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The Book of Job

1There was a man in the lande of Vz called Iob, and this man was an vpright and iust man, one that feared God, and eschewed euill. 2And he had seue sonnes, and three daughters. 3His substance also was seuen thousande sheepe, and three thousand camels, and fiue hundreth yoke of oxen, and fiue hundreth shee asses, and his family was very great, so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the East. 4And his sonnes went and banketted in their houses, euery one his day, and sent, and called their three sisters to eate and to drinke with them. 5And when the dayes of their banketting were gone about, Iob sent, and sanctified them, and rose vp early in the morning, and offred burnt offrings according to the nomber of them all. For Iob thought, It may be that my sonnes haue sinned, and blasphemed God in their hearts: thus did Iob euery day. 6Nowe on a day when the children of God came and stoode before the Lord, Satan came also among them. 7Then the Lord sayde vnto Satan, Whence commest thou? And Satan answered the Lord, saying, From compassing the earth to and from, and from walking in it. 8And the Lord saide vnto Satan, Hast thou not considered my seruant Iob, how none is like him in the earth? an vpright and iust man, one that feareth God, and escheweth euill? 9Then Satan answered the Lord, and sayde, Doeth Iob feare God for nought? 10Hast thou not made an hedge about him and about his house, and about all that he hath on euery side? thou hast blessed the worke of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. 11But stretch out now thine hand and touch all that he hath, to see if he will not blaspheme thee to thy face. 12Then the Lord sayde vnto Satan, Lo, all that he hath is in thine hand: onely vpon himselfe shalt thou not stretch out thine hand. So Satan departed from the presence of the Lord. 13And on a day, when his sonnes and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brothers house, 14There came a messenger vnto Iob, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding in their places, 15And the Shabeans came violently, and tooke them: yea, they haue slayne the seruants with the edge of the sworde: but I onely am escaped alone to tell thee. 16And whiles he was yet speaking, another came, and sayde, The fire of God is fallen from the heauen, and hath burnt vp the sheepe and the seruants, and deuoured them: but I onely am escaped alone to tell thee. 17And whiles he was yet speaking, another came, and sayd, The Caldeans set on three bands, and fell vpon the camels, and haue taken them, and haue slayne the seruantes with the edge of the sworde: but I onely am escaped alone to tell thee. 18And whiles he was yet speaking, came an other, and sayd, Thy sonnes, and thy daughters were eating, and drinking wine in their eldest brothers house, 19And behold, there came a great wind from beyonde the wildernesse, and smote the foure corners of the house, which fel vpon the children, and they are dead, and I onely am escaped alone to tell thee. 20Then Iob arose, and rent his garment, and shaued his head, and fel downe vpon the ground, and worshipped, 21And sayd, Naked came I out of my mothers wombe, and naked shall I returne thither: the Lord hath giuen, and the Lord hath taken it: blessed be the Name of the Lord. 22In all this did not Iob sinne, nor charge God foolishly.

2And on a day the children of God came and stood before the Lord, and Satan came also among them, and stoode before the Lord. 2Then the Lord sayde vnto Satan, Whence commest thou? And Satan answered the Lord, and sayd, From compassing the earth to and from, and from walking in it. 3And the Lord sayd vnto Satan, Hast thou not considered my seruant Iob, how none is like him in the earth? an vpright and iust man, one that feareth God, and escheweth euill? for yet he continueth in his vprightnesse, although thou mouedst me against him, to destroy him without cause. 4And Satan answered the Lord, and sayde, Skin for skin, and all that euer a man hath, will he giue for his life. 5But stretch now out thine hand, and touch his bones and his flesh, to see if he will not blaspheme thee to thy face. 6Then the Lord said vnto Satan, Lo, he is in thine hand, but saue his life. 7So Satan departed from the presence of the Lord, and smote Iob with sore boyles, from the sole of his foote vnto his crowne. 8And he tooke a potsharde to scrape him, and he sate downe among the ashes. 9Then said his wife vnto him, Doest thou continue yet in thine vprightnes? Blaspheme God, and dye. 10But he said vnto her, Thou speakest like a foolish woman: what? shall we receiue good at the hande of God, and not receiue euill? In all this did not Iob sinne with his lippes. 11Nowe when Iobs three friends heard of all this euill that was come vpon him, they came euery one from his owne place, to wit, Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they were agreed together to come to lament with him, and to comfort him. 12So when they lift vp their eyes a farre off, they knewe him not: therefore they lift vp their voyces and wept, and euery one of them rent his garment, and sprinkled dust vpon their heads toward the heauen. 13So they sate by him vpon the ground seuen dayes, and seuen nights, and none spake a worde vnto him: for they sawe, that the griefe was very great.

3Afterward Iob opened his mouth, and cursed his day. 2And Iob cryed out, and sayd, 3Let the day perish, wherein I was borne, and the night when it was sayde, There is a man childe conceiued. 4Let that day bee darkenesse, let not God regarde it from aboue, neyther let the light shine vpon it, 5But let darkenesse, and the shadowe of death staine it: let the cloude remayne vpon it, and let them make it fearefull as a bitter day. 6Let darkenesse possesse that night, let it not be ioyned vnto the dayes of the yeere, nor let it come into the count of the moneths. 7Yea, desolate be that night, and let no ioy be in it. 8Let them that curse the day, (being readie to renue their mourning) curse it. 9Let the starres of that twilight be dimme through darkenesse of it: let it looke for light, but haue none: neither let it see the dawning of the day, 10Because it shut not vp the dores of my mothers wombe: nor hid sorowe from mine eyes. 11Why died I not in the birth? or why dyed I not, when I came out of the wombe? 12Why did the knees preuent me? and why did I sucke the breasts? 13For so shoulde I now haue lyen and bene quiet, I should haue slept then, and bene at rest, 14With the Kings and counselers of the earth, which haue buylded themselues desolate places: 15Or with the princes that had golde, and haue filled their houses with siluer. 16Or why was I not hid, as an vntimely birth, either as infants, which haue not seene the light? 17The wicked haue there ceased from their tyrannie, and there they that laboured valiantly, are at rest. 18The prisoners rest together, and heare not the voyce of the oppressour. 19There are small and great, and the seruant is free from his master. 20Wherefore is the light giuen to him that is in miserie? and life vnto them that haue heauie hearts? 21Which long for death, and if it come not, they would euen search it more then treasures: 22Which ioy for gladnes, and reioyce, when they can finde the graue. 23Why is the light giuen to the man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in? 24For my sighing commeth before I eate, and my roarings are powred out like the water. 25For the thing I feared, is come vpon me, and the thing that I was afraid of, is come vnto me. 26I had no peace, neither had I quietnesse, neither had I rest, yet trouble is come.

4Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, and sayde, 2If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieued? but who can withholde himselfe from speaking? 3Behold, thou hast taught many, and hast strengthened the wearie hands. 4Thy wordes haue confirmed him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the weake knees. 5But now it is come vpon thee, and thou art grieued: it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled. 6Is not this thy feare, thy confidence, thy pacience, and the vprightnesse of thy wayes? 7Remember, I pray thee: who euer perished, being an innocent? or where were the vpright destroyed? 8As I haue seene, they that plow iniquitie, and sowe wickednesse, reape the same. 9With the blast of God they perish, and with the breath of his nostrels are they cosumed. 10The roaring of the Lion, and the voyce of the Lionesse, and the teeth of the Lions whelpes are broken. 11The Lyon perisheth for lacke of pray, and the Lyons whelpes are scattered abroade. 12But a thing was brought to me secretly, and mine eare hath receiued a litle thereof. 13In the thoughtes of ye visions of the night, when sleepe falleth on men, 14Feare came vpon me, and dread which made all my bones to tremble. 15And the wind passed before me, and made the heares of my flesh to stande vp. 16Then stoode one, and I knewe not his face: an image was before mine eyes, and in silence heard I a voyce, saying, 17Shall man be more iust then God? or shall a man be more pure then his maker? 18Beholde, he founde no stedfastnesse in his Seruants, and laid follie vpon his Angels. 19Howe much more in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which shalbe destroyed before the moth? 20They be destroyed from the morning vnto the euening: they perish for euer, without regarde. 21Doeth not their dignitie goe away with them? do they not die, and that without wisdom?

