Job 18 Cross References - Coverdale

¹ Then answered Baldad the Suhite, and sayde: ² when wil ye make an ende of youre wordes? Marcke well, and considre, we wil speake also. ³ Wherfore are we counted as beestes, & reputed so vyle in youre sight? ⁴ Why destroyest thou thy self with anger? Shal ye earth be forsaken, or the stones remoued out of their place because of ye? 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.

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 Baldad the Suhite, and sayde:

¹ Then answered Baldad the Suhite, & 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. 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. 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,

⁵ but be couered with darcknesse, and the shadowe of death. Let the dymme cloude fall vpon it, and let it be lapped in with sorowe. ⁶ Let the darckstorme ouercome ye night, let it not be reckened amonge the dayes off the yeare, ner counted in the monethes.

¹⁷ There must the wicked ceasse from their tyranny, there soch as are ouerlaboured, be at rest:

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?

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.

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?

² O heare my wordes, and amende yor selues.

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

¹³ He that geueth sentece in a matter before he heare it, is a foole, and worthy to be confounded.

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

⁷ Axe the catell, & they shal enfourme the: the foules of the ayre, and they shall tell ye: ⁸ Speake to the earth, and it shall shewe the: Or to the fyshes of the see, and they shal certifie the.

⁴ Thou hast withholde their hertes from vnderstodinge, therfore shall they not be set vp an hye.

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

²² So foolish was I and ignoraunt, and as it were a beest before the.

¹⁸ I comoned wt myne owne herte also cocernynge the childre of men: how God hath chosen them, and yet letteth the apeare, as though they were beastes:

¹⁰ Be kynde one to another with brotherly loue. In geuynge honoure go one before another.

² As for the foolish man displeasure kylleth him, and anger slayeth ye ignoraunt.

¹⁴ Wherfore do I beare my flesh in my teth, and my soule in myne hondes?

¹⁸ The mountaynes fall awaye at the last, the rockes are remoued out of their place,

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

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

¹⁰ The mountaynes shall remoue, & the hilles shal fall downe: but my louynge kyndnesse shal not moue, and the bonde off my peace shal not fall downe fro ye, saieth ye LORDE thy merciful louer.

⁹ Then sayde he vnto me: The wickednesse of the house of Israel and Iuda is very greate: so that the lode is full of bloude, and ye cite full of vnfaithfulnesse: For they saye: Tush, ye LORDE regardeth not the earth, he seyth vs not.

⁹ And God sayd vnto Ionas: Art thou so angrie for the wylde vyne? And he sayde: yee very angrie am I euen vnto the deeth.

³⁵ Heauen and earth shal perishe, but my wordes shal not perishe.

¹⁸ and whan so euer he taketh him, he teareth him, and he fometh, and gnassheth with the teth, and pyneth awaye, & I haue spoken to thy disciples that they shulde cast him out, and they coude not.

³⁹ beholde, the sprete taketh him, and sodenly he crieth, and he teareth him, that he fometh, and with payne departeth he from him, whan he hath rente him. And

⁵ the prayse of the vngodly hath bene shorte, and that the ioye of Ypocrytes continued but ye twincklinge of an eye?

¹⁷ How oft shal the candle of ye wicked be put out? how oft commeth their destruccion vpon them? O what sorowe shall God geue them for their parte in his wrath?

¹⁹ But ye waye of the vngodly is as the darcknesse, wherin me fall, or they be awarre.

⁹ The light of the righteous maketh ioyfull, but the candle of the vngodly shal be put out.

²⁰ Who so curseth his father and mother, his light shalbe put out in the myddest of darcknesse.

²⁰ And why? ye wicked hath nothinge to hope for, & ye cadle of the vngodly shall be put out.

¹¹ But take hede, ye haue all kyndled a fyre, and gyrded youre selues with the flame: Ye walke in the glistrige of youre owne fyre, and in the flame that ye haue kyndled. This cometh vnto you fro my honde, namely, yt ye shal slepe in sorowe.

²⁸ Thou lightest my cadle, o LORDE my God: thou makest my darcknesse to be light.

²³ and the voyce of the brydegrome and of the bryde, shalbe herde no more in the for thy marchauntes were prynces of the earth. And with thyne inchautment were deceaued all nacions:

³¹ And whan it was tolde Dauid, that Achitophel was in the cofederacy with Absalom, he sayde: LORDE turne thou Achitophels councell to foolishnes.

