Job 19 Cross References - Great

¹ Iob answered, and sayde: ² how longe will ye vexe my soule, and trouble me with wordes? ³ Lo ten tymes haue ye reproued me: and are not a shamed, for to laugh me so to scorne: ⁴ yf I go wronge, I go wronge to my selfe. ⁵ But yf ye will enhaunce your selues agaynst me, and accuse me to be a wycked personne because of the shame that is come vpon me: ⁶ knowe this then, that it is God, which hath handled me so violently and hath compased me aboute with his nette. ⁷ Yf I complayne of the violence that is done vnto me, I cannot be herde. And yf I crye, there is no sentence geuen with me. ⁸ He hath hedged vp my waye, that I cannot passe, and he hath set darcknesse in my pathes. ⁹ He hath spoyled me of myne honoure, and taken the crowne awaye fro my head. ¹⁰ He hath destroyed me on euery syde, and I am vndone: My hope hath he taken awaye fro me, as it were a tre pluckt vp by the rote. ¹¹ His wrath is kyndled agaynst me: he taketh me, as though I were hys enemy. ¹² Hys men of warre came together, which made their waye ouer me, and beseged my dwellynge rounde aboute. ¹³ He hath put my brethren farre awaye fro me, and soch as were of myne acquayntance, are become straungers vnto me. ¹⁴ Myne awne kynsfolkes haue forsaken me, and my frendes haue put me out of remembraunce. ¹⁵ The seruauntes and maydens of myne awne house toke me for a straunger: and I am be come as an aleaunt in theyr syght. ¹⁶ I called my seruaunt, and he gaue me no answere, no though I prayed him with my mouth. ¹⁷ Myne awne wyfe myght not abyde my breth, I was fayne to speake fayre for the chyldren of myne awne body. ¹⁸ Yee, the children despysed me: And when I was gone from them, they spake euell vpon me. ¹⁹ All soch as were my most familiers, abhorred me: and they whom I loued best, are turned agaynst me. ²⁰ My bone hangeth to my skynne and my flesh is awaye, only there is left me the skynne aboute my teth. ²¹ Haue pyte vpon me, haue pyte vpon me (O ye my frendes) for the hand of God hath touched me. ²² Why do ye persecute me as God doth, and are not satisfyed of my flesshe? ²³ O that my wordes were nowe written O that they were put in a boke: ²⁴ wolde God they were grauen with an yron penne in leade or in stone to continue. ²⁵ For I am sure, that my redemer lyueth, and that I hall ryse out of the earth in the latter daye: ²⁶ that I shall be clothed agayne with this skynne, and se God in my flesh. ²⁷ Yee, I my selfe shall beholde him, not with other, but with these same eyes. My reynes are consumed within me: ²⁸ dyd not ye saye: why doth he soffer persecucion? Is theyr founde an occasion in me? ²⁹ But be warre of the swearde, for the swearde wylbe auenged of wyckednesse, and be sure, that there is a iudgement.

¹⁶ And as she laye vpon him with her wordes continually vexyng of hym, hys soule was encombred euen vnto the death.

² How longe wilt thou talke of soch thynges? how longe shall thy mouth speake so proude wordes?

² when wyll ye make an ende of youre wordes? Marcke well, and then we wyll speake.

² As truly as God lyueth (which hath taken awaye my iudgement) and the Almightie, that hath vexed my mynde:

² Haue mercy vpon me, O Lorde: for I am weake: O Lorde heale me: for my bones are vexed. ³ My soule also is sore troubled: but Lorde howe longe wylt thou punyshe me?

¹ To the chaunter, a Psalme of Dauid. Howe longe wylt thou forget me (O Lorde) for euer? howe longe wylt thou hyde thy face fro me?

¹⁰ Namely, whyle they saye daylie vnto me: where is now thy God?

²¹ O cast thy burthen, vpon the Lorde and he shall norysh the, and not suffre the ryghteous to fall for euer.

⁷ Behold, they speake with theyr mouth, and sweardes are in theyr lyppes, for who doth heare?

³ Which haue whett their tonge lyke a swearde, & shote out theyr arowes, euen bytter wordes.

¹⁸ A sclaunderous person prycketh lyke a swerde but a wyse mans tonge is wholsome.

²¹ Death and lyfe are in the instrument of the tonge: and they that loue it, shall enioye the frute therof.

⁶ and the tonge is fyre, euen a world of wyckednes. So is the tonge set amonge oure membres, that it defyleth the whole body, and setteth a fyre all that we haue of nature, and is it selfe set a fyre euen of hell. ⁷ All the natures of beastes, and of byrdes, and of serpentes, & thinges of the see are meked and tamed of the nature of man. ⁸ But the tonge can no man tame. It is an vnruely euyll, full of deedly poyson.

⁷ And iust Lot vexed wyth the vnclenly conuersacyon of the wycked, delyuered he. ⁸ For he beynge ryghteous, and dwellynge among them in seynge and hearyng, vexed his ryghteous soule from daye to daye wyth their vnlaufull dedes.

¹⁰ & they cryed with a lowde voyce, sayinge: How longe taryest thou Lord, holy & true, to iudge & to auenge oure bloud on them that dwel on the erth?

⁷ But youre father hath disceaued me, and chaunged my wages .x. tymes: but God suffred hym not to hurte me.

⁷ When Ioseph sawe hys brethren, he knewe them: and made hym selfe straunge vnto them, and spake roughly vnto them, sayinge: Whence come ye? They answered: out of the lande of Canaan, to bye vytayle.

²⁶ And when I haue broken the staffe of youre bread: ten wyues shall bake youre bread in one ouen, and they shall delyuer you youre bread agayne by weyght ye shall eate, and not be satisfyed.

²² But all those men which haue sene my glory and my miracles which I dyd in Egipt and in the wildernes and haue tempted me nowe thys .x. tymes, and will not herken vnto my voyce,

¹² But it fortuned that when the Iewes (which dwelt besyde them) came, they tolde vs as good as ten tymes, that in all places where ye go vnto, they are appointed to fal vpon vs.

