Job 29 Cross References - Great

¹ So Iob proceaded and went forth in his communicacyon, sayenge. ² O that I were as I was in the monethes by past, and in the dayes when God preserued me: ³ when his light shyned vpon my head: when I wente after the same lyght and shynynge, euen thorowe the darcknesse. ⁴ As it stode with me when I was yonge: when God prospered my house: ⁵ when the Almyghtie was yet with me: when my chyldren stode aboute me: ⁶ when my wayes ranne ouer with butter, and when the stony rockes gaue me ryuers of oyle: 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. ¹⁵ I was an eye vnto the blynde, and a fote to the lame, ¹⁶ I was a father vnto the poore: and when I knewe not the cause, I sought it out diligently. ¹⁷ I brake the chawes of the vnrighteous man, and pluckte the spoyle out of his teth. ¹⁸ Therfore, I thought verely that I shuld haue dyed in my nest: and that my dayes shulde haue bene as many as the sondes of the see. ¹⁹ For my roote was spred out by the watersyde, and the dewe laye vpon my corne. 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. ²² If I had spoken, they wolde haue it none other wayes, my wordes were so well taken amonge them. ²³ They wayted for me as for the rayne: and gaped vpon me, as the grounde doth to receaue the latter shower. ²⁴ When I laughed, they knewe well it was not earnest: and the lyght of my countenaunce wolde they not put out. ²⁵ When I agreed vnto theyr waye, I was the chefe, and sat as a kynge with hys armye aboute hym. And whan they were in heuynes, I was theyr comfortoure.

⁷ And he toke vp hys parable and sayde Balac the kynge of Moab hath fett me from Mesopotamia out of the mountaynes of the east (sayinge:) come, curse Iacob for my sake: come, & defye Israel.

¹² youre remembraunce is lyke vnto a sparke, and youre bodyes lyke the claye.

¹ And Iob proceaded & went forth in hys communicacyon, sayeng:

¹ In the lande of Hus there was a man whose name was Iob: & the same was a perfect & iust man, soch a one as feared God & exchued euell. ² And he had seuen sonnes, & thre daughters ³ His substaunce also was seuen .M. shepe, & thre .M. camels, .v.C. youck of oxen, & fyue .C. she asses, and a very greate housholde: so that he was one of the most principall men among all them of the east countre. ⁴ And his sonnes went and made banckettes: one daye in one house, another daye in another, and sent for theyr thre systers, to eat & drincke with them. ⁵ And it fortuned, that when they had passed ouer the tyme of their bancketting rounde aboute, Iob sent for them, and sanctified them, and gat vp early, and offered for euery one a brentofferynge. For Iob sayde: lest peraduenture my sonnes haue done some offence, & haue bene vnthankfull to God in their hertes. Thus did Iob euery daye.

¹⁰ hast thou not preserued him, & his house, and all that he hath on euery syde? Thou hast blessed the worckes of hys handes, and hys possessyon is encreased in the lande.

³ Euen so haue I laboured whole monethes longe (but in vayne) and many a carefull night haue I tolde.

²⁸ For the Lorde loueth the thynge that is ryght, he forsaketh not hys that be godly, but they are preserued for euermore:

²⁸ Yee, it shall come therto, that lyke as I haue gone about in tymes past to rote them out, to scatre them, to breake them downe, to destroye them, and chasten them. Euen so wyll I also go diligently aboute, to buylde them vp agayne, & to plante them, sayth the Lorde.

¹ Iudas the seruaunt of Iesus Christ the brother of Iames. To them which are called, and sanctifyed in God the father, and preserued in Iesu Christ.

¹⁷ Then shuld the residue of thy lyfe be as cleare as the noone daye, and sprynge forth as the mornyng.

⁶ The lyght shalbe darcke in his dwelling, and his candle shalbe put out with him.

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

²⁸ Then, loke what thou takest in hand, he shall make it to prospere with the, and the lyght shall shyne in the wayes.

⁶ There be many that saye: who wyll shewe vs any good? Lorde lyfte thou vp the lyght of thy countenaunce vpon vs.

²⁸ Thou also shalt lighte my candelle: the Lorde my God shall make my darcknes to be light.

⁴ Yee though I walke thorowe the valleye of the shadow of death, I wyll feare no euell, for thou art wt me thy rodde & thy staffe comforte me.

¹ Of Dauid. The Lorde is my lyght and my saluacyon: whom then shall I feare? the Lorde is the strength of my lyfe: of whom then shall I be afrayed?

¹¹ I had rather be a dore keper in the house of my God, then to dwell in the tentes of vngodlynesse.

⁹ The lyght of the ryghteous maketh ioyfull, but the candle of the vngodly shalbe put out.

²⁰ Whoso curseth hys father & mother: his lyght shalbe put out in the myddest of darcknes.

²⁰ And why? the wicked shall haue no posterite, and the candle of the vngodly shall be put out.

⁴ and shall geue sentence amonge the Heathen, and shall reforme the multitude of people: They shall breake theyr swerdes also in to mattockes, and theyr speares to make sythes. And one people shall not lyft vp weapen against another, nether shal they learne to fyght from thens forth.

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.

⁴⁶ I am come a lyght into the worlde: that whosoeuer beleueth on me, shulde not byde in darcknes.