5Call nowe, if any will answere thee, and to which of the Saintes wilt thou turne? 2Doubtlesse anger killeth the foolish, and enuie slayeth the idiote. 3I haue seene the foolish well rooted, and suddenly I cursed his habitation, saying, 4His children shalbe farre from saluation, and they shall be destroyed in the gate, and none shall deliuer them. 5The hungrie shall eate vp his haruest: yea, they shall take it from among the thornes, and the thirstie shall drinke vp their substance. 6For miserie commeth not foorth of the dust, neither doeth affliction spring out of the earth. 7But man is borne vnto trauaile, as the sparkes flie vpwarde. 8But I would inquire at God, and turne my talke vnto God: 9Which doeth great things and vnsearchable, and marueilous things without nomber. 10He giueth raine vpon the earth, and powreth water vpon the streetes, 11And setteth vp on hie them that be lowe, that the sorowfull may be exalted to saluation. 12He scattereth the deuices of the craftie: so that their handes can not accomplish that which they doe enterprise. 13He taketh the wise in their craftinesse, and the counsel of the wicked is made foolish. 14They meete with darkenesse in the day time, and grope at noone day, as in the night. 15But he saueth the poore from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hande of the violent man, 16So that the poore hath his hope, but iniquitie shall stop her mouth. 17Beholde, blessed is the man whome God correcteth: therefore refuse not thou the chastising of the Almightie. 18For he maketh the wound, and bindeth it vp: he smiteth, and his handes make whole. 19He shall deliuer thee in sixe troubles, and in the seuenth the euill shall not touch thee. 20In famine he shall deliuer thee from death: and in battel from the power of the sworde. 21Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue, and thou shalt not be afraid of destruction when it commeth. 22But thou shalt laugh at destruction and dearth, and shalt not be afraide of the beast of the earth. 23For the stones of the fielde shall be in league with thee, and the beastes of the field shall be at peace with thee. 24And thou shalt knowe, that peace shall be in thy tabernacle, and thou shalt visite thine habitation, and shalt not sinne. 25Thou shalt perceiue also, that thy seede shalbe great, and thy posteritie as the grasse of the earth. 26Thou shalt goe to thy graue in a ful age, as a ricke of corne commeth in due season into the barne. 27Lo, thus haue we inquired of it, and so it is: heare this and knowe it for thy selfe.

6Bvt Iob answered, and said, 2Oh that my griefe were well weighed, and my miseries were layed together in the balance. 3For it woulde be nowe heauier then the sande of the sea: therefore my wordes are swallowed vp. 4For the arrowes of the Almightie are in me, the venime whereof doeth drinke vp my spirit, and the terrours of God fight against me. 5Doeth the wilde asse bray when he hath grasse? or loweth the oxe when he hath fodder? 6That which is vnsauerie, shall it be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egge? 7Such things as my soule refused to touch, as were sorowes, are my meate. 8Oh that I might haue my desire, and that God would grant me the thing that I long for! 9That is, that God would destroy me: that he would let his hand go, and cut me off. 10Then should I yet haue comfort, (though I burne with sorowe, let him not spare) because I haue not denyed the wordes of the Holy one. 11What power haue I that I should endure? or what is mine end, if I should prolong my life? 12Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brasse? 13Is it not so, that there is in me no helpe? and that strength is taken from me? 14He that is in miserie, ought to be comforted of his neighbour: but men haue forsaken the feare of the Almightie. 15My brethre haue deceiued me as a brook, and as the rising of the riuers they passe away. 16Which are blackish with yee, and wherein the snowe is hid. 17But in time they are dryed vp with heate and are consumed: and when it is hote they faile out of their places, 18Or they depart from their way and course, yea, they vanish and perish. 19They that go to Tema, considered them, and they that goe to Sheba, waited for them. 20But they were confounded: when they hoped, they came thither and were ashamed. 21Surely nowe are ye like vnto it: ye haue seene my fearefull plague, and are afraide. 22Was it because I said, Bring vnto me? or giue a rewarde to me of your substance? 23And deliuer me from the enemies hande, or ransome me out of the hand of tyrants? 24Teach me, and I wil hold my tongue: and cause me to vnderstande, wherein I haue erred. 25Howe stedfast are the wordes of righteousnes? and what can any of you iustly reproue? 26Doe ye imagine to reproue wordes, that the talke of the afflicted should be as the winde? 27Ye make your wrath to fall vpon the fatherlesse, and dig a pit for your friende. 28Nowe therefore be content to looke vpon me: for I will not lie before your face. 29Turne, I pray you, let there be none iniquitie: returne, I say, and ye shall see yet my righteousnesse in that behalfe. Is there iniquitie in my tongue? doeth not my mouth feele sorowes?

7Is there not an appointed time to man vpon earth? and are not his dayes as the dayes of an hyreling? 2As a seruant longeth for the shadowe, and as an hyreling looketh for the ende of his worke, 3So haue I had as an inheritance the moneths of vanitie, and painefull nights haue bene appointed vnto me. 4If I layed me downe, I sayde, When shall I arise? and measuring the euening I am euen full with tossing to and from vnto the dawning of the day. 5My flesh is clothed with wormes and filthinesse of the dust: my skinne is rent, and become horrible. 6My dayes are swifter then a weauers shittle, and they are spent without hope. 7Remember that my life is but a wind, and that mine eye shall not returne to see pleasure. 8The eye that hath seene me, shall see me no more: thine eyes are vpon me, and I shall be no longer. 9As the cloude vanisheth and goeth away, so he that goeth downe to the graue, shall come vp no more. 10He shall returne no more to his house, neither shall his place knowe him any more. 11Therefore I will not spare my mouth, but will speake in the trouble of my spirite, and muse in the bitternesse of my minde. 12Am I a sea or a whalefish, that thou keepest me in warde? 13When I say, My couch shall relieue me, and my bed shall bring comfort in my meditation, 14Then fearest thou me with dreames, and astonishest me with visions. 15Therefore my soule chuseth rather to be strangled and to die, then to be in my bones. 16I abhorre it, I shall not liue alway: spare me then, for my dayes are but vanitie. 17What is man, that thou doest magnifie him, and that thou settest thine heart vpon him? 18And doest visite him euery morning, and tryest him euery moment? 19Howe long will it be yer thou depart from me? thou wilt not let me alone whiles I may swallowe my spettle. 20I haue sinned, what shall I do vnto thee? O thou preseruer of me, why hast thou set me as a marke against thee, so that I am a burden vnto my selfe? 21And why doest thou not pardon my trespasse? and take away mine iniquitie? for nowe shall I sleepe in the dust, and if thou seekest me in the morning, I shall not be found.

8Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and saide, 2Howe long wilt thou talke of these things? and howe long shall the wordes of thy mouth be as a mightie winde? 3Doeth God peruert iudgement? or doeth the Almightie subuert iustice? 4If thy sonnes haue sinned against him, and he hath sent them into the place of their iniquitie, 5Yet if thou wilt early seeke vnto God, and pray to the Almightie, 6If thou be pure and vpright, then surely hee will awake vp vnto thee, and he wil make the habitation of thy righteousnesse prosperous. 7And though thy beginning be small, yet thy latter ende shall greatly encrease. 8Inquire therefore, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thy selfe to search of their fathers. 9(For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant: for our dayes vpon earth are but a shadowe) 10Shall not they teach thee and tell thee, and vtter the wordes of their heart? 11Can a rush grow without myre? or can ye grasse growe without water? 12Though it were in greene and not cutte downe, yet shall it wither before any other herbe. 13So are the paths of al that forget God, and the hypocrites hope shall perish. 14His confidence also shalbe cut off, and his trust shalbe as the house of a spyder. 15He shall leane vpon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall holde him fast by it, yet shall it not endure. 16The tree is greene before the sunne, and the branches spread ouer the garden thereof. 17The rootes thereof are wrapped about the fountaine, and are folden about ye house of stones. 18If any plucke it from his place, and it denie, saying, I haue not seene thee, 19Beholde, it will reioyce by this meanes, that it may growe in another molde. 20Behold, God will not cast away an vpright man, neither will he take the wicked by the hand, 21Till he haue filled thy mouth with laughter, and thy lippes with ioy. 22They that hate thee, shall be clothed with shame, and the dwelling of the wicked shall not remaine.

9Then Iob answered, and sayd, 2I knowe verily that it is so: for howe should man compared vnto God, be iustified? 3If I would dispute with him, hee could not answere him one thing of a thousand. 4He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath bene fierce against him and hath prospered? 5He remoueth the mountaines, and they feele not when he ouerthroweth them in his wrath. 6Hee remooueth the earth out of her place, that the pillars thereof doe shake. 7He commandeth the sunne, and it riseth not: hee closeth vp the starres, as vnder a signet. 8Hee himselfe alone spreadeth out the heauens, and walketh vpon the height of the sea. 9He maketh the starres Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the climates of the South. 10He doeth great things, and vnsearcheable: yea, marueilous things without nomber. 11Lo, when he goeth by me, I see him not: and when he passeth by, I perceiue him not. 12Behold, when he taketh a pray, who can make him to restore it? who shall say vnto him, What doest thou? 13God will not withdrawe his anger, and the most mightie helpes doe stoupe vnder him. 14Howe much lesse shall I answere him? or howe should I finde out my words with him? 15For though I were iust, yet could I not answere, but I would make supplication to my Iudge. 16If I cry, and he answere me, yet woulde I not beleeue, that he heard my voyce. 17For he destroyeth mee with a tempest, and woundeth me without cause. 18He wil not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitternesse. 19If we speake of strength, behold, he is strog: if we speake of iudgement, who shall bring me in to pleade? 20If I woulde iustifie my selfe, mine owne mouth shall condemne mee: if I would be perfite, he shall iudge me wicked. 21Though I were perfite, yet I knowe not my soule: therefore abhorre I my life. 22This is one point: therefore I said, Hee destroyeth the perfite and the wicked. 23If the scourge should suddenly slay, should God laugh at the punishment of the innocent? 24The earth is giuen into the hand of ye wicked: he couereth the faces of the iudges therof: if not, where is he? or who is he? 25My dayes haue bene more swift then a post: they haue fled, and haue seene no good thing. 26They are passed as with the most swift ships, and as the eagle that flyeth to the pray. 27If I say, I wil forget my complaynt, I will cease from my wrath, and comfort mee, 28Then I am afrayd of all my sorowes, knowing that thou wilt not iudge me innocent. 29If I be wicked, why labour I thus in vaine? 30If I wash my selfe with snowe water, and purge mine hands most cleane, 31Yet shalt thou plunge mee in the pit, and mine owne clothes shall make me filthie. 32For he is not a man as I am, that I shoulde answere him, if we come together to iudgement. 33Neyther is there any vmpire that might lay his hand vpon vs both. 34Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his feare astonish me: 35Then will I speake, and feare him not: but because I am not so, I holde me still.

