Job 9 Cross References - Coverdale

¹ Iob answered, and sayde: ² As for yt I knowe it is so of a treuth, yt a man compared vnto God, can not be iustified. ³ Yf he wil argue with him, he shall not be able to answere him vnto one amonge a thousande. ⁴ He is wyse of hert, and mightie in strength. Who euer prospered, that toke parte agaynst him? ⁵ He translateth the moutaynes, or euer they be awarre, & ouerthroweth them in his wrath. ⁶ He remoueth the earth out of hir place, that hir pilers shake withall. ⁷ He commaundeth the Sone, & it ryseth not: he closeth vp the starres, as it were vnder a signet. ⁸ He himself alone spredeth out ye heauens, and goeth vpon the wawes of the see. ⁹ He maketh the waynes of heauen, the Orions, the vij. starres and the secrete places of the south. ¹⁰ He doth greate thinges, soch as are vnsearcheable, yee and wonders without nombre. ¹¹ Yf he came by me, I might not loke vpo him: yf he wente his waye, I shulde not perceaue it. ¹² Yf he be haisty to take eny thinge awaye, who wil make him restore it agayne? Who wil saye vnto him: what doest thou? ¹³ He is God, whose wrath no man maye with stode: but the proudest of all must stoupe vnder him. ¹⁴ How shulde I then answere him? or, what wordes shulde I fynde out agaynst him? ¹⁵ Yee though I be rightuous, yet will I not geue him one worde agayne, but mekely submytte my self to my iudge. ¹⁶ All be it that I call vpon him, and he heare me, yet am I not sure, yt he hath herde my voyce: ¹⁷ he troubleth me so with the tempest, and woundeth me out of measure without a cause. ¹⁸ He will not let my sprete be in rest, but fylleth me wt bytternesse. ¹⁹ Yf men will speake of strength, he is the stogest of all: yf me will speake of rightousnes, who darre be my recorde? 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: ²¹ For that I shulde be an innocent, my coscience knoweth it not, yee I my self am weery off my life. 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? ²⁵ My dayes haue bene more swifte, then a runner: they are gone sodenly, and haue sene no good thinge. ²⁶ They are passed awaye, as the shippes that be good vnder sale, and as the Aegle that haisteth to the pray. ²⁷ When I am purposed to forget my complayninges to chaunge my countenaunce, and to coforte my self: ²⁸ then am I afrayed of all my workes, for I knowe, thou fauourest not an euell doer. ²⁹ Yf I be then a wicked one, why haue I laboured in vayne? ³⁰ Though I wasshed my self with snowe water, and made myne hondes neuer so clene, ³¹ yet shuldest thou dyppe me in ye myre, & myne owne clothes shulde defyle me. ³² For he yt I must geue answere vnto, and with whom I go to lawe, is not a man as I am. ³³ Nether is there eny dayes man to reproue both the partes, or to laye his hode betwixte vs. ³⁴ Let him take his rod awaye fro me, yee let him make me nomore afrayed of him, ³⁵ and then shal I answere him without eny feare. For as longe as I am in soch fearfulnesse, I can make no answere: And why?

⁶ And God sayde: let there be a firmament betwene the waters, and let it deuyde ye waters a sunder. ⁷ Then God made ye firmamet, and parted the waters vnder the firmamet, from the waters aboue the firmament: And so it came to passe.

¹⁶ And God made two greate lightes: one greater light to rule the daye, and a lesse light to rule the night, and (he made) starres also.

⁹ Moses tolde this vnto the childre of Israel. But they herkened not vnto him, for very anguysh of sprete, & for sore laboure.

¹⁴ els wyll I at this tyme sende all my plages in to thine hert, & vpon thy seruautes & vpon thy people: that thou mayest knowe, yt there is none like me in all londes. ¹⁵ For I will now stretch out my hande, & smyte the & thy people wt pestilence, so yt thou shalt be roted out from the earth. ¹⁶ Yet haue I stered ye vp for this cause, euen to shew my power vpon ye, and that my name might be declared in all londes. ¹⁷ Thou holdest my people yet, & wilt not let them go,

²¹ The LORDE sayde vnto Moses: Stretch out thine hade towarde heauen, that it be so darck in the londe of Egipte, yt it maye be felt. ²² And Moses stretched out his hade towarde heauen, the was there a thicke darcknesse in all the londe of Egipte thre dayes,

¹⁷ Beholde, I wyll harden ye hert of the Egipcians, yt they shall folowe after you. Thus wyl I get me honoure vpon Pharao, & vpon all his power, vpo his charettes and horsmen: ¹⁸ and the Egipcians shal knowe, that I am ye LORDE, whan I haue gotten me honor vpon Pharao, vpon his charettes, and vpon his horsmen.

¹¹ LORDE, who is like vnto the amonge ye goddes? Who is so glorious in holynes, fearfull, laudable, and doinge wonders?

⁷ Thou shalt not take the name of ye LORDE thy God in vayne. For the LORDE shal not holde him vngiltie, that taketh his name in vayne.

⁵ These are the names of the captaynes that shal stonde with you. Of Ruben, Elizur the sonne of Sedeur. ⁶ Of Simeon, Selumiel the sonne of Zuri Sadai.

¹⁹ God is not a man yt he shulde lye, ner a mans childe yt eny thinge shulde repente him. Shulde he saye and not do? Shulde he speake & not make it good?

¹² Then spake Iosua vnto the LORDE (the same daye that the LORDE gaue ouer the Amorites before the children of Israel) and sayde in the presence of Israel: Sonne, holde styll at Gibeon, and thou Moone in the valley of Aialon.

¹³ But Gedeon sayde vnto him: Syr, yf the LORDE be wt vs, wherfore is all this then happened vnto vs? And where are all the wonders, which oure fathers tolde vs, & sayde: The LORDE brought vs out of Egipte? But now hath the LORDE forsaken vs, and delyuered vs in to the hande of the Madianites.

⁸ He taketh vp the neady out of the dust, and lifteth vp ye poore out of the myre, that he maye set them amonge the prynces, and to let them inheret the seate of honoure: for the foundacions and corners of the worlde are the LORDES, and he hath set the compase of the earth theron.

²⁵ Yf eny ma synne agaynst a man, the iudge ca redresse it. But yf eny ma synne agaynst ye LORDE, who can redresse it? Neuertheles they herkened not vnto the voyce of their father, for the LORDES wyll was to slaye them.

⁷ But ye LORDE sayde vnto Samuel: loke not vpon his countenaunce, ner vpon the tallnesse of his person, For I iudge not after the sighte of man. A man hath respecte vnto the thinge that is before his eyes, but the LORDE loketh vpon the hert.

²³ Saul and Ionathas louely and pleasaut in their lyfe, and in their deeth were not parted asunder: lighter then Aegles, and stronger then lyons.

¹⁵ Thus am I come also to speake this to my lorde the kynge in the presence of the people, for thy handmayden thoughte: I wyll speake to the kynge, peraduenture he shall do that his handmayden sayeth,

¹⁷ And thy handmayden thoughte, ye worde of my lorde the kynge shall be as a meatofferynge, for my lorde the kinge is as an angell of God, so that he can heare good and euell, therfore shall the LORDE thy God be with the.

³⁰ But Dauid wente vp to mount Olyuete and wepte, & his heade was couered. And all the people that was with him, had euery man his heade couered and wente on and wepte.

⁴ As for the kynge, he had couered his face, and cryed loude, and sayde: Oh my sonne Absalom, Absalom my sonne, my sonne.