⁸ Ye were somtyme darcknes, but nowe are ye lyght in the Lorde. Walke as children of lyght

¹⁴ Wherfore he sayth: awake thou that slepest, and stonde vp from deeth, and Chryst shall geue the lyght.

⁸ hast thou hearde the secrete councell of God, that all wysdome is to lytle for the?

¹⁴ The secrete of the Lorde is amonge them that feare him & he wyll shewe them hys couenaunt.

⁵ For in the tyme of trouble he shall hyde me in his tabernacle, yee in the secrete place of his dwellynge shall he hyde me, and set me vp vpon a rocke of stone.

¹ Who so dwelleth vnder the defence of the most hyest, shal abyde vnder the shadow of the Almightye.

³² for the Lorde abhorreth the frowarde: but hys councell is amonge the ryghteous.

³ For ye are deed, and youre lyfe is hyd with Chryst in God.

²⁷ The eternall God is thy refuge, & vnder the armes of the Euerlastynge God shalt thou lyue. He shall cast out the enemye before the, and saye, destroye. ²⁸ Israel then shall dwell in safetye, & alone. And the eye of Iacob shalbe vpon a lande of corne and wyne, and hys heauens shall droppe the dewe. ²⁹ Happye art thou o Israel, who is lyke vnto the? O people, that art saued in the Lorde, which is the shylde of thy helpe, and swerde of thy glorye. Thyne enemies haue lost their strength to the warde, and thou shalt treade vpon the heygth of them.

⁹ Haue not I commaunded the, that thou shuldest be stronge & hardye & not feare ner be faynt harted? For I the Lord thy God am with the, whether soeuer thou goest.

¹² & the angell of the Lord apeared vnto hym, & sayde: the Lord is wyth the, thou mightie man of warre. ¹³ And Gedeon answered him: Oh my Lord, yf the Lord be wyth vs, why is all this come vpon vs? ye & where be all hys myracles which oure fathers tolde vs of, and sayde? Did not the lord bring vs out of Egypte? But now the Lorde hath forsaken vs, & delyuered vs into the handes of the Madianites.

³ O that I myght se him, and fynde hym: O that I myght come before his seate,

⁸ Beholde, though I go before, I fynde him: If I come behynde, I can get no knowledge of him: ⁹ Yf I go on the left syde where he doth hys worcke, I cannot atteyne vnto hym. A gayne, yf I go on the ryght syd, he hydeth hym selfe, that I cannot se him. ¹⁰ But as for my waye, he knoweth it: and tryeth me as the golde in the fyre.

¹³ He had seuen sonnes also & thre daughters. ¹⁴ The fyrst daughter called he Iemima: the second Kezia, and the thirde Kerenhapuch. ¹⁵ In all the land were no wemen found so fayre, as the daughters of Iob, and their father gaue them enheritaunce amonge their brethren. ¹⁶ After thys lyued Iob an hundred and fourty yeares, so that he sawe hys chyldren, & hys chyldrens chyldren into the fourth generacion.

⁷ Thou dyddest turne thy face and I was troubled.

² For thou art the God of my strength: why hast thou put me from the? And why go I so heuely, whyle the enemye oppresseth me?

⁸ But it is thou that sauest vs from oure enemye, and puttest them to confusyon that hate vs. ⁹ We make oure boast of God all the daye longe, and wyll prayse thy name for euer. Sela.

³ It is but lost laboure that ye haste to ryse vp early, and so late take rest, and eate the breade of carefulnesse: for so he gyueth hys beloued sleape. ⁴ Lo, chyldren and the frute of the wombe are an herytage and gyfte, that commeth of the Lorde. ⁵ Lyke as the arowes in the hande of the gyaunt, euen so are the yonge chyldren. Happy is the man, that hath hys quyuer full of them, they shall not be ashamed, when they speake wyth theyr enemyes in the gate.

³ Thy wyfe shalbe as the frutefull vyne vpon the walles of thy house.

⁶ Chylders chyldren are a worshyppe vnto the elders, and the fathers are the honoure of the chyldren.

⁴ He bringeth me into hys wyne seller, hys banner spred ouer me, is loue.

¹ By nyght in my beed I sought him, whom my soule loueth: ye diligently sought I him, but I founde him not. ² I wyll get vp (thought I) and go aboute the cytie, in the wayes in all the stretes wyll I seke him whom my soule loueth: but when I sought hym, I founde hym not.

⁸ For thou art the comfort & helpe of Israel in the tyme of trouble. Why wilt thou be as a straunger in the lande, & as one that goeth ouer the felde, & commeth in only to remayne for a nyght?

¹⁵ And Iesus sayde vnto them: can the brydegromes children mourne as longe as the brydegrome is with them? But the dayes wyll come, when the brydegrome shalbe taken from them, and then shall they fast.

¹¹ He shall bynde his fole vnto the vyne, and hys asses colt vnto the braunche. He washed hys garment in wyne, and hys mantell in the bloude of grapes.

¹³ He caried him vp to an hye lande, that he myght eate the encrease of the feldes, And he fedd him wyth honye out of the rocke, and with oyle out of the most harde stone. ¹⁴ Wyth butter of kyne, & mylcke of the shepe, wyth fat of the lambes and of fat rammes and he goates, with the fat of most plenteous wheate: and that thou myghtest drynke the most pure bloude of the grape.