10My soule is cut off though I liue: I wil leaue my complaint vpon my selfe, and wil speake in the bitternesse of my soule. 2I will say vnto God, Condemne mee not: shew me, wherefore thou contendest with mee. 3Thinkest thou it good to oppresse me, and to cast off the labour of thine handes, and to fauour the counsel of the wicked? 4Hast thou carnall eyes? or doest thou see as man seeth? 5Are thy dayes as mans dayes? or thy yeres, as the time of man, 6That thou inquirest of mine iniquitie, and searchest out my sinne? 7Thou knowest that I can not do wickedly: for none can deliuer me out of thine hand. 8Thine handes haue made me, and fashioned mee wholy rounde about, and wilt thou destroy me? 9Remember, I pray thee, that thou hast made me as the clay, and wilt thou bring me into dust againe? 10Hast thou not powred me out as milke? and turned me to cruds like cheese? 11Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and ioyned me together with bones and sinewes. 12Thou hast giuen me life, and grace: and thy visitation hath preserued my spirit. 13Though thou hast hid these things in thine heart, yet I knowe that it is so with thee. 14If I haue sinned, then thou wilt streightly looke vnto me, and wilt not holde mee giltlesse of mine iniquitie. 15If I haue done wickedly, wo vnto me: if I haue done righteously, I will not lift vp mine head, being full of confusion, because I see mine affliction. 16But let it increase: hunt thou me as a lyon: returne and shew thy selfe marueilous vpon me. 17Thou renuest thy plagues against me, and thou increasest thy wrath against me: changes and armies of sorowes are against me. 18Wherfore then hast thou brought me out of the wombe? Oh that I had perished, and that none eye had seene me! 19And that I were as I had not bene, but brought from the wombe to the graue! 20Are not my dayes fewe? let him cease, and leaue off from me, that I may take a litle comfort, 21Before I goe and shall not returne, euen to the land of darkenesse and shadow of death: 22Into a land, I say, darke as darknes it selfe, and into the shadow of death, where is none order, but the light is there as darkenesse.

11Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and sayde, 2Should not the multitude of wordes be answered? or should a great talker be iustified? 3Should men holde their peace at thy lyes? and when thou mockest others, shall none make thee ashamed? 4For thou hast sayde, My doctrine is pure, and I am cleane in thine eyes. 5But, oh that God would speake and open his lippes against thee! 6That he might shewe thee the secretes of wisedome, howe thou hast deserued double, according to right: know therefore that God hath forgotten thee for thine iniquitie. 7Canst thou by searching finde out God? canst thou finde out ye Almighty to his perfection? 8The heauens are hie, what canst thou doe? it is deeper then the hell, how canst thou know it? 9The measure thereof is longer then the earth, and it is broader then the sea. 10If hee cut off and shut vp, or gather together, who can turne him backe? 11For hee knoweth vaine men, and seeth iniquitie, and him that vnderstandeth nothing. 12Yet vaine man would be wise, though man new borne is like a wilde asse colte. 13If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him: 14If iniquitie be in thine hand, put it farre away, and let no wickednesse dwell in thy Tabernacle. 15The truely shalt thou lift vp thy face without spot, and shalt be stable, and shalt not feare. 16But thou shalt forget thy miserie, and remember it as waters that are past. 17Thine age also shall appeare more cleare then the noone day: thou shalt shine and bee as the morning. 18And thou shalt bee bolde, because there is hope: and thou shalt digge pittes, and shalt lye downe safely. 19For when thou takest thy rest, none shall make thee afraide: yea, many shall make sute vnto thee. 20But the eyes of the wicked shall faile, and their refuge shall perish, and their hope shalbe sorow of minde.

12Then Iob answered, and sayde, 2In deede because that ye are the people onely, wisedome must dye with you. 3But I haue vnderstanding aswel as you, and am not inferior vnto you: yea, who knoweth not such things? 4I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth vpon God, and he heareth him: the iust and the vpright is laughed to scorne. 5Hee that is readie to fall, is as a lampe despised in the opinion of the riche. 6The tabernacles of robbers doe prosper, and they are in safetie, that prouoke God, whome God hath enriched with his hand. 7Aske now the beasts, and they shall teach thee, and the foules of the heauen, and they shall tell thee: 8Or speake to the earth, and it shall shewe thee: or the fishes of the sea, and they shall declare vnto thee. 9Who is ignorant of all these, but that the hande of the Lord hath made these? 10In whose hande is the soule of euery liuing thing, and the breath of all mankinde. 11Doeth not the eares discerne the words? and the mouth taste meate for it selfe? 12Among the ancient is wisedome, and in the length of dayes is vnderstanding. 13With him is wisedome and strength: he hath counsell and vnderstanding. 14Beholde, he will breake downe, and it can not be built: he shutteth a man vp, and he can not be loosed. 15Beholde, he withholdeth the waters, and they drie vp: but when he sendeth them out, they destroy the earth. 16With him is strength and wisedome: hee that is deceiued, and that deceiueth, are his. 17He causeth the counsellers to goe as spoyled, and maketh the iudges fooles. 18He looseth the collar of Kings, and girdeth their loynes with a girdle. 19He leadeth away the princes as a pray, and ouerthroweth the mightie. 20He taketh away the speach from the faithfull counsellers, and taketh away the iudgement of the ancient. 21He powreth contempt vpon princes, and maketh the strength of the mightie weake. 22He discouereth the deepe places from their darkenesse, and bringeth foorth the shadowe of death to light. 23He increaseth the people, and destroyeth them: he inlargeth the nations, and bringeth them in againe. 24He taketh away the heartes of the that are the chiefe ouer the people of the earth, and maketh them to wander in the wildernes out of the way. 25They grope in the darke without light: and he maketh the to stagger like a drunken man.

13Loe, mine eye hath seene all this: mine eare hath heard, and vnderstande it. 2I knowe also as much as you knowe: I am not inferiour vnto you. 3But I will speake to the Almightie, and I desire to dispute with God. 4For in deede ye forge lyes, and all you are physitions of no value. 5Oh, that you woulde holde your tongue, that it might be imputed to you for wisedome! 6Nowe heare my disputation, and giue eare to the arguments of my lips. 7Will ye speake wickedly for Gods defence, and talke deceitfully for his cause? 8Will ye accept his person? or will ye contende for God? 9Is it well that he shoulde seeke of you? will you make a lye for him, as one lyeth for a man? 10He will surely reprooue you, if ye doe secretly accept any person. 11Shall not his excellencie make you afraid? and his feare fall vpon you? 12Your memories may be compared vnto ashes, and your bodyes to bodyes of clay. 13Holde your tongues in my presence, that I may speake, and let come vpon what will. 14Wherefore doe I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my soule in mine hande? 15Loe, though he slay me, yet will I trust in him, and I will reprooue my wayes in his sight. 16He shalbe my saluation also: for the hypocrite shall not come before him. 17Heare diligently my wordes, and marke my talke. 18Beholde nowe: if I prepare me to iudgement, I knowe that I shalbe iustified. 19Who is he, that will pleade with me? for if I nowe holde my tongue, I dye. 20But doe not these two things vnto me: then will I not hide my selfe from thee. 21Withdrawe thine hande from me, and let not thy feare make me afraide. 22Then call thou, and I will answere: or let me speake, and answere thou me. 23Howe many are mine iniquities and sinnes? shewe me my rebellion, and my sinne. 24Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and takest me for thine enemie? 25Wilt thou breake a leafe driuen to and from? and wilt thou pursue the drie stubble? 26For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possesse the iniquities of my youth. 27Thou puttest my feete also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly vnto all my pathes, and makest the print thereof in ye heeles of my feet. 28Such one consumeth like a rotten thing, and as a garment that is motheaten.