¹⁶ At the same tyme came there two harlottes vnto ye kynge, and stode before him. ¹⁷ And the one woman sayde: Oh my lorde, I and this woman dwelt in one house, and I was delyuered of a childe in the house with her: ¹⁸ & on the thirde daye after that I was delyuered, she was delyuered of a childe also. And we were together, so yt there was no straunger in ye house, but we two: ¹⁹ & this womans sonne died in the nighte (for she smoored him in the slepe) ²⁰ and she rose vp in the nighte, and toke my sonne fro my syde (where thy handmayde slepte,) and layed it in hir arme, and hir deed sonne layed she in myne arme. ²¹ And whan I rose vp in the mornynge to geue my sonne sucke, beholde, he was deed. But in the mornynge I loked well, and beholde, it was not my sonne, whom I had borne. ²² The other woman sayde: Not so, my sonne lyueth, and thy sonne is deed. But she sayde: Not so, thy sonne is deed, and my sonne liueth. And thus spake they before the kynge. ²³ And the kynge sayde: This woma saieth: my sonne lyueth and thy sonne is deed: Yonder woman sayeth: Not so, thy sonne is deed, & my sonne lyueth. ²⁴ And the kynge saide: Fetch me a swerde. And whan the swerde was brought before the kynge, ²⁵ the kynge sayde: Parte the lyuynge childe in two partes, and geue this woman the one halfe, and yonder woman the other halfe. ²⁶ Then sayde the woman whose sonne lyued, vnto ye kinge: (for hir motherly hert was kyndled with pite ouer hir sonne) Oh my lorde, geue hir the childe alyue, and kyll it not. But the other sayde: Let it nether be myne ner thine, but let it be parted. ²⁷ Then answered the kynge, and sayde: Geue this woman the lyuynge childe, and slaye it not, for she is his mother. ²⁸ And all Israel herde of this iudgment that the kynge had geuen: and they feared the kynge, for they sawe that ye wysdome of God was in him to kepe iudgmet.

²⁷ For thynkest thou yt God dwelleth vpon earth? Beholde, the heauens and the heauens of all heauens maye not contayne the: how shulde then this house do it, that I haue buylded?

³⁸ who so euer then maketh his prayer and peticion, whether it be eny other men or thy people of Israel (which the are aware of their plage) euery one in his hert, and spredeth out his handes vnto this house: ³⁹ Heare thou then in heauen in the seate where thou dwellest, and be mercifull, & se that thou geue euery one acordinge as he hath walked, like as thou knowest his hert (for thou onely knowest the hert of all the children of men)

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,

¹² Beholde, God is the captayne of oure hoost, and with vs are his prestes, and the blowynge trompettes, to trompe agaynst you. Ye children of Israel, fight not agaynst the LORDE God of yor fathers: for ye shal not prospere.

¹³ and prayed and besoughte him. Then herde he his prayer, and broughte him agayne to Ierusalem to his kyngdome. And Manasses knewe that the LORDE is God.

¹² And Mardocheus came agayne to the kynges gate, but Aman gat him home in all the haist, mournynge with bare heade,

⁸ And whan the kynge came agayne out of the palace garden in to ye parler where they had eaten, Aman had layed him vpon the bed that Hester sat vpon. Then saide the kinge: wyl he force the quene also besyde me in the house? As soone as that worde wente out of the kynges mouth, they couered Amans face.

¹⁴ And the postes that rode vpon the Mules, made haistwith all spede, acordinge to the kynges worde: and the commaundement was deuysed in the castel of Susan.

¹ In the lode of Hus there was a man called Iob: an innocent and vertuous man, soch one as feared God, and eschued euell.

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.

³ Then sayde the LORDE vnto Sathan: Hast thou not considered my seruaunt Iob, how that he is an innocent & vertuous man soch one as feareth God, and eschueth euell, and that there is none like him in the londe? But thou mouedest me agaynst him, to punysh him: yet is it in vayne, for he contynueth still in his godlynesse.

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

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.

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

²⁵ For the thynge that I feared, is come vpon me: and the thynge that I was afrayed of, is happened vnto me.

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

¹⁷ Maye a man be iustified before God? Maye there eny man be iudged to be clene, by reason of his owne workes?

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

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 The shulde I haue some coforte: yee I wolde desyre him in my payne, that he shulde not spare, for I will not be agaynst ye wordes of the holy one.

⁶ my dayes passe ouer more spedely, the a weeuer can weeue out his webbe, and are gone, or I am awarre. ⁷ O remembre, that my life is but a wynde, ad that myne eye shal nomore se the pleasures

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

¹³ When I thynke: my bedd shall comforte me, I shall haue some refresshinge by talkynge with myself vpon my couche:

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

¹⁹ Why goest thou not fro me, ner lettest me alone, so longe till I swalow downe my spetle?

²¹ Why doest thou not forgeue me my synne? Wherfore takest thou not awaye my wickednesse? Beholde, now must I slepe in the dust: and yff thou sekest me tomorow in the mornynge, I shalbe gone.

⁵ Yff thou woldest now resorte vnto God by tymes, and make thine humble prayer to ye Allmightie:

²⁰ Beholde, God will not cast awaye a vertuous man, nether wil he helpe the vngodly.

² As for yt I knowe it is so of a treuth, yt a man compared vnto God, can not be iustified. ³ Yf he wil argue with him, he shall not be able to answere him vnto one amonge a thousande. ⁴ He is wyse of hert, and mightie in strength. Who euer prospered, that toke parte agaynst him?

¹⁹ Yf men will speake of strength, he is the stogest of all: yf me will speake of rightousnes, who darre be my recorde? 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:

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: ²¹ For that I shulde be an innocent, my coscience knoweth it not, yee I my self am weery off my life. ²² This one thige wil I saye: He destroyeth both the rightuous & vngodly.

³² For he yt I must geue answere vnto, and with whom I go to lawe, is not a man as I am. ³³ Nether is there eny dayes man to reproue both the partes, or to laye his hode betwixte vs.

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

⁷ where as (notwithstondinge) thou knowest that I am no wicked person, & that there is no man able to delyuer me out of thine honde. ⁸ Thy hondes haue made me, & fashioned me alltogether rounde aboute, wilt thou then destroye me sodely?

¹⁴ Wherfore didest thou kepe me, when I synned, and hast not clensed me fro myne offence?

¹⁴ Wherfore didest thou kepe me, when I synned, and hast not clensed me fro myne offence? ¹⁵ Yf I do wickedly, wo is me therfore: Yf I be rightuous, yet darre I not lift vp my heade: so full am I of confucion, and se myne owne misery.

¹⁵ Yf I do wickedly, wo is me therfore: Yf I be rightuous, yet darre I not lift vp my heade: so full am I of confucion, and se myne owne misery. ¹⁶ Thou huntest me out (beynge in heuynesse) as it were a Lyon, and troublest me out of measure. ¹⁷ Thou bringest fresh witnesses agaynst me, thy wrath increasest thou vpon me, very many are the plages that I am in.

⁴ Wilt thou saye vnto God: The thinge that I take in honde, is perfecte, & I am clene in thy sight? ⁵ O that God wolde speake, and open his lippes agaynst the, 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.

¹⁰ Though he turne all thinges vpsyde downe, close them in, or thrust the together, who darre check him therfore?

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. 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. ⁹ What is he, but he knoweth, that ye hode of the LORDE made all these? ¹⁰ In whose honde is the soule of euery lyuynge thinge, and the breth of all men.

¹³ Yee with God is wy?dome and strength, it is he that hath councell & foreknowlege.

¹⁷ He carieth awaye the wyse men, as it were a spoyle, and bryngeth the iudges out of their wyttes.

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

¹⁸ Beholde, though sentence were geuen vpon me, I am sure to be knowne for vngilty. ¹⁹ What is he, that will go to lawe with me? For yf I holde my tonge, I shal dye. ²⁰ Neuerthelesse graunte me ij. thinges, and then will I not hyde my self from the.

²⁰ Neuerthelesse graunte me ij. thinges, and then will I not hyde my self from the. ²¹ Withdrawe thine honde fro me, & let not the fearfull drede of the make me afrayed.

²¹ Withdrawe thine honde fro me, & let not the fearfull drede of the make me afrayed. ²² And then sende for me to the lawe, yt I maye answere for my self: or els, let me speake, and geue thou the answere.

²² And then sende for me to the lawe, yt I maye answere for my self: or els, let me speake, and geue thou the answere. ²³ How greate are my my?dedes & synnes? Let me knowe my trasgressions & offences.

³ Thinkest thou it now well done, to open thine eyes vpon soch one, and to brynge me before the in iudgment? ⁴ Who can make it cleane, that commeth of an vncleane thinge? No body.

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

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.

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

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.

¹¹ God hath geuen me ouer to the vngodly, and delyuered me in to the hondes of ye wicked. 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.

¹⁴ He hath geue me one wounde vpon another, and is falle vpon me like a giaunte.