¹⁴ Then sayde Absalom and euery man in Israel: The councell of Chusai the Arachite is better then Achitophels councell. But the LORDE broughte it so to passe, that ye good councell of Achitophel was hyndred, that the LORDE mighte brynge euell vpon Absalom.

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:

⁶ Thine owne mouth condemneth the, and not I: yee thine owne lippes shappe the an answere.

²² Though he had plenteousnesse of euerythinge, yet was he poore, & therfore he is but a wretch on euery syde.

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.

³⁶ Thou hast made rowme ynough vnder me for to go, that my fote steppes shulde not slyde.

¹⁰ The LORDE bryngeth the councell of the Heithen to naught, and turneth the deuyces of the people.

³⁰ but abhorred my councell, and despysed my correccion. ³¹ Therfore shal they eate ye frutes of their owne waye, and be fylled wt their owne councels: ³² for ye turnynge awaye of ye vnwyse shal slaye the, & ye prosperi of fooles shalbe their owne destruccio.

¹² So that yf thou goest therin, there shal no straytnesse hynder the: and when thou runnest, thou shalt not fall.

⁶ It shalbe brought to the Assirian, for a present vnto kinge Iareb. Ephraim shal receaue full punishment: Israel shalbe confounded for his owne ymaginacions,

¹⁹ For the wyssdome off this worlde is foolishnes with God. For it is wrytten: He compaseth the wyse in their craftynesse.

⁹ Yf it please the kynge, let him wryte, that they maye be destroyed, & so wil I weye downe ten thousande talentes of siluer, vnder the handes of the workmen, to be brought in to the kynges chamber.

¹³ and tolde Seres his wyfe and all his frendes, euery thynge that had happened him. Then sayde his wise men and Seres his wyfe vnto him: Yf it be Mardocheus of the sede of the Iewes, before who thou hast begonne to fall, thou canst do nothynge vnto him, but shalt fall before him.

⁵ The kynge Ahasuerus spake & saide vnto quene Hester: What is he that? Or where is he yt darre presume in his mynde to do soch a thinge after that maner?

¹⁰ So they hanged Aman on the galowe that he had made for Mardocheus. Then was the kynges wrath stylled.

¹⁰ Therfore art thou compased aboute with snares on euery syde, & sodely vexed wt feare.

¹⁵ As for the Heithen, the are suncke downe in the pytte that they made: in the same nette, which they spred out priuely, is their owne fote take.

⁸ Let a sodane destruccio come vpon him vnawarres, and ye nett that he hath layed priuely, catch him self, that he maye fall in to his owne myschefe.

²² The wickednesses of the vngodly shal catch himself, and with the snares of his owne synnes shal he be trapped.

⁶ The synne of ye wicked is his owne snare, but ye righteous shal be glad and reioyse.

³ Thus sayeth the LORDE God: I wil sprede my net ouer ye, namely, a greate multitude of people: these shal dryue the into my yarne,

⁷ He must also haue a good reporte of them which are without, lest he fall in to the rebuke and snare of the euell speaker.

⁹ For they that wylbe riche, fall in to the teptacion and snare, and in to many folisshe & noysome lustes, which drowne men in destruccion and damnacion.

²⁶ and to turne agayne from the snare of the deuell, which are holden in preson of him at his will.

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.

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.

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,

¹⁴ For he is the sanctifienge, and stone to stomble at, ye rock to fall vpon, a snare and net to both the houses: to Israel, and the inhabitours of Ierusalem. ¹⁵ And many shal stomble, fall, and be broke vpon him: yee they shalbe snared and taken.

⁶ Vpon the vngodly he shal rayne snares, fyre, brymstone, storme and tempest: this rewarde shal they haue to drynke.

¹³ My lyne will I sprede out vpon him, and catch him in my net, and carie him to Babilon, in the lode of the Caldees: which he shal not se, & yet shal he dye there.

⁹ And Dauid sayeth: Let their table be made a snare to take the withall, & an occasion to fall, & a rewarde vnto the.

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.

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. ⁷ And they gat them vp, and fled early in the twylight, and lefte their bothes, and horses and Asses in the tentes as they stode, & fled euery man where he mighte saue his life.

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.

