Job 34 Cross References - Great

¹ Elihu proceadynge forth in hys answere, sayd: ² Heare my wordes (O ye wyse men) herken vnto me, ye that haue vnderstandynge. ³ For the eare proueth and discerneth the wordes, and the mouth tasteth the meates: ⁴ As for iudgement, let vs seke it out amonge oure selues, that we may knowe what is good. ⁵ And why? Iob hath sayde: I am ryghteous, but God doth me wronge. ⁶ I must neades be a lyer, though my cause me ryght, and violently I am plaged where as I made no faut: ⁷ where is there soch a one as Iob, that drincketh vp scornefulnes lyke water? ⁸ whych goeth in the company of wycked doers, and walketh wyth vngodly men? ⁹ For he hath sayed: Though a man be good, yet is he naught before God. ¹⁰ Therfore herken vnto me, ye that haue vnderstandynge. Farre be it from God, that he shuld medle wyth wickednesse: and farre be it from the Almyghtye, that he shulde medle wyth vnryghteous dealynge: ¹¹ For he shall reward the worckes of man, and cause euery man to fynde accordynge to his wayes. ¹² For sure it is, that God condemneth no man wrongefully, and the iudgement of the Almyghtye is not vnryghteous. ¹³ Who ruleth the earth in his steade? Or, whom hath he sett to gouerne the whole worlde? ¹⁴ To whom hath he geuen hys herte, for to drawe hys sprete and breth vnto hym? ¹⁵ All flesh shall come together vnto naught, and all men shall turne agayne vnto dust. ¹⁶ If thou now haue vnderstandyng, heare what I saye, and herken to the voyce of my wordes? ¹⁷ Maye he be a ruler, that loueth no ryght? Or maye he that is a very innocent man, do vngodly? ¹⁸ Is it reason, that thou shuldest saye to the kynge: Thou art wicked, or, thou art vngodly, and that before the prynces? ¹⁹ He hath no respecte vnto the personnes, of the lordly, and regardeth not the rych more then the poore. For they be all the worcke of hys handes. ²⁰ In the twyncklinge of an eye shall they dye: and at mydnight, when the people and the tyrauntes rage, then shall they perish, and be taken awaye without handes. ²¹ And why? his eyes loke vpon the wayes of man, and he seyth all hys goynges. ²² There is no darcknes nor shadowe of death, that can hyde the wycked doers from hym. ²³ For no man shalbe suffred to go into iudgement wt God. ²⁴ Many one: yee innumerable doth he punyshe, & setteth other in their steades. ²⁵ Therfore shall he declare their worckes, he shall turne the nyght, and they shall be destroyed. ²⁶ They that were in the steade of Sears, dealt lyke vngodly men: ²⁷ and therfore he punyshed them, because they turned back from hym, and wolde not consyder all hys wayes. ²⁸ In so moch that they haue caused the voyce of the poore to come vnto hym, and now he heareth the complaynte of soche as are in trouble. ²⁹ If he graunte pardon, who wyll condemne? And yf he hyde awaye hys countenaunce, who shalbe able to se it? whether it be to the people or to any man, thus wyll he do. ³⁰ For the vngodlynesse of the people, doth God make an ypocrite to reygne, ouer them. ³¹ For so moch then as I haue begonne to talke of God, I will not hyndre the. ³² If I haue gone a mysse, enfourme thou me: yf I haue done wronge, I will leaue of. ³³ Can he do nothinge without the? For thou hast reproued hys iudgement. Thou also hast thyne awne mynde and not I. ³⁴ But speake on what thou knowest. Let men of vnderstonding tell me, and let a wyse man herken vnto me. ³⁵ As for Iob, he hath nether spoken to the purpose nor wisely. ³⁶ O father, let Iob be well tryed, because he hath answered for wycked men: ³⁷ yee, aboue his synne he doth wyckedly: triumpheth amonge vs, and multiplieth hys wordes agaynst God.

⁵ By hearing the wise man shall come by more wysedome: and he that is endewed wt vnderstanding

¹⁵ I speake as vnto them whych haue discrecyon, iudge ye what I saye.

²⁰ Brethren, be not ye chyldren in wytte. Howbeit, as concernyng maliciousnes, be children: but in witte be perfect.

³⁰ whether there be eny vnrighteousnesse in my tong, or vayne wordes in my mouth.

¹¹ Haue not the eares pleasure in hering, and and the mouth in tastynge the thynge that it eateth?

³⁰ I neuer suffred my mouth to do soch a synne, as to wish him euell.

² Beholde, I haue now opened my mouth, my tonge hath spoken in my throte.

¹⁵ But he that is spretual, discusseth all thynges: yet he him selfe is iudged of no man.

¹⁴ But stronge meate belongeth to them that are perfecte euen those, which (by reason of vse) haue their wittes exercised to discerne both good and euyll.

³⁰ And all that sawe it, sayde: there was no soche dede done or sene sence the children of Israel cam out of Egipt vnto this daye, consyder the matter, take aduisement, and saye youre myndes.

⁷ Beholde, ye are all chyldren of Israell. Pondre thys matter, and geue youre aduyse in the case

³⁶ O father, let Iob be well tryed, because he hath answered for wycked men:

² The sprete of the Lord shall lyght vpon hym: the sprete of wysdome, and vnderstandynge: the sprete of councell, & strength the sprete of knowledge, and of the feare of the Lorde: ³ and shall make hym feruent in the feare of God. For he shall not geue sentence, after the thyng that shal be brought before his eyes, nether reproue a matter at the fyrst hearing: ⁴ but wt ryghteousnesse shal he iudge the poore, and with holynes shal he refourme the simple of the worlde. He shall smyte the worlde with the rodd of hys mouth, & wt the breath of hys mouth shall he staye the vngodly. ⁵ Ryghteousnesse shalbe the gyrdle of his loynes, trueth & faythfulnesse, the gyrdynge vp of hys raynes.

²⁴ Iudge not after the vtter aperaunce, but iudge with a ryghtewes iudgement.

² & fassyon not youre selues lyke vnto this worlde: but be ye chaunged in youre shape, by the renuyng of your mynde, that ye maye proue what thynge that good, and acceptable, and perfaycte wyll of God is.

² Do ye not knowe, that the saynctes shall iudge the worlde? If the worlde shalbe iudged by you: are ye not good inough to iudge small trifles? ³ knowe ye not, howe that we shall iudge the angels? Howe moche more, maye we iudge thinges that pertayne to the lyfe? ⁴ If ye haue iudgementes of worldely matters, take then whych are despysed in the congregacyon, and make them iudges. ⁵ This I saye to youre shame. Is ther vtterly no wyse man amonge you? What not one at all, that can iudge betwene brother and brother,

¹¹ But when Peter was come to Antioche I withstode him openly, because he was worthy to be blamed. ¹² For yer that certayne cam from Iames, he dyd eate with the Gentyls. But when they were come, he withdrue and separated hym selfe from them, fearynge them which were of the circumcisyon. ¹³ And the other Iewes dissembled as well as he: in so moche that Barnabas also was brought into their symulacion. ¹⁴ But when I sawe that they went not the right waye after the trueth of the Gospell, I sayde vnto Peter before them all: yf thou beynge a Iewe, lyuest after the maner of the Gentyls, and not as do the Iewes: why causest thou the Gentyls to lyue as do the Iewes?

²¹ Examen all thynges, kepe that which is good.

¹⁷ he troubleth me so with the tempest, and woundeth me out of measure without a cause.

⁷ where as (not withstandinge) thou knowest that I am no wycked person, and that there is no man able to delyuer me out of thyne hande.

⁴ Wylt thou saye vnto God. The thyng that I take in hande is perfecte, and I am cleane in thy syght?

¹⁷ Howbeit, there is no wyckednesse in my handes, but my prayer is cleane.

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

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

¹ So these thre men wolde stryue no more with Iob, because he helde hym selfe a ryghteous man.

⁹ I am cleane wythout any faute, I am innocent, and there is no wyckednes in me.

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.

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

⁴ whyle my breth is in me, and as longe as the wynde (that God hath geuen me) is in my nostrels. ⁵ God forbid, that I shulde graunte youre cause to be ryght. As for me, vntyil myne ende come wyll I neuer goo fro myne innocency. ⁶ My ryghtwes dealynge kepe I fast, which I wyll not forsake: my hert shall not reproue me of my dayes.

¹⁹ so that when he heareth the wordes of thys ooth, he blesse hym selfe in hys hert, sayinge. I shall haue peace. I wyll walke in the meanynge of myne owne hert, (Thou put the dronken to the thyrstye.)

¹⁶ Howe moch more then an abhomynable and vyle man, which drincketh wickednesse lyke water?

²² O ye children, how longe wyll ye loue childesshnes? how longe wyll the scorners delyte in scorning, & the vnwyse be enemyes vnto knowledge?

¹⁷ For they eate the breade of wyckednesse, and dryncke the wyne of robberye.

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

⁵ but thy wyckednesse teacheth thy mouth, and so thou hast chosen the a craftye tonge.

¹⁵ Dost not thou kepe the olde waye, that vayne men haue gone?

¹ Blessed is the man that hath not walked in the councel of the vngodly, ner stonde in the waye of sinners, & hath not sytt in the seate of the scornefull.