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

⁶ For whe I pondre & considre this, I am afrayed, and my flesh is smytten with feare. ⁷ Wherfore do wicked me lyue in health and prosperite, come to their olde age, & increase in riches? ⁸ Their childers children lyue in their sight, & their generacion before their eyes. ⁹ Their houses are safe from all feare, for the rodd of God doth not smyte the. ¹⁰ Their bullocke gendreth, and that not out of tyme: their cow calueth, and is not vnfrutefull. ¹¹ They sende forth their children by flockes, and their sonnes lede the daunce. ¹² They beare with them tabrettes and harpes, and haue instrumentes of musick at their pleasure. ¹³ They spende their dayes in welthynesse: but sodenly they go downe to hell. ¹⁴ They saye vnto God: go from vs, we desyre not the knowlege of thy wayes. ¹⁵ What maner of felowe is the Allmightie, that we shulde serue him? What profit shulde we haue, to submitte oure selues vnto him? ¹⁶ Lo, there is vtterly no goodnesse in them, therfore will not I haue to do with the councell of the vngodly. 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?

²⁷ But I knowe what ye thinke, yee and what ye ymagin agaynst me vnrightuously.

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. ¹⁰ Therfore art thou compased aboute with snares on euery syde, & sodely vexed wt feare. ¹¹ Shuldest thou the se no darcknesse? Shulde not the water floude runne ouer the? ¹² Now because yt God is hyer the the heauens, & because thou seist yt the starres are so hye, ¹³ wilt thou therfore saye: Tush, how shulde God knowe? Doth his dominion reach beyonde the cloudes? ¹⁴ Tush, the cloudes couer him, yt he maye not se, for he dwelleth in heauen. ¹⁵ Well, thou wilt kepe the olde waye, yt all wicked me haue gone: ¹⁶ both olde & yonge, whose foundacion is a runnynge water, ¹⁷ which saye vnto God: go from vs, and after this maner: Tush, what wil the Allmightie do vnto vs? ¹⁸ where as he (not with stodinge) fylleth their houses wt all good. Which meanynge of the vngodly be farre fro me. ¹⁹ For wt ioy shal the godly, and with gladnesse shal the innocent se, ²⁰ that their increase shal be hewen downe, & their posterite consumed with the fyre. ²¹ Therfore recocile the vnto God, & be content, so shal all thinges prospere wt the right well. ²² Receaue the lawe at his mouth, & laye vp his wordes in thine herte. ²³ For yf thou wilt turne to the Allmightie, thou shalt stonde fast, & all vnrightuousnesse shall be farre from thy dwellinge: ²⁴ He shal geue the an haruest, which in plenty & abundaunce shall exceade the dust of the earth, and the golde of Ophir like ryuer stones. ²⁵ Yee the Allmightie his owne self shalbe thine haruest, & the heape of thy money. ²⁶ Then shalt thou haue thy delyte in the Allmightie, & lift vp thy face vnto God. ²⁷ The shalt thou make thy prayer vnto him, & he shal heare the, & thou shalt kepe thy promyses.

²⁷ The shalt thou make thy prayer vnto him, & he shal heare the, & thou shalt kepe thy promyses. ²⁸ The, loke what thou takest in honde, he shal make it to prospere with the, and the light shall shyne in thy wayes. ²⁹ For who so humbleth himself, him shal he set vp: and who so loketh mekely, shalbe healed. ³⁰ Yf thou be innocet, he shal saue the: and thorow the vngiltynesse of thyne handes shalt thou be delyuered.

³ O that I might se him & fynde him: O that I might come before his seate, ⁴ to pleate my cause before him, and to fyll my mouth with argumentes:

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

⁷ Oh no, let him not do so with me. But let hym geue me like power to go to lawe, then am I sure to wynne my matter. ⁸ For though I go before, I fynde him not: yf I come behynde, I ca get no knowlege of him: ⁹ Yf I go on the left syde to pondre his workes, I can not atteyne vnto them: Agayne, yf I go on the right syde, he hydeth himself, yt I can not se him.

¹³ It is he himself alone, who will turne him back? He doth as him listeth, and bryngeth to passe what he wil.

¹⁵ This is ye cause, that I shrenke at his presence, so that when I considre him, I am afrayed of him.

¹² The whole cite crieth vnto the LORDE with sighinge, the soules of the slayne make their complaynte: But God destroyeth them not for all this,

²⁵ Is it not so? Who wil the reproue me as a lyar, & saye yt my wordes are nothinge worth?

⁴ But how maye a man copared vnto God, be iustified? Or, how can he be clene, that is borne of a woman?

⁶ How moch more the, ma, that is but corrupcion: and the sonne of man, which is but a worme?

¹¹ The very pilers of heaue treble & quake at his reprofe. ¹² He stilleth the see with his power, & thorow his wy?dome hath he set forth ye worlde.

¹² He stilleth the see with his power, & thorow his wy?dome hath he set forth ye worlde. ¹³ With his sprete hath he garnished the heaues, & with his hande hath he wounded the rebellious serpet. ¹⁴ This is now a shorte summe of his doynges. But who is able sufficiently to rehearce his workes? Who can perceaue and vnderstonde ye thondre of his power?

² As truly as God lyueth (which hath taken awaye my power fro me) & the Allmightie, that hath vexed my mynde:

⁹ There putteth he his honde vpon the stony rockes, & ouerthroweth the mountaynes.

² O yt I were as I was in the monethes by past, & in the dayes whe God preserued me: ³ when his light shyned vpon my heade: whe I wente after the same light & shyne eue thorow the darcknesse. ⁴ As it stode wt me, whe I was welthy & had ynough: whe God prospered my house: ⁵ when the allmightie was with me: when my housholde folkes stode aboute me: ⁶ whe my wayes ranne ouer wt butter, & when the stony rockes gaue me ryuers of oyle: ⁷ when I wente thorow the cite vnto the gate, & whe they set me a chayre in ye strete: ⁸ whe the yonge me (as soone as they sawe me) hyd the selues, & when the aged arose, & stode vp vnto me: ⁹ whe the princes left of their talkinge, & laied their hade to their mouth: ¹⁰ whe the mightie kepte still their voyce, and whe their tonges cleued to the rofe of their mouthes. ¹¹ When all they yt herde me, called me happie: & when all they yt sawe me, wysshed me good. 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. ¹⁸ Therfore, I thought verely, yt I shulde haue dyed in my nest: & yt my dayes shulde haue bene as many as the sondes of the see. ¹⁹ For my rote was spred out by the waters syde, & the dew laye vpo my corne. ²⁰ My honor encreased more & more, and my bowe was euer the stronger in my hande. ²¹ Vnto me men gaue eare, me they regarded, & wt sylence they taried for my coucell. ²² Yf I had spoken, they wolde haue it none other wayes, my wordes were so well taken amonge the. ²³ They wayted for me, as the earth doth for the rayne: & gaped vpon me, as the groude doth to receaue the latter shower. ²⁴ When I laughed, they knew well it was not earnest: & this testimony of my coutenaunce pleased the nothinge at all.

²⁴ When I laughed, they knew well it was not earnest: & this testimony of my coutenaunce pleased the nothinge at all. ²⁵ When I agreed vnto their waye, I was the chefe, & sat as a kynge amonge his seruauntes: Or as one that comforteth soch as be in heuynesse.

²² In tymes past thou didest set me vp an hye, as it were aboue ye winde, but now hast thou geue me a very sore fall.

⁷ Yf so be that I haue withdrawen my fote out of the right waye, yf my hert hath folowed myne eyesight, yf I haue stayned or defyled my hodes:

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

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

³⁵ O that I had one which wolde heare me. Lo, this is my cause. Let ye Allmightie geue me answere: & let him that is my cotrary party, sue me with a lybell. ³⁶ Then shall I take it vpon my shulder, & as a garlade aboute my heade. ³⁷ I haue tolde the nombre of my goinges, and delyuered them vnto him as to a prynce.

¹ So these thre men wolde stryue nomore wt Iob, because he helde himself a rightuous man. ² But Eliu the sonne of Barachel the Bussite of the kynred of Ram, was very sore displeased at Iob, that he called himself iust before God.

² But Eliu the sonne of Barachel the Bussite of the kynred of Ram, was very sore displeased at Iob, that he called himself iust before God.

⁵ Yf thou cast, then geue me answere: prepare thy self to stode before me face to face.

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

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

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?

