Lo, thus is it wt him, that reioyseth in his owne doinges: and as for other, they growe out of the earth.

⁷ Yf a tre be cutt downe, there is some hope yet, that it will sproute and shute forth the braunches againe: ⁸ For though a rote be waxen olde and deed in the grounde, yet whe the stocke ⁹ getteth the sent of water, it will budde, and brynge forth bowes, like as when it was first planted.

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:

¹⁶ both olde & yonge, whose foundacion is a runnynge water,

⁵ Sela. Thou louest to speake all wordes yt maye do hurte, O thou false toge. ⁶ Therfore shal God cleane destroyethe, smyte the in peces, plucke the out of thy dwellinge, and rote the out of the londe of the lyuinge. ⁷ Sela.The rightuous shal se this, & feare, and laugh him to scorne. ⁸ Lo, this is the ma, yt toke not God for his stregth, but trusted vnto the multitude of his riches, & was mightie in his wickednesse.

²³ The bloudthurstie and disceatfull shal not lyue out half their daies. Neuerthelesse my trust is in the.

¹⁷ be nether to vnrightuous also ner to foolish, lest thou die before thy tyme.

¹¹ Their haruest shal be brent, their wyues which were their bewtie when they came forth: shalbe defyled. For it is a people without vnderstodinge, and therfore he yt created them, shal not fauoure them: and he yt made them, shal not be merciful to the.

⁸ Neuertheles it was plated vpon a good grounde besyde greate waters: so that (by reason) it shulde haue brought out braunches and frute, and haue bene a goodly vyne. ⁹ Speake thou therfore, thus saieth the LORDE God: Shal this vyne prospere? shal not his rotes be pluckte out, his frute broken of, his grene braunches wythereed and fade awaye? yee without ether stronge arme or many people, shal it be plucked vp by the rotes. ¹⁰ Beholde, it was planted: shall it prospere therfore? Shall it not be dryed vp and withered, yee euen in the shutinge out of his blossomes, as soone as ye east wynde bloweth?

¹⁶ Ephraim is hewen downe, their rote is dryed vp, so yt they shal bringe nomore frute: yee and though they bringe forth eny, yet wil I slaye euen the best beloued frute of their body.

⁵ Yee I wolde be vnto Israel as the dewe, and he shulde growe as ye lylie, & his rote shulde breake out as Libanus. ⁶ His braunches shulde sprede out abrode, & be as fayre as the olyue tre, & smel as Libanus. ⁷ They that dwel vnder his shadowe, shulde come agayne, & growe vp as the corne, & florish as the vyne: he shulde haue as good a name, as the wyne of Libanus.

⁶ He that abydeth not in me, is cast out as a vyne braunche, and it wythereth, and men gather it vp, and cast it in to the fyre, and it burneth.

³⁹ Thou shalt plante vynyardes and dresse the, but thou shalt nether drynke of the wyne, ner gather of ye grapes: for ye wormes shal consume it. ⁴⁰ Thou shalt haue Olyue trees in all yi coastes, but shalt not be anoynted with the oyle: for thyne Oliue trees shalbe roted out.

⁹ the desolate earth is in heuynes. Libanus taketh it but for a sporte, that it is hewen downe: Saron is like a wyldernes: Basa & Charmel are turned vpside downe.

¹³ and the starres of heauen fell vnto the earth, euen as a fygge tree castith from her her fygges, when she is shaken off a mighty wynde.

³ Neuertheles his sonnes walked not in his wayes, but enclyned vnto couetousnes, & toke giftes, & wraysted the lawe.

³ Beholde, here am I: answere ye agaynst me before the RORDE and his anoynted, yf I haue taken eny mans oxe or asse, yf I haue done eny man violence or wronge, If I haue oppressed eny ma, yf I haue receaued a gifte of eny mans hande, and kepte it secretly, I wil restore it you agayne.

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

²² They that hate the, shalbe confounded, & ye dwellinges of ye vngodly shal come to naught.

¹⁴ yf thou woldest put awaye the wickednesse, which thou hast in honde, so that no vngodlynesse dwelt in thy house:

¹ Then answered Sophar the Naamathite, and sayde:

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

⁸ What hope hath ye Ypocrite, though he haue greate good, and though God geue him riches after his hertes desyre?

¹² For I delyuered ye poore whe he cried, & the fatherlesse yt wanted helpe. ¹³ He yt shulde haue bene lost, gaue me a good worde, & ye widdowes hert praised me. ¹⁴ And why? I put vpon me rightuousnes, which couered me as a garmet, & equite was my crowne. ¹⁵ I was an eye vnto the blynde, & a fote to the lame. ¹⁶ I was a father vnto the poore, & whe I knew not their cause, I sought it out diligetly. ¹⁷ I brake the chaftes of ye vnrightuous, & plucte the spoyle out of their teth.

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.

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? ¹⁵ He that ledeth a godly life (saye I) & speaketh the treuth: He that abhorreth to do violence and disceate: he that kepeth his hode that he touch no rewarde: which stoppeth his eares, that he heare no councel agaynst the innocent: which holdeth downe his eyes, that he se no euel.

¹¹ For so moch the as ye oppresse ye poore, and robbe him of his best sustenaunce: therfore, where as ye haue buylded houses off square stone, ye shall not dwell in them. Maruelos pleasaunt vynyardes shall ye plante, but the wyne of the shal ye not drynke: and why? ¹² as for the multitude of youre wickednesses and youre stoute synnes, I knowe them right well. Enemies are ye off the rightuous, ye take rewardes, ye oppresse the poore in iudgment.

² There is not a godly man vpo earth, there is not one rightuous amoge me. They laboure all to shed bloude, & euery ma hunteth his brother to death:

⁵¹ and shal hew him in peces and geue him his rewarde with ypocrytes: there shal be waylinge and gnasshinge of teth.

¹⁴ Beholde, he trauayleth with myschefe, he hath coceaued vnhappynesse, and brought forth a lye.

⁴ No man regardeth righteousnes, & no ma iudgeth truly Euery man hopeth in vayne thinges, and ymagineth disceate, coceaueth weerynesse, & bringeth forth euell. ⁵ They brede cockatrice egges, & weeue ye spyders webb. Who so eateth of their egges, dieth. But yf one treade vpon the, there cometh vp a serpent.

¹³ But now they haue plowed them wickednesse, therfore shal they reepe synne, and eate the frute of lyes. Seinge thou puttest thy cofidence in thine owne wayes, and leanest to ye multitude of thy worthies:

¹⁵ The whe lust hath conceaued, she bringeth forth synne, & synne when it is fynished, bringeth forth deeth.