14Man that is borne of woman, is of short continuance, and full of trouble. 2He shooteth foorth as a flowre, and is cut downe: he vanisheth also as a shadowe, and continueth not. 3And yet thou openest thine eyes vpon such one, and causest me to enter into iudgement with thee. 4Who can bring a cleane thing out of filthinesse? there is not one. 5Are not his dayes determined? the nober of his moneths are with thee: thou hast appointed his boundes, which he can not passe. 6Turne from him that he may cease vntill his desired day, as an hyreling. 7For there is hope of a tree, if it bee cut downe, that it will yet sproute, and the branches thereof will not cease. 8Though the roote of it waxe olde in the earth, and the stocke thereof be dead in ye ground, 9Yet by the sent of water it will bud, and bring foorth boughes like a plant. 10But man is sicke, and dyeth, and man perisheth, and where is he? 11As the waters passe from the sea, and as the flood decayeth and dryeth vp, 12So man sleepeth and riseth not: for hee shall not wake againe, nor be raised from his sleepe till the heauen be no more. 13Oh that thou wouldest hide me in the graue, and keepe me secret, vntill thy wrath were past, and wouldest giue me terme, and remember me. 14If a man die, shall he liue againe? All the dayes of mine appointed time will I waite, till my changing shall come. 15Thou shalt call me, and I shall answere thee: thou louest the worke of thine own hands. 16But nowe thou nombrest my steppes, and doest not delay my sinnes. 17Mine iniquitie is sealed vp, as in a bagge, and thou addest vnto my wickednesse. 18And surely as the mountaine that falleth, commeth to nought, and the rocke that is remooued from his place: 19As the water breaketh the stones, when thou ouerflowest the things which growe in the dust of ye earth: so thou destroyest ye hope of man. 20Thou preuailest alway against him, so that he passeth away: he changeth his face when thou castest him away. 21And he knoweth not if his sonnes shall be honourable, neither shall he vnderstand concerning them, whether they shalbe of lowe degree, 22But while his flesh is vpon him, he shall be sorowfull, and while his soule is in him, it shall mourne.

15Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and saide, 2Shal a wise man speake words of ye winde, and fill his bellie with the East winde? 3Shall he dispute with wordes not comely? or with talke that is not profitable? 4Surely thou hast cast off feare, and restrainest prayer before God. 5For thy mouth declareth thine iniquitie, seeing thou hast chosen ye tongue of the crafty. 6Thine owne mouth condemneth thee, and not I, and thy lippes testifie against thee. 7Art thou the first man, that was borne? and wast thou made before the hils? 8Hast thou heard the secret counsell of God, and doest thou restraine wisedome to thee? 9What knowest thou that we knowe not? and vnderstandest that is not in vs? 10With vs are both auncient and very aged men, farre older then thy father. 11Seeme the consolations of God small vnto thee? is this thing strange vnto thee? 12Why doeth thine heart take thee away, and what doe thine eyes meane, 13That thou answerest to God at thy pleasure, and bringest such wordes out of thy mouth? 14What is man, that he should be cleane? and he that is borne of woman, that he shoulde be iust? 15Beholde, he founde no stedfastnesse in his Saintes: yea, the heauens are not cleane in his sight. 16How much more is man abominable, and filthie, which drinketh iniquitie like water? 17I will tell thee: heare me, and I will declare that which I haue seene: 18Which wise men haue tolde, as they haue heard of their fathers, and haue not kept it secret: 19To whome alone the land was giuen and no stranger passed through them. 20The wicked man is continually as one that traueileth of childe, and the nomber of yeeres is hid from the tyrant. 21A sounde of feare is in his eares, and in his prosperitie the destroyer shall come vpon him. 22He beleeueth not to returne out of darknesse: for he seeth the sworde before him. 23He wandreth to and from for bread where he may: he knoweth that the day of darkenesse is prepared at hande. 24Affliction and anguish shall make him afraide: they shall preuaile against him as a King readie to the battell. 25For he hath stretched out his hand against GOD, and made him selfe strong against the Almightie. 26Therefore God shall runne vpon him, euen vpon his necke, and against the most thicke part of his shielde. 27Because he hath couered his face with his fatnesse, and hath colloppes in his flancke. 28Though he dwell in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, but are become heapes, 29He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof in the earth. 30He shall neuer depart out of darkenesse: the flame shall drie vp his branches, and he shall goe away with the breath of his mouth. 31He beleeueth not that he erreth in vanitie: therefore vanitie shalbe his change. 32His branch shall not be greene, but shall be cut off before his day. 33God shall destroy him as the vine her sower grape, and shall cast him off, as the oliue doeth her flowre. 34For the congregation of the hypocrite shalbe desolate, and fire shall deuoure the houses of bribes. 35For they conceiue mischiefe and bring foorth vanitie, and their bellie hath prepared deceite.

16Bvt Iob answered, and said, 2I haue oft times heard such things: miserable comforters are ye all. 3Shall there be none ende of wordes of winde? or what maketh thee bold so to answere? 4I could also speake as yee doe: (but woulde God your soule were in my soules stead) I could keepe you company in speaking, and could shake mine head at you, 5But I woulde strengthen you with my mouth, and the comfort of my lips should asswage your sorowe. 6Though I speake, my sorow can not be asswaged: though I cease, what release haue I? 7But now hee maketh mee wearie: O God, thou hast made all my congregation desolate, 8And hast made me full of wrinkles which is a witnesse thereof, and my leannes ryseth vp in me, testifying the same in my face. 9His wrath hath torne me, and hee hateth me, and gnasheth vpon mee with his teeth: mine enemie hath sharpened his eyes against me. 10They haue opened their mouthes vpon me, and smitten me on the cheeke in reproch; they gather themselues together against me. 11God hath deliuered me to the vniust, and hath made mee to turne out of the way by the hands of the wicked. 12I was in welth, but he hath brought me to nought: he hath taken me by the necke, and beaten me, and set me as a marke for himselfe. 13His archers compasse mee rounde about: he cutteth my reines, and doth not spare, and powreth my gall vpon the ground. 14He hath broken me with one breaking vpon another, and runneth vpon me like a gyant. 15I haue sowed a sackcloth vpon my skinne, and haue abased mine horne vnto the dust. 16My face is withered with weeping, and the shadow of death is vpon mine eyes, 17Though there be no wickednesse in mine hands, and my prayer be pure. 18O earth, couer not thou my blood, and let my crying finde no place. 19For lo, now my witnesse is in the heauen, and my record is on hie. 20My friends speake eloquently against me: but mine eye powreth out teares vnto God. 21Oh that a man might pleade with God, as man with his neighbour! 22For the yeeres accounted come, and I shall go the way, whence I shall not returne.

17My breath is corrupt: my dayes are cut off, and the graue is readie for me. 2There are none but mockers with mee, and mine eye continueth in their bitternesse. 3Lay downe nowe and put me in suretie for thee: who is hee, that will touch mine hand? 4For thou hast hid their heart from vnderstanding: therefore shalt thou not set them vp on hie. 5For the eyes of his children shall faile, that speaketh flattery to his friends. 6Hee hath also made mee a byword of the people, and I am as a Tabret before them. 7Mine eye therefore is dimme for griefe, and all my strength is like a shadowe. 8The righteous shalbe astonied at this, and the innocent shalbe moued against ye hypocrite. 9But the righteous wil holde his way, and he whose hands are pure, shall increase his strength. 10All you therefore turne you, and come nowe, and I shall not finde one wise among you. 11My dayes are past, mine enterprises are broken, and the thoughts of mine heart 12Haue changed the nyght for the day, and the light that approched, for darkenesse. 13Though I hope, yet the graue shall bee mine house, and I shall make my bed in the darke. 14I shall say to corruption, Thou art my father, and to the worme, Thou art my mother and my sister. 15Where is then now mine hope? or who shall consider the thing, that I hoped for? 16They shall goe downe into the bottome of the pit: surely it shall lye together in the dust.

18Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, 2When will yee make an ende of your words? cause vs to vnderstande, and then wee will speake. 3Wherefore are wee counted as beastes, and are vile in your sight? 4Thou art as one that teareth his soule in his anger. Shall the earth bee forsaken for thy sake? or the rocke remoued out of his place? 5Yea, the light of the wicked shalbe quenched, and the sparke of his fire shall not shine. 6The light shalbe darke in his dwelling, and his candle shalbe put out with him. 7The steps of his strength shalbe restrained, and his owne counsell shall cast him downe. 8For hee is taken in the net by his feete, and he walketh vpon the snares. 9The grenne shall take him by the heele, and the theefe shall come vpon him. 10A snare is layed for him in the ground, and a trappe for him in the way. 11Fearefulnesse shall make him afrayde on euery side, and shall driue him to his feete. 12His strength shalbe famine: and destruction shalbe readie at his side. 13It shall deuoure the inner partes of his skinne, and the first borne of death shall deuoure his strength. 14His hope shalbe rooted out of his dwelling, and shall cause him to go to the King of feare. 15Feare shall dwell in his house (because it is not his) and brimstone shalbe scattered vpon his habitation. 16His rootes shalbe dryed vp beneath, and aboue shall his branche be cut downe. 17His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall haue no name in the streete. 18They shall driue him out of the light vnto darkenesse, and chase him out of the world. 19Hee shall neither haue sonne nor nephewe among his people, nor any posteritie in his dwellings. 20The posteritie shalbe astonied at his day, and feare shall come vpon the ancient. 21Surely such are the habitations of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.