¹² Beholde, vnto these vnreasonable wordes of thyne wil I make answere. Shulde God be reproued of man? ¹³ Why doest thou then stryue agaynst him, because he geueth the no accomptes of all his doinges?

¹³ Why doest thou then stryue agaynst him, because he geueth the no accomptes of all his doinges?

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.

¹⁴ To whom hath he geuen his herte, for to drawe his sprete and breth vnto him? ¹⁵ All flesh shal come together vnto naught, & all me shal turne agayne vnto earth.

²⁹ Yf he delyuer & graunte pardo, who will iudge or condemne? But yf he hyde awaye his countenaunce, who wil turne it aboute agayne, whether it be to the people or to eny man?

³¹ For so moch then as I haue begonne to talke of God, I wil not hyndre the. ³² Yf I haue gone amysse, enfourme me: yf I haue done wronge, I wil leaue of.

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

⁵ loke vnto the heaue, & beholde it: cosidre ye cloudes, how they are hyer then thou. ⁶ Yf thou synnest, what dost thou vnto him? Yf thine offences be many, how gettest thou his fauoure? ⁷ Yf thou be rightuous, what geuest thou him? Or, what receaueth he of thy handes?

¹⁴ Wha thou speakest then, shulde not he pardon the, yff thou open thyself before him, and put thy trust in him?

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

⁵ Beholde, God casteth not awaye ye mightie, for he himselff is mightie in power and wisdome.

¹⁷ Neuerthelesse, thou hast condemned the iudgment of the vngodly, yee euen soch a iudgment and sentence shalt thou suffre. ¹⁸ For then shal not thy cause be stilled with crueltie, ner pacified with many giftes. ¹⁹ Hath God ordened then, that the glorious life off the & all soch mightie men shulde not be put downe?

¹ At this my hert is astonnied, and moued out of his place.

⁷ He sendeth feare vpon euery man, that they might knowe their owne workes.

⁹ Out of the south commeth the tempest, and colde out of the north.

¹⁸ hast thou helped him to spred out the heauen, which is to loke vpo, as it were cast of cleare metall?

²³ It is not we that can fynde out the allmightie: for in power, equite and rigtuousnesse he is hyer then can be expressed.

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?

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?

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.

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?

²⁷ Doth the Aegle mounte vp & make his nest on hye at thy commaundement? ²⁸ He abydeth in the stony rockes, ad vpon the hye toppes of harde mountaynes, where no man can come. ²⁹ From thence maye he beholde his praye, and loke farre aboute with his eyes. ³⁰ His yonge ones are fed with bloude, and where eny deed body lyeth, there is he immediatly.

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

⁹ Is thine arme then like the arme of God? Maketh thy voyce soch a soude as his doth?

⁹ Is thine arme then like the arme of God? Maketh thy voyce soch a soude as his doth?

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,

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,

¹⁴ Fro the men of thy honde (o LORDE) from the men off the worlde, which haue their porcion in this life: whose belies thou fyllest with thy treasure.

⁶ So he herde my voyce out off his holy teple, & my coplaynte came before hi, yee eue into his eares.

¹² Who can tell, how oft he offendeth? Oh clese thou me fro my secrete fautes.

³ For all they yt hope in ye shal not be ashamed: but soch as be scornefull despysers wt out a cause. they shall be put to cofucio.

⁶ I wa?she my hondes with innocency O LORDE, and so go I to thine aulter.

⁵ The voyce of the LORDE is mightie in operacion, the voyce of the LORDE is a glorious voyce

⁶ By the worde of the LORDE were the heauens made, & all the hoostes of them by ye breth of his mouth.

³³ The vngodly seyth the rightuous, & goeth aboute to slaye him.

⁵ LORDE, let me knowe myne ende, and the nombre of my dayes: that I maye be certified what I wante.

¹⁰ I kepe sylece, and open not my mouth, for thou hast done it. Turne thy plages awaye fro me, for I am cosumed thorow the feare of thy hade. ¹¹ When thou punyshest man for synne, thou chastenest him: so that his beutie consumeth awaye, like as it were a mothe. O how vayne are all men?

¹³ Oh spare me a litle, that I maye refresh myself, before I go hence, and be nomore sene.

¹² For innumerable troubles are come aboute me: my synnes haue taken soch holde vpon me, that I am not able to loke vp: yee they are mo in nombre then the hayres of my heade, and my hert hath fayled me.

⁷ The LORDE hath promised his louynge kyndnesse daylie, therfore wil I prayse him in the night season, and make my prayer vnto ye God of my life.

²² But for thy sake we are kylled all the daie longe, and are counted as shepe apoynted to be slayne.

² Therfore wil we not feare, though the earth fell, and though the hilles were caried in to the myddest of the see.

¹¹ God spake once a worde, twyse haue I herde the same: that power belongeth vnto God.

¹⁸ (Yff I enclyne vnto wickednes with my herte, ye LORDE wil not heare me.) ¹⁹ Therfore God hath herde me, ad considred the voyce off my prayer. ²⁰ Praysed be God, which hath not cast out my prayer, ner turned his mercy fro me.

⁸ Sela. The earth shoke, & ye heauens dropped at the presence of God in Sinai, at ye presence of God which is ye God of Israel.

¹⁵ Thou (o God) hast lerned me fro my youth vp vntill now, therfore wil I tell of yi wonderous workes.

¹⁸ His name shal endure for euer, his name shal remayne vnder the sonne amonge the posterites, which shalbe blessed thorow him, & all the Heithen shal prayse him.

³ And why. I was greued at ye wicked, to se the vngodly in soch prosperite. ⁴ For they are in no parell of death, but stonde fast like a palace. ⁵ They come in no misfortune like other folke, nether are they plaged like other men. ⁶ And this is the cause that they be so puft vp in pryde, & ouerwhelmed with cruelte and vnrigthuousnesse. ⁷ Their eyes swell for fatnesse, they do euen what they lyst.

¹³ Shulde I then clense my hert in vayne (thought I) & wash my hondes in innocency?

³ When I maye get a conuenient tyme, I shal iudge acordinge vnto right.

² In the tyme of my trouble I sought the LORDE, I helde vp my hondes vnto him in the night season, for my soule refused all other comforte. ³ When I was in heuynesse, I thought vpo God: whe my hert was vexed, then dyd I speake.

¹⁹ Thy waye was in the see, and thy pathes in the greate waters, yet coude no man knowe thy fotesteppes.

¹⁵ Persecute them euen so with thy tempest, & make them afrayed with thy storme.

⁷ Sela. Thou hast put awaye myne acquataunce farre fro me, & made me to be abhorred of them:

¹⁵ My strength is gone for very sorow and misery, with fearfulnesse do I beare thy burthens.

¹⁵ My strength is gone for very sorow and misery, with fearfulnesse do I beare thy burthens. ¹⁶ Thy wroth full displeasure goeth ouer me, the feare of the oppresseth me.

¹⁶ Thy wroth full displeasure goeth ouer me, the feare of the oppresseth me. ¹⁷ They come rounde aboute me daylie like water, and compase me together on euery syde. ¹⁸ My louers and fredes hast thou put awaye fro me, and turned awaye myne acquantaunce.

¹⁰ Thou rulest the pryde of the see, thou stillest the wawes therof, whe they arise.

⁴⁷ Sela. LORDE, how longe wilt thou hyde thy self? For euer? shal thy wrath burne like fyre?

⁹ For when thou art angrie, all or dayes are gone, we brynge or yeares to an ende, as it were a tayle that is tolde. ¹⁰ The dayes of oure age are iij. score yeares & ten: & though men be so stronge that they come to iiij. score yeares, yet is their strength then but laboure and sorowe: so soone passeth it awaye, & we are gone. ¹¹ But who regardeth the power of thy wrath, thy fearfull & terrible displeasure?

³ From that tyme forth hath yi seate bene prepared, thou art from euerlastinge. ⁴ The floudes aryse (o LORDE) the floudes lift vp their noyse, ye floudes lift vp their wawes.

² Thou deckest thy self with light, as it were wt a garment, thou spredest out the heauen like a curtayne. ³ Thou voltest it aboue with waters, thou makest the cloudes thy charet, and goest vpon the wynges of the wynde.

³ Thou voltest it aboue with waters, thou makest the cloudes thy charet, and goest vpon the wynges of the wynde.

