Job 3 Cross References - Great

¹ After this opened iob his mouth and cursed hys daye. ² And Iob answered, and sayde: ³ lost be that daye, wherin I was borne, and the nyght, in the which it was sayde: there is a man chylde conceaued. ⁴ The same daye be turned to darckenes, and not regarded of God from aboue, nether lett hym shyne vpon it with lyght, ⁵ but let it be stayned with darcknesse, and the shadowe of death. Let the dymme cloude fall vpon it, and lett it be lapped in with sorowe on the daye tyme. ⁶ Let the darcke storme ouercome that nyght, and lett it not be ioyned vnto the dayes of the yeare, ner counted in the monethes. ⁷ Desolate be that night, and without gladnesse, lett them that curse the daye, ⁸ and that be ready to rayse vp mournyng, geue it also their curse. ⁹ Let the starres of that night be dymme thorow darcknesse of it. Let it loke for lyght, but lett it se none, nether the rysynge vp of the fayre mornynge: ¹⁰ because it shut not vp the wombe that bare me. For then shulde these sorowes haue bene hyd from myne eyes. ¹¹ Alas, why dyed I not in the byrth? Why dyd not I perysh, as sone as I came oute of my mothers wombe? ¹² Why set they me vpon their knees? Why gaue they me suck with theyr brestes? ¹³ Then shulde I now haue lyen styll, I shulde haue slepte, and bene at reste, ¹⁴ lyke as the kynges and lordes of the earthe, which haue buylded them selues special places. ¹⁵ Or as the prynces that haue had greate substaunce of golde, and theyr houses full of syluer. ¹⁶ Or why was I not hyd, as a thynge borne out of tyme, ether as yonge chyldren, which neuer sawe the light? ¹⁷ There must the wycked ceasse from theyr tyrannye, and ther soch as are ouerlaboured be at rest: ¹⁸ ther are those lett out fre, which haue bene in preson, so that they heare nomore the voyce of the oppressoure. ¹⁹ There are small & great, and the seruaunt is fre from hys master. ²⁰ Wherfore is the lyght geuen to hym that is in mysery? and lyfe vnto them, that haue heuy hertes? ²¹ Whych longe for death (and though it come not) wolde dygg it oute of hyd places ²² which also wolde be excedyng glad and reioyce, yf they coulde fynde theyr graue any where. ²³ That shuld be ioye to that man whose waye is hyd, and God kepeth it backe from him. ²⁴ For my syghes come before I eate, and my roaringes fall out like the water. ²⁵ For the thynge that I feared, is come vpon me: and the thynge that I was afrayed of, is happened vnto me. ²⁶ Was I not happy? Had I not quyetnesse? Was I not in rest? And now commeth soch mysery vpon me

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

²² In all these thynges dyd Iob not offende, ner murmured foolyshly agaynst God.

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

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.

³ lost be that daye, wherin I was borne, and the nyght, in the which it was sayde: there is a man chylde conceaued.

¹⁶ Therfore doth Iob open hys mouth but in vayne, and folyshly doth he make so many wordes.

² I will kepe my mouth (as it were wt a brile) while the vngodly is in my sight. ³ I helde my tonge, & spake nothinge, I kepte sylence yee, euen from good wordes, but it was payne & grefe to me.

³³ Because they prouoked his sprete, so that he spake vnaduisedly with his lyppes.

¹⁴ Cursed be the daye, wherin I was borne, vnhappie be the daye, wherin my mother brought me forth. ¹⁵ Cursed be the man, that brought my father the tydinges to make him glad, saying: thou hast gotten a sonne.

¹⁴ Then answered the fyue men that went to spye out the countre of Lais, & sayde vnto their brethren: wot ye not that there is in these houses an Ephod, Theraphim, a grauen ymage, & an ymage of metall? Now therfore consydre what ye haue to do.

¹⁸ Wherfore hast thou brought me oute of my mothers wombe? O that I had perisshed, and that no eye had sene me. ¹⁹ Yf they had caryed me to my graue assone as I was borne, then shuld I be now, as though I had neuer bene

¹⁰ O mother, alas that euer thou dydest beare me, a brawler & rebuker of the whole lande: Thoughe I neuer lente ner receaued vpon vsury, yet all men speake euell vpon me.