²⁴ And to Aser he sayde: Aser shalbe blessed with chyldren: he shalbe acceptable vnto his brethren, & shall dyppe his fote in oyle:

¹⁷ so that he shall nomore se the ryuers and brokes of hony and butter.

¹⁶ The haters of the Lorde shulde haue bene founde lyars, but their tyme shulde haue endured for euer. He shuld haue fed them also wyth the fynest wheate floure, and with hony out of the stony roke shulde I haue satisfyed the.

¹⁸ Iudges and offycers shalt thou make the in all thy cyties, whych the Lorde thy God geueth the thorowe out thy trybes: and they shall iudge the people ryghteously.

¹⁹ Then shall hys father and hys mother take hym, & brynge hym out vnto the elders of that cytie, and vnto the gate of that same place,

¹ Then went Booz vnto the gate and satt him downe there: and beholde, the kynsman of which Booz spake, cam by. Unto whom, he sayde: come and sytte downe here, and called him by his name. And he turned in, and sate downe. ² And he toke ten men of the elders of the citie, and sayd: sytye downe here. And they sat downe.

¹¹ And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders sayde: we are wytnesses: the Lord make the woman that is come into thyne house, lyke Rahel and Lea, which twayne dyd builde the house of Israell: do thou also valeauntly in Ephrata, and be famouse in Bethlehem.

²¹ Dyd I euer lyfte vp my hande to hurte the fatherlesse? yee, in the gate where I sawe my selfe to be in auctorite:

¹⁶ Nowe the thynges that ye shall do, are these: Speake euery man the treuth vnto hys neyghboure, execute iudgement truly, and peaceably wythyn your portes,

³² Thou shalt ryse vp before the horehed, and reuerence the face of the olde man, and dread thy God. I am the Lorde.

³¹ Age is a crowne of worshype, yf it be founde in the waye of ryghteousnes.

⁸ A kyng that sitteth in the throne of iudgment, and loketh well about hym, dryueth awaye all euell.

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.

⁷ Geue to euery man therfore hys duetye: tribute to whom tribute belongeth: custome, to whom custome is due: feare, to whom feare belongeth: honoure, to whom honoure pertayneth.

¹ Warne them that they submytte them selues to rule & power: that they obey the officers: that they be ready vnto euery good worke:

¹⁷ Honoure all men. Loue brotherly feleshyppe. Feare God, honoure the kynge.

⁵ Lykewyse ye yonger, submyt your selues vnto the elder: Submit youre selues euery man, one to another, knyt youre selues together in lowlynes of mynde. For God resisteth the proude, and geueth grace to the humbl

¹⁹ They answered hym: holde thy peace, laye thyne hande vpon thy mouth, and come with vs, to be oure father & preste. Is it better for the to be a preste vnto the house of one man, then to be a prest vnto a trybe or a kynred in Israell?

² Yf we begynne to commen with the, wylt thou be discontent? but who can withhold him selfe from speakinge?

¹¹ Therfore, I will not spare my mouth, but wyll speake in the trouble of my sprete, and muse in the bytternesse of my mynde.

⁵ Marcke me well, and be abasshed, and laye youre hand vpon youre mouth.

⁴ Beholde. I am to vyle a personne, to answere the, therfore wyll I laye my hande vpon my mouth.

¹⁹ Where moch bablynge is, there must nedes be offence: and he that refrayneth his lyppes, is wyse.

³² Yf thou hast done foolyshly whan thou wast in hye estate, or yf thou hast taken euell councell: then laye thyne hande vpon thy mouth.

¹⁹ Wherfore (deare brethren) let euery man be swyfte to heare, slowe to speake, slowe to wrath.

⁶ If I do not remembre the, let my tong cleue to the rofe of my mouth: yee, yf I preferre not Ierusalem in my myrth.

²⁶ And I wyll make thy tunge cleue so to the rofe of thy mouth, that thou shalt be domme, & not be as a chyder wyth them: for it is an obstinate housholde.

²⁰ whose sydes thancked me not, because he was warmed with the wolle of my shepe?

² When the ryghteous haue the ouerhande, the people are in prosperite: but when the vngodly beareth rule, there the people mourne.

²² And all bare hym wytnes and wondred at the gracious wordes, which proceaded out of of hys mouth, and they sayde: Is not thys Iosephs sonne?

²⁷ And it fortuned that as he spake these thynges, a certayne woman of the company lyfte vp her voyce, and sayd vnto him. Happy is the wombe that bare the, and the pappes which gaue the sucke.

²² Ye shall trouble no wedowe nor fatherlesse chylde. ²³ If ye shall trouble them, and they crye vnto me, I wyll surely heare theyr crye, ²⁴ and then wyll my wrath waxe hoote, and I wyll kyll you with the swerde, and youre wyues shall be wedowes, & youre chyldren fatherlesse.

¹⁸ He doeth ryght vnto the fatherlesse & wedowe, and loueth the straunger, to geue hym fode and rayment.