⁶ Is not this thy feare, thy stedfastnesse, thy pacience, and the perfectnesse of thy wayes? ⁷ Consydre (I praye the) whoeuer perysshed beynge an innocent? Or, when were the godly destroyed? ⁸ For (as I haue proued by experience) they that plowe iniquytie, & sowe wretchednesse, reape the same. ⁹ With the blast of God they perish, and with the breth of hys nastrels are they consumed awaye. ¹⁰ The roaryng of the lyon, and the voyce of the lyon, & the teeth of the lyons whelpes are pulled out. ¹¹ The lyon perissheth for lacke of praye, and the lyons whelpes are scatered abrode.

³ I haue sene my selfe, when the folysh was depe roted, and sodenly. I cursed hys habitacyon. ⁴ Hys chyldren were without prosperite, and they were slayne in the gate, and there was no man to delyuer them.

⁴ For seyng that thy sonnes synned agaynst hym, dyd not he punysh them for theyr wyckednesse? ⁵ If thou woldest now resort vnto God by tymes, and make thyne humble prayer to the almyghty: ⁶ yf thou woldest lyue a pure and a godly lyfe: shulde he not awake vp vnto the immediatly, and geue the, the bewtye of ryghtewesnesse agayne?

³ Shulde men geue eare vnto the onely? Thou wilt laugh other men to scorne, and shal no body mock the againe?

¹⁴ yf thou woldest put awaye the wickednes which thou hast in hande, so that no vngodlynesse dwell in thy house.

⁴ As for shame, thou hast sett it asyde, elles woldest thou not make so many wordes before God: ⁵ but thy wyckednesse teacheth thy mouth, and so thou hast chosen the a craftye tonge. ⁶ Thyne awne mouth condempneth the, and not I: yee, thyne awne lyppes shape an answer agaynst the.

¹¹ Thynckest thou it a small thynge of the consolacyons of God? with the is a lyenge word. ¹² Why doth thyne hert so be wytch the? And wherfore wynckest thou wyth thyne eyes,

⁴ He destroied him selfe with his anger? Shal the earth be forsaken, or any stone remoued out of his place because of the? ⁵ Yee, the light of the vngodly shall be put out? and the sparke of hys fyre shall not burne. ⁶ The lyght shalbe darcke in his dwelling, and his candle shalbe put out with him. ⁷ His presumpteous goinges are kepte in, and his awne councell shall cast him downe. ⁸ For his fete are taken as it were in the nett, and he is at his wittes ende. ⁹ His fote shalbe holden in the snare, and it shall catch them that be thyrsty of bloude. ¹⁰ The snare is layed for him in the grounde, and a pytfall in the waye. ¹¹ Fearfulnesse shall make him afrayed on euery syde, that he shall not knowe, where to get out. ¹² Honger shalbe his strength: mysfortune shall hange vpon him. ¹³ He shall eate the strength of his awne skynne, euen the fyrst borne of death shall eate his strength. ¹⁴ His hope shalbe roted out of his dwellynge, very ferfulnesse shall bringe him to the kyng. ¹⁵ Other men shal dwell in his house (but shalbe none of his) and brymstone shalbe scatered vpon his habitacyon. ¹⁶ His rotes shalbe dried vp beneth, and aboue shall his braunch be cutt downe. ¹⁷ His remembraunce shall perysshe from the earth, and he shall haue no name in the strete: ¹⁸ they shall dryue him from the light into darcknesse, and cast him cleane out of the worlde. ¹⁹ He shall nether haue chyldren nor kynsfolckes amonge his people, no, ner eny posterite in his dwellinges. ²⁰ They that come after hym, shalbe astonied at his daye, and they that go before, shall be afrayed. ²¹ Soch are now the dwellynges of the wycked, and this is the place of hym that knoweth not God.

¹⁷ Myne awne wyfe myght not abyde my breth, I was fayne to speake fayre for the chyldren of myne awne body.

⁸ I am become a straunger vnto my brethren: euen an aleaunt vnto my mothers children.

²⁰ which in all wysdome and matters of vnderstandinge, that he enquered of them, founde them ten tymes better, then all the sothsayers and charmers, that were in all his realme.

¹⁷ And Dauid spake vnto the Lorde (when he sawe the angell that smote the people) and sayde: loo, it is I that haue synned, and I that haue done wyckedly. But these shepe, what haue they done? lett thyne hande (I praye the) be agaynst me and agaynst my fathers house.

³ Shulde men geue eare vnto the onely? Thou wilt laugh other men to scorne, and shal no body mock the againe? ⁴ Wylt thou saye vnto God. The thyng that I take in hande is perfecte, and I am cleane in thy syght? ⁵ O that God wolde speake, and open his lyppes agaynst the, ⁶ that he myght shewe the (out of his secrete wysdome) why he rewardeth the double as he was appoynted to do: then shuldest thou knowe, that God had forgotten the because of thy synne.

¹² If thou be wyse, thy wisdome shall do thy selfe good but yf thou thynkest scorne therof, it shalbe thyne awne harme.

⁴ Beholde all soules are myne. Lyke as the father is myne, so is the sonne myne also. The soule that synneth, shall dye.

¹⁰ For we must all appeare before the iudgement seate of Christ, that euery man maye receaue the workes of hys body accordynge to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

⁵ For euery man shall beare his awne burthen.

⁶ And her enemye (Phenenna) vexed her sore contynually, to moue her, because the lord had made her barren.

³ And they sayde vnto me: The remnaunt of the captyuyte are there in the lande in greate misfortune and rebuke. The wall of Ierusalem also is broken downe, and the gates therof are brent with fyre.

²⁶ Let them be put to confusyon and shame together that reioyse at my trouble: let them be clothed with rebuke and dishonoure that boast them selues agaynst me.

¹⁶ I haue required, that they shuld not triumphe ouer me: for whan my fote slypte, they reioysed greatly against me.

¹¹ By this I know thou fauourest me, that my enemye doth not triumphe agaynst me.

¹² But it was euen thou my companion: my gyde, and myne awne familyer frende.

¹ Then shall seuen wyues take holde of one man, and saye: we wyll laye all our meate and clothynge together in comen, only that we may be called thy wyues, & that thys shamefull reprofe maye be taken from vs.