¹⁴ Cursed be the daye, wherin I was borne, vnhappie be the daye, wherin my mother brought me forth. ¹⁵ Cursed be the man, that brought my father the tydinges to make him glad, saying: thou hast gotten a sonne. ¹⁶ Let it happen vnto that man, as to the cyties which the Lord turned vp syde downe. Lett him heare cryenge in the mornynge, and at none daye lamentable howlynge. ¹⁷ Why slewest thou not me, as sone as I cam out of my mothers wombe? O that my mother had bene my graue her self, that the byrth myghte not haue come out, but remayned styll in her. ¹⁸ Wherfore cam I forth of my mothers wombe? To haue experience of laboure and sorowe? and to lead my lyfe with shame?

²² And Moses stretched forth his hande vnto heauen, and there was a thicke darcknes vpon all the lande of Egipt thre dayes longe, ²³ no man sawe another, nether rose vp from the place where he was by the space of thre dayes: but all the children of Israel had lyght where they dwelled.

¹² Thys lande doth the Lorde thy God care for, & the eyes of the Lorde thy God are alwayes vpon it, from the begynnynge of the yeare, vnto the ende of the yeare.

² a darcke daye, a gloomynge daye, a cloudy daye, yee, and a stormy daye, lyke as the mornynge spredeth out vpon the hylles. Namely, a greate and myghtye people: soch as haue not bene sence the beginninge, nether shall be after them for euermore.

¹⁸ Wo be vnto them that desyre the daye of the Lorde. Wherfore wolde ye haue it? As for the daye of the Lorde, it shalbe darcke and not cleare.

⁴⁵ From the syxte houre was there dercknes ouer all the lande vnto the nynth houre.

²⁰ When at the last, nether the sunne nor starres in many dayes appeared, and no small tempest laye vpon vs, all hope that we shuld escape, was then taken awaye.

¹⁰ And the fyft Angell powred out his viall vpon the seate of the beaste, and his kyngdome wexed derke, & they gnewe theyr tonges for sorowe,

¹¹ ye came and stode also vnder the hyll, and the hyll burnt with fyre: euen vnto the myddes of heauen, & there was darcknesse, clowdes & myst.

²¹ afore I go thyther, from whence I shall not turne agayne: euen to the lande of darcknesse and shadowe of death: ²² yee, into that darck clowdy land and deadly shadowe, where as is no ordre, but terrible feare as in the darcknesse.

¹⁶ My face is swollen with wepynge, and in myne eyes is the shadow of death.

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

³ The darckenes shall once come to an ende, he can seke out the grounde of all thinges: the stones, the darcke, and the shadow of death.

¹⁷ Haue the gates of deeth bene opened vnto the, or hast thou sene the dores of the shadowe of death?

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.

¹⁹ Oure hert is not turned backe, nether oure steppes gone out of thy waye.

¹⁰ Soch as syt in darcknesse & in the shadow of death, beyng fast bound in mysery & yron.

¹⁴ For he brought them out of darcknesse & out of the shadow of death, & brake their bondes in sonder.

² The people that walke in darckenes haue sene a greate lyght. As for them that dwell in the lande of the Shadowe of death, vpon them hath the lyght shyned.

⁶ They thought not in their hertes. Where haue we left the Lorde, that brought vs oute of the lande of Egypte that led vs thorowe the wildernesse, thorowe a deserte & rough lande, thorowe a drye and a deedly lande, yee, a lande that no man had gone thorowe, and wherin no man had dwelt.

²⁸ And therfore, shall the earth mourne, & the heauen be sory aboue: for the thynge that I haue spoken to the Prophetes purposed and taken vpon me to do, shall not repent me, and I wil not go from it.

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,

³ for the daye is here, the daye of the Lord is come: the darke daye of the Heathen, the houre is at hande,

¹² Like as a shepherde among the flocke seketh after the shepe that are scatered abroade, euen so wil I seke after my shepe, & gather them together out of all places, where they haue bene scatred in the cloudy and darcke daye.