¹³ Thou watrest the hylles from aboue, the erth is fylled with ye frutes of thy workes.

²⁴ O LORDE, how manifolde are thy workes, right wysely hast thou made the all: yee the earth is full of thy riches.

²³ So he sayde he wolde haue destroyed them, had not Moses his chosen stonde before him in yt gappe: to turne awaie his wrothfull indignacion, lest he shulde destroye the.

⁶ Ye mountaynes, that ye skipped like rammes? and ye litle hilles, like yonge shepe? ⁷ The earth trembled at the presence of the LORDE, at the presence of the God of Iacob.

¹ I am wel pleased, yt the LORDE hath herde ye voyce of my prayer. ² That he hath enclyned his eare vnto me, therfore wil I call vpo him as longe as I lyue.

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

¹ When the LORDE turneth agayne ye captiuyte of Sion, then shal we be like vnto them that dreame.

³ Yf thou (LORDE) wilt be extreme to marcke what is done amysse, Oh LORDE, who maye abyde it?

⁴ Which only doth greate wonders, for his mercy endureth for euer. ⁵ Which by his wysdome made the heauens, for his mercy endureth for euer.

²³ Trye me (o God) and seke the grounde of myne hert: proue me, & examen my thoughtes. ²⁴ Loke well, yf there be eny waye of wickednesse in me, & lede me in the waye euerlastinge.

² And entre not in to iudgment with thy seruaunt, for in thy sight shal no man lyuynge be iustified.

⁴ He telleth the nombre of the starres, and calleth them all by their names.

¹⁹ Where moch bablinge is, there must nedes be offence: he that refrayneth his lippes, is wysest of all.

²⁰ Who so hath a frowarde herte, opteyneth no good: and he yt hath an ouerthwarte tonge, shal fall into myschefe.

⁵ Why wilt thou set thine eye vpon ye thinge, which sodenly vanisheth awaye? For riches make them selues wynges, and take their flight like an Aegle in to ye ayre.

¹³ He that hydeth his synnes, shall not prospere: but who so knowlegeth them and forsaketh them, shall haue mercy. ¹⁴ Well is him that stodeth allwaye in awe: as for him that hardeneth his herte, he shal fall in to mischefe.

²⁶ He that trusteth in his owne hert, is a foole: but he that dealeth wisely, shalbe safe.

¹ He that is stiffnecked & wyll not be refourmed, shal sodenly be destroyed wt out eny helpe.

¹¹ All this hath he ordened maruelous goodly, to euery thinge his due tyme. He hath plated ignoraunce also in the hertes of men, yt they shulde not fynde out ye grounde of his workes, which he doth from ye beginninge to ye ende.

¹⁰ What is more excellent then man? yet can he not in the lawe get the victory of him that is mightier the he:

¹ For all these thinges purposed I in my mynde to seke out. The righteus and wyse yee and their workes also are in the hande of God: and there is no man that knoweth ether the loue or hate of the thinge that he hath before him. ² It happeneth vnto one as vnto another: It goeth with the rightuous as with the vngodly: with the good & cleane as with the vncleane: with him that offereth as with him that offereth not: like as it goeth with the vertuous, so goeth it also with the synner: As it happeneth vnto the periured, so happeneth it also vnto him that is afrayed to be man sworne. 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.

¹⁶ Wash you, make you clene, put awaye yor euell thoughtes out of my sight, cease from doinge of euell and violence. ¹⁷ Lerne to do right, applie youre selues to equyte, delyuer the oppressed, helpe the fatherlesse to his right, let the wydowes complaynte come before you. ¹⁸ Now go to (saieth the LORDE) we wil talke together. Is it not so? Though youre synnes be as read as scarlet, shal they not be whyter then snowe? And though they were like purple, shall they not be like whyte woll?

¹⁹ Men shal crepe in to holes of stone, and in to caues of the earth, from the sight of the fearfull iudge, and from the glory of his magesty: what tyme as he shal make him vp to shake the earth.

²¹ that he maye the better crepe in to the caues and rockes, and in to the cliffes of hard stones, from ye sight of the fearful iudge and from the glory of his Magesty.

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.

¹⁰ For the starres and planetes of heauen shal not geue their light, the Sonne shalbe quenched in the rysinge, and the Mone shal not shyne with his light.

¹³ Morouer, I will so shake the heaue, that the earth shall remo out of hir place. Thus shall it go wt Babilon, in the wrath of the LORDE of hoostes in ye daye of his fearfull indignacio. ¹⁴ And Babilon shalbe as an hunted or chased doo, and as a flocke wt out a shepherde. Euery ma shal turne to his owne people, & fle echone into his owne londe.

² which sendeth hir message ouer the see in shippes of redes vpo ye water, and sayeth: go soone, and do yor message vnto a straunge and harde folke: to a fearful people, & to a people yt is further then this: to a desperate and pylled folke, whose londe is deuyded from vs with ryuers of water.

¹ Beholde, ye LORDE shal waist and plage the worlde, he shal make the face of the earth desolate, & scatre abrode ye inhabitours therof.

¹⁹ The earth shal geue a greate crack, it shal haue a sore ruyne, and take an horrible fall. ²⁰ The earth shal stacker like a dronken man, and be take awaye like a tent. Hir misdedes shal lie so heuye vpo her, yt she must fall, and neuer rise vp agayne.

¹⁷ Rightuousnes wil I set vp agayne in ye balaunce, and iudgment in the weightes. The tepest of hale shal take awaye yor refuge, that ye haue to disceaue withal, and ye ouerflowinge waters shal breake downe yor stroge holdes of dissimulacio.

⁷ For the Egipcians helpe shalbe but vane and lost. Therfore I tolde you also yt youre pryde shulde haue an ende.

² Where as he neuertheles plageth ye wicked, and yet goeth not from his worde, wha he steppeth forth and taketh the victory agaynst the housholde of the frauwerde, and against the helpe of euel doers. ³ Now the Egiptians are men, and not God, and their horses flesh and not sprete. And as soone as the LORDE stretcheth out his honde, then shal the helper fall, and he that shulde haue bene helped, and shal altogether be destroyed.

¹² Who hath holden the waters in his fist? Who hath measured heauen with his spanne, and hath comprehended all the earth of ye worlde in thre fyngers? Who hath weyed the mountaynes and hilles?

²² That he sytteth vpon the Circle of the worlde, and that all the inhabitours of the worlde are in coparison of him, but as greshoppers: That he spredeth out the heaues as a coueringe, that he stretcheth them out, as. a tent to dwell in:

²⁶ Lift vp youre eyes an hie, and considre. Who hath made those thinges, which come out by so greate heapes? and he can call them all by their names. For there is nothinge hyd vnto the greatnesse of his power, strength, and might. ²⁷ How maye then Iacob thinke, or how maye Israel saye: My wayes are hyd from the LORDE, and my God knoweth not of my iudgmentes. ²⁸ Knowest thou not, or hast thou not herde, that the euerlastinge God, the LORDE which made all the corners of the earth, is nether weery nor faynt, and that his wisdome can not be comprehended:

⁵ For thus saieth God the LORDE vnto him (Euen he that made the heauens, and spred them abrode, & set forth the earth with hir encrease: which geueth breath vnto the people that is in it, & to them that dwel therin)

²⁴ For thus saieth the LORDE thy redemer, euen he that fashioned the from thy mothers wombe: I am the LORDE, which do all thinges my self alone. I only haue spred out the heauens, and I only haue layde the foundacion of the earth.

⁹ Wo be vnto him that chydeth wt his maker, the potsherde with the potter. Saieth ye claye to the potter: What makest thou? or, yi worke serueth for nothige?

⁹ Wake vp, wake vp, & be stronge: O thou arme of the LORDE: wake vp, lyke as in tymes past, euer and sence the worlde beganne.

¹⁵ For thus saieth the hie and excellet, euen he that dwelleth in euerlastingnesse, whose name is the holyone: I dwel hie aboue and in the sanctuary, & with him also, yt is of a cotrite and huble sprete: yt I maye heale a troubled mynde, and a cotrite herte. ¹⁶ For I chide not euer, & am not wroth wt out ende. But ye blastinge goeth fro me, though I make the breath.

⁶ Their webbe maketh no clothe, & they maye not couer the wt their labours. Their dedes are ye dedes of wickednes, & ye worke of robbery is in their hodes.