⁴ I haue not dwelt with vayne personnes, nether wyll I haue fellishipe with the disceatfull.

¹⁸ Whan thou sawest a thefe, thou consentedest vnto hym, and hast bene partaker wyth the aduouterers.

¹² Lo, these are the vngodly, these prospere in the worlde, and these haue ryches in possessyon ¹³ Then haue I clensed my herte in vayne and washed my handes in innocency? ¹⁴ All the daye long haue I bene punished, and chastened euery mornynge. ¹⁵ Yee, and I had almost sayde euen as they: but lo, then shuld I haue condemned the generacyon of thy chyldren.

¹⁵ My sonne, walke not thou with them: refrayne thy fote from their waye.

¹² That thou mayest be delyuered from the euell waye, and from the man that speaketh frowarde thinges.

¹⁴ Come nott in the pathe of the vngodly: and walke nott in the waye of the wycked.

²⁰ He that goeth in the company of wyse men, shalbe wyse: but whoso is a companyon of fooles, shalbe hurte.

³³ Be not ye deceaued: euell wordes corrupte good maners.

²² One thyng it is and therfore I sayed. He destroyeth both the righteous and vngodly. ²³ And though he staye sodenly with the scourge, yet wyll he laugh at the punyshement of the innocent.

³⁰ If I washe my selfe with snowe water, and make myne handes neuer so cleane, at the wel, ³¹ yet shalt thou dyppe me in the myer: and myne awne clothes shall defyle me.

¹⁴ They saye also vnto God: go from vs, we desyre not the knowledge of thy wayes. ¹⁵ Who is the Allmyghtie, that we shulde serue hym? And what profyt shuld we haue to submyt our selues vnto him? ¹⁶ Lo, there is vtterly no goodnesse in them, therfore will not I haue to do with the councell of the vngodly.

³⁰ that the wicked is kepte vnto the daye of destruccyon, and that the vngodly shalbe brought forth to the daye of wrath.

¹⁷ which sayed vnto God: go from vs, and what dyd the Allmyghtye with them?

¹⁰ Hath he soch pleasure and delyte in the Almightye, that he darre alwaye call vpon God?

³ For thou sayest: What aduauntage will it be vnto the, and what profyt shalt thou haue of my synne.

⁴ Delyte thou in the Lorde, & he shall geue the thy hertes desyre.

¹⁴ Ye haue sayde: It is but lost labour, to serue God? What profyt haue we for kepynge his commaundementes, and for walkynge humbly before the Lorde of hostes?

²⁵ That be farre from the, that thou shuldest do after thys sayinge, & sley the ryghtwes with the wicked, & that the ryghtwes shulde be as the wicked, that be farre from the. Shall not the iudge of all the worlde do accordynge to ryghte?

⁴ Perfecte is the worke of the most myghtye God: for all hys wayes are iudgement. He is a God of trueth, without wickednesse: ryghteous, and iust is he.

⁷ Wherfore nowe, let the feare of the Lorde be vpon you, and take hede, & be doyng the thynge that pleaseth hym. For ther is no vnryghtewesnes wt the Lord oure God: that he shulde haue any respecte of persones, or take rewardes.

³ Doth God peruerte the thynge that is laufull? Or doth the almyghtye destroye the thynge that is ryght?

² Heare my wordes (O ye wyse men) herken vnto me, ye that haue vnderstandynge. ³ For the eare proueth and discerneth the wordes, and the mouth tasteth the meates:

³⁴ But speake on what thou knowest. Let men of vnderstonding tell me, and let a wyse man herken vnto me.

²³ Who wyll reproue hym of hys waye? who wyll saye vnto him: thou hast done wrong?

²³ It is not we that can fynde out the almightye: for in power, equite, and ryghteousnesse, he is hyer than can be expressed.

¹⁵ That they maye shewe, how true the Lord my strength is, and that there is no vnryghtuousnesse in hym.

³² But whoso committeth aduoutry with a woman, he is a foole and bryngeth his lyfe to destruction.

³² He that refuseth to be refourmed, despyseth hys awne soule: but he that submytteth hym selfe to correccyon, is wyse.

¹ O Lorde, thou art more ryghteous, then that I shulde dispute wt the. Neuertheles, lett me talke with the in thynges reasonable. How happeneth it, that the waye of the vngodly is so prosperous? & that it goeth so well with them, whych (wythout any shame) offende & lyue in wickednes?

⁴ God forbyd Let God be true, and euery man a lyar, at it is wrytten: that thou myghtest be iustifyed in thy sayinges, and ouercome, when thou art iudged. ⁵ But yf oure vnryghtewesnes make the ryghtewesnes of God more excellent: what shall we saye? Is God vnryghteous, which taketh vngeaunce? I speake after the maner of men:

¹⁴ What shall we saye then? is there eny vnrightewesnes with God? God forbyd.

¹³ Let no man saye when he is tempted, that he is tempted of God, for as God can not be tempted with euill, so nether he hymselfe tempt the eny man.

²⁶ For yf he submytte hym selfe vnto God, he shalbe gracious vnto him, and shewe him his countenaunce ioyfully, & rewardeth man for his ryghteousnes.

¹² And that thou Lorde art mercyfull: for thou rewardest euery man accordynge to hys worcke.

³¹ Therfore shall they eate the frutes of theyr awne waye, & be filled with their awne inuencions:

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?

¹⁹ Thou art the greate and mightye God, whose name is the Lorde of hoostes: greate in councell, and excellent in worcke. Thyne eyes loke vpon all the wayes of mens chyldren, to reward euery one after his waye: & according to the frutes of his inuencions.

¹⁷ And yet the chyldren of thy people saye: Tush: the waye of the Lorde is not ryght, but they lye, where as their awne waye is rather vnright. ¹⁸ When the ryghteous turneth from his ryghteousnes and doth the thing that is wicked he shall dye therfore. ¹⁹ But yf the wicked turne from his wickednesse, doing the thinge that is lawfull and right, he shall lyue therfore. ²⁰ Yet ye saye: the waye of the Lorde is not equall. O ye house of Israell I will iudge euery one of you after his wayes.

²⁷ For the sonne of man shall come in the glory of his father, wt his angels: & then shall he rewarde euery man accordinge to his dedes.

⁶ which wyll reward euery man accordynge to hys dedes:

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.

⁷ Be not deceaued, God is not mocked. For whatsoeuer a man soweth, that shall he also reape. ⁸ For he that soweth in his flesshe, shall of the flesshe reape corrupcyon. But he that soweth in the sprete, shall of the sprete reape lyfe euerlastynge.

¹⁷ And yf so be that ye call on the father, which wythout respect of person iudgeth according to euery mannes worke, se that ye passe the tyme of youre pilgremage in feare.

¹² And beholde, I come shortly, and my rewarde is wyth me, to geue euery man accordynge as his dedes shalbe.

⁷ For the ryghteous Lorde loueth ryghteousnes: hys countenaunce wyll beholde the thynge that is iust.

¹⁷ The Lorde is ryghteous in all his wayes, and holy in all hys worckes.

¹² But thou O Lorde my God my holy one, thou art from the begynninge, therfore shal we not dye. O Lord, thou hast ordened them for a punishement, and sett them to reproue the myghtye. ¹³ Thyne eyes are clene, thou mayest not se euel, thou canst not beholde, the thinge that is wycked. Wherfore then dost thou loke vpon the vngodly, and holdest thy tunge, when the wycked deuoureth the man that is better then him selfe?

¹¹ Thyne (O Lorde) is greatnesse, and power, glorie, victorie and prayse: for all that is in heauen and in erth is thyne, & thyne is the kyngdom (O Lorde) and thou excellest aboue all, euen as the heed of all.