⁸ Ye forsake the Lord that maketh the .vij. starres & the Orions, that turneth the nyght into daye, and of the daye he maketh darcknesse. He calleth the waters of the see, and poureth them out vpon the playne grounde: the Lorde is hys name.

¹⁰ Your hye feastes wyll I turne to sorowe, & youre songes to mournynge: I will bringe sack cloth vpon all backes, and baldnes vpon euery head: yee, soch a mournynge wyll I sende them. as is made vpon an only begotten sonne, and they shall haue a myserable ende.

¹⁶ the people which satt in darckenesse and in the shadowe of death, sawe great light: & to them which sat in the region & shadowe of death, is the light sprong vp.

⁷⁹ To geue light to them that sate in darcknes & in the shadowe of deathe, to gyde oure fete into the waye of peace.

¹⁸ For ye are not come vnto the mounte that is touched, & vnto burnyng fyre, nor vnto storme, & darcknes, and tempestes of wedder,

²⁰ It shall not endure for euer, nether shall there be any more dwellyng there, from generacyon to generacyon. The Arabians shall pytch no tentes there, nether shal the shepheardes make their foldes there any more: ²¹ but fearfull wild beastes shall lye there, & the houses shalbe full of greate Dules. Estriches shall dwel there, & Apes shal daunse there ²² wild cattes shal crye in the palaces, and Dragons shalbe in the pleasaunt houses. And as for Babylons tyme it is at hand, & her dayes shal not be prolonged.

⁸ The myrth of tabrettes is layed downe, the noyse of such as haue made mery, is ceassed, the ioye at the herpe is at an ende.

³⁴ And as for the voyce of myrth & gladnes of the cytyes of Iuda, & Ierusalem, the voyce of the brydegrome, and of the bryde. I wyll make them ceasse, for the lande shalbe desolate.

²² And the voyce of harpers, and musycions, & of pypers, and trompetters shalbe herde no more in the: and no craftes man, of whatsoeuer craft he be, shalbe founde eny more in the. And the sounde of a myll shalbe herde no more in the, ²³ and the voyce of the brydegrom and of the bryde, shalbe herd no more in the, for thy marchauntes were the gret men of the erth. And wt thyne inchauntment were deceaued al nacions:

²⁵ And Ieremia lamented Iosia, and all syngynge men and synginge wemen mourned for Iosia in their lamentacions, to thys daye, and made the same lamentacions an ordinaunce in Israel, & behold, they be wryten in the lamentacions.

¹ Darrest thou drawe out Leuiathan wyth an Angle, or bynde hys tonge wyth a snare?

¹⁰ No man is so cruell, that is able to stere him vp. Who is able to stande before me?

²⁵ When he goeth: the myghtye are afrayed, and feare troubleth them.

¹⁷ Moreouer, thus sayeth the Lord of Hostes. Beware of the vengeaunce that hangeth ouer you: and cal for mourning wyues, & sende for wyse wemen: that they come shortly, ¹⁸ and synge a mournynge songe of you: that the teares may fall out of oure eyes, and that our eye lyddes maye gusshe out of water.

¹⁶ If no (sayeth the Lorde God, the God of hostes) there shall be mournynge in all stretes, yee, they shall saye in euery strete: alas, alas. They shall call the housbandman to lamentacyon, and soch as can mourne to mournynge.

¹⁷ and saye: we haue pyped vnto you, and ye haue not daunsed: We haue mourned vnto you & ye haue not sorowed.

³⁸ And he came vnto the house of the ruler of the Synagoge, and sawe the wondringe: and them that wepte and wayled greatly,

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

¹⁸ His nesyng is lyke a glystering fyre, and his eyes lyke the mornynge shyne.

¹⁵ We loked for peace, & we fare not the better, we wayted for the tyme of health, & lo, here is nothynge but trouble.

¹⁸ For the Lorde had closed to, all the matryces of the house of Abymelech: because of Abrahams wyfe.

³¹ When the Lorde sawe that Lea was despised, he made her frutefull. And Rahel remayned baren.

⁵ But vnto Hanna he gaue a porcion wt a heuye chere, for he loued Hanna, and the Lord had made her barren.

² O that the displeasure which I haue were truly weyed, and my punishment layed in the balaunces togeather: ³ for now is it heuyer then the sande of the see. And thys is the cause, that my wordes are so sorowfull.