⁸ O thou enemye of myne, reioyce not at my fall, for I shall get vp agayne: & though I sytt in darcknesse, yet the Lorde is my lyght.

¹⁰ This shall happen vnto them for their pryde, because they haue dealte so shamefully with the Lorde of hostes people, & magnified them selues aboue them.

⁷ The Lorde shall preserue the tentes of Iuda lyke as a fore tyme: so that the glory of the house of Dauid: & the glory of the cytesyns of Ierusalem, shalbe but lytle regarded, in comparison of the glory of Iuda.

²⁵ Thys wyse hath God dealte with me, in the dayes wherin he hath loked on me, to take from me my rebuke amonge men.

² And Iesus answered, and sayde vnto them: Suppose ye that these. Galyleans were greater synners then all the other Galyleans, because they suffred suche punysshment? ³ I tell you naye: but except ye repent: ye shall all lyke wyse perysshe. ⁴ Or those .xviij. vpon which the toure in Syloe fell, and slewe them, thynke ye, that they were synners aboue all men that dwelt in Ierusalem?

² And his discyples asked him sayinge: Master, who dyd synne, this man, or hys father and mother, that he was borne blynd?

³⁴ They answered, and sayd vnto hym: thou art al together borne in synne, and dost thou teach vs? And they cast him out.

²⁰ I haue offended, and what shall I do vnto the, O thou preseruer of men? Why hast thou made me to stande in thy waye, and am so heuy a burden vnto my self?

¹¹ God hath put me in prease with the vngodly, & delyuered me into the handes of the wycked. ¹² I was in wealth, but he hath brought me to naught. He hath taken me by the neck, he hath rent me, and sett me as a marck for him selfe. ¹³ His archers compasse me rounde aboute: he wounded my loynes, and doth not spare. My bowels hath he poured vpon the ground. ¹⁴ He hath geuen me one wound vpon another, and is fallen vpon me lyke a giaunte.

⁸ For his fete are taken as it were in the nett, and he is at his wittes ende. ⁹ His fote shalbe holden in the snare, and it shall catch them that be thyrsty of bloude. ¹⁰ The snare is layed for him in the grounde, and a pytfall in the waye.

⁹ We make oure boast of God all the daye longe, and wyll prayse thy name for euer. Sela. ¹⁰ But now thou art farre of, and puttest vs to confusyon, and goest not forth wyth oure armyes. ¹¹ Thou makest vs to turne oure backes vpon oure enemy, so that they whych hate vs, spoyle oure goodes. ¹² Thou lettest vs be eaten vp lyke shepe, & hast scatred vs among the Heithen. ¹³ Thou sellest thy people for naught, & takest no moneye for them. ¹⁴ Thou makest vs to be rebuked of oure neyghbours, to be laughed to scorne & had in derisyon, of them that are round about vs.

¹⁰ Thou broughtest vs into the snare, and layed trouble vpon oure loynes. ¹¹ Thou suffredest men to ryde ouer our heades, ¹² we went thorow fyre & water and thou broughtest vs out into a welthye place.

¹² Haue ye no regarde O all ye that go fore by, be holde and se, yf there be eny sorow lyke vnto myne, wherwith the Lorde hath troubled me, in the daye of his fearfull wrath. ¹³ From aboue hath he sent downe a fyre into my bones and it burneth them cruellye: he hath layed a net for my fete and throwen me wyde open: he hath made me desolate, so that I must euer be mournynge.

¹³ My lyne wyll I sprede out vpon hym, and catch him in my net, and cary hym to Babylon, in the lande of the Caldees: which he shall not se, and yet shalt he dye there.

³ Thus sayeth the Lord God: I wyll sprede my net ouer the, namely, a greate multytude of people: these shall dryue the into my yarne,

¹² but whyle they be goynge here and there, I shall sprede my net ouer them, & drawe them downe as the foules of the ayre: & accordyng as they haue bene warned, so will I punishe them.

²⁴ As for the worlde, it is geuen ouer into the hand of the wicked, and he shal couer the faces of the iudges therof. Is it not so? where is there eny, but he is soch one?

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

³ Thinckest thou it well done, to oppresse me, to cast me of (beynge the worckes of thy handes) and to mainteyne the councel of the vngodly?

¹⁵ Yf I haue done wickedly, wo is me therfore. Yf I haue done righteously, yet darre I not lift vp my hede: so full am I of confusion, and se myne awne misery. ¹⁶ Thou huntest me out (being in heuynes) as it were a lyon, & troublest me out of measure. ¹⁷ Thou bryngest fresh wytnesse agaynst me, and thy wrath increasest thou vpon me, very many are the plages that I am in.

¹⁵ Lo, though he slaye me, yet wyll I put my trust in hym. But I wil reproue myne awne wayes in his sight, ¹⁶ he shall make me whole: and there maye no ypocrite come before hym. ¹⁷ Heare my wordes, and pondre my sayenges with your eares. ¹⁸ Beholde, now haue I prepared my iudgement, and knowe that I shalbe founde ryghteous. ¹⁹ What is he, that wil go to lawe with me? that I maye nowe holde my tonge, and dye. ²⁰ Neuertheles, graunt me two thynges, and then wyll I not hyde my selfe from the. ²¹ Withdrawe thyne hande from me, and let not the fearfull drede of the, make me afrayed. ²² And then call me, and I wil answere: or els, let me speake, and geue me thou an answere. ²³ How many are my mysdedes & synnes? Lett me knowe my transgressyons and offences?

¹⁷ Howbeit, there is no wyckednesse in my handes, but my prayer is cleane. ¹⁸ O earth couer not thou my bloude, and let my cryenge fynde no rowme. ¹⁹ For lo, my witnesse is in heauen: & he that knoweth me, is aboue in the heygth:

²¹ O that a body might pleate with God, as one man doth with another,

²⁷ Beholde, I knowe what ye thincke, yee, and the sotiltye that ye ymagyn agaynst me.