⁴ Where wast thou, when I layde the foundacyons of the earth? Tell playnely, yf thou hast vnderstandyng. ⁵ Who hath measured it, knowest thou? Or, who hath spreade the lyne vpon it? ⁶ Where vpon stande the pyllers of it? Or, who layed the corner stone therof? ⁷ Where wast thou, when the mornyng starres praysed me together, and all the chyldren of God reioysed triumphantly? ⁸ Who shut the see wyth dores, when it brake forth as a chylde out of hys mothers wombe? ⁹ When I made the cloudes to be a coueryng for it, and swadled it with the darcke? ¹⁰ when I gaue it my commaundement, makyng dores and barres for it, ¹¹ saying: Hyther to shalt thou come, but no farther, & here shalt thou laye downe thy proud and hye waues. ¹² Hast thou geuen the mornynge hys charge (as sone as thou wast borne) and shewed the daye spryng hys place, ¹³ that it myght take holde of the corners of the earth, and that the vngodly myght be shaken out? ¹⁴ Theyr tokens and weapens are turned lyke claye, and sett vp agayne as the chaungyng of a garment. ¹⁵ The vngodly shalbe disapoynted of their lyght, and the arme of the proude shalbe broken. ¹⁶ Camest thou euer into the grounde of the see: or walkedest in the lowe corners of the depe? ¹⁷ Haue the gates of deeth bene opened vnto the, or hast thou sene the dores of the shadowe of death? ¹⁸ Hast thou also perceaued how broade the earth is? Yf thou hast knowledge of all thys, ¹⁹ then shew me, where lyght dwelleth, and where darcknes is: ²⁰ that thou mayest brynge vs vnto theyr quarters, yf thou canst tell the waye to theyr houses. ²¹ Knewest thou (afore thou wast borne) how olde thou shuldest be? ²² Wentest thou euer into the treasuryes of the snowe, or hast thou sene the secrete places of the hayle, ²³ whych I haue prepared agaynst the tyme of trouble, agaynst the tyme of batell and warre? ²⁴ By what waye is the lyght parted, and into what lande breaketh the east wynde: ²⁵ Who deuydeth the aboundaunce of waters into ryuers, or who maketh a waye for the lyghtenyng and thonder, ²⁶ that it watereth & moystureth the drye and barengrounde: ²⁷ to make the grasse growe in places where no body dwelleth, and in the wyldernes where no man remayneth? ²⁸ Who is the father of rayne? Or who hath begotten the droppes of dewe? ²⁹ Out of whose wombe came the yse? Who hath gendred the coldnes of the ayre? ³⁰ that the waters are as harde as stones, and lye congeled aboue the depe. ³¹ Wylt thou hyndre the swete influences of the .vij. starres? Or art thou able to breke the circle of heauen? ³² Canst thou brynge forth the mornynge starre or the euenynge starre at conuenient tyme, & conueye them home agayne? ³³ Knowest thou the course of heauen, that thou mayest set vp the ordinaunce therof vpon the erth? ³⁴ Moreouer, canst thou lyft vp thy voyce to the cloudes, that they maye poore downe a greate rayne vpon the? ³⁵ Canst thou thondre also that they maye go theyr waye, and be obedient vnto the, sayeng: Lo here are we? ³⁶ Who geueth sure wysdome or stedfast vnderstandynge? ³⁷ who nombreth the cloudes in wysdome? who stylleth the vehement waters of the heauen? ³⁸ who turneth the clottes to dust, & then to be clottes agayne? ³⁹ Wylt thou hunt the praye from the lyon, or fede hys whelpes ⁴⁰ lying in theyr dennes, and lurkyng in theyr couches? ⁴¹ who prouideth meate for the rauen, when hys yonge ones crye vnto God, and fle aboute for lack of meate?

⁸ Wylt thou disanul my iudgement? Or wylt thou condemne me, that thou thy selfe mayest be made ryghteous? ⁹ Is thy power then lyke the power of God? Maketh thy voyce soch a sounde as hys doth? ¹⁰ Then arme thy selfe wyth thyne awne power, vp, decke the in thy ioly araye, ¹¹ powre out the indignacion of thy wrath: se that thou cast downe all the proude,

²³ I haue bene ordened from euerlastynge, and from the begynnynge or euer the earth was made. ²⁴ When I was borne, there were nether depthes nor sprynges of water. ²⁵ Before the foundacyons of the mountaynes were layed, yee before all hylles was I borne. ²⁶ The earth and all that is vpon the earth was not yet made, no not the grounde it selfe. ²⁷ For when he made the heauens, I was present: when he sett vp the depthes in ordre, ²⁸ when he hanged the cloudes aboue: when he fastened the sprynges of the depe: ²⁹ When he shut the see within certayne bowndes, that the waters shulde not go ouer their marckes that he commaunded. When he layed the foundacyons of the earth ³⁰ I was with him, ordrynge all thynges: delytinge dayly, and reioysynge all waye before him.

¹³ Who hath refourmed the mynde of the Lorde? or to whom hath he shewed his counsell. Or who is of his councell to teach him? ¹⁴ or who hath geuen him vnderstandynge and hath taught him the path of iudgement Who taught him conninge and opened to him the waye of vnderstandynge.

³⁵ in comparyson of whom all they that dwell vpon the earth, are to be reputed as nothynge. He handleth according to his will, among the powers of heauen & amonge the inhabitours of the earth: and there is none that maye resyste his hande, or saye: what doest thou?

³⁴ For who hath knowen the mynde of the Lorde? Or who hath bene hys counseller? ³⁵ other who hath geuen vnto hym fyrst, and he shalbe recompensed agayne? ³⁶ For of hym, and thorow hym, and for hym are all thynges: To hym be glorye for euer. Amen.

¹⁷ What is man, that thou hast hym in soch reputacyon, & settest somoch by hym?

⁴ Concernynge soch as be wyse of herte, or myghtye in strength, who euer prospered, that toke part against hym?

²⁹ When thou hydest thy face, they are troubled: whan thou takest awaye their breth, they dye, and are turned agayne to their dust.

²² And they shalbe gathered together, as they that be in preson: & they shalbe shut vp in warde, & after many daies shall they be visited.

¹⁹ In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eate bread, tyll thou be turned agayne into the grounde, for out of it was thou taken, in asmuch as thou art dust, & into dust shalt thou be turned agayne.

²² One thyng it is and therfore I sayed. He destroyeth both the righteous and vngodly.

⁹ O remembre (I beseke the) how that thou madest me of the moulde of the erth, & shalt bringe me into dust agayne.

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

³ Thou turnest man to destruccion. Agayne, thou sayest: come agayne ye chyldren of men. ⁴ For a thousande yeares in thy syght are but as yesterdaye, seynge that is past as a watch in the nyght. ⁵ As sone as thou scatrest them, they are euen as a slepe, and fade awaye sodenly lyke the grasse, ⁶ In the mornyng it is grene and groweth vp, but in the euenynge it is cut downe and withered. ⁷ For we consume awaye in thy displeasure, & are afrayed at thy wrathfull indignacyon. ⁸ Thou hast set oure misdedes before the, and oure secrete synnes in the lyght of thy countenaunce. ⁹ For when thou art angrye, all oure dayes are gone: we brynge our yeares to an ende, as it were a tale that is tolde. ¹⁰ The dayes of oure age are thre score yeares and ten: and though men be so stronge that they come to foure score yeares, yet is theyr strength then but laboure and sorowe: so soone passeth it awaye, and we are gone.

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:

⁴ els (when the vyneiarde bringeth me forth breers & thornes) I wold go thorow it by warre, & burne it vp together.

¹⁶ For I chyde not euer, & am not wroth wyth out ende. But the blastyng goeth from me, and is included in the body, and I made the breath.

³ But I haue vnderstandyng as wel as ye, and am no lesse then ye. Yee, who knoweth not these thynges?

² Loke what ye knowe, that same do I knowe also, nether am I inferior vnto you. ³ Neuerthelesse, I talke with the almyghtye, and my desire is to comen with God. ⁴ As for you, yeare worckmasters of lyes, and vnprofytable Phisicyans all together. ⁵ Wold God ye kepte your tonge, for then myght ye be taken for wyse men. ⁶ Now heare my chydyng, and pondre the sentence of my lyppes.

²¹ But Abisai the sonne of Zeruia answered, and sayde: shall not Semei dye for this, because he cursed the Lords anoynted?

³ The God of Israel spake of me, euen the most myghtie of Israel, sayde: he that beareth rule ouer men, ought to rule iustlye in the feare of God.

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

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

⁵ But yf oure vnryghtewesnes make the ryghtewesnes of God more excellent: what shall we saye? Is God vnryghteous, which taketh vngeaunce? I speake after the maner of men: ⁶ God forbyd. For how then shall God iudge the worlde? ⁷ For yf the trueth of God appeare more excellent thorow my lye, vnto his prayse, why am I hence forth iudged as a synner:

²⁸ Thou shalt not rayle vpon the goddes nether blaspheme the ruelar of thy people.

²⁶ To punyshe the innocent, and to smite the prynces that geue true iudgement, are both euell.

³ Then sayde Paul vnto hym: God shall smyte the thou paynted wall. Syttest thou and iudgest me after the lawe: and commaundest me to be smytten contrary to the lawe?

⁵ Then sayd Paul: I wist not brethren, that he was the hye preste. For it is wrytten: thou shalt not curse the ruler of thy people.

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.

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

¹⁰ but chefely them that walcke after the flesshe in the lust of vnclennes, and despyse auctoryte. Presumpteous are they, and stubborne, whych feare not to speake euyll of them that excell in worshippe.

⁸ Lykewyse, these beyng disceaued by dreames, defile the flesshe, despise rulars & speake euyll of them that are in aucthorite.

¹⁵ Ye shall doo no vnryghteousnes in iudgement. Thou shalt not fauoure the poore nor honoure the myghtye, but in ryghteousnes shalt thou iudge thy neyghboure.

¹⁷ For the Lorde your God, is God of Goddes, and Lorde of Lordes, a greate God, a myghtye and a terrible whych regardeth no mans person nor taketh gyfte:

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?

¹⁹ He ledeth awaye the greate men into captiuyte, and turneth the mightye vpsyde downe.

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

⁸ Wyll ye not accepte the person of hym? Or wyll ye contende with God?

¹⁵ He that fashioned me in my mothers wombe, made he not him also? were we not both shapena like in oure mothers bodies?

¹⁹ Thynkest thou, that he wyll regarde thy riches? he shall not care for golde, ner for all them that excell in strength.

² The kynges of the erth stande vp, and the rulers take councell together agaynst the Lorde, and agaynst hys anoynted. ³ Let vs breake theyr bondes asunder, and cast awaye theyr coardes from vs. ⁴ He that dwelleth in heauen shall laugh them to scorne: the Lorde shall haue them in derisyon.