19Bvt Iob answered, and said, 2Howe long will yee vexe my soule, and torment me with wordes? 3Ye haue now ten times reproched me, and are not ashamed: ye are impudent toward mee. 4And though I had in deede erred, mine errour remaineth with me. 5But in deede if ye will aduance your selues against me, and rebuke me for my reproche, 6Know nowe, that God hath ouerthrowen me, and hath compassed me with his net. 7Beholde, I crie out of violence, but I haue none answere: I crie, but there is no iudgement. 8Hee hath hedged vp my way that I cannot passe, and he hath set darkenesse in my paths. 9Hee hath spoyled mee of mine honour, and taken the crowne away from mine head. 10He hath destroyed mee on euery side and I am gone: and he hath remoued mine hope like a tree. 11And he hath kindled his wrath against me, and counteth mee as one of his enemies. 12His armies came together, and made their way vpon me, and camped about my tabernacle. 13He hath remooued my brethre farre from me, and also mine acquaintance were strangers vnto me. 14My neighbours haue forsaken me, and my familiars haue forgotten me. 15They that dwel in mine house, and my maydes tooke me for a stranger: for I was a stranger in their sight. 16I called my seruant, but he would not answere, though I prayed him with my mouth. 17My breath was strange vnto my wife, though I prayed her for the childrens sake of mine owne body. 18The wicked also despised mee, and when I rose, they spake against me. 19All my secret friends abhorred me, and they whome I loued, are turned against me. 20My bone cleaueth to my skinne and to my flesh, and I haue escaped with the skinne of my teeth. 21Haue pitie vpon me: haue pitie vpon me, (O yee my friendes) for the hande of God hath touched me. 22Why do ye persecute me, as God? and are not satisfied with my flesh? 23Oh that my wordes were nowe written! oh that they were written euen in a booke, 24And grauen with an yron pen in lead, or in stone for euer! 25For I am sure, that my Redeemer liueth, and he shall stand the last on the earth. 26And though after my skin wormes destroy this bodie, yet shall I see God in my flesh. 27Whome I my selfe shall see, and mine eyes shall beholde, and none other for me, though my reynes are consumed within me. 28But yee sayde, Why is hee persecuted? And there was a deepe matter in me. 29Be ye afraide of the sworde: for the sworde will be auenged of wickednesse, that yee may knowe that there is a iudgement.

20Then answered Zophar the Naamathite and saide, 2Doubtlesse my thoughts cause me to answere, and therefore I make haste. 3I haue heard the correction of my reproch: therefore the spirite of mine vnderstanding causeth me to answere. 4Knowest thou not this of olde? and since God placed man vpon the earth, 5That the reioycing of the wicked is short, and that the ioy of hypocrites is but a moment? 6Though his excellencie mount vp to the heauen, and his head reache vnto the cloudes, 7Yet shall hee perish for euer, like his dung, and they which haue seene him, shall say, Where is hee? 8He shall flee away as a dreame, and they shall not finde him, and shall passe away as a vision of the night, 9So that the eye which had seene him, shall do so no more, and his place shall see him no more. 10His children shall flatter the poore, and his hands shall restore his substance. 11His bones are full of the sinne of his youth, and it shall lie downe with him in the dust. 12When wickednesse was sweete in his mouth, and he hid it vnder his tongue, 13And fauoured it, and would not forsake it, but kept it close in his mouth, 14Then his meat in his bowels was turned: the gall of Aspes was in the middes of him. 15He hath deuoured substance, and hee shall vomit it: for God shall drawe it out of his bellie. 16He shall sucke the gall of Aspes, and the vipers tongue shall slay him. 17He shall not see the riuers, nor the floods and streames of honie and butter. 18He shall restore the labour, and shall deuoure no more: euen according to the substance shalbe his exchange, and he shall enioy it no more. 19For he hath vndone many: he hath forsaken the poore, and hath spoyled houses which he builded not. 20Surely he shall feele no quietnes in his bodie, neither shall he reserue of that which he desired. 21There shall none of his meate bee left: therefore none shall hope for his goods. 22When he shalbe filled with his abundance, he shalbe in paine, and the hand of all the wicked shall assaile him. 23He shall be about to fill his belly, but God shall sende vpon him his fierce wrath, and shall cause to rayne vpon him, euen vpon his meate. 24He shall flee from the yron weapons, and the bow of steele shall strike him through. 25The arrowe is drawen out, and commeth forth of the body, and shineth of his gall, so feare commeth vpon him. 26All darkenes shalbe hid in his secret places: the fire that is not blowen, shall deuoure him, and that which remaineth in his tabernacle, shalbe destroyed. 27The heauen shall declare his wickednes, and the earth shall rise vp against him. 28The increase of his house shall go away: it shall flow away in the day of his wrath. 29This is the portion of the wicked man from God, and the heritage that he shall haue of God for his wordes.

21Bvt Iob answered, and sayd, 2Heare diligently my wordes, and this shalbe in stead of your consolations. 3Suffer mee, that I may speake, and when I haue spoken, mocke on. 4Doe I direct my talke to man? If it were so, how should not my spirit be troubled? 5Marke mee, and be abashed, and lay your hand vpon your mouth. 6Euen when I remember, I am afrayde, and feare taketh hold on my flesh. 7Wherefore do the wicked liue, and waxe olde, and grow in wealth? 8Their seede is established in their sight with them, and their generation before their eyes. 9Their houses are peaceable without feare, and the rod of God is not vpon them. 10Their bullocke gendreth, and fayleth not: their cow calueth, and casteth not her calfe. 11They send forth their children like sheepe, and their sonnes dance. 12They take the tabret and harpe, and reioyce in the sound of the organs. 13They spend their dayes in wealth, and suddenly they go downe to the graue. 14They say also vnto God, Depart from vs: for we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes. 15Who is the Almightie, that we should serue him? and what profit should we haue, if we should pray vnto him? 16Lo, their wealth is not in their hand: therfore let the counsell of the wicked bee farre from me. 17How oft shall the candle of the wicked be put out? and their destruction come vpon them? he wil deuide their liues in his wrath. 18They shall be as stubble before the winde, and as chaffe that the storme carieth away. 19God wil lay vp the sorowe of the father for his children: when he rewardeth him, hee shall knowe it. 20His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drinke of the wrath of the Almightie. 21For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the nomber of his moneths is cut off? 22Shall any teache God knowledge, who iudgeth the highest things? 23One dyeth in his full strength, being in all ease and prosperitie. 24His breasts are full of milke, and his bones runne full of marowe. 25And another dieth in the bitternes of his soule, and neuer eateth with pleasure. 26They shall sleepe both in the dust, and the wormes shall couer them. 27Behold, I know your thoughts, and the enterprises, wherewith ye do me wrong. 28For ye say, Where is the princes house? and where is the tabernacle of the wickeds dwelling? 29May ye not aske the that go by the way? and ye can not deny their signes. 30But the wicked is kept vnto the day of destruction, and they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath. 31Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall reward him for that he hath done? 32Yet shall he be brought to the graue, and remaine in the heape. 33The slimie valley shalbe sweete vnto him, and euery man shall draw after him, as before him there were innumerable. 34How then comfort ye me in vaine, seeing in your answeres there remaine but lyes?

22Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, and sayde, 2May a man be profitable vnto God, as he that is wise, may be profitable to himselfe? 3Is it any thing vnto the Almightie, that thou art righteous? or is it profitable to him, that thou makest thy wayes vpright? 4Is it for feare of thee that he will accuse thee? or go with thee into iudgement? 5Is not thy wickednes great, and thine iniquities innumerable? 6For thou hast taken the pledge from thy brother for nought, and spoyled the clothes of the naked. 7To such as were wearie, thou hast not giuen water to drinke, and hast withdrawen bread from the hungrie. 8But the mightie man had the earth, and he that was in autoritie, dwelt in it. 9Thou hast cast out widowes emptie, and the armes of the fatherles were broken. 10Therefore snares are round about thee, and feare shall suddenly trouble thee: 11Or darkenes that thou shouldest not see, and abundance of waters shall couer thee. 12Is not God on hie in the heauen? and behold the height of the starres how hie they are. 13But thou sayest, How should God know? can he iudge through the darke cloude? 14The cloudes hide him that he can not see, and he walketh in the circle of heauen. 15Hast thou marked the way of the worlde, wherein wicked men haue walked? 16Which were cut downe before the time, whose foundation was as a riuer that ouerflowed: 17Which sayd vnto God, Depart from vs, and asked what the Almightie could do for them. 18Yet hee filled their houses with good things: but let the counsell of the wicked be farre from me. 19The righteous shall see them, and shall reioyce, and the innocent shall laugh them to scorne. 20Surely our substance is hid: but the fire hath deuoured the remnant of them. 21Therefore acquaint thy selfe, I pray thee, with him, and make peace: thereby thou shalt haue prosperitie. 22Receiue, I pray thee, the law of his mouth, and lay vp his words in thine heart. 23If thou returne to the Almightie, thou shalt be buylt vp, and thou shalt put iniquitie farre from thy tabernacle. 24Thou shalt lay vp golde for dust, and the gold of Ophir, as the flintes of the riuers. 25Yea, the Almightie shalbe thy defence, and thou shalt haue plentie of siluer. 26And thou shalt then delite in the Almightie, and lift vp thy face vnto God. 27Thou shalt make thy praier vnto him, and he shall heare thee, and thou shalt render thy vowes. 28Thou shalt also decree a thing, and he shall establish it vnto thee, and the light shall shine vpon thy wayes. 29When others are cast downe, then shalt thou say, I am lifted vp: and God shall saue the humble person. 30The innocent shall deliuer the yland, and it shalbe preserued by the purenes of thine hands.