²¹ A fearfull sounde is euer in his eares, & when it is peace, yet feareth he destruccion:

⁸ He vanysheth as a dreame, so that he can nomore be founde, & passeth awaye as a vision in ye night.

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.

⁵ They are afrayed, where no feare is: for God breaketh the bones of them that besege the: thou puttest them to confucion, for God despiseth them.

¹⁹ O how sodenly do they consume, perish, & come to a fearfull ende?

¹ The vngodly flyeth no man chasynge him, but the rightuous stondeth stiff as a lyon.

²⁵ Noman go forth in to the felde, no man come vpon the hie strete: for the swearde and feare of the enemie shalbe on euery side.

³ The nexte daye folowinge, Pashur brought Ieremy out of the stockes agayne. Then sayde Ieremy vnto him: The LORDE shall call the nomore Pashur (that is excellent and increasinge) but Magor (that is fearfull ad afrayed) euery where. ⁴ For thus saieth the LORDE: beholde, I will make the afrayed, the thy self, and all that fauoure ye: which shal perish with the swearde off their enemies, euen before yi face. And I wil geue whole Iuda vnder the power of the kinge of Babilon, which shall carie some vnto Babilon presoners, and slaye some with the swearde.

⁵ But alas, how happeneth it, that I se you so afrayed? why shrecke ye backe? where fore are youre worthies slayne? Yee they runne so fast awaye, that none off them loketh behynde him. Fearfulnesse is fallen vpon euerychone off them, saieth the LORDE.

²⁹ Their tentes and their flockes shal they take awaye, yee their hanginges and their vessell. Their Camels also shall they carie awaye with them. They shall come aboute them on euery syde with a fearfull crie.

¹¹ Seynge then that we knowe, how that the LORDE is to be feared, we fare fayre with men, but we are knowne well ynough vnto God: I trust also, that we are knowne in youre consciences.

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,

⁵ They that were fylled afore, are solde for bred: and they that were hongrie, are satisfied: vntyll the baren bare seuen, and tyll she that had many childre, was become weake.

³⁶ And who so euer remayneth of thy house, shall come and worshipe him for a syluer peny and for a pece of bred, and shall saye: I praye the leaue me to one prestes parte, that I maye eate a morsell of bred.

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.

¹² God is a rightuous iudge, & God is euer threateninge. Yf men wil not turne, he hath whet his swearde: he hath bent his bowe & made it ready. ¹³ He hath prepayred him the weapens of death, & ordened his arowes to destroye. ¹⁴ Beholde, he trauayleth with myschefe, he hath coceaued vnhappynesse, and brought forth a lye.

¹⁰ The rich shal want and suffre hunger, but they which seke the LORDE, shal wat no maner of thinge, that is good.

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

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,

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.

³ and thorow cuvetousnes shal they with fayned wordes make marchaundise of you, vpo who the iudgment is not necliget in tarienge of olde, and their damnacion slepeth not.

³ Rube my first sonne, thou art my power and the begynnynge of my strength, chefe in gouernaunce, & chefe in auctorite.

¹⁶ All that I haue, shall go downe in to the pytt, & lye with me in the dust.

³⁰ But the poore shall fede of the best thinges, and the symple shal dwell in safetie. Thy rotes wil I destroye wt honger, and it shall slaye yi remnaunt.

⁶ I wente downe to the botome of the hilles, & was barred in with earth for euer. But thou (o LORDE my God) hast brought vp my lyfe agayne out of corrupcion.

¹² This shalbe the plage, wherwith ye LORDE wil smyte all people, that haue fought agaynst Ierusalem: Namely, their flesh shall consume awaye, though they stonde vpon their fete: their eyes shall corruppe in their holes, and their tunge shal consume in their mouth.

⁸ And I loked, and beholde a pale horsse, and his name that sat on him was deeth, and hell folowed after him, & power was geue vnto them ouer the fourthe parte of the earth, to kyll with swearde, and wt honger, and with deeth, of the vermen of the earth.

¹⁴ His confidence shalbe destroyed, for he trusteth in a spyders webbe.

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

²⁰ As for the eyes of the vngodly, they shal be consumed, and not escape: their hope shalbe misery and sorow of mynde.

¹⁷ For as soone as the daye breaketh, the shadowe of death commeth vpo them, and they go in horrible darcknesse.