² For there were some that sayd: our sonnes and daughters and we are to many, therfore wyll we take corne for them, that we maye eate, and lyue. ³ Some also there were that sayde: let vs sett our landes, vyneyardes and houses to pledge, and take vp corne in the darth. ⁴ But som there were that sayde: let vs borowe money for the kynges trybute & that vpon our landes and vyneardes. ⁵ Behold, oure bodyes as the bodyes of oure brethren, and oure chyldren as theyr chyldren: elles shulde we subdue our sonnes and daughters vnto bondage, and some of oure daughters are subdued vnto bondage all ready, & no strength is there in houre handes, and other men haue our landes and vyneyardes. ⁶ And when I heard their complaynte and soch wordes, it displeased me sore, ⁷ and I aduised so in my mynde, that I rebuked the councelers, and the rulers, and sayde vnto them: Euery one of you is to chargeable vnto hys brother. And I brought a greate congregacyon agaynst them, ⁸ and sayd vnto them we (after oure abilite) haue bought our brethren the Iewes, which were solde vnto the heathen. And wyll ye sell your brethren agayne vnto the heathen, after that they haue bene solde vnto vs? Then helde they theyr peace, and coulde fynde nothynge to answere. ⁹ And Nehemia sayde: It is not good that ye do. Ought ye not to walke in the feare of God, because of the rebuke of the heathen that are our enemyes? ¹⁰ I and my brethren, and my seruauntes do lend them money & corne: but as for vsurye, let vs leaue it. ¹¹ Therfore, thys same daye I pray you se that ye restore them theyr landes agayne, theyr vineyardes, oyle gardens, and their houses, and remytte the hundred part of the money, of the corne, wyne and oyle that ye haue wonne of them. ¹² Then sayd they: we will restore them agayne, & wyll requyre nothing of them, and will do as thou hast spoken. And I called the prestes, & toke an oth of them, that they shuld do so. ¹³ And I shoke my lappe, & sayde. God shake out euery man after the same maner from hys house & laboure, that maynteyneth not this word: euen thus be he shaken oute, and voyde. And all the congregacyon sayde: Amen, and praysed the Lord. And the people dyd so.

⁵ Is not thy wickednesse greate, and thyne vngracious dedes innumerable? ⁶ For thou hast taken the pledge from thy brother for naught, and robbed the naked of their clothinge: ⁷ To soche as were weery hast thou geuen no water to drincke, & hast withdrawen bred from the hungrye: ⁸ Shulde soch one then as vseth violence, wrong & oppression (doing all thinge of parcialite, and hauinge respecte of personnes) dwell in the lande? ⁹ Thou hast sent wyddowes awaye emptie and oppressed the poore fatherlesse.

⁴ that thrust the poore out of the waye, and oppresse the simple of the worlde together.

¹⁷ Haue I eaten my porcion alone, that the fatherlesse hath had no parte with me?

⁵ He is a father of the fatherlesse, and defendeth the cause of wyddowes: euen God in his holy habitacion.

¹² For he shall delyuer the poore when he cryeth: the neady also and him that hath no helper.

² How longe will ye geue wrong iudgement, and accepte the personnes of the vngodly? Sela. ³ Defende the poore and fatherlesse, se that soch as be in nede and necessite haue ryght. ⁴ Delyuer the out caste & poore: saue them from the hande of the vngodly.

¹³ Whoso stoppeth hys eares at the cryenge of the poore: he shall crye hym selfe, and not be hearde.

¹¹ Deliuer them that go vnto death, & are led awaye to be slayne, & be not neglygent therin yf thou be able to do them good. ¹² If thou wilt saye: I knewe not of it. Thinkest thou that he which made the hertes, doth not considre it? & that he which regardeth thy soule, seeth it not? Shall not be recompence euery man according to his worckes?

¹⁶ Yee, when he helped the oppressed and poore to their right, then prospered he well. From whence came thys, but onely because he had me before hys eyes, sayeth the Lorde?

²⁷ Pure deuocyon and vndefyled before God the father, is this: to visyt the fatherlesse & widdowes in theyr aduersyte, & to kepe him selfe vnspotted of the worlde.

¹¹ And reioyse before the Lorde thy God, thou & thy sonne, thy daughter, thy seruaunte & thy mayde and the Leuite that is within thy gates, and the straunger, the fatherlesse & the wedowe that are amonge you, in the place whych the Lorde thy God hath chosen to put hys name there.

¹³ but delyuer hym the pledge agayne whan the sonne goth doune that he maye slepe in his awne rayment, and blesse the. And it shalbe ryghteousnes vnto the, before the Lord thy God

⁵ And thou shalt answere, and saye before the Lord thy God: The Sirians went aboute to destroye my father, and he went doune into Egypte, and so soiourned there wyth a fewe folcke, & grewe there vnto a nacion greate, myghtie, and full of people.

¹⁰ And he sayd vnto them: go youre waye, and eate the fat, & drincke the swete, & sende parte vnto them also that haue not prepared them selues: for thys daye is holy vnto oure Lorde, be not ye sory therfore: for the ioye of the Lorde is youre strength. ¹¹ And the Leuites stylled all the people, and sayd: holde youre peace, for the daye is holy, vexe not ye youre selues. ¹² And all the people wente theyr waye to eate and drincke, and to sende parte vnto other, and to make greate myrth, because they had vnderstand the wordes that were declared vnto them.

⁹ Thou hast sent wyddowes awaye emptie and oppressed the poore fatherlesse.

¹⁹ Haue I sene any man perishe thorow nakednesse and want of clothinge? Or any poore man for lack of rayment, ²⁰ whose sydes thancked me not, because he was warmed with the wolle of my shepe?

⁴ O let the nacions reioyse and be glad, For thou shalt iudge the folke ryghteously, and gouerne the nacions vpon earth. Sela.