¹ It greueth my soule to lyue. I wyl make my complaynte, and wyll speake out of the very heuynesse of my soule.

² My sayinge is yet this daye in bytternes, and my hande heuy because of my gronynge.

³ If a man begett an hundred children, & lyue many yeares, so that his dayes are many in nombre, and yet can not enioye his good, nether be buryed: as for him I saye, that an vntymely byrth is better then he. ⁴ For he commeth to naught, & spendeth his tyme in darrknes, & his name is forgotten. ⁵ Moreouer, he seeth not the sonne, & knoweth not of it: & yet hath he more rest then the other.

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¹⁷ Why slewest thou not me, as sone as I cam out of my mothers wombe? O that my mother had bene my graue her self, that the byrth myghte not haue come out, but remayned styll in her.

⁹ But thou art he that toke me out of my mothers wombe: thou wast my hope, when I hanged yet vpon my mothers brestes. ¹⁰ I haue bene left vnto the euer sence I was borne: thou art my God, euen fro my mothers wombe.

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

⁶ I am become as it were a monster vnto many: but my sure trust is in the.

¹³ For my reynes are thyne, thou hast couered me in my mothers wombe. ¹⁴ I will geue thankes vnto the: for I am fearfully & wonderously made: maruelous are thy workes, & that my soule knoweth right well. ¹⁵ My bones are not hyd from the, though I be made secretly and fasshioned beneth in the earth. ¹⁶ Thyne eyes dyd se my substaunce, yet being vnparfect: & in thy boke were all my membres written. Which daye by daye were fashyoned, when as yet there was none of them.

³ Herken vnto me, O house of Iacob, and all ye that remayne yet of the housholde of Israel: whom I haue borne from youre mothers wombe, and brought you vp from youre byrth, tyll ye were growen.

¹⁴ O Lorde thou shalt geue them: what shalt thou geue them? geue them an vnfrutefull wombe & drye brestes.

³ Then she sayd: here is my mayde Bilha, go in vnto her, & she shall beare vpon my lappe, that I maye be encreased by her.

²³ And Ioseph sawe Ephraims chyldren, euen vnto the thyrde generacyon. And vnto Machir the sonne of Manasses were chyldren borne, on Ioseph knees.

¹² For thus sayeth the Lord: beholde, I wyll lett peace into her, lyke a water floude, and the myght of the Heythen lyke a flowynge streame. Then shall ye sucke, ye shall be borne vpon her sydes, and be ioyfull vpon her knees.

⁴ In the daye of thy byrth when thou wast borne, the stringe of thy nauell was not cut of: thou wast not bathed in water to make the clene: Thou wast nether rubbed wt salt, ner swadled in cloutes: ⁵ No man regarded the so moch, as to do any of these thinges for the, or to shewe the soch fauoure, but thou wast vtterly cast out vpon the felde, yee, despised wast thou in the daye of thy birth

⁸ yee, & that none other mens eye shall se me eny more. For yf thou fasten thyne eye vpon me, I come to naught. ⁹ The cloude is consumed and vanysshed awaye, euen so he that goeth downe to the graue, shall come nomore vp, ¹⁰ ner turne agayne into hys house nether shall hys place knowe hym eny more.

²¹ Why doest thou not forgeue me my synne? Wherfore takest thou not awaye my wyckednes? Beholde, now must I slepe in the dust, and yf thou sekest me to morow in the mornyng, I shalbe gone.

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

¹⁰ But as for man, when he is dead, perisshed and consumed awaye, what becommeth of hym? ¹¹ The floudes when they be dryed vp, and the ryuers when they be empty, are filled agayne thorowe the flowynge waters of the see: ¹² but when man slepeth, he ryseth not agayne, (of hys awne strength) vntyll the heauen perysh: he shall not wake vp ner ryse out of hys slepe.

¹³ Though I tary neuer so moch, yet the graue is my house, and I haue made my bed in the darcke.

²⁷ Yee, I my selfe shall beholde him, not with other, but with these same eyes. My reynes are consumed within me:

¹³ They spende their dayes in welthynesse: but sodenly they go downe to hell.