³ O that I myght se him, and fynde hym: O that I myght come before his seate, ⁴ to pleate my cause before him, and to fyll my mouth with argumentes. ⁵ That I myght knowe, what answere he wolde geue me: and that I myght vnderstande, what he wolde saye vnto me. ⁶ Wyll he pleate agaynst me with his great power and strength? ⁷ No, but he wyll make me the stronger. He that is iust, shall entre disputacion with hym, and my iudge shall delyuer me for euer.

²⁰ When I crye vnto the, thou doest not heare me, & though I stande before the, yet thou regardest me not.

³⁵ O that I had one which wolde heare me. Lo, this is my cause. In the which the almyghty shall answere for me: though he that is my contrary party, hath written a boke agaynst me. ³⁶ Yet wyll I take him vpon my shulder, and as a garlande about my head.

⁵ And why? Iob hath sayde: I am ryghteous, but God doth me wronge.

⁸ Wylt thou disanul my iudgement? Or wylt thou condemne me, that thou thy selfe mayest be made ryghteous?

² O my God, I crye in the daye tyme, but thou hearest not: and in the nyght season also I take no rest.

⁸ because I haue now preached longe agaynst malycious Tyranny, and shewed them of destruccion. For the whyche cause they cast the word of the Lorde in my teeth, and take me euer to the worst.

⁸ Though I crye and call pyteously, yet heareth he not my prayer.

² O Lorde, how longe shall I crie, & thou wylt not heare? How longe shall I complayne vnto the, suffrynge wronge, & thou wylt not helpe? ³ Why lettest thou me se werynesse and laboure? Tyranny & violence are before me, power ouergoeth right:

⁷ And whan they cried vnto the Lord, the Lord put darcknesse betwene you and the Egypcians, and brought the see vpon them, and couered them. And youre eyes haue sene what I haue done to the Egypcians. And ye dwelt in the wildernesse a longe ceason.

²³ That shuld be ioye to that man whose waye is hyd, and God kepeth it backe from him.

²⁶ Yet neuerthelesse, where as I loked for good, euell happened vnto me: and where as I wayted for light, there came darcknesse

⁸ I am so fast in preson, that I can not get forth.

¹⁹ But the waye of the vngodly is as the darcknesse: they knowe nott where they fall.

¹⁰ Therfore, whoso feareth the Lord among you, let him heare the voyce of his seruaunt, Whoso walketh in darcknesse, and no lyght shyneth vpon him, lett hym put hys trust in the name of the Lorde, and holde him by his God.

¹⁶ Honoure the Lord your God here in, or he take hys lyght from you, & or euer youre fete stomble in darcknesse at the hyll: lest when ye loke for the lyght, he turne it into the shadowe & darcknesse of death,

¹² Wherfore, their way shall be slyppery in the darcknesse, where in they maye stacker & fall. For I wyll bryng a plage vpon them, euen the yeare of theyr visitacion saieth the Lorde.

⁷ He hath so hedged me in, that I cannot get out, and hath layed heuy lynckes vpon me.

⁹ He hath stopped vp my wayes with foure squared stones, and made my pathes croked.

⁶ But I will hedge her waye with thornes, and stoppe it, that she shall not fynde her fotesteppes:

¹² Then spake Iesus agayne vnto them, saying: I am the lyght of the worlde. He that foloweth me, doth not walke in darcknes but shall haue the light of lyfe.

¹⁷ He carieth awaye the wyse men, as it were a spoyle, and bryngeth the iudges oute of theyr wittes.

⁷ when I wente thorowe the cytie vnto the gate, and when they set me a chayre in the strete: ⁸ when the yonge men (as soone as they sawe me) hid them selues, and when the aged arose, and stode vp vnto me, ⁹ when the Princes left of their talkinge, and layed their hande to their mouth: ¹⁰ when the myghty kepte still their voyce, and when their tonge cleued to the rofe of their mouthe. ¹¹ When all they that herde me, called me happye: and when all they that sawe me, spake good of me. ¹² For I deliuered the poore when he cried, and so did I the fatherlesse and him that had none to holde him. ¹³ He that shulde haue bene lost, gaue me a good worde, and the wyddowes herte praysed me. ¹⁴ And why? I put vpon me ryghteousnes, which couered me as a garment, and equyte was my crowne.

²⁰ Myne honour encreased more and more, and my bowe was euer the stronger in my hand. ²¹ Unto me men gaue eare, me they regarded, and with sylence they taryed for my councell.

¹ But now they that are younger then I, haue me in derysion: yee, euen they, whose fathers I wolde haue thought scorne to haue set with the dogges of my catell.

¹⁶ Be not thou afrayed though one be made ryche, or yf the glory of hys house be increased. ¹⁷ For he shall cary nothyng awaye with hym when he dyeth, nether shall hys pompe folowe hym:

³⁹ But thou hast abhorred & forsaken thyne anoynted, & art displeased at him.

⁴⁴ Thou hast taken awaie the edge of his swearde: & geuest hym not victory in the battayle.

⁶ But ye shalbe named the prestes of the Lorde, and men shall call you the seruauntes of oure God. Ye shall enioye the goodes of the Gentiles, and triumphe in their substaunce.

¹⁶ The garlande of oure heade is fallen: alas, that euer we synned so sore.

¹¹ Ephraim flyeth lyke a byrde, so shall their glory also: In so moch, that they shall nether begette, conceaue ner beare chyldren.

¹³ And vpon a certayn daye it fortuned, that his sonnes and daughters were eatyng and drincking wyne in their eldest brothers house, ¹⁴ and there came a messenger vnto Iob, and sayde: Whyle the oxen were a plowyng, and the asses goynge in the pasture besyde them, ¹⁵ the Sabees came in vyolently, and toke them awaye: yee, they haue slayne thy seruauntes with the edge of the sweard, and I onely ranne my waye, to tell the. ¹⁶ Whyle he was yet speakyng, there came another, and sayde: The fyre of God is fallen from heauen, and hath brent vp all thy shepe and seruantes, and consumed them: & I onely ranne my waye, to tell the. ¹⁷ And whyle he was yet speakinge, there came another, and sayde: The Caldees made thre armyes, and fell in vpon the camels, and haue caryed them awaye, yee, and slayne thy seruauntes with the swearde: and I onely am gotten awaye, to tell the. ¹⁸ And whyle he was yet speakyng, there came another, and sayde: Thy sonnes and thy daughters were eatynge and drynckynge wyne in theyr eldest brothers house, ¹⁹ and beholde, there came a myghtye greate wynde out of the south, and smote the foure corners of the house: which fell vpon thy children, and they are deed, and I am gotten a waye alone to tell the.