⁶ We are all as an vnclene thinge, & all oure rightuousnesses are as the clothes stayned with the floures of a woman: we fall euerychone as the leaf, for oure synnes carie vs awaye like the wynde.

²² Yee and that so sore: that though thou wasshest the with Nitrus & makest thiself to sauoure with that swete smellinge herbe of Borith: yet in my sight thou art stayned with thy wickednesse, saieth the LORDE thy God.

³⁵ Yet darrest thou saye: I am giltlesse: Tush, his wrath can not come vpo me. Beholde, I wil reason with ye, because thou darrest saye: I haue not offended.

¹³ For lo, he commeth downe like as a cloude, and his charettes are like a stormy wynde: his horsmen are swifter then the Aegle. Wo vnto vs, for we are destroyed. ¹⁴ O Ierusalem, wash thine hert from wickednesse, that thou mayest be helped. How longe shal thy noysome thoughtes remayne with the?

²⁴ I behelde the mountaynes, and they trembled, and all the hilles were in a feare.

¹⁸ Sorowe is come vpon me, and heuynes vexeth my herte:

¹¹ As for their goddes, it maye well be sayde of the: they are goddes, that made nether heaue ner earth: therfore shal they perish fro the earth, and from all thinges vnder heauen.

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

⁴ For the groude shalbe dried vp, because there cometh no rayne vpon it. The plowmen also shalbe ashamed, ad shal couer their heades.

⁹ Amonge all thinges lyuynge, man hath the most disceatfull and vnsercheable hert. Who shall then knowe it? ¹⁰ Euen I the LORDE ripe out the grounde off the hert, ad search the reynes and rewarde euery ma acordinge to his wayes, and acordinge to the frute off his councels.

⁶ Maye not I do wt you, as this Potter doth, O ye house off Israel? saieth the LORDE? Beholde, ye house off Israel: ye are in my honde, euen as the claye in the Potters honde.

¹⁹ Beholde, the stormy wether of the LORDE (that is, his indignacion) shal go forth, and shal fall downe vpon the heade of the vngodly.

⁹ They departed from hence in heuynes, but with ioye will I bringe them hither agayne. I will lede them by the ryuers of water in a straight waye, where they shall not stomble: For I will be Israels father, and Epraim shalbe my firstborne.

¹⁹ Beholde, like as the Lyon cometh vp from the pleasaunt medowes of Iordane vnto ye grene pastures of Etha, so wil I dryue him, & make him runne agaynst her. But who is the yonge man that I will ordene therto? Who is like, vnto me? What is he that will stryue with me? What shepherde maye stonde in my hondes?

³ Agaynst me only he turneth his honde, & layeth it euer vpon me.

¹⁵ He hath fylled me with bytternesse, & geuen me wormwod to drynke.

¹⁸ I thought in my self: I am vndone, there is no hope for me in the LORDE. ¹⁹ O remembre yet my mysery and my trouble, the wormwod and the gall.

¹⁹ Oure persecuters are swifter then the Aegles of the ayre: they folowed vpon vs ouer the mountaynes, and layed wait for vs in ye wildernesse.

¹³ Therfore thus saieth the LORDE God: I will breake out in my wrothfull displeasure with a stormy wynde, so that in myne anger there shal come a mightie shuwer of rayne, & hale stones in my wrath, to destroye withall.

¹⁹ Yf I sende a pestilence in to the londe, and poure out my sore indignacion vpon it in bloude, so that I rote out of it both man and beest, ²⁰ and yf Noe, Daniel and Iob were therin: As truly as I lyue (saieth the LORDE God) they shal delyuer nether sonnes ner doughters, but saue their owne soules in their rightuousnesse. ²¹ Morouer, thus saieth the LORDE God: Though I sende my foure trublous plages vpon Ierusalem: the swearde, honger, perlous beestes and pestilence, to destroye man and beest out of it:

³ Thus saieth the LORDE God: Beholde, I wil vpon the, & wil drawe my swearde out of ye sheth, & rote out of ye both the rightuous & the wicked. ⁴ Seinge then that I will rote out of the both the rightuous & wicked, therfore shal my swearde go out of his sheth, agaynst all flesh from the north to the south:

¹³ Smyte thou vpo thy thee, for, wherfore shulde not the plage & staff of iudgmet come?

⁷ When thou art put out, I will couer the heauen, and make his starres dymme. I will sprede a cloude ouer the Sonne, ad the Moone shall not geue hir light. ⁸ All the lightes off heauen will I put out ouer the, and bringe darcknesse vpon thy londe, saieth ye LORDE God.

²⁰ Daniel also cryed loude, and sayde: O that the name of God might be praysed for euer and euer, for wi?dome and strength are his owne:

² I thought it good to shewe the tokes & maruelous workes, yt ye hye God hath wrought vpon me. ³ O how greate are his tokes, & how mightie are his wonders? His kyngdome is an euerlastinge kyngdome, and his power lasteth for euer and euer.

¹⁷ This erande of the watcher, is a comaundemet grounded and sought out in the councel off him, that is most holy: to lerne men for to vnderstonde, that the hyest hath power ouer the kyngdomes off men, ad geueth them, to whom it liketh him, and bryngeth the very outcastes off men ouer them.

³⁴ When this tyme was past, I Nabuchodonosor lift vp myne eyes vnto heauen, and myne vnderstondinge was restored vnto me agayne. Then gaue I thankes vnto the hyest. I magnified and praysed him that lyueth for euermore, whose power endureth allwaye, and his kyngdome from one generacion to another: ³⁵ in comparyson off whom, all they that dwell vpon the earth, are to be reputed as nothinge. He handleth acordinge to his will, amoge ye powers of heauen & amonge the inhabitours of the earth: and there is none that maye resiste his honde, or saye: what doest thou?

³⁵ in comparyson off whom, all they that dwell vpon the earth, are to be reputed as nothinge. He handleth acordinge to his will, amoge ye powers of heauen & amonge the inhabitours of the earth: and there is none that maye resiste his honde, or saye: what doest thou? ³⁶ At the same tyme was myne vnderstondynge geuen me agayne, and I was restored to the honoure of my kingdome, to my dignite, and to myne owne shappe agayne. My great estates and prynces sought vnto me, and I was set in my kyngdome agayne, so that I had yet greater worshipe. ³⁷ The dyd I Nabuchodonosor, loaue, magnifie and prayse the kynge of heauen: for all his workes are true, and his wayes right. As for those that go on proudly, he is able to bri bringe them downe.

¹⁸ therof O kinge, God the hyest gaue vnto Nabuchodonosor thy father, ye dignite of a kynge, wt worshipe & honor: ¹⁹ so yt all people, kynreddes & tunges stode in awe & feare of him, by reason off the hye estate, that he had lent him. For why: he slewe, whom he wolde: he smote, whom it pleased him. Agayne: whom he wolde, he set vp: and whom he list, he put downe. ²⁰ But because his herte was so proude, and his stomack set fast vnto wylfulnesse: he was deposed from his kyngly trone, and his magesty was taken from him.

²⁰ But because his herte was so proude, and his stomack set fast vnto wylfulnesse: he was deposed from his kyngly trone, and his magesty was taken from him. 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.