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.

³¹ He that doth a poore man wrong, blasphemeth his maker: but whoso hath pytie of the poore, doth honoure vnto God.

² The ryche and poore are together: the Lorde is the maker of them all.

⁸ If thou seyst the poore to be oppressed and wrongeously dealt withall, so that equite & the ryght of the lawe is wrasted in the lande: maruell not thou at soch a thyng, for one greate man kepeth touch with another, & the myghtie men are in auctorite ouer the pore.

¹⁴ The Lorde shall come forth to reason with the Senatours and prynces of hys people. It is ye that haue burnt vp my vyneyarde, the extorcyon done to the poore is in your houses.

³⁴ Then Peter opened his mouth, and sayde: Of a treuth I perceaue that there is no respect of persones with God,

¹¹ For ther is no respecte of parsonnes, with God. For whosoeuer hath synned wythout lawe,

⁶ Of them which semed to be somwhat, what they were in tyme passed it make the no matter to me. God loketh on the outwarde appearaunce of no man. Neuertheles they which semed greate, added nothynge to me.

⁹ And ye masters, do euen the same thynges vnto them puttinge awaye threatenynges: Knowynge, that youre master also is in heauen, nether is ther eny respecte of person with hym.

²⁵ But he that doth synne, shall receaue for hys synne. Nether is ther any respect of persones.

²⁸ Wherefore, yf we receaue the kyngdome which can not be moued, we haue grace, wherby we maye so serue God, and that we maye please hym with reuerence and godly feare.

⁵ Harken my deare beloued brethren. Hath not God chosen the poore of thys worlde, soch as are ryche in faythe, & heyres of the kyngdome, whych he promysed to them that loue hym?

²⁹ And at mydnight, the Lorde smote all the fyrst borne in the lande of Egipte, from the fyrst borne of Pharao that satte on hys seate, vnto the fyrst borne of the captyue that was in preson: and all the fyrste gendred of catell. ³⁰ And Pharao arose in the nyghte, he and all his seruauntes and all the Egipcians: and there was a greate cryinge in Egipt: for there was no house where there was not one deed.

³⁷ But in the mornyng, when the wine was gone out of Naball, hys wife tolde him these wordes, and his herte dyed within him, and he became as a stone ³⁸ & vpon a ten dayes after, the Lorde smote Nabal, that he dyed. ³⁹ And when Dauid heard that Nabal was deed, he sayde: Blessed be the Lorde that hath iudged the cause of my rebuke of the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his seruaunt from euell, and hath recompensed the wickednesse of Nabal vpon his awne heed. And Dauid sent to comen wt Abigail: to thyn tent to take her to his wife.

¹⁰ And Dauid sayde furthermore: as sure as the Lorde lyueth, the Lorde shall smyte him or his daye shall come to dye, or he shall descende into battell, & there perishe.

²⁰ Prolonge not thou the tyme, tyll ther come a nyght for the, to set other people in thy steade.

¹⁹ O how sodenly do they consume, perysh, and come to a fearfull ende?

¹⁶ Therfore shal the Lord of hostes send him amonge his fatlinges leanes, & burne vp his glory, as it were wt a fyre. ¹⁷ But the lyght of Israel shalbe that fyre, and his Sanctuary shalbe the flamme and it shall kyndle, and burne vp his thornes and breers in one daye, ¹⁸ yee all the glory of his woddes and feldes shalbe consumed with body & soule: And they shalbe as an hoost of men, whose standerd bearer fayleth. ¹⁹ The trees also of hys felde which remayne, shalbe of soch a nombre, that a childe maye tell them.

¹³ Therfore shall ye haue thys myschefe for yo destruccion and fall lyke as an hye wall that falleth, because of some ryfte or blast, whose breaking commeth sodenly.

³⁰ And the Lorde shall cause his gloryous voyce to be heard, and shall declare his stretched out arme with a terrible countenaunce and with the flame of a consuming fyer, with noysome lyghtenynge, with a shower, and with hayle stone. ³¹ For thorowe the voyce of the Lorde shall Assur be destroyed, which smote other men with the rodde. ³² And it shall come to passe, that whyther soeuer he goth, the rodde shall cleue vnto him, which the Lorde shall laye vpon him with tabrettes and harpes: and with greate warre shall he fyght agaynst his hoost. ³³ For the fyer of payne is ordeyned from the begynning: yee, euen for kynges is it prepared. Thys hath the Lorde set in the depe, and made it wyde: the burninge wherof is fyer and muche wodde. The breth of the Lorde, which is a ryuer of brymstone, doth kyndle it.

³⁶ Thus the angel went forth, and slewe of the Assyrians hoost, an hundred fourescore and fyue thousande. And when men arose vp early in the mornynge. Beholde, they were slayne, and all laye full of deed bodyes.

³⁸ Afterwarde it chaunsed, as he prayed in the temple of Nesrah his God, that Adramalech and Sarazer hys awne sonnes slewe him with the sweard, and fled into the lande of Armenia. And Asar hadon his sonne raygned in his steade.

³⁴ This thou sawest tyll, the tyme that, without eny handes, there was hewen of, a stone which smote the Image vpon the fete, that were both of yron and earth, and brake them to poulder:

⁴⁴ In the dayes of these kynges, shall the God of heauen set vp an euerlasting kyngdome whych shall not perish, & his kyngdome shal not be geuen ouer to another people: yee, the same shall breake & destroye all these kyngdomes, but it shall endure for euer. ⁴⁵ And where as thou sawest, that wythout eny handes there was cut out of the mounte a stone, which brake the yron, the copper, the earth, the syluer and golde in peces: by that hath the greate God shewed the kyng, what wyll come after this. This is a true dreame, and the interpretacyon of it is sure.

³⁰ The very same night was Balthazar the kynge of the Caldees slayne,

⁶ He answered & sayde vnto me: This is the worde of the Lorde vnto Zorobabel, sayinge: Nether thorow an hooste of men nor thorowe strengthe, but thorowe my sprete, sayeth the Lorde of hoostes.

⁶ And euen at midnyght, there was a crye made: behold, the brydgrome commeth, go out to mete hym.

²⁰ But God sayd vnto him. Thou fole, this nyght will they fetche awaye thy soule agayne from the. Then whose shall those thynges be, which thou hast prouided?

²⁶ And as it happened in the dayes of Noe: so shall it be also in the dayes of the sonne of man. ²⁷ They dyd eate & dryncke, they maryed wyues and were maried, euen vnto that same daye that Noe went into the Arke: and the floude cam, and destroyed them all. ²⁸ Lykewyse also as it chaunced in the dayes of Lot. They dyd eate, they drancke, they bought, they solde they planted, they buylded: ²⁹ But euen the same daye that Lot went out of Zodom, it rayned with fyre and brymstone from heauen, & destroyed them all.

²³ And immediatly the angell of the Lorde smote hym, because he gaue not God the honour, and he was eaten of wormes and gaue vp the ghost.

² for ye yourselues know perfectly, that the daye of the Lord shall come, euen as a thefe in the nyght.

³ and thorow coueteousnes shall they wyth fayned wordes make marchandyse of you, whose iudgement is now not farre of, and their damnacyon slepeth not.

¹³ And she called the name of the Lorde that spake vnto her: thou God lokest on me, for she sayde: haue I not sene here the backe partes of hym that seeth me?

⁹ For the eyes of the Lorde beholde all the erth, to strength them that are of perfecte hert towarde him. Herin thou hast done folyshly, and therfore from hensforth thou shalt haue warre.

⁴ Doth not he se my wayes, and tell all my goinges?

¹⁵ The eyes of the Lorde are ouer the ryghteous, & his eares are open vnto their prayers.

²³ Trye me, O God, and seke the grounde of myne hert: proue me and examen my thoughtes.

²¹ For euery mans wayes are open in the syght of the Lorde, and he pondreth all theyr goynges.

³ The eyes of the Lord loke on euery place, beholdyng both the good & badd

¹⁷ For myne eyes beholde al theyr wayes, and they cannot be hyd fro my face, nether can theyr wycked dedes be kepte close out of my syghte.

¹⁰ Euen I the Lorde searche out the grounde of the herte, and trye the reynes, & rewarde euery man accordynge to his wayes, and accordynge to the frute of his workes.

⁸ Beholde, the eyes of the Lorde are vpon the realme that synneth, to rote it clene out of the earth: Neuertheles, I will not vtterly destroye the house of Iacob, sayeth the Lorde.

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.

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

³ As for the vngodly and he that ioyneth him selfe to the company of wycked doers, shall not destruccion and misery come vpon him?

⁵ Soch as be foolysh, shall not stande in thy syght, thou hatest all them that worke vanyte. Thou shalte destroye them that speake leasynge: the Lorde wyll abhorre both the bloud thyrstye, and disceatfull man.

¹¹ If I saye: paraduenture the darcknesse shall couer me, then shall my nyght be turned to daye. ¹² Yee, the darcknes is no darcknes with the: but the night is all cleare as the daye, the darcknes & lyght (to the) are both a lyke.

²⁹ The waye of the Lorde geueth a courage vnto the godly, but it is a feare for wycked doers.

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.