²³ One dyeth now when he is mightye and at hys best, ryche, and in prosperite:

¹⁰ Whatsoeuer thou takest in hande to do, that do with all thy power, for in the graue that thou goest vnto, there is nether worcke, councell, knowledge ner wysdome.

¹⁰ And so Dauid slepte with hys fathers, and was buryed in the cytie of Dauid.

⁴³ And Salomon slepte and he layde him with hys fathers, and was buryed in the cytie of Dauid his father, and Rehoboam his sonne raygned in hys steade.

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

²⁸ Therfore shall hys dwellynge be in desolate cyties, and in houses which no man inhabyteth, but are become heapes of stones.

²³ Sure I am, that thou wilt deliuer me vnto death euen to the lodginge that is due vnto all men liuinge.

⁶ There be some that put theyr in trust their goodes, & boast them selues in the multitude of theyr ryches. ⁷ But no man maye delyuer hys brother, ner make agrement vnto God for hym. ⁸ For it costeth more to redeme theyr soules, so that he must let that alone for euer. ⁹ Yee, though he lyue longe, and se nat the graue. ¹⁰ For he seeth, that wyse men also dye, and peryshe together, as well as the ignoraunt & folysh, and leaue theyr ryches for other:

¹⁴ They lye in the hell lyke shepe, death gnaweth vpon them, and the ryghteous shall haue dominacyon of them in the mornynge: theyr bewtye shall consume in the sepulchre out of theyr dwellynge.

⁴⁸ O remembre, how shorte my tyme is, wherfore hast thou made all men for naught?

⁸ Nether is there eny man that hath power ouer the sprete, to kepe styll the sprete, ner to haue eny power in the tyme of death: is it not he also that can make an ende of the battayle, nether maye vngodlynes deliuer them that medle with all.

⁸ Wo vnto them that ioyne one house to another, & bring one lande so nygh vnto another, that the poore can get no more grounde, & that ye maye dwel vpon the earth alone.

¹⁰ that they may all answere & speake vnto the. Art thou become weake also as we? art thou become lyke vnto vs? ¹¹ Thy pompe and thy pryde is layde downe into the pyt, and so is the melody of thy instrumentes. Wormes be layde vnder the, & wormes are thy couerynge. ¹² How art thou fallen from heauen (O Lucifer) thou faire mornynge childe? how hast thou gotten a fall euen to the grounde, and art become weaker then the people? ¹³ For thou saydest in thyne herte: I will clyme vp into heauen, & exalte my throne aboue besyde the starres of God, I will syt also vpon the holy mount towarde the North, ¹⁴ I will clyme vp aboue the cloudes, and wylbe lyke the hyghest of al. ¹⁵ Yet thou shalt be brought downe to the depe of hell. ¹⁶ They that se the, shall narowly loke vpon the, and thynke in them selues, sayenge: Is thys the man, that brought all landes in feare, and made the kingdomes afrayde?

¹² Then the places that haue euer bene waste, shalbe builded of the: there shalt thou laye a foundacion for many kynredes. Thou shalt be called the maker vp of hedges, & the buylder agayne of the waye of the Sabboth.

²⁰ Then wil I cast the downe vnto them, that descende into the pitte: vnto a people that hath bene longe deed, and set the in a lande that is beneth, lyke the olde wildernes, with them which go downe to theyr graues, so that no man shall dwell more in the. And I will make the to be nomore in honoure, in the lande of the lyuinge.