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. ²² And thou his sonne (o Balthasar) for all this, hast not submitted thine hert, though thou knewest all these thinges: 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. ²⁴ Therfore is the palme off this honde sent hither from him, to token vp this wrytinge. ²⁵ And this is the scripture, that is written vp: Mane, Thetel, Phares. ²⁶ Now the interpretacion off the thynge is this: Mane, God hath nombred thy kyngdome, and brought it to an ende: ²⁷ Thetel, Thou art weyed in the balaunce, and art founde to light: ²⁸ Phares, Thy kyngdome is delt in partes, and geuen to the Medes and Perses. ²⁹ Then commaunded Balthasar, to cloth Daniel with purple, to hange a cheyne off golde aboute his necke, and to make a proclamacion concernynge him: that he shulde be the ruler off the thirde parte off his kyngdome. ³⁰ The very same night was Balthasar the kynge off the Caldees slayne,

⁷ After this I sawe in a vision by night, & beholde: the fourth beest was grymme and horrible, and maruelous stronge. It had greate yron teth, it deuoured, and destroyed, and stamped the residue vnder fete. It was farre vnlike the other beestes that were before it: for it had ten hornes, wheroff I toke good hede. ⁸ And beholde, there came vp amonge the, another like horne, before whom there were thre of the first hornes pluckte awaye. Beholde, this horne had eyes like a ma, & a mouth speakynge presumptuous thinges. ⁹ I loked till the seates were prepared, ad till the olde aged sat him downe. His clothinge was as white as snowe, and the hayres of his heade like the pure woll. His trone was like the firie flame, and his wheles as the burnynge fyre. ¹⁰ There drew forth a firie streame, & wente out from him. A thousand tymes a thousande serued him, x.M. tymes ten thousande stode before him. The iudgmet was set, and the bokes opened. ¹¹ Then toke I hede there vnto, because of the voyce of the proude wordes, which that horne spake. I behelde, till the beest was slayne, and his body destroyed, & geuen ouer to be brent in the fyre. ¹² As for the power of the other beestes also, it was taken awaye, but their lyues were prolonged for a tyme and season. ¹³ I sawe in a vision by night, and beholde: there came one in the cloudes of heauen like the sonne of a man, which wente vnto the olde aged, before whom they brought him: ¹⁴ Then gaue he him power ad dignite regall, that all people, trybes and tunges shulde serue him. His power is an euerlastinge power, which shal neuer be put downe: & his kyngdome endureth vncorrupte. ¹⁵ My herte was vexed, & I Daniel had a troubled sprete within me, ad the visions off my heade made me afrayed: ¹⁶ till I gat me vnto one off them that stode by, to knowe the treuth, concerninge all these thinges. So he tolde me, and made me vnderstode the interpretacio of these thinges. ¹⁷ These foure greate beastes, are foure kinges which shal aryse out of the earth. ¹⁸ These shal take in the kyngdome off the sayntes of the most hyest, and possesse it still more & more for a longe season. ¹⁹ After this I requyred diligently to knowe the treuth, concerninge the fourth beest, which was so farre vnlike the other beestes, and so horrible: whose teth were of yron, and his nales off brasse: which deuoured and destroied, and stamped the resydue vnder his fete. ²⁰ I desyred also to knowe the treuth, as touchinge the ten hornes that he had vpon his heade, and this other which came vp afterwarde, before whose face there fell downe thre: which horne had eyes and a mouth that spake presumptuous thinges, and loked with a grimmer visage then his felowes. ²¹ I behelde, and the same horne made battail agaynst the sayntes, yee ad gat the victory off them: ²² vntill the tyme, that the olde aged came, that the iudgment was geue to the chefest sayntes: and till the tyme, that ye sayntes had the kyngdome in possession. ²³ He gaue me this answere: That fourth beest shalbe the fourth kingdome vpo earth: it shalbe more then all other kyngdomes, it shall deuoure, treade downe ad destroye all other londes. ²⁴ The ten hornes, are ten kynges that shal aryse out of that kyngdome, after who there shall stonde vp another, which shall be greater then the first. ²⁵ He shall subdue thre kynges, and shall speake wordes agaynst the hyest off all: he shall destroye the sayntes of the most hyest and thynke, that he maye chaunge tymes and lawes. They shall be geuen vnder his power, vntill a tyme, two tymes, and halff a tyme. ²⁶ But the iudgment shalbe kepte, so that his power shalbe taken from him, for he shalbe destroyed, and perish at the last. ²⁷ As for the kyngdome, power and all might that is vnder the heauen: it shal be geuen to the holy people off the most hyest, whose kyngdome is euerlastinge, yee all powers shall serue and obeye him. ²⁸ Thus farre extede ye wordes. Neuerthelesse, I Daniel was so vexed in my thoughtes, that my countenaunce chaunged, but the wordes I kepte still in my herte.

³ ad I turned me vnto God the LORDE, for to praye and make myne intercessio, with fastinge, sackcloth ad ashes

¹⁸ O my God, enclyne thine eare, and herken (at the leest for thine owne sake) open thine eyes: beholde how we be desolated, yee and the cite also, which is called after thy name: For we do not cast oure prayers before the in oure owne rightuousnesse, no: but only in thy greate mercies.

¹⁰ The earth shal quake before him, yee the heauens shalbe moued: the Sonne & Moone shal be darckened, and the starres shal withdrawe their shyne.

¹³ For lo, he maketh the mountaynes, he ordeneth the wynde, he sheweth man what he is aboute to do: he maketh the mornynge and the darcknesse, he treadeth vpo the hye places off the earth: ye LORDE God of hoostes is his name.

⁸ The LORDE maketh the vij. starres and the Oryons, he turneth the night in to daye, and off the daye he maketh darcknesse. He calleth ye waters of the see, and poureth them out vpon the playne grounde: the LORDE is his name.

⁹ At the same tyme (sayeth the LORDE God) I shall cause ye Sone to go downe at noone, and the londe to be darcke in the cleare daye.

⁸ Their horses are swifter then the cattes of the mountayne, & byte sorer then ye wolues in ye euenynge. Their horsmen come by greate heapes from farre, they fle hastely to deuor as the Aegle.

¹⁴ Thou makest men as the fish in the see, and like as the crepinge beestes, that haue no gyde. ¹⁵ They take vp all with their angle, they catch it in their net, & gather it in their yarne: wherof they reioyce and are glad. ¹⁶ Therfore offre they vnto their net, and do sacrifice vnto their yarne: because that thorow it their porcion is become so fat, and their meate so pleteous. ¹⁷ Wherfore they cast out their net agayne, & neuer ceasse to slaye the people.

⁶ He stondeth, & measureth the earth: He loketh, & the people consume awaye, the moutaynes of ye worlde fall downe to powlder, and the hilles are fayne to bowe them selues, for his goinges are euerlastinge and sure.

¹⁰ When the mountaynes saw the, they were afrayed, ye water streame wete awaye: the depe made a noyse at the liftinge vp of thine honde.

⁶ For thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes: Yet once more will I shake heaue and earth, the see and the drye lode:

²¹ Speake to Zorobabel the prynce of Iuda, and saye: I will shake both heauen and earth,

⁷ What art thou (thou greate mountayne) before Zorobabel? thou must be made eauen. And he shal bringe vp the first stone, so that men shall crie vnto him: good lucke, good lucke.

¹ The heuy burthen which ye LORDE hath deuysed for Israel. Thus saieth the LORDE, which spred the heaues abrode, layde the foundacion of the earth, and geueth man ye breath of life:

⁴ The shall his fete stode vpo the mount oliuete, that lieth vpon the east syde of Ierusale. And ye mount olyuete shal cleue in two, eastwarde, & westwarde so yt there shal be a greate valley: & the halff mount shal remoue towarde the north, and the other half towarde the south. ⁵ And ye shall fle vnto the valley of my hilles, for the valley off the hylles shal reach vnto Asal. Yee fle shall ye. like as ye fled for the earthquake in the dayes off Osias kynge of Iuda. And the LORDE my God shal come, and all sanctes with him.

¹³ And lede vs not in to teptacion: but delyuer vs from euell. For thyne is the kyngdome, and the power, and the glorye for euer. Amen.

²⁷ Now whan abudaunce of rayne desceded, & the wyndes blewe, & bet vpon yt housse, it fell, and great was the fall of it.

²⁶ Euen so father, for so it pleased the.

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

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.

²⁵ But in ye fourth watch of ye night Iesus came vnto the, walkinge vpon the see. ²⁶ And whan his disciples sawe him goinge vpon the see, they were afrayed, sayenge: It is some sprete, and cried out for feare. ²⁷ But straight waye Iesus spake vnto them, and sayde: Be of good cheare, it is I, be not afrayed. ²⁸ Peter answered him, & saide: LORDE, yf it be thou, byd me come vnto the vpon ye water. ²⁹ And he sayde: come on yi waye. And Peter stepte out of the shippe, & wete vpon the water, to come vnto Iesus. ³⁰ But whan he sawe a mightie wynde, he was afrayed, & begane to synke, & cried, sayenge: LORDE, helpe me.

¹⁵ Or haue I not power, to do as me listeth with myne owne? Is thine eye euell, because I am good?

²¹ Iesus answered and sayde vnto them: Verely I saye vnto you: Yf ye haue faith & doute not, ye shal not onely do this with the fygge tre, but yf ye shal saye vnto this mountayne: Avoyde, and cast thy self in to the see, it shal be done.