⁶ Geue stronge drincke vnto soch as are condempned to death, and wyne vnto those that mourne: ⁷ that they maye drincke it, and forgett theyr mysery & aduersytie. ⁸ Be thou an aduocate, for the dombe and stande in iudgement thy selfe, to speake for all soch as be socourles in this transitorye worlde. ⁹ Open thy mouth, defende the thynge that is lawfull and ryght, and the cause of the poore and helpelesse.

¹³ In that daye shall the great trompe be blowne, so that they which were lost in the lande of Assiria: & they that were banisshed into the lande of Egipt, shall come and worshyp the Lorde in the holy mount at Ierusalem:

¹⁴ Beholde, my seruauntes shall reioyce for very quyetnesse of herte: But ye shall crye for sorowe of hert, and complayne for vexacyon of mynde.

³⁹ Peter arose, & came with them. And when he was come, they brought him into the chamber. And all the widdowes stode round about him, wepynge, and shewyng the coates and garmentes, which Dorcas made, whyle she was with them. ⁴⁰ And Peter put them all forth, and kneled downe, and prayde. and turned him to the body, and sayd: Tabitha, aryse. And she opened her eyes, and when she sawe Peter, she sat vp. ⁴¹ And he gaue her the hand. and lyft her vp. And whan he had called the saynctes and widdowes, he shewed her alyue.

¹² For the offyce of thys minystracion, not onely supplyeth the nede of the saynctes: but also is aboundaunt herin, that for thys laudable minystringe, thankes might be geuen to God of many, ¹³ which prayse God for the obedience of youre consentynge to the Gospell of Christ, and for youre synglenesse in distrybutyng to them, and to all men, ¹⁴ and in theyr prayers for you, which longe after you, for the aboundaunt grace of God in you.

¹⁶ The Lorde geue mercye vnto the housholde of Onesyphorus for he ofte refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chayne: ¹⁷ but when he was at Rome, he sought me out very diligently, & founde me. ¹⁸ The Lorde graunt vnto hym that he maye fynde mercye with the Lorde at that daye. And in howe many thynges he ministred vnto me at Ephesus, thou knowest very well.

⁷ For we haue great ioye and consolacyon in thy loue: because that by the (brother) the sayntes hertes are conforted.

⁶ My ryghtwes dealynge kepe I fast, which I wyll not forsake: my hert shall not reproue me of my dayes.

⁹ Let thy Preastes be clothed wyth ryghteousnesse, & let thy saynctes synge with ioyfulnesse,

⁵ In the daye shall the Lorde of hostes be the crowne of glory, & diademe of bewtye vnto the residue of his people.

¹⁷ He put ryghteousnes vpon him for a brest plate, a set the helmet of health vpon hys head. He put on wrath in steade of clothynge, & toke gelousy about hym for a cloke:

¹⁰ And therfore I am ioyfull in the Lorde, & my soule reioyseth in my God. For he hath put vpon me the garment of saluacion, & couered me with the mantle of ryghteousnes. He shall decke me lyke a brydegrome, and as a bride that hath hyr apparell vpon her.

³ Thou shalt be a crowne in the hande of the Lorde, and a gloryous garlande in the hande of thy God.

¹⁴ but put ye on the Lorde Iesus Chryst. And make not prouisyon for the fleshe, to fulfyll the lustes of it.

⁷ in the worde of trueth, in the power of God, by the armoure of ryghtewesnes of the ryght hande & on the lyfte

¹⁴ Stande therfore, and youre loynes gyrd with the trueth, hauynge on the brest plate of ryghtewesnes,

⁸ But let vs whych are of the daye, be sober armed wyth the brest plate of fayth and loue, and with hope of saluacyon for an helmet.

⁸ And to her was graunted, that she shuld be arayed with pure and goodly raynes. For the raynes is the rightewesnes of sainctes.

³¹ He sayde: Oh naye, leaue vs not: for thou knowest oure mansyons in the wyldernesse: and thou hast bene to vs in steade of eyes.

⁵ The blynd receaue their sight: the lame walke, the lepers are clensed: and the deef heare, the deed are raysed vp, & the poore receaue the glad tidinges of the gospell.

¹² For as the body is one, and hath many membres, and all the membres of one body though they be many, yet are but one bodye, euen so is Christ. ¹³ For by one sprete are we all baptysed to make one body, whether we be Iewes or Gentyls, whether we be bonde or fre, and haue all droncke of one sprete. ¹⁴ For the body is not one member, but many. ¹⁵ If the fote saye: I am not the hande, I am not of the body: is he therfore not of the body? ¹⁶ And yf the eare saye, I am not the eye, I am not of the body: is he therfore not of the body? ¹⁷ If all the body were an eye, where were then the eare? If all were hearynge: where were the smellynge? ¹⁸ But nowe hath God set the membres euery one seuerally in the body as it hath pleased him. ¹⁹ If they were all one member: where were the bodye? ²⁰ Nowe are there many membres, yet but one body. ²¹ And the eye can not saye vnto the hande: I haue no nede of the. Agayne, the heed can not saye to the fete: I haue no nede of you. ²² Yee rather a great deale those membres of the body which seme to be more feble, are necessary. ²³ And vpon those membres of the body which we thinke leest honest, put we more honestye on. And oure vngoodlye partes haue more beautye on. ²⁴ For oure honest membres nede it not: But God hath so disposed the body, & hath geuen the more honoure to that parte whych lacked, ²⁵ lest there shulde be eny stryfe in the body: but that the membres shuld indifferently care one for another. And yf one member suffer, all suffer with him. ²⁶ yf one member be had in honour, all membres be glad also. ²⁷ Ye are the body of Christ, and membres one of another. ²⁸ And God hath also ordeyned in the congregacyon, fyrst Apostles, secondarely prophetes, thrydly teachers, then them that do myracles: after that, the gyftes of healyng, helpers, gouerners, diuersitye of tonges. ²⁹ Are all Apostles? Are all Prophetes? Are all teachers? Are all doars of miracles? ³⁰ Haue all the gyftes of healinge? Do all speake with tonges? Do all interprete? ³¹ Couet after the best gyftes. And yet shewe I vnto you a more excellent waye.