⁷ So went Satan forth from the presence of the Lord, and smote Iob with maruelous sore byles, from the sole of hys fote vnto hys crowne:

¹¹ For what power haue I to endure? And what is myne ende, that my soule myght be pacient?

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

¹³ Euen so goeth it with all them, that forget God: and euen thus also shall the ypocrites hope come to naught. ¹⁴ Hys confydence shalbe destroyed, and hys trust shalbe a spiders webbe. ¹⁵ He shall leane vpon his house, but it shall not stande: he shall holde hym fast by it, yet shall it not endure. ¹⁶ It is euen as a grene tree before the sonne, & shoteth forth the braunches in hys garden. ¹⁷ It taketh many rotes by a well syde, in so moch that it is lyke an house of stones. ¹⁸ But yf it be taken out of hys place, euery man denyeth it, sayenge: I knowe the not.

¹⁴ Beholde, If he breake downe a thyng, who can set it vp agayne? If he shut a thynge, who will open it?

¹¹ My dayes are past, and my councels and thoughtes of my hart are vanysshed awaye

¹⁵ What helpeth then my longe taryenge? Or, who hath considred the thynge, that I loke for?

²⁰ O that all compassion vpon them were forgotten: that their daynties were wormes, that they were cleane put out of remembraunce, and vngodlynesse vtterly hewen downe lyke as a tre.

³⁵ Hope thou in the Lord, and kepe his waye, & he shal promote the, that thou shalt possesse the lande: when the vngodly shal perishe, thou shalt se it. ³⁶ I my selfe haue sene the vngodly in great power, & florishinge lyke a grene baye tree:

¹³ Unto the haue I cryed O Lorde, and early shall my prayer come before the. ¹⁴ Lorde, why abhorrest thou my soule? and hydest thou thy face fro me? ¹⁵ I am in mysery, & lyke vnto hym that is at the poynt to dye (euen fro my youth vp) thy terrours haue I suffred with a troubled mynde. ¹⁶ Thy wrathfull dyspleasure goeth ouer me, and the feare of the hath vndone me. ¹⁷ They came rounde about me daylye lyke water, and compassed me together on euery syde. ¹⁸ My louers and frendes hast thou put awaye fro me, and hyd myne acquayntaunce out of my syght.

¹¹ My dayes are gone lyke a shadowe, and I am wythered lyke grasse.

⁵ The Lorde is become lyke as it were an enemie, he hath deuoured Israel and all hys palaces: yee, all his strong holdes hath he destroyed, and fylled the daughter of Iuda with moche sorowe and heuynesse. ⁶ Her tabernacle (which was lyke a garden of pleasure) hath he destroyed: her hye solempne feastes hath he put downe. The Lorde hath brought it so to passe, that the hie solempne feastes and Sabbathes in Sion, are cleane forgotten. In his heuy displeasure hath he made the kynge and prestes to be despised.

⁸ We are troubled on euery syde, yet are we not without shyft. We are in pouertie: but not vtterly without somwhat. ⁹ We suffre persecucion: but are not forsaken therin. We are cast downe: neuerthelesse we perysshe not.

²² For fyre is kyndled in my wrath, & burneth vnto the botome of hell. And hath consumed the earth with her encrease, and sett a fyre the botoms of the mountaynes.

²⁴ Wherfore hydest thou thy face, & holdest me for thyne enemye?

⁹ He is angrye at me, he hateth me and gnassheth vpon me wyth hys teth. Myne enemye skouleth vpon me wyth hys eyes.

¹⁰ But lo, he hath picked a quarell agaynst me, and taketh me for hys enemy:

⁴⁶ The dayes of his youth hast thou shortened: and couered him wt dishonoure. Selah.

⁷ For we consume awaye in thy displeasure, & are afrayed at thy wrathfull indignacyon.

⁵ The Lorde is become lyke as it were an enemie, he hath deuoured Israel and all hys palaces: yee, all his strong holdes hath he destroyed, and fylled the daughter of Iuda with moche sorowe and heuynesse.

¹¹ God hath put me in prease with the vngodly, & delyuered me into the handes of the wycked.

¹³ His archers compasse me rounde aboute: he wounded my loynes, and doth not spare. My bowels hath he poured vpon the ground.

¹² Upon my right hande ryse the yonge men agaynst me, they haue hurte my fete, treadinge vpon me, as vpon the wayes that they wolde destroye.

⁵ Wo be also vnto Assur, which is a staf of my wrath, in whose hande is the rod of my punyshement. ⁶ I shall sende hym amonge those ypocritish people, amonge the people that haue deserued my dysfauoures shall I send hym: that he may vtterly robbe them, spoyle them, and treade them downe lyke the myre in the strete.

²³ but I wyll putt it into their hande that trouble the: whych haue spoken to thy soule: stoupe downe, that we maye go ouer the: & thou laydest thy body euen wyth the grounde, and as the strete to go vpon.

²¹ Euen so are ye also come vnto me: but now that ye se my misery, ye are afrayed. ²² Dyd I desyre you, to bryng vnto me, or to geue me eny of youre substaunce? ²³ To delyuer me from the enemyes hande, or to saue me from the hande of tyrauntes?

⁷ But now that God hath sente me aduersytie, thou hast troubled all my congregacyon.

¹¹ For my lyfe is waxen olde with heuynesse, & my yeares with mournynge.

¹¹ My louers & my neyghbours dyd stande lokynge vpon my trouble, & my kynsmen stode a farre of.

²⁰ Thou hast knowen my reprose, my shame and my dyshonour: myne aduersaries are all in thy syght.

¹⁸ My louers and frendes hast thou put awaye fro me, and hyd myne acquayntaunce out of my syght.

⁵⁶ But all this is done, that the scriptures of the prophetes myght be fulfilled.