¹⁵ Wo vnto them that kepe secrete their thoughtes, to hyde their councell from the Lorde, and do their workes in darknesse, sayinge: who seeth vs? & who knoweth vs?

²⁴ Maye eny man hyde hym self so, that I shall not se hym? sayeth the Lorde. Do not I fulfyll heauen and earth? sayeth the Lorde.

² Though they were buryed in the hell, my hande shall fetch them from thence: though they clyme vp to heauen, yet shall I cast them downe: ³ though they hyde them selues vpon the toppe of Carmel, yet shall I seke them out, and brynge them from thence: though they crepe downe fro my syght into the depe of the see, I shall commaunde the serpente, euen there to byte them.

²³ And then wyll I knowledge vnto them. I neuer knewe you. Departe fro me, ye that worcke iniquyte.

²⁷ And he shall saye: I tell you, I knowe you not whence ye are: departe from me all ye that worke iniquite.

⁵ Therfore iudge nothinge before the tyme vntyll the Lorde come, whych wyll lyghten thinges that are hyd in darcknes, and open the counsels of the hertes. And then shall euery man haue prayse of God.

¹³ nether is ther eny creature that is not manifest in the syght of him: But all thinges are naked and open vnto the eyes of him, of whom we speake.

¹⁵ And the kynges of the erth, and the gret men, and the ryche men, and the chefe captaynes, & the myghty men, & euery bondman, and euery free man, hyd them selues in dennes, and in rockes of the hylles: ¹⁶ and sayde to the hylles and rockes: fall on vs, & hyde vs from the presence of hym that sytteth on the seate, and from the wrath of the lambe:

¹³ And after that all these thinges are come vpon vs (because of oure euell dedes & greate trespaces) thou oure God hast thrust downe oure wickednesses, & hast geuen vs a delyueraunce,

³² For he that I must geue answere vnto, and with whom I go to lawe, is not a man as I am. ³³ Nether is there eny dayesman to laye hys hande betwene vs.

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.

¹¹ For it is he that knoweth the vanite of men: he seyth theyr wyckednesse also, shulde he not then considre it?

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

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.

¹⁰ Therfore herken vnto me, ye that haue vnderstandynge. Farre be it from God, that he shuld medle wyth wickednesse: and farre be it from the Almyghtye, that he shulde medle wyth vnryghteous dealynge: ¹¹ For he shall reward the worckes of man, and cause euery man to fynde accordynge to his wayes. ¹² For sure it is, that God condemneth no man wrongefully, and the iudgement of the Almyghtye is not vnryghteous.

¹³⁷ Ryghteous art thou, O Lorde, and true is thy iudgement.

³ And a brosed rede shall he not breake, and the smoking flaxe shall he not quench: but faythfully and truly shall be geue iudgement,

⁵ Thus sayeth the Lorde. What vnfaythfulnesse founde youre fathers in me, that they wente so farre awaye fro me, fallynge to lightnesse, and beynge so vayne?

⁷ O Lord, righteousnesse belongeth vnto the, vnto us pertayneth nothynge but open shame: as it is come to passe thys daye vnto euery man of Iuda, and to them that dwell at Ierusalem. Yee, vnto all Israel, whether they be farre or nye: thorowe out all landes: wherin thou hast strowed them, because of the offences, that they had done agaynst the. ⁸ Yee, O Lorde, vnto vs, to oure kynges & princes, to oure forefathers: euen to vs all, that haue offended the belongeth open shame. ⁹ But vnto the, O Lorde oure God, pertayneth mercy and forgeuenesse. As for vs, we are gone backe from hym,

²⁰ But O man, what art thou, which disputest with God? Shall the worcke saye to the worke man: why hast thou made me on this fassyon?

³⁰ Wherfore the lorde God of Israell sayeth: I sayde, that thy house and the house of thy father shuld walke before me for euer. But now the lorde sayeth: that be farre from me: for them that worshipe me, I will worshipe, & they that despyse me, shall come to shame. ³¹ Beholde, the dayes come, that I will cut of thyne arme, & the arme of thy fathers house, that there shal not be an elder in thine house. ³² And thou shalt se thyne enemye in the tabernacle of the lorde, & in all that welthe which God shal giue Israell, & there shall not be an elder in thyne house for euer. ³³ Neuerthelesse, I wyll not destroye all the males that come of the fro myne aultare. But to make thyne eyes dase, & to make thyne hert melte. And all they that be multiplyed in thyne house, shall dye, yf they be men. ³⁴ And this shalbe a signe vnto the, that shall come vpon thy two sonnes Hophny & Phinehes: euen in one daye they shall dye both. ³⁵ And I wyll stere me vp a faythfull preste, that shall do accordynge to my herte and mynde: And I will buylde him a sure house. And he shall walke before myne anoynted for euer. ³⁶ And they that are left in thyne house, shall come, and crouch to him for a lytle pece of syluer & a cake of bread, & shall saye: put me (I praye the) in one offyce or other amonge the prestes, that I maye eate a morsell of bread.

²⁸ And Samuel sayde vnto hym: the Lorde hath rent the kyngdome of Israel from the this daye, & hath geuen it to a neyghboure of thyne, that is better then thou.

⁷ Go, tell Ieroboam, thus sayth the Lorde God of Israel. It repenteth me for as moche as I exalted the from amonge the people, and made the prynce ouer my people Israel. ⁸ I dyd rent the kyngdome awaye from the house of Dauid and gaue it the: Neuertheles, thou hast not bene as my seruaunt Dauid, which kepte my commaundementes, and folowed me wyth all hys herte, to do that whych is ryght in myne eyes:

¹⁴ Moreouer, the Lorde shall stere hym vp a kynge ouer Israel, which shall destroye the house of Ieroboam in that daye. But what is it now?

² how longe will ye vexe my soule, and trouble me with wordes?

⁹ Thou shalt bruse them with a rodd of yron, and breake them in peces lyke a potters vessell.

⁴ He shall kepe the symple folke by their ryght, defende the chyldren of the poore, and punish the wronge doer.

⁵ They smyte down thy people, O Lorde, and trouble thyne heritage.

⁷ He taketh vp the simple out of the dust, and lyfteth the poore out of the myre. ⁸ That he maye sett him with the princes, euen with the prynces of his people.

²⁰ Thou hast bene myne hammer and weapens for warre: for with the haue I broken the people in peces: and with the haue I destroied kingdomes. ²¹ Thorow the I haue beaten to poulder horse and horseman: yee, the charettes & soch as sat vpon them. ²² Thorowe the I haue broken man & woman, olde & yonge, bacheler & mayden. ²³ Thorowe the I haue destroyed the sheperde and his flocke, the husbandeman and his catell, the princes and the rulers.

²¹ he chaungeth the tymes and ages he putteth downe kynges, he setteth vp kynges: he geueth wysdome vnto the wyse, & vnderstandinge to those that vnderstande,

³⁴ This thou sawest tyll, the tyme that, without eny handes, there was hewen of, a stone which smote the Image vpon the fete, that were both of yron and earth, and brake them to poulder: ³⁵ then was the yron, the earth, the copper, the syluer and golde broken altogether in peces: and became lyke the chaffe of corne, that the wynde bloweth awaye from the somer floores, that they can no more be founde. But the stone that smote the ymage, became a greate mountayne, which fulfylleth the whole earth:

²⁸ Phares, thy kyngdome it delt in partes, and geuen to the Medes and Perses. ²⁹ Then commaunded Balthazar, to cloth Daniel wyth purple, to hange a cheyne of golde aboute hys necke, and to make a proclamacyon concernynge hym: that he shulde be the ruler of the thyrde parte of hys kyngdome. ³⁰ The very same night was Balthazar the kynge of the Caldees slayne, ³¹ and Darius out of Medea toke in the kyngdome, beynge .lxii. yeare of age.

²⁰ In the twyncklinge of an eye shall they dye: and at mydnight, when the people and the tyrauntes rage, then shall they perish, and be taken awaye without handes.

¹⁵ He fashyoneth all the hertes of them, and vnderstandeth all theyr worckes.

⁸ They holde swerdes euery one, and are expert in warre. Euery man also hath hys swerde vpon hys thygh, because of feare in the nyght:

¹ This is the heuy burthen vpon Moab: Ar of Moab was destroyed & ouerthrowen in the nyght season: Kir also in Moab was destroyed & peryshed in the nyght.

¹⁸ For I wyll come to gather all people & tonges with their workes and ymaginacyons: these shall come, and se my glory.

² They considre not in their hertes that I remembre all their wickednes. Nowie ther awne inuentyons haue beset them whych, I se well ynough.

⁷ The Lord hath sworne agaynst the pryde of Iacob: these workes of theyrs wyll I neuer forget.

¹² And I sawe the deed, both gret and small stonde before God: And the bokes were opened, and another boke was opened, which is the boke of lyfe, & the deed were iudged of those thynges whych were written in the bokes accordyng to their dedes:

³⁰ Thus the Lorde delyuered Israel the selfe same daye out of the hande of the Egipcians: and Israel sawe the Egipcians deed vpon the see syde.

⁹ Thyne hande shalbe fyrst vpon him to kyll hym: & then the handes of all the people. ¹⁰ And thou shalt stone him wyth stones that he dye, because he hath gone aboute to thrust the awaye from the Lorde thy God, which brought the out of the lande of Egipte, and from the house of bondage. ¹¹ And all Israel shall heare and feare, and shall do no moare any soche wyckednesse as this is, amonge you.