²⁶ And they iudged the people at all seasons, but broughte the harde causes vnto Moses: and iudged all small matters them selues.

¹⁴ Then thou must seke, and make serche and enquere diligently. And beholde, yf it be true, and the thynge of a suertye, that soche abhominacion is wrought among you:

⁸ If there ryse a matter to harde for the in iudgement betwene bloud and bloud, betwene plee and plee, betwene plage and plage, and the matters come to stryfe wythin thy gates, Then shalt thou aryse, and get the vp vnto the place which the Lord thy God hath chosen, ⁹ and come vnto the preastes the Leuites, and vnto the iudge that shalbe in those dayes, and aske and they shall shewe the the sentence of iudgement. ¹⁰ And thou must do accordynge to that, whych they of that place (which the Lorde had chosen) shewe the and thou shalt obserue to do, accordynge to all that they enfourme the.

¹⁶ Then came there two wemen, that were harlottes, vnto the kynge. and stode before hym. ¹⁷ And the one woman sayde: Oh my Lorde, I and thys woman dwell in one house. And I was delyuered of a chyld with her in the house. ¹⁸ And the thyrde daye after that I was delyuered, she was delyuered also: and we were together, and no straunger with vs in the house, saue we two. ¹⁹ And thys wyues chyde dyed in the nyght, for she smothered it. ²⁰ And she rose at mydnyght, and toke my sonne from my syde, whyle thyne handemayde slepte, and layde it in her bosome, and putt her deed chylde in my bosome. ²¹ And when I rose vp to geue my chylde sucke: beholde, it was deed. But whan I had loked vpon it in the mornynge, beholde, it was not my sonne, which I dyd beare. ²² The other woman sayde: it is not so: but my sonne lyueth, and thy sonne is deed. And she sayde agayne: No, but thy sonne is deed, and my sonne is alyue. And thus they pleated before the kynge. ²³ Then sayde the kyng: the one sayth, this that is alyue is my sonne: and the deed is thyne. And the other saythe, naye: but thy sonne is the deed, & the lyuinge chylde is myne, ²⁴ And the kynge sayde: bryng me a swearde. And they brought out a swearde before the kynge. ²⁵ And the kynge sayde. Deuyde the lyuinge chylde in two, and geue the one halfe to the one, and the other to the other. ²⁶ Then spake the woman, whose the lyuynge chylde was, vnto the kynge, for her bowelles yerned vpon her sonne, and sayde: I beseche the my Lorde, geue her the lyuyng chylde, and in no wyse sleye it. But the other sayd: let it be nether myne nor thyne, but deuyde it. ²⁷ Then the kynge answered and sayd: geue her the lyuing chylde, and sley it not: for she is the mother therof. ²⁸ And all they of Israel hearde of the iudgement, which the kynge hath iudged, and feared the kynge: for they sawe that the wysdome of God was in hym, to do iustice.

⁷ & he norished Hadassa (that is Esther) his vncles daughter: for she had nether father nor mother, and she was a fayre & beutyfull damsell: whom Mardocheus (when her father & mother was deed) receaued for his awne daughter.

¹⁸ for mercy grewe vp with me fro my youth, and compassion fro my mothers wombe.

² It is the honour of God to kepe a thinge secrete, but the kynges honour is to search out a thyng.

⁷ The ryghteous considreth the cause of the poore: but the vngodly regardeth no vnderstandynge.

¹ Be ye therfore folowers of God as deare chyldren,

³⁵ And I went out after him, and smote hym, and toke it out of his mouth. And when he arose agaynst me, I caught him by the bearde, and smote hym, & slue hym.

⁷ Up Lorde, & helpe me, O my God, for thou smyttest all myne enemyes vpon the cheke bone: thou hast broken the teeth of the vngodly.

⁸ Let them consume awaye lyke a snayle, and be lyke the vntimely frute of a woman, and let them not se the sonne.

³ Yee, the waters had drowned vs, and the streame had gone ouer oure soule.

⁶ Our soule is escaped, euen as a byrde out of the snare of the fouler:

¹⁴ There is a generacion whose teth are swerdes, & with theyr chaw bones they consume & deuoure the symple of the earth, and the poore from amonge men.

¹² Thou saydest: I wyll surely do the good, & make thy seed as the sande of the see, which can not be nombred for multytude.

⁴⁹ And Ioseph layde vp corne in stoore, lyke vnto the sande of the see, in multitude out of mesure, vntyll he left nombrynge: For it was wythout nombre.