23Bvt Iob answered and sayd, 2Though my talke be this day in bitternes, and my plague greater then my groning, 3Would God yet I knew how to finde him, I would enter vnto his place. 4I would pleade the cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. 5I would knowe the wordes, that he would answere me, and would vnderstand what he would say vnto me. 6Would he plead against me with his great power? No, but he would put strength in me. 7There the righteous might reason with him, so I shoulde be deliuered for euer from my Iudge. 8Behold, if I go to the East, he is not there: if to the West, yet I can not perceiue him: 9If to the North where he worketh, yet I cannot see him: he wil hide himselfe in the South, and I cannot beholde him. 10But he knoweth my way, and trieth mee, and I shall come forth like the gold. 11My foote hath followed his steps: his way haue I kept, and haue not declined. 12Neyther haue I departed from the commandement of his lippes, and I haue esteemed the words of his mouth more then mine appointed foode. 13Yet he is in one minde, and who can turne him? yea, he doeth what his minde desireth. 14For he will performe that, which is decreed of me, and many such things are with him. 15Therefore I am troubled at his presence, and in considering it, I am afraid of him. 16For God hath softened mine heart, and the Almightie hath troubled me. 17For I am not cut off in darknesse, but he hath hid the darkenesse from my face.

24Howe should not the times be hid from the Almightie, seeing that they which knowe him, see not his dayes? 2Some remoue the land marks, that rob the flockes and feede thereof. 3They leade away the asse of the fatherles: and take the widowes oxe to pledge. 4They make the poore to turne out of the way, so that the poore of the earth hide themselues together. 5Behold, others as wilde asses in the wildernesse, goe forth to their businesse, and rise early for a praye: the wildernesse giueth him and his children foode. 6They reape his prouision in the fielde, but they gather the late vintage of the wicked. 7They cause the naked to lodge without garment, and without couering in the colde. 8They are wet with the showres of the moutaines, and they imbrace the rocke for want of a couering. 9They plucke the fatherles from the breast, and take the pledge of the poore. 10They cause him to go naked without clothing, and take the glening from the hungrie. 11They that make oyle betweene their walles, and treade their wine presses, suffer thirst. 12Men cry out of the citie, and the soules of the slayne cry out: yet God doth not charge them with follie. 13These are they, that abhorre the light: they know not the wayes thereof, nor continue in the paths thereof. 14The murtherer riseth earely and killeth the poore and the needie: and in the night he is as a theefe. 15The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, and sayth, None eye shall see me, and disguiseth his face. 16They digge through houses in the darke, which they marked for themselues in the daye: they knowe not the light. 17But the morning is euen to them as the shadow of death: if one knowe them, they are in the terrours of the shadowe of death. 18He is swift vpon the waters: their portion shalbe cursed in the earth: he will not behold the way of the vineyardes. 19As the dry ground and heate consume the snowe waters, so shall the graue the sinners. 20The pitifull man shall forget him: the worme shall feele his sweetenes: he shalbe no more remembered, and the wicked shalbe broke like a tree. 21He doth euil intreat ye barren, that doeth not beare, neither doeth he good to the widowe. 22He draweth also the mighty by his power, and when he riseth vp, none is sure of life. 23Though men giue him assurance to be in safetie, yet his eyes are vpon their wayes. 24They are exalted for a litle, but they are gone, and are brought lowe as all others: they are destroyed, and cut off as the toppe of an eare of corne. 25But if it be not so, where is he? or who wil proue me a lyer, and make my words of no value?

25Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and sayd, 2Power and feare is with him, that maketh peace in his hie places. 3Is there any nomber in his armies? and vpon whom shall not his light arise? 4And howe may a man be iustified with God? or how can he be cleane, that is borne of woman? 5Behold, he wil giue no light to the moone, and the starres are vncleane in his sight. 6How much more man, a worme, euen the sonne of man, which is but a worme?

26Bvt Iob answered, and sayde, 2Whom helpest thou? him that hath no power? sauest thou the arme that hath no strength? 3Whome counsellest thou? him that hath no wisedome? thou shewest right well as the thing is. 4To whom doest thou declare these words? or whose spirit commeth out of thee? 5The dead things are formed vnder the waters, and neere vnto them. 6The graue is naked before him, and there is no couering for destruction. 7He stretcheth out the North ouer the emptie place, and hangeth the earth vpon nothing. 8He bindeth the waters in his cloudes, and the cloude is not broken vnder them. 9He holdeth backe the face of his throne: and spreadeth his cloude vpon it. 10He hath set bounds about the waters, vntil the day and night come to an ende. 11The pillars of heauen tremble and quake at his reproofe. 12The sea is calme by his power, and by his vnderstanding he smiteth the pride thereof. 13His Spirite hath garnished the heauens, and his hand hath formed the crooked serpent. 14Loe, these are part of his wayes: but how litle a portion heare we of him? and who can vnderstand his fearefull power?

27Moreouer Iob proceeded and continued his parable, saying, 2The liuing God hath taken away my iudgement: for the Almightie hath put my soule in bitternesse. 3Yet so long as my breath is in me, and the Spirit of God in my nostrels, 4My lips surely shall speake no wickednesse, and my tongue shall vtter no deceite. 5God forbid, that I should iustifie you: vntill I dye, I will neuer take away mine innocencie from my selfe. 6I will keepe my righteousnesse, and wil not forsake it: mine heart shall not reprooue me of my dayes. 7Mine enemie shall be as the wicked, and he that riseth against me, as the vnrighteous. 8For what hope hath the hypocrite when he hath heaped vp riches, if God take away his soule? 9Will God heare his cry, when trouble commeth vpon him? 10Will he set his delight on the Almightie? will he call vpon God at all times? 11I will teache you what is in the hande of God, and I wil not conceale that which is with the Almightie. 12Beholde, all ye your selues haue seene it: why then doe you thus vanish in vanitie? 13This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of tyrants, which they shall receiue of the Almightie. 14If his children be in great nomber, the sworde shall destroy them, and his posteritie shall not be satisfied with bread. 15His remnant shall be buried in death, and his widowes shall not weepe. 16Though he shoulde heape vp siluer as the dust, and prepare rayment as the clay, 17He may prepare it, but the iust shall put it on, and the innocent shall deuide the siluer. 18He buildeth his house as the moth, and as a lodge that the watchman maketh. 19When the rich man sleepeth, he shall not be gathered to his fathers: they opened their eyes, and he was gone. 20Terrours shall take him as waters, and a tempest shall cary him away by night. 21The East winde shall take him away, and he shall depart: and it shall hurle him out of his place. 22And God shall cast vpon him and not spare, though he would faine flee out of his hand. 23Euery man shall clap their hands at him, and hisse at him out of their place.