²¹ And all the men of that cytie shall stone him with stones vnto death. And thou shalt put euell a waye from the, and all Israell shall heare, and feare.

¹¹ Wherfore thus sayth the Lorde: beholde, I wyll stere vp euell agaynst the, euen out of thyne awne house, & wyll take thy wyues before thyne eyes, and geue them vnto thy neyghboure, and he shall lye wyth thy wyues in the syght of the sonne. ¹² For thou dydest it secretly, But I wyll do thys thynge before all Israel, and in the open sonne lygth.

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.

²⁴ And they shall go forth and loke vpon the caryons of them that haue transgressed agaynst me. For their wormes shall not dye, nether shall their fyre be quenched, & all flesh shall abhorre them.

²⁰ Then that synne, rebuke openly, that other also maye feare.

²⁴ Some mennes synnes are open before hande, and go before vnto iudgement: & some mennes synnes folowe after.

⁹ And the kynges of the erth shall bewepe her and wayle ouer her, which haue commytted fornicacion with her, & haue lyued wantanly with her, when they shall se the smoke of her burnyng, ¹⁰ & shall stande a farre of, for feare of her punishement, sayinge. Alas, Alas, that gret cytie Babylon, the myghtye citie: for at one hour is thy iudgement come.

²⁰ Reioyce ouer her thou heauen, and ye holy Apostles and Prophetes: for God hath geuen your iudgement on her.

¹¹ it repenteth me, that I haue made Saul kynge. For he is turned from me, and hath not parfourmed my commaundementes. And Samuel was euell apayed, and cried vnto the Lorde all nyght.

⁵ Recompense them after the worcke of their handes: paye them that they haue deserued.

⁴³ Who so is wyse, wyll pondre these thynges: and they shall vnderstand the louyng kyndnesses of the Lord.

⁵ As for soche as turne backe vnto their awne wyckednesse, the Lorde, shall leade them forth wyth the euyll doers, but peace shall be vpon Israel.

²⁹ And that because they hated knowledge, & receaued not the feare of the Lorde: ³⁰ but abhorred my councell, and despysed all my correccion.

³ The oxe hath knowne his owner & the asse his masters cribb: but Israel hath receaued no knowledge, my people hath no vnderstandyng.

¹² In those companyes are harpes and lutes, tabrettes & pipes, and wyne. But they regarde not the worcke of the Lord, and consydre not the operacyon of his handes.

⁶ which starte a backe from the Lord, and nether seke after the Lord ner regarde hym.

¹⁵ The prestes gaue answere, & sayde: yee, it shalbe vncleane. Then Aggeus answered & sayde: euen so is thys people & thys nacyon before me, sayeth the Lord: & so are all the worckes of theyr handes, yee, and all that they offre, is vncleane. ¹⁶ And now (I praye you) consydre from this daye forth, & how it hath gone wt you afore or euer there was layed one stone vpon another in the temple of the Lord: ¹⁷ that when ye came to a corne heape of .xx. bushels, there were scarce ten: & that when ye came to the wyne presse for to powre out .l. pottes of wyne, there were scarce .xx. ¹⁸ For I smote you wt heate, blastyng & hayle stones in all the labours of youre handes: yet was there none of you, that wolde turne vnto me, sayeth the Lord. ¹⁹ Consydre then from this daye forth & afore: namely, from the .xxiiii. daye of the nynth moneth, vnto the daye that the foundacyon of the Lordes temple was layed: marck it well,

³¹ At that daye he that is on the house topp, and his stuffe in the house: let him not come downe to take it out. And let not him that is in the felde, turne backe agayne to the thinges that he lefte behinde. ³² Remember Lottes wyfe.

³⁸ But Paul wold not take him vnto their company which departed from them at Pamphilia, & went not with them to the worcke.

¹⁰ For Demas hath forsaken me, and loueth thys present worlde, and is departed vnto Thessalonica. Crescens is gone to Galacia, Tytus vnto Dalmacia.

³⁹ It is not we that withdrawe our selues vnto dampnacion, but we partayne vnto fayth, to the wynnynge of the soule.

²³ And it chaunced in processe of tyme, that the kynge of Egypte dyed, and the chyldren of Israel syghed by the reason of bondage, and cryed. ²⁴ And their complaynt came vp vnto God from the bondage: and God hearde their mone. And God remembred hys promyse with Abraham, Isaac and Iacob.

⁷ And the Lorde sayde: I haue surely sene the trouble of my people whych are in Egypte, and haue herde theyr crye from the face of their taskemasters. For I knowe their sorowes,

⁹ Nowe therfore, the complaynt of the chyldren of Israel is come vnto me, and I haue also sene the oppressyon wherwith the Egyptians oppresse them.

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. ²⁵ If thou lende money to any of my people that is poore by the, thou shalt not be as a tyraunt vnto hym, nether shalt thou oppresse hym with vsurye. ²⁶ If thou take thy neyghbours rayment to pledge, thou shalt delyuer it vnto hym agayne by that the sonne goo doune. ²⁷ For that is hys coueringe onely: euen the rayment for hys skynne, wherin he slepeth. And whan he crieth vnto me, I will heare hym, for I am mercyfull.

⁹ Thou hast sent wyddowes awaye emptie and oppressed the poore fatherlesse. ¹⁰ Therfore art thou compassed aboute with snares on euery syde, and sodenly vexed with feare.

¹² The men of the cytie crieth vnto the Lorde with sything, the soules of the slayue also make theyr complainte: But God destroyeth them not for all this,

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.

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?

⁹ there is a greate cry and complaynte made by them that are oppressed wyth vyolence, yee, euery man complayneth vpon the crueltye of tyrauntes.

⁵ Nowe for the comforles troubles sake of the neadye, & because of the deape fyghthing of the poore, I will vp (sayeth the Lorde) and wyll helpe euery one, from hym that swelleth agaynst hym, and wyll set them at rest.

⁷ As for the vyneyarde of the Lord of hostes it is the house of Israel, and whole Iuda hys fayre planting. Of these he loked for equite, but se there is wrong: for ryghteousnesse, lo, It is but mysery.

⁴ Beholde the hyre of labourers which haue reaped downe youre feldes (which hyre is of you kept backe by fraude) cryeth: & the cryes of them which haue reaped, are entred in to the eares of the Lord Sabaoth.

¹ It fortuned, that as the kyng satt in his house (after that the Lord had geuen hym rest rounde about from all his enemyes)

⁹ And in the fourth yeare of kynge Hezekia, (which was the seuenth yeare of Hosea sonne of Ela kynge of Israell) it fortuned, that Salmanazar kyng of Assyria came vp agaynst Samaria, & beseged it. ¹⁰ And after thre yeres they toke it euen in the syxte yere of Hezekia: that is to saye, the nynth yere of Hosea kynge of Israel. And Samaria was wonne. ¹¹ And the kynge of Assyria, dyd carye awaye Israel vnto Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor by the ryuer of Gozan, and in the cyties of the Medes: ¹² because they wolde not herken vnto the voyce of the Lorde theyr God: but transgressed hys appoyntment, and all that Moses the seruaunt of the Lord commaunded, & wolde nether heare them nor do them.

¹⁴ Moreouer, all the rulers, the prestes, & the people trespaced more synnyng after all maner of abhominacyons of the heathen, and poluted the house of the Lord, which he had halowed in Ierusalem. ¹⁵ And the Lord God of their fathers sent to them, by hys messengers, risyng vp by tymes and sendynge: for he had compassyon on hys people, and on his dwellyng place. ¹⁶ But they mocked the messengers of God, & despised his wordes, and mysse vsed hys prophetes, vntyll the wrath of the Lord arose agaynst his people, and tyll there was no remedy. ¹⁷ And so he brought vpon them the kyng of Caldeye, which slue their yong men with the swearde in their holy temple, and spared nether yonge man, mayden, olde man, ner hym that stowped for age. He gaue them all into his hande.

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

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.

¹³ He is styll at one poynt, and who wyll turne him back? He doth as him listeth, and bringeth to passe what he will.

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.

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?

⁹ My hert hath talked of the: Seke ye my face: thy face Lorde will I seke. O hyde not thou thy face fro me, ner cast thy seruaunt awaye in displeasure.

⁷ Thou dyddest turne thy face and I was troubled.

⁷ Heare me, O Lorde, & that soone: for my sprete wexeth faynte, hid not thy face from me, lest I be lyke vnto them that go downe into the pytt.

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? ⁵ The Lord hath broken the ceptre of the vngodly & the rodd of the lordly. ⁶ Which when he is wroth smyteth the people wt continual strokes, & tyrannouselye reignethe ouer the hethen whom he persecuted without compassion. ⁷ And therfore the whole worlde is now at rest & quyetnes and men synge for ioye. ⁸ Ye, euen the Fyrre trees & Cedres of libanus reioyse at thy fall sayeng: Nowe that thou art layd downe, there come no mo vp to hewe downe vs.

³ Their minde is set vpon the, because thou preseruest them in peace yee, euen in peace: because they put their trust in the.