¹⁸ Damascus also vsed marchaundyes wt the, in the best wyne of Helbon & wt woll: because thy occupieng was so greate, and thy wares so many, ¹⁹ Dan, Iauan & Meusall haue brought vnto thy marckettes, yron redy made, with Cassia & Calamus, accordinge to thine occupyenge. ²⁰ Dedan occupied with the in fayre tapestrye worcke and cusshyns. ²¹ Arabia & al the princes of Cedar haue occupied wt the, in shepe, wethers and goates. ²² The marchauntes of Seba and Rema haue occupied also with the, in all costly spyces, in all precyous stones and golde, which they brought vnto thy marckettes. ²³ Haram, Chene and Eden, the marchauntes of Saba, Assiria, and Chelmad, were all doers wt the, ²⁴ and occupyed with the. In costly rayment, of yelow sylcke & nedle worcke (very precyous, & therfore packte and bounde together with roapes.) Yee, and in Cedre woodde, at the tyme of thy marckettes. ²⁵ The shyppes of Tharsis were the chefe of thy occupyenge. Thus thou art full, and in greate worship, euen in the myddest of the see. ²⁶ Thy robbers shall brynge the into grett waters, the easte winde shall ouerbeare the into the myddest of the see: ²⁷ so that thy wares, thy marchaundies, thy ryches, thy maryners, thy shypmasters, thy buylders of thy broken places, thy occupiers (that brought the thynges necessary) the men of warre that are in the: yee, and all thy comens shall perysh in the myddest of the see: in the daye of thy fall. ²⁸ The suburbes shall shake at the loude crye of thy shypmen. ²⁹ All whyry men, & all maryners vpon the see, shall leape out of theyr boates, & set them selues vpon the lande. ³⁰ They shall lyft vp theyr voyce because of the and make a lamentable cry. They shall cast dust vpon theyr heades, and lye downe in the asshes. ³¹ They shall shaue them selues, and put sacke cloth vpon them for thy sake. They shall mourne for the with hertfull sorow, ³² and heuy lamentacion, yee, they also shall wepe for the. Alas, what cytie hath so bene destroyed in the see, as Tyre is?

¹⁸ And Balaam answered and sayde vnto the seruauntes of Balac: If Balac wolde geue me hys housefull of syluer and golde, I cannot go beyonde the worde of the Lord my God, to do lesse or moare.

²⁷ And the kynge made syluer in Ierusalem as plenteous as stones, & Cedar as plenteouse as the wylde fygge trees that growe aboundauntly in the feldes.

²¹ He poureth the confusion vpon prynces, and comforteth them that haue bene oppressed.

²⁵ Yee, Almightye God hys awne selfe shalbe thy defence, and thou shalt haue plentye of syluer.

¹⁶ Though he haue as moch money as the dust of the earth, and rayment as ready as the claye, ¹⁷ he maye well prepare it: but the godly shall put it vpon hym, and the innocent shall deale out the money.

⁷ Theyr land is full of siluer and gold, nether is there any ende of theyr treasure: Theyr land is also full of horses, & no ende is there of theyr charets.

¹⁸ Nether their syluer ner their golde shalbe able to deliuer them in that wrothful daye of the Lorde, but the whole lande shalbe consumed thorow the fyre of his gelousy: for he shall soone make clene ryddaunce of al them that dwell in the lande.

³ Tirus shall make her self stronge, heape vp syluer as the sande, & golde as the claye of the stretes.

³ If a man begett an hundred children, & lyue many yeares, so that his dayes are many in nombre, and yet can not enioye his good, nether be buryed: as for him I saye, that an vntymely byrth is better then he.

⁸ And last of all he was sene of me, as of one that was borne oute of due tyme.

¹³ O that thou woldest kepe me, and hyde me in the hell, vntyll thy wrath were stylled: and to appoynte me a tyme, wherin thou myghtest remembre me.

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

⁵ And I sayd: O that I had winges like a doue, for then wold I flie awaye, and be at reste. ⁶ Lo, then wolde I gett me awaye farre of, and remayne in the wildernes. Sela. ⁷ I wolde make hast to escape, because of the stormy wynd and tempeste. ⁸ Destroye theyr tonges (O Lorde) and deuide them, for I haue spyed vnrighteousnes and stryfe in the cyte.

¹ The ryghteous perisheth, and no man regardeth it in hys hert, Good godly people are taken a waye, and no man consydreth it. Namely, that the ryghteous is conuayed awaye from the wycked. ² He commethe into peace, & godlye men rest in their chambres, and before the godly man goeth peace.

²⁸ And feare ye not them which kyll the body but are not able to kyll the soule. But rather feare him, which is able to destroye both soule and body into hell.

⁴ I saye vnto you my frendes: be not afrayde of them that kyll the body, and after that haue no moare, that they can do.

⁶ It is verely a ryghtewes thyng with God that he recompence tribulacyon to them that trouble you: ⁷ and to you whych are troubled, rest wyth vs, when the Lorde Iesus shall shewe hym selfe from heauen with the Angels of hys power,

⁹ There remayneth therfore yet a rest to the people of God.