³⁴ Yff a man will cosidre all hye thinges, this same is a kynge ouer all the children off pryde.

⁴ Fearfullnesse and tremblinge are come vpon me, and an horrible drede hath ouerwhelmed me.

¹⁰ The vngodly shal se it, & it shal greue him: he shall gnash wt his teth & consume awaye, & the desyre of the vngodly shal perish.

²⁸ The pacient abydinge of the rightuous shalbe turned to gladnesse, but the hope of the vngodly shal perish.

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

²⁶ And who soeuer heareth of me these sayinges, & doth the not, shalbe lyckened vnto a folysh ma, which buylt his housse apon the sonde: ²⁷ Now whan abudaunce of rayne desceded, & the wyndes blewe, & bet vpon yt housse, it fell, and great was the fall of it.

⁵⁵ Death is swalowed vp in victory. Death, where is thy stynge? Hell, where is yi victory? ⁵⁶ The stynge of death is synne: The strength of synne is the lawe.

¹⁵ & that he mighte delyuer the which thorow feare of death were all their life tyme in dauger of bodage.

²⁴ Then the LORDE caused brymstone and fyre to rayne downe from the LORDE out of heauen vpon Sodoma and Gomorra,

²³ that he hath brent vp all their londe with brymstone and salt, so yt it cannot be sowne, ner is frutefull, nether groweth there eny grasse therin, Like as Sodom, Gomor, Adama and Zeboim are ouerthrowne, which the LORDE ouerthrewe in his wrath and anger.

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.

¹⁸ But laboure shal he, & yet haue nothinge to eate. Greate trauayle shal he make for riches, but he shal not enioye them. ¹⁹ And why? he hath oppressed the poore, and not helped them: houses hath he spoyled, and not buylded them. ²⁰ His bely coude neuer be fylled, therfore shall he perish in his couetousnesse. ²¹ He deuoured so gredely, yt he left nothinge behynde, therfore his goodes shal not prospere.

³⁸ But yf case be that my londe crie agaynst me, or yt the forowes therof make eny complaynte: ³⁹ yf I haue eaten the frutes therof vnpayed for, yee yf I haue greued eny of the plow men:

⁹ Thy floudes shalbe turned to pytch, and thine earth to brymstone, & therwith shal the londe be kyndled, ¹⁰ so that it shal not be quenched daye ner night: But smoke euermore, & so forth to lie waist. And no man shal go thorow thy londe for euer:

¹³ Wo worth him, that buyldeth his house with vnrightuousnes, ad his perlers with the good, that he hath gotten by violence: which neuer recompenseth his neghburs laboure, ner payeth him his hyre.

⁶ But shall not all these take vp a prouerbe agaynst him, and mocke him with a byworde, and saye: Wo vnto him that heapeth vp other mens goodes? How longe wil he lade himself with thicke claye? ⁷ O how sodenly wil they stonde vp, yt shal byte the, & awake, that shal teare ye in peces? yee thou shalt be their pray. ⁸ Seinge thou hast spoyled many Heithen, therfore shall the remnaunt of the people spoyle the: because of mens bloude, & for the wronge done in the londe, in the cite & vnto all them that dwel therin. ⁹ Wo vnto him, that couetously gathereth euell gotten goodes in to his house: that he maye set his nest an hye, to escape from the power of mysfortune. ¹⁰ Thou hast deuysed ye shame of thine owne house, for thou hast slayne to moch people, and hast wilfully offended: ¹¹ so that the very stones of the wall shal crie out of it, and the tymbre that lieth betwixte the ioyntes of the buyldinge shall answere.

⁴ I wil bringe it forth (saieth the LORDE of hoostes) so yt it shal come to the house of the thefe, & to the house of him, that falsely sweareth by my name: & shal remayne in his house, & cosume it, with the tymbre & stones therof.

²⁰ And the beeste was taken, and with him that false prophet that wrought myracles before him, with which he disceaued them that receaued the beestes marke, and them that worsshipped his ymage. These both were cast in to a ponde of fyre burnynge wt brymstone:

⁸ But the fearefull and vnbeleuynge, and the abhominable, and murthurers, and whormongers, and sorcerers, and ydolaters, & all lyars, shal haue their parte in the lake, that burneth with fyre and brymstone, which is the seconde death.

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:

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.