²⁶ Thou shalt come also to thy graue in a fayre age, lyke as when they take vp a corne shefe in due season.

¹⁶ After thys lyued Iob an hundred and fourty yeares, so that he sawe hys chyldren, & hys chyldrens chyldren into the fourth generacion. ¹⁷ And so Iob dyed, beynge olde & of a perfect age.

⁶ And in my prosperyte, I sayde: I shall neuer be remoued: thou Lorde of thy goodnesse hadest made my hill so stronge. ⁷ Thou dyddest turne thy face and I was troubled.

¹⁶ With longe lyfe wyll I satisfye hym, and shewe hym my saluacion.

²³ thou that dwellest vpon Libanus, & makest thy nest in the Cedre trees O how litle shalt thou be regarded when thy sorowes & pangues come vpon the, as a woman trauelynge with chylde.

¹⁶ Thy hye stomacke and the pryde of thy herte haue disceaued the, because thou wylt dwell in the holes of stony rockes, and haue the hye mountaynes in possession. Neuertheles, though thy neste were as hye as the aegles, yet wyll I cast the downe, sayeth the Lorde.

⁴ But though thou wentest vp as hye as the Aegle, and madest thy nest aboue amonge the starres: yet wolde I plucke the downe from thence.

⁹ Wo vnto him, that couetously gathereth euell gotten goodes into his house: that he maye set hys nest an hye, to escape from the power of misfortune.

¹⁶ His rotes shalbe dried vp beneth, and aboue shall his braunch be cutt downe.

³ And he shalbe lyke a tre planted by the watersyde, that wyll brynge forth hys frute in due season. His leafe also shall not wither: & loke whatsoeuer he doth, it shall prospere.

⁸ For he shalbe as a tre, that is planted by the water syde: whyche spredeth out the rote vnto moystnesse, whom the heate cannot harme, when it commeth, but his leaffe shalbe grene. And though there growe but lytle frute because of drouth, yet is he not carefull, but he neuer leaueth of to brynge forth frute.

⁵ Yee, I wolde be vnto Israel as the dewe, and he shulde growe as the lylie, and hys rote shulde breake out as Libanus. ⁶ His braunches shulde sprede out abroade and be as fayre as the olyue tre and smell as Libanus. ⁷ They that dwell vnder hys shadowe, shulde come agayne, and growe vp as the corne, & floryshe as the vyne he shulde haue as good a name, as the wyne of Libanus.

¹³ Therfore tell my father of all my honoure in Egypt and of all that ye haue sene, and make hast and brynge my father hyther.

²⁴ But hys bowe abode fast, and the armes of hys handes were made stronge, by the handes of the myghtye God of Iacob. Out of hym shall come an herde man, a stone in Israel:

⁹ He hath spoyled me of myne honoure, and taken the crowne awaye fro my head.

¹⁴ And why? I put vpon me ryghteousnes, which couered me as a garment, and equyte was my crowne.

³ But thou O Lorde, arte my defender: thou arte my worshyppe, and the lyfter vp of my heed.

³⁴ He teacheth myne handes to fyght, & myne armes shall breake euen a bow of steele.

⁵ Whych satisfyeth thy mouth wyth good thynges, makyng the yonge and lusty as an Aegle.

³¹ But vnto them that haue the Lord before theyr eyes, shall strength be encreased. Aegles wynges shall growe vpon them. When they runne they shall not fall: and when they go, they shall not be weery.

¹⁶ Wherfore, we are not weried, But though oure vtwarde man peryshe, yet the inwarde man is renewed daye by daye.

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 For when I had wayted tyll ye made an ende of youre talkynge, and hearde youre wysdome, what argumentes ye made in youre communicacyon: ¹² yee, when I had diligently pondred what ye sayde, I founde not one of you that made any good argument agaynst Iob, that directly coulde make answere vnto his wordes:

² My doctrine shall droppe as doeth the rayne, & my speach shall flowe as dothe the dewe, as the shower vpon the herbes, & as the droppes vpon the grasse.

¹⁵ (for they were so abasshed, that they coulde not make answere, nor speake one worde) ¹⁶ but in so moche as ye wyll not speake, standynge styll lyke domme men, and makynge no answere:

³¹ Marcke well (O Iob) and heare me: holde the styll, and I will speake. ³² But yf thou hast any thynge to saye, then answere me, and speake, for thy answere pleaseth me. ³³ If thou hast nothinge, then heare me, and holde thy tonge, so shall I teach the wisdome.

¹¹ Thy lippes, O my spouse, droppe as the hony combe, yee mylcke and hony is vnder thy tong, and the smell of thy garmentes is lyke the smell of Libanus.

¹⁵ Euen so shall the multitude of the Gentyles loke vnto hym, & kynges shall shut their mouthes before him. For they that haue not bene tolde of him, shall se hym, & they that herde nothynge of hym, shall beholde him.

⁴⁶ Thou sonne of man, set thy face towarde the south, & speake to the south wynde,

¹⁶ And therfore, heare thou nowe the worde of the Lorde: Thou sayest: prophecy not agaynst Israel, and speake nothynge agaynst the house of Isaac.

⁶ Tush, holde your tunge (saye they) It shall not fall vpon thys people, we shall not come so to confusyon,

⁴⁶ And no man was able to answere him anye thing: nether durste eny man (from that daye forth) aske him any moo questions.