¹¹ Let vs study therfore to entre into that rest, lest eny man fall after the same ensample of vnbelefe.

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.

¹³ And I hearde a voyce from heauen saying vnto me: wryte. Blessed are the deed, which here after dye in the Lorde, euen so sayth the sprete: that they rest from theyr laboures, but theyr workes folowe them.

⁶ And Pharao commaunded the same daye vnto the taskemasters which were amonge the people, and vnto the offycers, sayinge: ⁷ ye shall geue the people no more strawe, to make brycke wyth all, (as ye dyd in tyme passed.) let them goo and gather them strawe them selues ⁸ and the nombre of brycke whyche they were wont to make in tyme passed, laye vnto their charges also, and mynysh nothynge therof. For they be ydell and therfore crye sayinge: we wyll goo & do sacrifyce vnto oure God.

¹⁵ The offycers also of the chyldren of Israel came & complayned vnto Pharao, sayinge: wherfore dealest thou thus wyth thy seruauntes? ¹⁶ there is no strawe geuen vnto thy seruauntes, and they saye vnto vs: make brycke. And thy seruauntes are beaten, and thy people is foule intreated. ¹⁷ He sayde: ydell ar ye, ydell, and therfore ye saye: We wyll goo and do sacrifyce vnto the Lorde. ¹⁸ Goo therfore nowe and worke, and ther shall no strawe be geuen you, and yet shall ye delyuer the hole tale of brycke. ¹⁹ And the offycers of the chyldren of Israel dyd wyth heuynes loke on them that sayde: ye shall minyshe nothynge of youre daylye makynge of brycke.

³ And the children of Israel cryed vnto the Lorde: for he had nyne hundred charrettes of yron, & twentie yeres he troubled the children of Israel very sore.

⁷ That they may geue no force for the multitude of people in the cyties, nether regarde the cryenge of the dryuer:

³ When the Lord now shal bringe the to rest, from the trauayle, feare, & harde bondage that thou wast laden wt all: ⁴ then shalt thou vse thys mockage vpon the kyng of Babylon, & saye: How happeneth it that the oppressour leaueth of? Is the golden tribute come to an ende?

² Hye and lowe, ryche and poore, one wyth another:

¹⁴ They lye in the hell lyke shepe, death gnaweth vpon them, and the ryghteous shall haue dominacyon of them in the mornynge: theyr bewtye shall consume in the sepulchre out of theyr dwellynge. ¹⁵ But God shall delyuer my soule from the place of hell, for he shall receaue me. Sela. 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: ¹⁸ For whyle he lyued, he counted hymselfe an happye man: and so longe as thou doest well vnto thy selfe, men wyll speake good of the. ¹⁹ He shall folowe the generacyons of hys fathers, and shall neuer se lyght. ²⁰ Man beynge in honoure hath no vnderstandyng, but is compared vnto the beastes, that peryshe.

⁵ when the dores in the stretes shalbe shutt, and when the voyce of the myller shalbe layed downe: when men shall ryse vp at the voyce of the byrde, and when all the daughters of musyke shalbe brought lowe:

⁷ Or euer the syluer lace be taken awaye, and or the golden well be broken. Or the pot be broken at the well, and the whele vpon the cysterne:

²² And it fortuned, that the begger died, and was caryed by the angelles into Abrahams bosome. The riche man also dyed, and was buryed. ²³ And beynge in hell in tormentes, he lyfte vp hys eyes and sawe Abraham a farre of and Lazarus in hys bosome,

²⁷ And as it is apoynted vnto all men tkat they shall once dye, and then commeth the iudgement

¹⁰ And she was troubled in her mynde, and prayed vnto the Lord, & wepte sore,

²⁷ And when she came to the man of God vp to the hyll, she caught him by the fete. But Gehezi went to her, to thrust her awaye. And the man of God sayde: let her alone, for her soule is vexed within her, and the Lorde hath hidd it from me, and hath not tolde it me.

¹⁶ Or why was I not hyd, as a thynge borne out of tyme, ether as yonge chyldren, which neuer sawe the light?