²⁹ Immediatly after the trouble of the same tyme, shal the Sonne and Moone lose their light, and the starres shall fall from heauen, and the powers of heauen shal moue:

⁵¹ And beholde, the vale of the temple was rente in two peces, from aboue tyll beneth, and the earth quaked, and the stones rent,

²⁹ But he wolde haue iustified himself, & sayde vnto Iesus: Who is then my neghboure?

² And Iesus answered, and sayde vnto them: Suppose ye, that these Galileas were greater synners then all the other Galileans, because they suffred soch punyshment? ³ I tell you naye, but excepte ye amede youre selues, ye shal all perishe likewyse. ⁴ Or thinke ye that ye eightene (vpon whom the tower in Siloe fell and slewe them) were giltie aboue all men that dwell at Ierusalem?

¹⁵ And he sayde vnto them: Ye are they that iustifie yor selues before men, but God knoweth youre hertes. For yt which is hye amonge men, is an abhominacion before God.

¹¹ & shal be greate earthquakes here and there, pestilence, and derth, and fearfull thinges. And greate tokes shal there be fro heaue.

²⁵ And there shalbe tokens in the Sonne and Mone, and starres, and vpon earth the people shalbe in soch perplexite, that they shal not tell which waye to turne them selues. And the see and the waters shal roare, ²⁶ and men shal pyne awaye for feare, and for lokynge after the thinges which shal come vpo earth. For euen the very powers of heauen shal moue.

⁴¹ But whyle they yet beleued not for ioye and wondred, he sayde vnto them: Haue ye eny thinge here to eate?

¹⁹ Now whan they had rowed vpo a fyue and twetie or thirtie furlonges, they sawe Iesus goinge vpon the see, and came nye to the shippe. And they were afrayed.

³ Iesus answered: Nether hath this synned, ner his elders, but that ye workes of God shulde be shewed on him.

²⁵ Neuertheles that the sayenge might be fulfilled, which is wrytten in their lawe: They haue hated me without a cause.

¹⁴ And whan she knewe Peters voyce, she opened not the entrye for gladnes, but rane in, and tolde, that Peter stode before ye entrye. ¹⁵ But they sayde vnto her: Thou art mad. Neuertheles she abode by it, that is was so. They sayde: it is his angell. ¹⁶ But Peter contynued knockinge. Whan they opened the dore, they sawe him, and were astonnyed.

¹³ And whan we had sayled aboute, we came to Rhegium: and after one daye whan the south wynde blewe, we came to Putiolus,

²⁰ because yt by ye dedes of the lawe no flesh maye be iustified in his sighte. For by the lawe commeth but the knowlege of synne.

¹⁸ Thus hath he mercy on whom he wyl: and whom he wyl, he hardeneth. ¹⁹ Thou wilt saye then vnto me: Why blameth he vs yet? For who can resiste his will? ²⁰ O thou man, who art thou, that disputest with God? Sayeth the worke to his workman: Why hast thou made me on this fashion?

²⁰ O thou man, who art thou, that disputest with God? Sayeth the worke to his workman: Why hast thou made me on this fashion?

³ For they knowe not the righteousnes which auayleth before God, and go aboute to manteyne their awne righteousnes: and thus they are not subdued vnto the righteousnes, that is off value before God.

³³ O the depenesse of the riches, both of the wyssdome and knowlege of God? How incomprehensible are his iudgmentes, and his wayes vnsearcheable? ³⁴ For who hath knowne the mynde of the LORDE? Or who hath bene his councell geuer?

²⁵ For the foolishnes of God is wyser then men: and the weaknes of God is stroger the men.

⁴ I knowe noughte by my selfe, yet am I not therby iustified. It is the LORDE that iudgeth me.

²² Or wyl we prouoke the LORDE? I maye do all thinges, but all thinges are not profitable.

² And though I coulde prophecy, & vnderstode all secretes, and all knowlege, and had all faith, so that I coulde moue moutaynes out of their places, and yet had not loue, I were nothinge.

⁸ which he hath shed vpon vs abundauntly in all wyssdome and prudece:

¹¹ euen by him, by whom also we are come to the inheritaunce we that were therto predestinate before, acordinge to ye purpose of him, which worketh all thinges after ye councell of his owne wyll,

¹⁹ & what is the exceadinge greatnesse of his power towarde vs, which beleue acordinge to ye workynge of his mightie power,

¹⁰ to the intent that now vnto the rulers and powers in heaue mighte be knowne by the congregacion the manifolde wyssdome off God,

²⁰ Vnto him that is able to do exceadinge abundauntly, aboue all that we axe or vnderstonde (acordinge to ye power that worketh in vs)

⁸ Yee I thynke all thinges but losse, for that excellent knowleges sake of Christ Iesu my LORDE: for whom I haue counted all thinge losse, and do iudge them but donge, that I mighte wynne Christ, ⁹ & be founde in him, not hauynge myne awne righteousnes which commeth of the lawe, but by the faith of Christ (namely) the righteousnes which commeth of God in faith,

¹² Not that I haue attayned vnto it all ready, or that I am allready perfecte: but I folowe, yf I maye comprehende that, wherin I am comprehended off Christ Iesu. ¹³ Brethren, I counte not my selfe yet that I haue gotten it: but one thinge I saye: I forget that which is behynde, and stretch my selfe vnto that which is before, ¹⁴ & preace vnto ye marck apoynted, to optayne the rewarde of the hye callynge of God in Christ Iesu. ¹⁵ Let vs therfore (as many as be parfecte) be thus wyse mynded: and yf ye be otherwyse mynded, I praye God open euen this vnto you.

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.

¹⁶ which onely hath immortalite, and dwelleth in a lighte, that no man can attayne: whom no man hath sene, nether can se. Vnto whom be honoure and empyre euerlastinge, Amen.

³⁶ Other taisted of mockinges and scourginges, of bondes also and presonment: 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,

¹¹ No maner chastisynge for the present tyme semeth to be ioyous, but greuous: neuertheles afterwarde it bringeth the quyete frute of righteousnes, vnto them which are exercysed therby.

²⁶ whose voyce shoke the earth at that tyme. But now promyseth he, & sayeth: Yet once more wyl I shake, not the earth onely, but also heauen.

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.

⁶ but geueth more grace. ⁷ Submit youre selues to God, and resist the deuell, & he wil flye fro you.

¹⁴ & yet ca not tell what shal happe to morowe. For what thinge is youre life? It is euen a vapoure that apereth for a lytell tyme, and the vanysheth awaye:

²³ which whan he was reuyled, reuyled not agayne: wha he suffred, he threatened not: but commytted the cause vnto him, that iudgeth righteously:

⁸ Yf we saye that we haue no synne, we disceaue oure selues, and the trueth is not in vs.

¹ My litle children, these thinges wryte I vnto you, that ye shulde not synne: and yf eny man synne, we haue an aduocate with the father, euen Iesus Christ which is righteous: ² and he it is that optayneth grace for oure synnes: not for oure synnes onely, but also for the synnes of all the worlde.

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

²⁴ Vnto him that is able to kepe you, that ye faule not, and to present you fautlesse before ye presence of his glory with ioye, ²⁵ yt is to saye, to God oure saueoure which only is wyse, be glory, maiestie, dominion, & power, now and for euer. Amen.

¹⁴ And heauen vanysshed awaye, as a scroll when it is rolled togedder. And all mountayns and yles, were moued out of their places.

¹³ And the same houre was there a greate earthquake, & the tenth parte of the cite fell, and in the earthquake were slayne names of men seuen M. and the remnaunt were feared, and gaue glory to God of heauen.

¹⁸ And there folowed voyces, thondringes, and lightnynges, and there was a gret earthquake, soch as was not sence me were vpon the earth, so myghty an earthquake and so greate. ¹⁹ And the greate cite was deuyded in to thre parties. And the cities of nacions fell. And greate Babilon came in remembraunce before God, to geue vnto hyr the cuppe of wyne of the fearcenes of his wrath. ²⁰ And euery yle fled awaye, and the mountaynes were not founde.

¹¹ And I sawe a gret whyte seate, and him that sat on it, from whose face fled awaye both the earth and heauen, and their place was nomore founde.