¹⁹ For my rote was spred out by the waters syde, & the dew laye vpo my corne.

²⁴ Therfore, like as fyre licketh vp the strawe, and as the flame cosumeth the stubble: Euen so (when their root is ful,) their blossome shal vanish awaye like dust or smoke. for they despyse the lawe of the LORDE of hoostes, and blaspheme the worde of the holy maker of Israel.

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.

⁹ Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, that was as hie as the Cedre trees, and as stronge as the okes: notwithstodinge I destroyed his frute fro aboue, and his rote from vnder.

¹ For marck, the daye commeth that shall burne as an oue: and all the proude, yee and all soch as do wickednesse, shalbe straw: and the daye that is for to come, shall burne the vp (sayeth the LORDE of hoostes) so that it shal leaue them nether rote ner braunch.

¹² youre remembraunce shalbe like the dust, & youre pryde shalbe turned to claye.

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

⁴ Come (saye they) let vs rote them out from amonge the people, that the name of Israel maye be put out of remebraunce.

¹³ Let the wickednesse of his fathers be had in remembraunce in the sight of the LORDE, and let not the synne of his mother be done awaye.

²² but the vngodly shalbe roted out of ye londe, and the wicked doers shalbe taken out of it.

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

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

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.

²² yee into that darck clowdy londe & deadly shadowe, where as is no ordre, but terrible feare as in the darcknesse.

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

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.

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. ¹⁴ Though they be fearful at night, yet in the morninge it is gone with the, This is their porcion, that do vs harme, and heretage of them, that robbe vs.

³³ The very same houre was this matter fulfylled vpo Nabuchodonosor: so that he was cast out off mes copany, & ate grasse like an oxe. His body was wet with the dew of heauen, till his hayres were as greate as Aegles fethers, and his nales like byrdes clawes.

²¹ He was shot out from amonge men, his herte was like a beestes herte, and his dwellynge was with the wylde Asses: he was fayne to eate grasse like an oxe, and his body was wet with the dew off the heauen: till he knewe, that the hyest had power vpon the kyngdomes of men, and setteth ouer them, whom he list.

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.

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.

⁴ Whe thy sonnes synned agaynst him, dyd not he punysh the for their wickednesse?

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.

¹⁴ Yf he get many childre, they shal perish wt the swearde, & his posterite shall haue scarcenesse of bred. ¹⁵ Loke whom he leaueth behinde him, they shal dye & be buried, & no man shall haue pite of his wyddowes.

¹³ He had children also: vij. sonnes and iij. doughters. ¹⁴ The first he called Daye, the seconde, pouerte: the thirde, All plenteousnes. ¹⁵ In all the londe were none founde so fayre, as the doughters of Iob, & their father gaue them enheritaunce amonge their brethren. ¹⁶ After this lyued Iob xl. yeares, so that he sawe his children, & his childers children vnto the fourth generacion.

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?

²¹ There shal a waye be sought to destroye their childre, for their fathers wickednes: they shal not come vp agayne to possesse the londe, and fyll the worlde ful of castels and townes. ²² I wil stonde vp agaynst them (sayeth the LORDE of hoostes) and root out ye name and generacion of Babilon (saieth the LORDE)

³⁰ Wryte this man amonge the outlawes, for no prosperite shall this man haue all his life longe. Nether shall eny of his sede be so happie, as to syt vpon the seate of Dauid, and to beare rule in Iuda.

²³ that he hath brent vp all their londe with brymstone and salt, so yt it cannot be sowne, ner is frutefull, nether groweth there eny grasse therin, Like as Sodom, Gomor, Adama and Zeboim are ouerthrowne, which the LORDE ouerthrewe in his wrath and anger. ²⁴ Then shall all nacions saye: Wherfore hath the LORDE done thus vnto this londe? What greate wrothfull displeasure is this?

⁸ and so shal this hye house: so that euery one yt goeth by, shall be astonyed, and make an hyssynge, and saye: Wherfore hath the LORDE done thus vnto this londe and to this house?

¹² So when they lifte vp their eyes a farre off, they knewe him not. Then they cried, and wepte: then euery one off them rente his clothes, and sprynckled dust vpon their heades in the ayre. ¹³ They sat them downe by him also vpon the grounde, vij. dayes and vij. nightes. Nether was there eny of them that spake one worde vnto him, for they sawe that his payne was very greate.