28The siluer surely hath his veyne, and ye gold his place, where they take it. 2Yron is taken out of the dust, and brasse is molten out of the stone. 3God putteth an end to darkenesse, and he tryeth the perfection of all things: he setteth a bond of darkenesse, and of the shadowe of death. 4The flood breaketh out against the inhabitant, and the waters forgotten of the foote, being higher then man, are gone away. 5Out of the same earth commeth bread, and vnder it, as it were fire is turned vp. 6The stones thereof are a place of saphirs, and the dust of it is golde. 7There is a path which no foule hath knowen, neyther hath the kites eye seene it. 8The lyons whelpes haue not walked it, nor the lyon passed thereby. 9He putteth his hand vpon the rockes, and ouerthroweth the mountaines by the rootes. 10He breaketh riuers in the rockes, and his eye seeth euery precious thing. 11He bindeth the floods, that they doe not ouerflowe, and the thing that is hid, bringeth he to light. 12But where is wisdome found? and where is the place of vnderstanding? 13Man knoweth not the price thereof: for it is not found in the land of the liuing. 14The depth sayth, It is not in mee: the sea also sayth, It is not with me. 15Golde shall not be giuen for it, neyther shall siluer be weighed for the price thereof. 16It shall not be valued with the wedge of golde of Ophir, nor with the precious onix, nor the saphir. 17The golde nor the chrystall shall be equall vnto it, nor the exchange shalbe for plate of fine golde. 18No mention shall be made of coral, nor of the gabish: for wisedome is more precious then pearles. 19The Topaz of Ethiopia shall not be equall vnto it, neither shall it be valued with the wedge of pure gold. 20Whence then commeth wisedome? and where is the place of vnderstanding, 21Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all the liuing, and is hid from the foules of the heauen? 22Destruction and death say, We haue heard the fame thereof with our eares. 23But God vnderstandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof. 24For he beholdeth the endes of the world, and seeth all that is vnder heauen, 25To make the weight of the windes, and to weigh the waters by measure. 26When he made a decree for the rayne, and a way for the lightening of the thunders, 27Then did he see it, and counted it: he prepared it and also considered it. 28And vnto man he said, Behold, the feare of the Lord is wisedome, and to depart from euil is vnderstanding.

29So Iob proceeded and continued his parable, saying, 2Oh that I were as in times past, when God preserued me! 3When his light shined vpon mine head: and when by his light I walked thorowe the darkenesse, 4As I was in the dayes of my youth: when Gods prouidence was vpon my tabernacle: 5When the almightie was yet with me, and my children round about me. 6When I washed my pathes with butter, and when the rocke powred me out riuers of oyle: 7When I went out to the gate, euen to the iudgement seat, and when I caused them to prepare my seate in the streete. 8The yong men saw me, and hid themselues, and the aged arose, and stood vp. 9The princes stayed talke, and layde their hand on their mouth. 10The voyce of princes was hidde, and their tongue cleaued to the roofe of their mouth. 11And when the eare heard me, it blessed me: and when the eye sawe me, it gaue witnesse to me. 12For I deliuered the poore that cryed, and the fatherlesse, and him that had none to helpe him. 13The blessing of him that was ready to perish, came vpon me, and I caused the widowes heart to reioyce. 14I put on iustice, and it couered me: my iudgement was as a robe, and a crowne. 15I was the eyes to the blinde, and I was the feete to the lame. 16I was a father vnto the poore, and when I knewe not the cause, I sought it out diligently. 17I brake also the chawes of the vnrighteous man, and pluckt the praye out of his teeth. 18Then I sayde, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiplie my dayes as the sand. 19For my roote is spread out by the water, and the dewe shall lye vpon my branche. 20My glory shall renue towarde me, and my bowe shall be restored in mine hand. 21Vnto me men gaue eare, and wayted, and helde their tongue at my counsell. 22After my wordes they replied not, and my talke dropped vpon them. 23And they wayted for me, as for the raine, and they opened their mouth as for the latter rayne. 24If I laughed on them, they beleeued it not: neither did they cause the light of my countenance to fall. 25I appoynted out their way, and did sit as chiefe, and dwelt as a King in the army, and like him that comforteth the mourners.

30Bvt now they that are yonger then I, mocke me: yea, they whose fathers I haue refused to set with the dogges of my flockes. 2For whereto shoulde the strength of their handes haue serued mee, seeing age perished in them? 3For pouertie and famine they were solitary, fleeing into the wildernes, which is darke, desolate and waste. 4They cut vp nettels by the bushes, and the iuniper rootes was their meate. 5They were chased forth from among men: they shouted at them, as at a theefe. 6Therfore they dwelt in the clefts of riuers, in the holes of the earth and rockes. 7They roared among the bushes, and vnder the thistles they gathered themselues. 8They were the children of fooles and the children of villaines, which were more vile then the earth. 9And now am I their song, and I am their talke. 10They abhorre me, and flee farre from mee, and spare not to spit in my face. 11Because that God hath loosed my corde and humbled mee, they haue loosed the bridle before me. 12The youth rise vp at my right hand: they haue pusht my feete, and haue trode on me as on the paths of their destruction. 13They haue destroyed my paths: they tooke pleasure at my calamitie, they had none helpe. 14They came as a great breach of waters, and vnder this calamitie they come on heapes. 15Feare is turned vpon mee: and they pursue my soule as the winde, and mine health passeth away as a cloude. 16Therefore my soule is nowe powred out vpon me, and the dayes of affliction haue taken holde on me. 17It pearceth my bones in the night, and my sinewes take no rest. 18For the great vehemencie is my garment changed, which compasseth me about as the colar of my coate. 19He hath cast me into the myre, and I am become like ashes and dust. 20Whe I cry vnto thee, thou doest not heare me, neither regardest me, when I stand vp. 21Thou turnest thy selfe cruelly against me, and art enemie vnto mee with the strength of thine hand. 22Thou takest me vp and causest mee to ride vpon the winde, and makest my strength to faile. 23Surely I knowe that thou wilt bring mee to death, and to the house appoynted for all the liuing. 24Doubtles none can stretch his hand vnto the graue, though they cry in his destruction. 25Did not I weepe with him that was in trouble? was not my soule in heauinesse for the poore? 26Yet when I looked for good, euill came vnto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkenesse. 27My bowels did boyle without rest: for the dayes of affliction are come vpon me. 28I went mourning without sunne: I stood vp in the congregation and cryed. 29I am a brother to the dragons, and a companion to the ostriches. 30My skinne is blacke vpon me, and my bones are burnt with heate. 31Therefore mine harpe is turned to mourning, and mine organs into the voyce of them that weepe.

31I made a couenant with mine eyes: why then should I thinke on a mayde? 2For what portion should I haue of God from aboue? and what inheritance of the Almightie from on hie? 3Is not destruction to the wicked and strange punishment to the workers of iniquitie? 4Doeth not he beholde my wayes and tell all my steps? 5If I haue walked in vanitie, or if my foote hath made haste to deceite, 6Let God weigh me in the iust balance, and he shall know mine vprightnes. 7If my steppe hath turned out of the way, or mine heart hath walked after mine eye, or if any blot hath cleaued to mine handes, 8Let me sowe, and let another eate: yea, let my plantes be rooted out. 9If mine heart hath bene deceiued by a woman, or if I haue layde wayte at the doore of my neighbour, 10Let my wife grinde vnto another man, and let other men bow downe vpon her: 11For this is a wickednes, and iniquitie to bee condemned: 12Yea, this is a fire that shall deuoure to destruction, and which shall roote out al mine increase, 13If I did contemne the iudgement of my seruant, and of my mayde, when they did contend with me, 14What then shall I do when God standeth vp? and when he shall visit me, what shall I answere? 15He that hath made me in the wombe, hath he not made him? hath not he alone facioned vs in the wombe? 16If I restrained the poore of their desire, or haue caused the eyes of the widow to faile, 17Or haue eaten my morsels alone, and the fatherles hath not eaten thereof, 18(For from my youth hee hath growen vp with me as with a father, and from my mothers wombe I haue bene a guide vnto her) 19If I haue seene any perish for want of clothing, or any poore without couering, 20If his loynes haue not blessed me, because he was warmed with the fleece of my sheepe, 21If I haue lift vp mine hande against the fatherlesse, when I saw that I might helpe him in the gate, 22Let mine arme fal from my shoulder, and mine arme be broken from the bone. 23For Gods punishment was fearefull vnto me, and I could not be deliuered from his highnes. 24If I made gold mine hope, or haue sayd to the wedge of golde, Thou art my confidence, 25If I reioyced because my substance was great, or because mine hand had gotten much, 26If I did behold the sunne, when it shined, or the moone, walking in her brightnes, 27If mine heart did flatter me in secrete, or if my mouth did kisse mine hand, 28(This also had bene an iniquitie to be condemned: for I had denied the God aboue) 29If I reioyced at his destruction that hated me, or was mooued to ioye when euill came vpon him, 30Neither haue I suffred my mouth to sinne, by wishing a curse vnto his soule. 31Did not the men of my Tabernacle say, Who shall giue vs of his flesh? we can not bee satisfied. 32The stranger did not lodge in the streete, but I opened my doores vnto him, that went by the way. 33If I haue hid my sinne, as Adam, concealing mine iniquitie in my bosome, 34Though I could haue made afraid a great multitude, yet the most contemptible of the families did feare me: so I kept silence, and went not out of the doore. 35Oh that I had some to heare me! beholde my signe that the Almightie will witnesse for me: though mine aduersary should write a booke against me, 36Woulde not I take it vpon my shoulder, and binde it as a crowne vnto me? 37I will tell him the nomber of my goings, and goe vnto him as to a prince. 38If my lande cry against me, or the furrowes thereof complayne together, 39If I haue eaten the fruites thereof without siluer: or if I haue grieued the soules of the masters thereof, 40Let thistles growe in steade of wheate, and cockle in the stead of Barley. The wordes of Iob are ended.