¹⁶ At my fyrst answerynge, no man assisted me, but all forsoke me. I praye God, that it maye not be layde to their charges:

²³ And the councell of Ahithophel which he counceled in those dayes, was as a man had asked councell of God: euen so was all the councell of Ahithophel, both wyth Dauid and wyth Absalom.

¹² But it was euen thou my companion: my gyde, and myne awne familyer frende. ¹³ We toke swete councell together, & walked in the house of God as frendes. ¹⁴ Lett death come hastely vpon them, and let them go downe quyck into hell, for wyckednes is in theyr dwellynges, and amonge them.

²⁴ A man that loueth his frendes wyll be compinable with them: and some frende sticketh faster to a man then his brother.

¹⁰ For why I herde so many derisions and blasphemies on euery syde of me: complayne vpon him, saye they, and we will tell his tale, yee euen of myne awne companions, and soch as were conuersant with me: went about to murther me, saying vpon him, we shall one waye or other begyle him and preuayle agaynst him, and be auenged of hym.

⁵ Let no man beleue his frende, ner put hys confydence in a brother. Kepe the porte of thy mouth from her that lyeth in thy bosome: ⁶ for the sonne shal put his father to dyshonoure, the daughter shall rise agaynst her mother, the daughter in lawe against her mother in lawe: and a mans foes shalbe euen they of hys awne housholde.

²¹ The brother shall delyuer vp the brother to deeth, & the father the sonne. And the children shal aryse agaynst their fathers and mothers, and shall put them to deeth:

¹⁸ I speake not of you all, I knowe whom I haue chosen. But that the scripture maye be fulfylled: he that eateth bread with me, hath lyfte vp hys hele against me.

³¹ Dyd not the men of myne awne houshold saye: who shall let vs to haue oure belly full of his fleshe? ³² I haue not suffred a straunger to lye without, but I opened my dores vnto him, that went by the waye.

³ Haue mercy vpon vs, O Lorde, haue mercy vpon vs, for we are vtterly despysed.

¹⁵ the Sabees came in vyolently, and toke them awaye: yee, they haue slayne thy seruauntes with the edge of the sweard, and I onely ranne my waye, to tell the. ¹⁶ Whyle he was yet speakyng, there came another, and sayde: The fyre of God is fallen from heauen, and hath brent vp all thy shepe and seruantes, and consumed them: & I onely ranne my waye, to tell the. ¹⁷ And whyle he was yet speakinge, there came another, and sayde: The Caldees made thre armyes, and fell in vpon the camels, and haue caryed them awaye, yee, and slayne thy seruauntes with the swearde: and I onely am gotten awaye, to tell the.

¹⁹ and beholde, there came a myghtye greate wynde out of the south, and smote the foure corners of the house: which fell vpon thy children, and they are deed, and I am gotten a waye alone to tell the.

⁹ Then sayde hys wyfe vnto hym: Dost thou contynue yet in thy perfectnesse? curse God & dye. ¹⁰ But Iob sayde vnto her: Thou speakest lyke a folysh woman. Shal we receaue prosperite at the hand of God, and not receaue aduersite? In all these thinges, did not Iob synne with his lyppes.

¹ My breth stincketh, my dayes are shortened. I am harde at deathes dore.

²³ And he went vp from thence vnto Bethel. And as he was goinge vp the waye, there came lytle chyldren out of the cytie, & mocked him, & sayd vnto him. Go vp thou bald heed, go vp thou bald heed.

⁵ The people also shalbe pylled and polled, and one shall euer be doynge violence and wronge to another. The boye shall presume agaynst the elder, and the vyle persone agaynst the honorable.

¹⁴ He that is in tribulacyon ought to be comforted of hys neyghbour: but the feare of the Lord is cleane awaye. ¹⁵ Myne awne brethren passe ouer by me as the water brooke, and as the ryuer of water, do hastely go awaye.

⁹ Yee, euen mine awne familier frend whom I trusted (whych dyd also eate of my bred) hath layed greate wayte for me.

²⁰ The wordes of hys mouth were softer then butter, hauynge warre in his hert: hys wordes were smother then oyle, and yet be they very sweardes.

⁴ Thus haue they rewarded me euell for good, and hatred for my good wyll. ⁵ Set thou an vngodly man to be ruler ouer hym, and let Satan stande at his ryght hande.

⁴⁸ But Iesus sayde vnto hym: Iudas, betrayest thou the sonne of man wyth a kysse?

⁴ And Satan answered the Lord, & sayde: Skyn for skynne? yee, a man wyll geue all that euer he hath, for his lyfe. ⁵ But laye thyne hand now vpon him, and touch once his bone and flesh, and he shall curse the to thy face. ⁶ And the Lorde sayde vnto Satan: lo, there hast thou hym in thy power, but spare hys lyfe.

⁵ My flesh is clothed with wormes and dust of the earth: my skynne is withered, and become horryble,

³⁰ My skynne vpon me is turned to black, and my bones are brent with heate:

¹⁹ He chasteneth hym wyth sycknesse, and bryngeth hym to his bed: he layeth sore punyshement vpon hys bones, ²⁰ so that hys lyfe maye awaye wyth no bred, and his soule abhorreth to eat any dayntie meat: ²¹ In so moch that hys body is cleane consumed awaye, and his bones appeare no more. ²² Hys lyfe draweth on to the graue, and hys lyfe to death.

¹⁴ I am powred out lyke water, & all my bones are out of ioynt: my hert also in the myddest of my bodye is euen lyke meltynge waxe. ¹⁵ My strength is dryed vp lyke a potsherde, & my tonge cleueth to my gummes: and thou shalt brynge me into the dust of death. ¹⁶ For dogges are come aboute me, & the councell of the wycked laye seage agaynst me. ¹⁷ They pearsed my handes and my fete, I maye tell all my bones, they stonde starynge and lokynge vpon me.

³ For whyle I helde my tonge, my bones consumed awaye thorowe my daylye complayninge. ⁴ For thy hande is heuy vpon me daye and nyght, and my moysture is lyke the drouth in Sommer. Sela.