⁶ He shall come downe like the rayne into a flese of wolle, euen as the droppes that water the earth.

³ Then shall we haue vnderstandynge, & endeuoure oure selues to knowe the Lorde. He shall go forth as the spryng of the daye, & come vnto vs as the euenynge and mornynge rayne vpon the earth.

¹ Praye the Lorde then by tymes to geue you the latter rayne, so shal the Lorde make bright cloudes, and geue you rayne ynough for all the increase of the felde.

²⁶ Ioseph is yet alyue, & is gouerner ouer all the lande of Egypte. And Iacobs hert wauered, for he beleued them not.

¹⁵ Ryghteousnes and equite is the habitacyon of thy seate, mercy and trueth shall go before thy face.

¹ A songe of the stayres. When the Lord turned agayne the captiuyte of Sion, then were we lyke vnto them that dreame.

⁴¹ And whyll they yet beleued not for ioye, and wondred, he sayd vnto them: Haue ye here eny meate?

¹⁴ When Abram hearde that hys brother was taken, he harnessed hys freshe younge men borne in hys owne house thre hundred and eyghtene, and folowed on them vntyll Dan: ¹⁵ And he was sett in Aray vpon them by nyght, he and his seruauntes, and smote them and pursued them vnto Hoba: which lyeth on the lefte hande of Damascos, ¹⁶ and recouered all the goodes, and also brought agayne hys brother Lot, and his goodes, the women also and the people. ¹⁷ After that he returned agayne from the slaughter of kedorlaomor & of the kynges that were with him, came the kynge of Sodome forth to mete him in the playne valeye, which is kynges dale.

⁴⁰ Thou therfore shalt be ouer my house, and accordynge to thy worde shall all my people be ruled, only in the kynges seate wyll I be aboue the.

⁵ And he was in Israel kynge when the heades of the people, and the trybes of Israel were gathered together.

⁸ And the elders of Gilead sayde vnto Iephthah: Therfore we turne agayne to the now, that thou mayest go wt vs, & fight agaynst the children of Ammon and be oure heed ouer all the enhabiters of Gilead.

² And in tyme past when Saul was oure kynge, thou leddest Israel in and oute. And the Lorde hath sayd to the: thou shalt fede my people Israell, and thou shalt be a captayne ouer Israel.

¹ And Dauid counceled with the capitaynes of thousandes and hundredes, & with all the Lordes, ² and sayd vnto all the congregacyon of Israel: If it seme you good, and to be of the Lorde oure God, we wyll take and sende vnto oure brethren that are left in all the lande of Israel, & with them also, to the preastes and Leuites which are in their cyties & Suburbes, togather them together vnto vs. ³ And we wyll brynge agayne the Arcke of the Lorde to vs: for we regarded it not in the dayes of Saul. ⁴ And all the congregacion was content that he shulde do so, for the thyng semed good in the eyes of all the people.

³ His substaunce also was seuen .M. shepe, & thre .M. camels, .v.C. youck of oxen, & fyue .C. she asses, and a very greate housholde: so that he was one of the most principall men among all them of the east countre.

³ Behold, thou hast bene a chastener of many, and hast comforted the weery handes. ⁴ Thy wordes haue set vp those that were fallen, thou hast refresshed the weake, knees.

³⁷ I wyll tell him, the nomber of my goinges, and go vnto him as to a Prince.

³ And therfore strength the weake handes, and conforte the feble knees. ⁴ Saye vnto them that are of a fearefull hert. Be of good chere, and feare not. Beholde, youre God commeth to take vengeaunce: and you shall se the rewarde that God geueth: God commeth his awne selfe, & will delyuer you.

¹ The sprete of the Lorde God is vpon me, for the Lorde hath anoynted me, and sent me, to preach good tydynges vnto the poore, that I myght bynde vp the wounded hertes, that I myght preach delyueraunce to the captyue, and open the preson to them that are bounde: ² that I myght declare the acceptable yeare of the Lorde, and the daye of the vengeaunce of oure God: that I myght comforte all them that are in heuynesse, ³ that I myght geue vnto them that mourne in Sion, that I myght geue I saye, bewty in the steade of ashes, ioyfull oyntement for syghthinge, pleasaunt rayment for an heuy mynde: That they myght be called trees of ryghteousnesse, a plantynge of the Lorde for hym to reioyce in.

³ Blessed be God (the father of oure Lorde Iesus Christ) which is the father of mercy, & the God of all comforte, ⁴ whych comforteth vs in all oure tribulacyon, in so moche that we are hable to comforte them whych are in any maner of trouble, with the same comforte, wherwith we oure selues are comforted of God.

⁵ For when we were come into Macedonia oure flesshe had no rest, but we were troubled on euery syde. Outwarde was fyghtyng, inward was feare. ⁶ Neuerthelesse God that conforteth the abiecte, conforted vs by the commynge of Titus. ⁷ And not by his commynge onely: but also by the consolacyon which we receaued of you: when he tolde vs youre desyre, youre feruent mynde for me: so that I reioyced the more.

² and sent Timothe oure brother & mynyster of God, and the helper forth of oure laboure in the Gospell of Christ, to stablisshe you: and to conforte you concernyng our fayt ³ that no man shulde be moued in these affliccyons, For ye your selues knowe, that we are euen apoynted there vnto.