¹³ He hath put my brethren farre awaye fro me, and soch as were of myne acquauntaunce, are become straugers vnto me. ¹⁴ Myne owne kyn?folkes haue forsaken me, and my frendes haue put me out of remembraunce. ¹⁵ The seruauntes and maydens of myne owne house take me for a strauger, and I am become as an aleaunt in their sight. ¹⁶ When I call vpon my seruaut, he geueth me no answere: no though I praie him with my mouth. ¹⁷ Myne owne wyfe maye not abyde my breth, I am fayne to speake fayre vnto the children of myne owne body. ¹⁸ Yee the very deserte fooles despyse me, and when I am gone from them, they speake euell vpon me. ¹⁹ All soch as were my most familiers, abhorre me: and they whom I loued best, are turned agaynst me.

¹³ But ye LORDE laugheth him to scorne, for he seith yt his daye is cominge.

⁷ Remembre the childre of Edom (o LORDE) in the daye of Ierusalem, how they sayde: downe with it, downe with it, eue to the grounde.

¹⁶ Where thorow they haue brought their londe in to an euerlastinge wildernesse and scorne: So yt who so euer trauayleth ther by, shalbe abashed, and wagge their heades.

²⁷ They shal slaye all hir mightie souldyers, and put them to death. Wo be vnto the, for the daye & tyme of their visitacion is at honde.

²⁵ O thou shameful wicked gyde of Israel, whose daye is come: euen the tyme that wickednesse shall haue an ende:

¹¹ & that because of the tyme, when thou didest set thyself agaynst him, euen when the enemies caried awaye his hoost, and when the aleauntes came in at his portes, and cast lottes vpon Ierusalem, and thou thyself wast as one of them. ¹² Thou shalt nomore se the daye of thy brother, thou shalt nomore beholde the tyme of his captiuyte: thou shalt nomore reioyse ouer the children of Iuda, in the daye of their destruccion, thou shalt tryumphe nomore in the tyme of their trouble. ¹³ Thou shalt nomore come in at the gates off my people, in the tyme of their decaye: thou shalt not se their mysery in the daye of their fall. Thou shalt sende out no man agaynst their hoost, in the daye of their aduersite: ¹⁴ nether shalt thou stode waytinge enymore at ye corners of the stretes, to murthur soch as are fled, or to take them presoners, that remayne in the daye of their trouble. ¹⁵ For the daye off the LORDE is harde by vpon all Heithen. Like as thou hast done, so shalt thou be dealte withall, yee thou shalt be rewarded euen vpon thine heade.

⁴² and sayde: Yf thou knewest what were for yi peace, thou shuldest remebre it euen in this present daye of thine. But now is it hyd from thine eyes.

⁴⁴ and make the eauen with the grounde, and shal not leaue in the one stone vpon another, because thou hast not knowne ye tyme, wherin thou hast bene visited.

² Pharao answered: What felowe is the LORDE, that I must heare his voyce, and let Israel go?

¹⁰ And whan all the same generacion was gathered vnto their fathers, there came vp after them another generacion, which knew not the LORDE, ner the workes that he had done for Israel.

¹² But Elis sonnes were the childre of Belial, and knewe not the LORDE,

⁹ And thou my sonne Salomo, knowe thou the God of thy father, and serue him with all thy hert, and with the desyre of thy soule: for the LORDE searcheth all hertes, and vnderstondeth all thoughtes & ymaginacions Yf thou seke him, thou shalt fynde him: but yf thou forsake him, he shall refuse the for euer.

¹⁴ They saye vnto God: go from vs, we desyre not the knowlege of thy wayes.

²⁸ For ye saye: where is the prynces palace? where is the dwellynge of the vngodly:

⁶ Poure out thy indignacion vpon the Heithen that knowe the not, and vpon the kyngdomes that call not vpon thy name.

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.

²⁵ Poure out thy indignacion rather vpon the Getiles, that knowe ye not, and vpon the people that call not on thy name: And that because they haue consumed, deuoured and destroyed Iacob, and haue roted out his glory.

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,

⁵ & not in the lust of concupiscence, as the Heythen which knowe not God.

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.

¹⁶ They saye that they knowe God, but with the dedes they denye him: for so moch as they are abhominable and dishobedient, and vnmete to all good workes.