³ There is no health in my flessh, because of thy displeasure: nether is there anye rest in my bones, by reason of my synne.

³ For my dayes are consumed awaye lyke smoke, and my bones are brent vp, as it were a fyre brande.

⁵ For the voyce of my gronynge, my bone wyll scarse cleue to my flesh.

⁴ My fleshe and my skynne hath he made olde, & my bones hath he brused.

⁸ But nowe theyr faces very blacke. In so moche, that thou shuldest not knowe them in the streates. Theyr skynne cleueth to theyr bones, It is withered and become lyke a drye stocke.

¹⁰ Oure skynne is as it had bene brent in an ouen, for very sore honger.

¹¹ But laye thyne hand now vpon hym and touch all that he hath, and he shal curse the to thy face.

⁵ But laye thyne hand now vpon him, and touch once his bone and flesh, and he shall curse the to thy face.

¹⁰ But Iob sayde vnto her: Thou speakest lyke a folysh woman. Shal we receaue prosperite at the hand of God, and not receaue aduersite? In all these thinges, did not Iob synne with his lyppes.

⁴ For the arowes of the almighty are round about me, whose indygnacyon hath droncke vp my sprete, and the terrible feares of God are sett agaynst me.

¹⁴ He that is in tribulacyon ought to be comforted of hys neyghbour: but the feare of the Lord is cleane awaye.

² For thyne arowes styck fast in me, and thy hande presseth me fore.

¹⁵ Be mery with them that are mery. Wepe also with them that wepe.

²⁶ yf one member be had in honour, all membres be glad also.

³ Remember them that are in bondes, euen as though ye were bounde wt them your selues. Be myndfull of them which are in aduersyte, as ye which are yet in the bodye.

¹⁶ Thou huntest me out (being in heuynes) as it were a lyon, & troublest me out of measure.

²⁵ Wylt thou be so cruel and extreme vnto a flyeng leafe, and folowe vpon drye stubble?

³¹ Dyd not the men of myne awne houshold saye: who shall let vs to haue oure belly full of his fleshe?

²⁶ Let their habitacion be voyde and no man to dwell in their tentes.

³ ye eate the flesh of my people, and flay of theyr skynne: ye breake theyr bones, ye choppe them in peces as it were in to a cauldron, & as flesh into a pot

³⁵ O that I had one which wolde heare me. Lo, this is my cause. In the which the almyghty shall answere for me: though he that is my contrary party, hath written a boke agaynst me.

¹ Moreouer, the lord sayd vnto me: Take the a greate leaf, & write in it, as men do wt a penne, make hastye spede to robbe, & haste to the spoyle.

⁸ Now therfore, go thy waie, and wryte thys before them in a table, & note it in a boke, that it maye finally remayne and be kept styll for euer.

¹¹ After the work of a stonegrauer, and of him that graueth signettes shalt thou graue the two stones with the names of the children of Israel, and shalt make them to be set in golde. ¹² And thou shalt put the two stones vpon the two shoulders of the Ephod, that they maye be stones of remembraunce vnto the chyldren of Israel. And Aaron shall beare their names before the Lorde vpon hys two shoulders for a remembraunce.

²¹ And the stones shalbe grauen as sygnettes be grauen wt the names of the children of Israel, euen with twelue names, euery one with his name accordyng to the twelue tribes.

¹⁶ and were the worcke of God, and the wrytynge was the wrytyng of God grauen in the tables.

² And when ye be come ouer Iordan vnto the lande whych the Lorde thy God geueth the, thou shalt set the vp greate stones, and plaster them wyth plaster, ³ and wryte vpon them all the wordes of thys lawe, when thou arte come ouer: because thou art come into the lande whych the Lorde thy God geueth the: a lande that floweth with mylke and honye, as the Lord God of thy fathers had promised the.

⁸ And thou shalt wryte vpon the stones all the wordes ofthys lawe, manifestly and well.

¹ Youre synne (O ye of the trybe of Iuda) is written in the table of your hertes, and grauen so vpon the edges of your aulters with a penne of yron and wyth an adamant clawe:

¹⁵ I will also put enemytie betwene the & the woman, betwene thy sede and hyr sede: The same shall treade downe thy head, and thou shalt treade vpon hys hele.

¹⁸ And in thy seed shall all the nacions of the erth be blessed, because thou hast herde my voyce.

¹⁹ For lo, my witnesse is in heauen: & he that knoweth me, is aboue in the heygth:

²³ Now, yf there be a messenger (one amonge a thousande) sent for to speake vnto man, and to shewe him the ryght waye: ²⁴ then the Lorde is mercyfull vnto hym, and sayeth: He shalbe delyuered, that he fall not downe to the graue, for I am sufficiently reconcyled.

¹⁴ Let the wordes of my mouth, and the meditacion of my herte be acceptable in thy syght O Lorde, my strength annd my redemer.

³⁵ And they remembred that God was their strength, and that the hye God was their redemer.

¹¹ For he that delyuereth them, is mightie, euen he shall defende theyr cause against the.

¹⁴ Thus sayeth the Lorde the holy one of Israel youre redemer: for youre sake I haue sent to Babylon, and brought downe the strongest of them. All they are fugityue with the Chaldees that boost them of theyr shyppes:

⁵ For he that made the, shalbe thy Lord & husbande (whose name is the Lorde of hostes) and thy redemer shalbe euen the holy one of Israel, the Lorde of the whole worlde.

²⁰ But vnto Sion there shall come a redemer, and vnto them in Iacob that turne from wyckednesse, sayeth the Lorde. ²¹ I wyll make thys couenaunt wyth them (sayth the Lorde:) My sprete that is vpon the, and the wordes which I haue put in thy mouth, shall neuer go out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy chylders chyldren, from thys tyme forth for euermore worlde wythout ende sayth the Lorde.

³⁴ but their auenger and redemer is mightye, whose name is the Lorde of hoostes: he shall mainteyne their cause, he shall make the lande shake, and iudge them that dwell therin, one with another.