¹⁷ And the rewarde of righteousnesse shalbe peace, and her frute rest & quietnes for euer.

⁸ Moreouer, that people and kyngdome, which wyll not serue Nabuchodonosor, and that wyll not putt theyr neckes vnder the yocke of the kyng of Babilon: the same people wyll I vyset with the swearde, with honger, with pestilence, vntyll I haue consumed them in hys handes, sayeth the Lorde.

²⁷ Peace I leaue with you, my peace I geue vnto you. Not as the world geueth, geue I vnto you. Let not youre hertes be greued, nether feare.

³¹ What shall we then saye to these thinges? yf God be on oure syde, who can be agaynst vs? ³² which spared not hys awne sonne, but gaue him for vs all: how can it be, that with hym he shulde not geue vs all thynges also? ³³ Who shall laye eny thynge to the charge of Goddes chosen; it is God that iustyfyeth: ³⁴ who is he that can condempne? it is Chryst which dyed, yee, rather which is rysen agayne, which is also on the ryght hande of God, and maketh intercessyon for us.

⁷ And the peace of God (which passeth all vnderstandynge) kepe youre hertes and myndes thorowe Christ Iesu.

²⁸ Wherupon the kynge toke councell, and made two calues of golde, and sayde vnto them. It is muche for you to go vp to Hierusalem. Beholde, O Israel: these are thy goddes, which brought you out of the lande of Egypte. ²⁹ And he set the one in bethel, and the other set he in Dan. ³⁰ And this thynge turned to synne. for the people went (because of the one) as farre as Dan.

⁹ But they herkened not: and Manasse ledd them out of the waye to do more wyckedlye then dyd the hethen people, whom the Lord destroyed before the chyldren of Israel.

²¹ And why? his eyes loke vpon the wayes of man, and he seyth all hys goynges.

⁸ The vngodly walke on euery syde: whan they are exalted, the chyldren of men are put to rebuke.

² When the ryghteous haue the ouerhande, the people are in prosperite: but when the vngodly beareth rule, there the people mourne. ³ Who so loueth wysdome maketh his father a glad man: but he that kepeth company with harlottes, spendeth awaye that he hath. ⁴ With true iudgement the kynge setteth vp the lande, but yf he be a man that oppressith the people with gatheringes, he turneth it vp syde downe. ⁵ Who so flatreth hys neyghbour, layeth a nette for his fete. ⁶ The synne of the wicked is his awne snare, but the ryghteous doth syng & reioyse. ⁷ The ryghteous considreth the cause of the poore: but the vngodly regardeth no vnderstandynge. ⁸ Wycked people bringe a cytie in decaye, but wyse men set it vp agayne. ⁹ If a wyse man go to lawe wt a foole (whether he deale wt him frendly or roughly) he getteth no rest. ¹⁰ The bloude thyrstie hate the ryghteous: but the iust seke his soule. ¹¹ A foole powreth out hys sprete altogether but a wyse man kepeth it in tyll afterwarde. ¹² If a prince delyte in lyes, all his seruauntes are vngodly.

¹⁸ For wysdome is better then harnesse: but one vnthryst alone destroyeth moch good.

¹¹ Ephraim is oppressed, & can haue no right of the lawe: for why? they folowe the doctrynes of vngodly men.

¹¹ well, I gaue the a kynge in my wrath, and in my displeasure will I take hym from the agayne.

¹⁶ Ye kepe the ordinaunces of Amri, and all the customes of the house of Ahab: ye folowe their pleasures, therfore wyll I make the waste, and cause thy inhabyters to be abhorred, O my people: & thus shalt thou beare thyne awne shame.

⁴ whych is an aduersarye: and is exalted aboue all that is called God, or that is worshypped: so that he doth syt in the temple of God, boastynge him selfe to be God. ⁵ Remember ye not, that when I was yet wyth you, I tolde you these thynges? ⁶ And nowe ye know what wythholdeth: euen that he myght be vttered at hys tyme. ⁷ For the mistery of the iniquitie doeth all readye worcke: tyll he which nowe onlye letteth, be taken out of the waye. ⁸ And then shall that wycked be vttered, whom the Lorde shall consume with the sprete of his mouth, and shall destroye wyth the appearaunce of hys commynge ⁹ euen hym whose commynge is after the workynge of Satan, with all lyinge power sygnes and wonders. ¹⁰ and with all deceauablenes of vnryghtwesnes, amonge them that perysshe: because they receaued not the loue of the trueth, that they myght be saued. ¹¹ And therfore, God shall sende them stronge delusyon, that they shulde beleue lyes:

³ and I sawe one of his heedes as it were wounded to deeth, & his dedly wounde was healed. And all the worlde wondred at the beast, ⁴ & they worshypped the dragon, whych gaue power vnto the beast, and they worshypped the beast sayinge: who is lyke vnto the beast? who is able to warre with hym?

¹¹ And I behelde another beast comminge vp out of the erth, and he had two hornes lyke a lambe, & he spake as dyd the dragon. ¹² And he dyd all that the fyrste beast coulde do in his presence, & he caused the erth, & them which dwel therin, to worshyppe the fyrst beast, whose dedly wounde was healed. ¹³ And he dyd grett wonders, so that he made fyre come doune from heauen in the syght of men. ¹⁴ And deceaued them that dwelt on the erth, by the meanes of those sygnes whyche he had power to do in the syght of the beast, sayinge to them that dwelt on the erth: that they shuld make an ymage vnto the beast, whych had the wounde of a swearde, and dyd lyue.

⁴¹ Therfore I also wyll walke contrary vnto them, and wyll brynge them into the lande of their enemyes. And then at the leest waye their vncircumcysed hertes shall be tamed, and they shall make an attonement for their mysdeades.

¹³ And after that all these thinges are come vpon vs (because of oure euell dedes & greate trespaces) thou oure God hast thrust downe oure wickednesses, & hast geuen vs a delyueraunce, ¹⁴ And yf we turne backe agayne, to let go thy commaundementes, and make contracte with the people of these abhominacions, wilt thou not then be wroth at vs (& not without cause) tyl we be vtterly consumed, so that nothyng remayne, and tyll there be no delyueraunce?

³³ And truly, thou art iust in all that thou hast broughte vpon vs: for thou hast done ryght. ³⁴ As for vs, we haue bene vngodly, & oure kynges, & oure princes, oure preastes, & oure fathers haue not done after thy lawe, nor regarded thy commaundementes, & thy earnest exhortacyons, wherwith thou hast exhorted them, ³⁵ & they haue not serued the in their kyngdome, & in thy greate goodes that thou gauest them, and in the large and plenteous lande which thou gauest before them, & haue not conuerted from their wycked worckes. ³⁶ Beholde, we are in bondage this daye: & so is the lande that thou gauest vnto oure fathers, to enioye the frutes & goodes therof, beholde, there are we bondmen. ³⁷ And greate is the increase of it vnto the kynges, whom thou hast set ouer vs, because of oure synnes, & they haue domynion ouer oure bodyes and catell (euen as they will them selues,) and we are in great trouble. ³⁸ And in all this make we a sure couenaunt, & wryte it, and oure princes, Leuites & preastes seale vnto it,

²⁷ Soch a respecte hath he vnto men. Therfore, let a man confesse (and saye) I haue offended: I dyd vnryghteously, and it hath done me no good.

³ Iob answered the Lorde, saying: ⁴ Beholde. I am to vyle a personne, to answere the, therfore wyll I laye my hande vpon my mouth. ⁵ Once or twise haue I spoken, but I wyll saye nomore.

⁶ Wherfore, I geue myne awne selfe the blame, and take repentaunce in the dust and asshes.

¹⁸ Moreouer, I heard Ephraim, that was led awaye captiue, complayne on this maner: O Lorde, thou hast correct me, & thy chastenynge haue I receaued, as an vntamed calfe. Conuerte thou me, and I shalbe conuerted: for thou art my Lorde God: ¹⁹ Yee, assone as thou turnest me, I shall refourme my selfe: and when I vnderstande, I shall smyte vpon my thyghe. For verely I haue commytted shamefull thinges. For I haue borne the reprofe and confusion of my youth.

⁷ O Lord, righteousnesse belongeth vnto the, vnto us pertayneth nothynge but open shame: as it is come to passe thys daye vnto euery man of Iuda, and to them that dwell at Ierusalem. Yee, vnto all Israel, whether they be farre or nye: thorowe out all landes: wherin thou hast strowed them, because of the offences, that they had done agaynst the. ⁸ Yee, O Lorde, vnto vs, to oure kynges & princes, to oure forefathers: euen to vs all, that haue offended the belongeth open shame. ⁹ But vnto the, O Lorde oure God, pertayneth mercy and forgeuenesse. As for vs, we are gone backe from hym, ¹⁰ and haue not obeyed the voyce of the Lorde oure God, to walke in hys lawes, whych he layed before vs by hys seruauntes the Prophetes: ¹¹ yee all Israel haue transgressed, and gone backe from thy lawe, so that they haue not herckened vnto thy voyce. Wherfore, the curse & othe that is written in the lawe of Moses the seruaunt of God (agaynst whom we haue offended) is poured vpon vs. ¹² And he hath perfourmed his wordes, whych he spake agaynst vs, & agaynst oure iudges that iudged vs: to brynge vpon vs soch a greate plage, as neuer was vnder heauen, lyke as it is nowe come to passe in Ierusalem. ¹³ Yee, all this plage, as it is wrytten in the lawe of Moses, is come vpon vs. Yet made we not oure prayer before the Lorde oure God, that we myght turne agayne from oure wickednesse, & to be learned in thy verite. ¹⁴ Therfore hath the Lorde made haste, to brynge this plage vpon vs, for the Lorde our God is ryghteous, in all his workes whych he doth: for why? We wolde not herken vnto hys voyce.