⁹ O that God wold begynne and smyte me: that he wolde let hys hande go, and take me cleane awaye.

¹⁵ that my soule wissheth rather to perish and dye, then my bones to remayne. ¹⁶ I can se no remedy, I shall lyue nomore: O spare me then, for my dayes are but vayne.

²⁸ Yee, he hath delyuered my soule from destruccyon, and my lyfe shall se the lyght.

³⁰ that he kepeth hys soule from perishing, and letteth hym enioye the lyght of the lyuynge.

⁶ Geue stronge drincke vnto soch as are condempned to death, and wyne vnto those that mourne:

¹⁸ Wherfore cam I forth of my mothers wombe? To haue experience of laboure and sorowe? and to lead my lyfe with shame?

¹⁵ If thou deale thus with me, kyll me, I praye the, yf I haue founde fauour in thy syght, that I se not my wrechednes.

⁴ But he hym selfe went a dayes iourney into the wyldernesse, and came and satt downe vnder a Iuniper tree, and desyred for his soule; that he myght dye, and sayde, it is nowe ynough (O Lorde) take my soule, for I am not better then my fathers.

⁴ yf thou sekest after her as after money, and dyggest for her as for treasure,

³ And now O Lord, take my lyfe fro me (I beseche the) for I had rather dye then lyue.

⁸ And when the Sunne was vp, God prepared a feruent east wynde: & the Sunne bett ouer the head of Ionas, that he faynted agayne, & wysshed vnto his soule, that he myght dye, and sayd: It is better for me to dye, then to lyue.

⁶ And in those dayes shall men seke deeth, and shall not finde it, & shall desyre to dye, and deeth shall flye from them.

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

⁶ knowe this then, that it is God, which hath handled me so violently and hath compased me aboute with his nette.

⁸ He hath hedged vp my waye, that I cannot passe, and he hath set darcknesse in my pathes.

¹² Hys men of warre came together, which made their waye ouer me, and beseged my dwellynge rounde aboute.

⁸ I wyll be glad and reioyse in thy mercy: for thou hast consydred my trouble, & hast knowne my soule in aduersytees.

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

²⁷ Howe may then Iacob thincke, or how may Israel saye: My wayes are hid from the Lorde, & my God knoweth not of my iudgementes.

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:

⁷ The thynges that some tyme I myght not awaye withall, are now my meate for very sorowe.

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

²⁰ so that hys lyfe maye awaye wyth no bred, and his soule abhorreth to eat any dayntie meat:

¹ To the Chaunter vpon the hynde of the dawnynge a Psalme of Dauid. My God, my God: why hast thou forsaken me: and art so farre fro my health, and from the wordes of my complaynte? ² O my God, I crye in the daye tyme, but thou hearest not: and in the nyght season also I take no rest.

³ For whyle I helde my tonge, my bones consumed awaye thorowe my daylye complayninge.

⁸ I am feble & sore smytten, I haue roared for the very disquyetnes of my hert.

³ Now when I thincke there vpon I powre out my hert by my self: for I went with the multitude, & brought them forth vnto the house of God, in the voyce of prayse and thanckesgeuyng, among soch as kepe holy daye. ⁴ Why art thou so full of heuynes (O my soule) and why art thou so vnquiete within me?

⁵ Thou fedest them with the bred of teares and geuest them plenteousnes of teares to dryncke.

⁹ For I haue eaten ashes as at were bred, and mengled my drynck with wepynge.

¹¹ We roare all lyke Beers, and mourne styll lyke doues. We loke for equyte, but there is none: for health, but it is farre from vs.

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

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.

¹⁵ Fearfulnesse is turned agaynst me. Myne honoure vanisshed awaye more swyftly then the wynde, and my prosperite departeth hence, lyke as it were a cloude.

²³ For I haue euer feared the vengeaunce and punyshement of God, and knewe very well, that I was not able to beare hys burthen.

¹⁴ Then troublest thou me with dreames, and makest me so afrayed thorow visions,

⁹ Doth God heare him the soner, when he crieth vnto him in hys necessite?

¹¹ Quycken me, O Lord, for thy names sake, & for thy ryghteousnes sake bringe my soule out of trouble.