²² Nether iudgeth the father eny man: but hath commytted all iudgement vnto the sonne, ²³ because that all men shuld honoure the sonne euen as they honoure the father. He that honoureth not the sonne, the same honoureth not the father which hath sent hym. ²⁴ Uerely, verely I saye vnto you. He that heareth my worde, & beleueth on him that sent me, hath euerlasting lyfe, and shall not come into damnacyon: but is scaped from deeth vnto lyfe. ²⁵ Uerely, verely, I saye vnto you the houre shall come, & nowe it is, when the deed shall heare the voyce of the sonne of God. And they that heare, shall lyue. ²⁶ For as the father hath lyfe in hym selfe, so lykewyse hath he geuen to the sonne to haue lyfe in hym selfe: ²⁷ and hath geuen him power also to iudge, because he is the sonne of man. ²⁸ Maruayle not at this: for the houre shal come, in that which, all that are in the graues, shall heare hys voyce, ²⁹ and shall come forth: they that haue done good, vnto the resurreccion of lyfe: and they that haue done euyll, vnto the resurreccion of damnacion.

⁷ By whome we haue redempcyon thorowe his bloude, euen the forgeuenes of synnes, accordinge to the ryches of grace:

¹⁴ Enoch the seuenth from Adam prophesyed before of such, sayinge. Beholde, the Lord shall come with thousandes of saynctes,

⁹ I haue set God alwayes before me, for he is on my right hande, therfore I shall not fall.

¹¹ For why? thou shalt not leaue my soule in hell, nether shalt thou suffre thy holy one to se corrupcion. Thou shalt shewe me the path of lyfe: in thy presence is the fulnesse of ioye, and at thy ryght hande ther is pleasure for euermore.

¹⁵ They haue children at their desyre: & leaue the reste of theyr substaunce for theyr babes. But as for me, I wyll beholde thy presence in righteousnes: & when I awake vp after thy lykenes, I shalbe satisfyed with it.

⁸ Blessed are the pure in herte: for they shall se God.

¹² Nowe we se in a glasse, euen in a darcke speakyng: but then shall we se face to face. Nowe I knowe vnperfectly: but then shall I knowe euen as I am knowen.

⁵³ For this corruptible must put on incorrupcyon: and this mortall must put on immortalite.

²¹ which shall chaunge oure vyle bodie, that he maye make it lyke vnto hys glorious body, accordynge to the workynge, wherby he is able also to subdue all thynges vnto him selfe.

² Dearely beloued, now are we the sonnes of God & yet it doth not appeare, what we shalbe. But we knowe, that when it shall appeare, we shalbe lyke him. For we shall se hym as he is.

⁷ Beholde, he cometh with cloudes, & all eyes shall se him, & they also which pearsed him. And all kynredes of the erth shall wayle. Euen so: Amen.

¹⁷ I shall se hym, but not nowe I shall beholde him, but not nye. There shall come a starre of Iacob, and ryse a sceptre of Israel, and shal smyte the costes of Moab & vndermyne all the chyldren of Seth.

²⁶ My fleashe and my hert fayleth, but God is the strength of my hert, and my porcyon for euer.

¹⁹ Thy deed men shall lyue, euen wt my body shall they rise agayne. Awake and syng ye that dwell in dust. For thy dewe is euen as the dewe of herbes, and the earth shall cast out them that be vnder her.

¹³ And all they of Israel shall mourne for him, and burye him: for he onely of Ieroboam, shall come to the sepulchre, because in hym there is founde goodnesse towarde the Lorde God of Israel in the house of Ieroboam.

²² Why do ye persecute me as God doth, and are not satisfyed of my flesshe?

⁷ Do ye speake iniquite against God? and talke agaynst hym with disceate? ⁸ Wyll ye not accepte the person of hym? Or wyll ye contende with God? ⁹ Shall that helpe you, when he calleth you to rekeninge. For as one man mocketh another, so do ye mocke hym. ¹⁰ He shall punysh you, and reproue you, yf ye do secretly accept any personne. ¹¹ Shall he not make you afrayed, when he sheweth hym selfe? Shall not hys terrible feare fall vpon you?

²² He beleueth neuer to be delyuered oute of darckenes, for the swearde is alwaye before hys eyes.

⁴ Is he afrayed to reproue the, and to steppe forth with the into iudgment?

⁵ Therfore, the vngodly shall nott be able to stande in the iudgment, nether the synners in the congregacion of the ryghtewes.

⁷ But the Lorde shall endure for euer, he hath also prepared his seate for iudgement:

¹⁰ The ryghteous shall reioyse when he seyth the vengeaunce: he shal wash hys fote stepes in the bloude of the vngodly. ¹¹ So that a man shall saye: verely there is a rewarde for the ryghteous: doutles, there is a God that iudgeth in the earth.

⁹ Be glad then (O thou yonge man) in thy youth, and let thyne hert be mery in thy yong dayes, folowe the wayes of thyne awne herte, & the lust of thine eyes but be thou sure, that God shall brynge the into iudgement for all these thynges.

¹⁴ Let vs heare the conclusyon of all thynges: Feare God, and kepe hys commaundementes: For that toucheth all men.Ecc

¹ Iudge not, that ye be not iudged. ² For as ye iudge, so shall ye be iudged. And with what measure ye meate, with the same shall other men measure to you.

¹ Let euery soule submyt hym selfe vnto the auctoryte of the hyer powers. For there is no power but of God. ² The powers that be, are ordeyned of God. Whosoeuer therfore resysteth power, resysteth the ordinaunce of God. But they that resyst, shall receaue to them selfe damnacyon. ³ For rulers are not fearfull to them that do good, but to them that do euyll. Wylt thou be without feare of the power? Do well then: and so shalt thou he praysed of the same. ⁴ For he is the mynyster of God, for thy welth. But and yf thou do that which is, euyll, then feare: for he beareth not the sweard for nought: for he is the mynister of God, to take vengeaunce on hym that doth euyll.

¹¹ Backbyte not one another, brethren. He that backbyteth his brother, & he that iudgeth hys brother, backbyteth the lawe, and iudgeth the lawe. But & yf thou iudge the lawe, thou art not an obseruer of the lawe: but a iudge. ¹² Ther is one lawe geuer which is able to saue and to destroye. What art thou that iudgest another?