⁹ I wyll beare the punishement of the Lord (for why, I haue offended him) tyll he syt in iudgement vpon my cause, & se that I haue right. He wyll bryng me forth to the lyght, & I shall se his rightuousnesse.

² I wyll saye vnto God: O do not condempne me, but shewe me the cause, wherfore thou contendest so with me?

¹¹ Whych geueth vs more vnderstandyng then he doth the beastes of the earth, & teacheth vs more then he doth the foules of heauen.

¹² Who can tell, howe oft he offendeth? Oh clense thou me fro secrete fautes.

⁴ Shewe me thy wayes, O Lord, & teache me thy pathes. ⁵ Leade me forth in thy trueth, & lerne me, for thou art the God of my saluacion: in the hath bene my hope all the daye longe.

⁸ Thou art a place to hyde me in, thou shalt preserue me from trouble: thou shalt compasse me about with songes of delyueraunce. Sela.

²³ Trye me, O God, and seke the grounde of myne hert: proue me and examen my thoughtes. ²⁴ Loke well yf there be any waye of wyckednes in me, and leade me in the waye euerlastynge.

⁸ O let me heare thy louing kindnes by tymes in the morninge for in the is my trust: shewe thou me the waye that I shuld walke in, for I lyft vp my soule vnto the. ⁹ Delyuer me, O Lorde, from myne enemyes: for I flye vnto the to hyde me. ¹⁰ Teach me to do the thynge that pleaseth the, for thou art my God, let thy louinge sprete leade me forthe vnto the lande of ryghteousnes.

¹³ He that hydeth his synnes, shall not prospere: but whoso knowledgeth them and forsaketh them, shall haue mercy.

⁸ Brynge forth therfore due frutes of repentaunce, & begyn not to saye wyth in youre selues: we haue Abraham to oure father. For I saye vnto you. God is able of these stones to reyse vp chyldren vnto Abraham. ⁹ Now also is the axe leyde vnto the rote of the trees: euery tree therfore which bryngeth not forth good frute, is hewen doune, & cast into the fyre. ¹⁰ And the people asked him, sayinge: what shall we do then? ¹¹ He answereth and sayeth, vnto them: He that hath two coates? lett him parte wyth hym that hath none, & he that hath meate, let him do lyke wyse. ¹² Then cam the publicans also to be baptised, & sayde vnto him: Master, what shal we do? ¹³ And he sayde vnto them: requyre no more, then that which is appoynted vnto you. ¹⁴ The soudyoures lykewyse demaunded of him, sayinge: and what shall we do? And he sayde vnto them: hurt no man: nether trouble eny man wrongfully: and be content with youre wages.

²² (as concernynge the conuersacyon in tyme past) to laye from you that olde man, which is corrupte, accordynge to the deceauable lustes.

²⁵ Wherfore, put awaye lyinge, & speake euery man truth vnto his neyghboure, for as moche as we are members one of another. ²⁶ Be angrye, and synne not: let not the sunne go doune vpon youre wrath, ²⁷ nether geue place vnto the backbyter. ²⁸ Let hym that stole, steale nomore but let him rather laboure wt his handes the thynge which is good, that he maye geue vnto him that nedeth.

¹² If he be hasty to take eny thynge awaye, who wyll make him restore it agayne? Or who wyll saye vnto hym what doest thou?

³¹ He beleueth not that he is in vanyte, and yet he is out of the waye, and vanyte shalbe hys recompence.

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 If thou canst, then geue me answere: prepare thy selfe to stande before me face to face,

³² But yf thou hast any thynge to saye, then answere me, and speake, for thy answere pleaseth me.

¹¹ For he shall reward the worckes of man, and cause euery man to fynde accordynge to his wayes.

¹¹ Or who hath geuen me any thyng afore hande, that I maye rewarde him agayne? All thynges vnder heauen are myne:

³⁰ Hys sede also wyll I make to endure for euer, and hys trone as the dayes of heauen. ³¹ But yf hys chyldren forsake my lawe, and walke not in my iudgementes. ³² If they breake my statutes and kepe not my commaundementes.

⁶ Whatsoeuer the Lorde pleased, that dyd he in heauen and in earth, in the see, & in all deape places:

³¹ If the ryghteous be recompensed vpon earth, howe moch more then the vngodly and the synner?

⁹ Wo be vnto him that stryueth wt his maker, the potsherde with the potter. Sayeth the claye to the potter. What makest thou? or thy worke serueth for nothing?

¹² sayinge: These last haue wrought but one houre, & thou hast made them equall vnto vs, which haue borne the burthen & heat of the day. ¹³ But he answered vnto one of them & sayde: frende, I do the no wronge: dydest thou not agre wt me for a penny? ¹⁴ Take that thine is & go thy waye: I wyll geue vnto thys last, euen as vnto the. ¹⁵ Is it not lawfull for me to do as me lysteth wt myne awne goodes? Is thyne eye euyll, because I am good?

³⁵ other who hath geuen vnto hym fyrst, and he shalbe recompensed agayne?

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,

² For yf the worde whych was spoken by angells was stedfast: And euery transgressyon and disobedience receaued a iust recompence of rewarde,

²⁶ and estemed the rebuke of Christ greater riches then the treasures of Egypt. For he had respect vnto the rewarde.

² Heare my wordes (O ye wyse men) herken vnto me, ye that haue vnderstandynge.

⁴ As for iudgement, let vs seke it out amonge oure selues, that we may knowe what is good.

¹⁰ Therfore herken vnto me, ye that haue vnderstandynge. Farre be it from God, that he shuld medle wyth wickednesse: and farre be it from the Almyghtye, that he shulde medle wyth vnryghteous dealynge:

¹⁶ If thou now haue vnderstandyng, heare what I saye, and herken to the voyce of my wordes?

² Loke what ye knowe, that same do I knowe also, nether am I inferior vnto you.

² Shal a wyse mans answer be the scyence of the wynde, and fil any mans Bely as it were with the wynde of the east?

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

² what is he that hydeth his mynde with folysh wordes?

³ For who can kepe hys awne councell so secrete, but it shalbe knowne? Therfore haue I spoken that I vnderstode not, the thynges that are so hye, & passe myne vnderstanding.

⁶ The houses of robers are in wealth & prosperite: and they that malyciously medle agaynst God, dwell without care, in those thynges that God hath geuen rychely with hys hande.

⁷ Wherfore do wycked men lyue in health and prosperite, come to theyr olde age, and increase in ryches?

¹⁶ For in somoch as he is God, he maketh my herte soft: and seynge that he is Allmyghtie, he putteth me in feare.

¹ Consyderinge then that there is no tyme hid from the Almyghtie, how happeneth it, that they which knowe hym, do not regarde his dayes?

⁸ whych goeth in the company of wycked doers, and walketh wyth vngodly men? ⁹ For he hath sayed: Though a man be good, yet is he naught before God.

³ Thou hast proued & visyted myne herte in the nyght season: thou haste tryed me and shalt fynde no wyckednesse in me: for I am vtterly purposed, that my mouth shall not offende.

² Examen me, O Lord, & proue me: trye out my reynes and my hert.

¹¹ Beholde, we counte them happy which endure. Ye haue heard of the pacience of Iob, and haue knowen what ende the Lorde made. For the Lord is very pitiefull and mercyfull.

²³ For rebellyon is as the synne of witchcrafte, and stoburnesse is as the wickednesse of Idolatrie. Because thou hast cast awaye the worde of the Lorde, therfore hath the Lorde cast awaye the also, from beynge kynge.

² How longe wilt thou talke of soch thynges? how longe shall thy mouth speake so proude wordes? ³ Doth God peruerte the thynge that is laufull? Or doth the almyghtye destroye the thynge that is ryght?

² Shulde not he that maketh many wordes, be answered? Shuld he that bableth moch, be commended therin? ³ Shulde men geue eare vnto the onely? Thou wilt laugh other men to scorne, and shal no body mock the againe?

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

²³ Then clappe men their handes at him, yee, & ieast of hym when they loke vpon his place.

² Thynkest thou it ryght, that thou sayest: I am ryghtuous before God? ³ For thou sayest: What aduauntage will it be vnto the, and what profyt shalt thou haue of my synne.

⁷ Now when the Lorde had spoken these wordes vnto Iob, it fortuned, that the Lord sayde vnto Eliphas the Themanite: I am displeased with the, and thy two frendes, for ye haue not spoken of me the thynge that is ryght, lyke as my seruaunt Iob hath done.

¹⁹ If ye be louynge & obedient, ye shal enioye the best thyng that groweth in the land. ²⁰ But yf ye be obstinate & rebellyous, ye shalbe deuoured wt the swerde: for thus the Lorde hath promised wt his awne mouth.