32So these three men ceased to answere Iob, because he esteemed himselfe iust. 2Then the wrath of Elihu the sonne of Barachel the Buzite, of the familie of Ram, was kindled: his wrath, I say, was kindled against Iob, because he iustified himselfe more then God. 3Also his anger was kindled against his three friends, because they could not finde an answere, and yet condemned Iob. 4(Now Elihu had wayted til Iob had spoken: for they were more ancient in yeeres then he) 5So when Elihu saw, that there was none answere in the mouth of the three men, his wrath was kindled. 6Therefore Elihu the sonne of Barachel, the Buzite answered, and sayd, I am yong in yeres, and ye are ancient: therefore I doubted, and was afraide to shewe you mine opinion. 7For I said, The dayes shall speake, and the multitude of yeeres shall teach wisedome. 8Surely there is a spirite in man, but the inspiration of the Almightie giueth vnderstanding. 9Great men are not alway wise, neither doe the aged alway vnderstand iudgement. 10Therefore I say, Heare me, and I will shew also mine opinion. 11Behold, I did waite vpon your wordes, and hearkened vnto your knowledge, whiles you sought out reasons. 12Yea, when I had considered you, lo, there was none of you that reproued Iob, nor answered his wordes: 13Lest ye should say, We haue found wisedome: for God hath cast him downe, and no man. 14Yet hath he not directed his words to me, neyther will I answere him by your wordes. 15Then they fearing, answered no more, but left off their talke. 16When I had wayted (for they spake not, but stood still and answered no more) 17Then answered I in my turne, and I shewed mine opinion. 18For I am full of matter, and the spirite within me compelleth me. 19Beholde, my belly is as the wine, which hath no vent, and like the new bottels that brast. 20Therefore will I speake, that I may take breath: I will open my lippes, and will answere. 21I will not now accept the person of man, neyther will I giue titles to man. 22For I may not giue titles, lest my Maker should take me away suddenly.

33Wherefore, Iob, I pray thee, heare my talke and hearken vnto all my wordes. 2Beholde now, I haue opened my mouth: my tongue hath spoken in my mouth. 3My words are in the vprightnesse of mine heart, and my lippes shall speake pure knowledge. 4The Spirite of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almightie hath giuen me life. 5If thou canst giue me answere, prepare thy selfe and stand before me. 6Beholde, I am according to thy wish in Gods stead: I am also formed of the clay. 7Beholde, my terrour shall not feare thee, neither shall mine hand be heauie vpon thee. 8Doubtles thou hast spoken in mine eares, and I haue heard the voyce of thy wordes. 9I am cleane, without sinne: I am innocent, and there is none iniquitie in me. 10Lo, he hath found occasions against me, and counted me for his enemie. 11He hath put my feete in the stockes, and looketh narrowly vnto all my paths. 12Behold, in this hast thou not done right: I will answere thee, that God is greater then man. 13Why doest thou striue against him? for he doeth not giue account of all his matters. 14For God speaketh once or twise, and one seeth it not. 15In dreames and visions of the night, when sleepe falleth vpon men, and they sleepe vpon their beds, 16Then he openeth the eares of men, euen by their corrections, which he had sealed, 17That he might cause man to turne away from his enterprise, and that he might hide the pride of man, 18And keepe backe his soule from the pit, and that his life should not passe by the sword. 19He is also striken with sorow vpon his bed, and the griefe of his bones is sore, 20So that his life causeth him to abhorre bread, and his soule daintie meate. 21His flesh faileth that it can not be seene, and his bones which were not seene, clatter. 22So his soule draweth to the graue, and his life to the buriers. 23If there be a messenger with him, or an interpreter, one of a thousand to declare vnto man his righteousnesse, 24Then will he haue mercie vpon him, and will say, Deliuer him, that he go not downe into the pit: for I haue receiued a reconciliation. 25Then shall his flesh be as fresh as a childes, and shall returne as in the dayes of his youth. 26He shall pray vnto God, and he will be fauourable vnto him, and he shall see his face with ioy: for he will render vnto man his righteousnes. 27He looketh vpon men, and if one say, I haue sinned, and peruerted righteousnesse, and it did not profite me, 28He will deliuer his soule from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light. 29Lo, all these things will God worke twise or thrise with a man, 30That he may turne backe his soule from the pit, to be illuminate in the light of the liuing. 31Marke well, O Iob, and heare me: keepe silence, and I will speake. 32If there be matter, answere me, and speak: for I desire to iustifie thee. 33If thou hast not, heare me: holde thy tongue, and I will teach thee wisedome.

34Moreouer Elihu answered, and saide, 2Heare my wordes, ye wise men, and hearken vnto me, ye that haue knowledge. 3For the eare tryeth the words, as the mouth tasteth meate. 4Let vs seeke iudgement among vs, and let vs knowe among our selues what is good. 5For Iob hath saide, I am righteous, and God hath taken away my iudgement. 6Should I lye in my right? my wound of the arrowe is grieuous without my sinne. 7What man is like Iob, that drinketh scornfulnesse like water? 8Which goeth in the companie of them that worke iniquitie, and walketh with wicked men? 9For he hath saide, It profiteth a man nothing that he should walke with God. 10Therefore hearken vnto me, ye men of wisedome, God forbid that wickednesse should be in God, and iniquitie in the Almightie. 11For he will render vnto man according to his worke, and cause euery one to finde according to his way. 12And certainely God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almightie peruert iudgement. 13Whome hath he appointed ouer the earth beside him selfe? or who hath placed the whole worlde? 14If he set his heart vpon man, and gather vnto him selfe his spirit and his breath, 15All flesh shall perish together, and man shall returne vnto dust. 16And if thou hast vnderstanding, heare this and hearken to the voyce of my wordes. 17Shal he that hateth iudgement, gouerne? and wilt thou iudge him wicked that is most iust? 18Wilt thou say vnto a King, Thou art wicked? or to princes, Ye are vngodly? 19How much lesse to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, and regardeth not the rich, more then the poore? for they be all the worke of his handes. 20They shall die suddenly, and the people shalbe troubled at midnight, and they shall passe foorth and take away the mightie without hand. 21For his eyes are vpon the wayes of man, and he seeth all his goings. 22There is no darkenesse nor shadowe of death, that the workers of iniquitie might be hid therein. 23For he will not lay on man so much, that he should enter into iudgement with God. 24He shall breake the mightie without seeking, and shall set vp other in their stead. 25Therefore shall he declare their works: he shall turne the night, and they shalbe destroyed. 26He striketh them as wicked men in the places of the seers, 27Because they haue turned backe from him, and would not consider all his wayes: 28So that they haue caused the voyce of the poore to come vnto him, and he hath heard the cry of the afflicted. 29And when he giueth quietnesse, who can make trouble? and when he hideth his face, who can beholde him, whether it be vpon nations, or vpon a man onely? 30Because the hypocrite doeth reigne, and because the people are snared. 31Surely it appertaineth vnto God to say, I haue pardoned, I will not destroy. 32But if I see not, teach thou me: if I haue done wickedly, I will doe no more. 33Wil he performe the thing through thee? for thou hast reproued it, because that thou hast chosen, and not I. now speake what thou knowest. 34Let men of vnderstanding tell me, and let a wise man hearken vnto me. 35Iob hath not spoken of knowledge, neyther were his wordes according to wisedome. 36I desire that Iob may be tryed, vnto the ende touching the answeres for wicked men. 37For he addeth rebellion vnto his sinne: he clappeth his handes among vs, and multiplieth his wordes against God.

35Elihu spake moreouer, and said, 2Thinkest thou this right, that thou hast said, I am more righteous then God? 3For thou hast said, What profiteth it thee and what auaileth it me, to purge me from my sinne? 4Therefore will I answere thee, and thy companions with thee. 5Looke vnto the heauen, and see and behold the cloudes which are hyer then thou. 6If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him, yea, when thy sinnes be many, what doest thou vnto him? 7If thou be righteous, what giuest thou vnto him? or what receiueth he at thine hand? 8Thy wickednesse may hurt a man as thou art: and thy righteousnes may profite ye sonne of man. 9They cause many that are oppressed, to crye, which crye out for ye violence of the mightie. 10But none saieth, Where is God that made me, which giueth songs in the nyght? 11Which teacheth vs more then the beastes of the earth, and giueth vs more wisdome then the foules of the heauen. 12Then they crye because of the violence of the wicked, but he answereth not. 13Surely God will not heare vanitie, neyther will the Almightie regard it. 14Although thou sayest to God, Thou wilt not regard it, yet iudgement is before him: trust thou in him. 15But nowe because his anger hath not visited, nor called to count the euill with great extremitie, 16Therfore Iob openeth his mouth in vaine, and multiplieth wordes without knowledge.

36Elihu also proceeded and sayde, 2Suffer me a litle, and I will instruct thee: for I haue yet to speake on Gods behalfe. 3I will fetche my knowledge afarre off, and will attribute righteousnes vnto my Maker. 4For truely my wordes shall not be false, and he that is perfect in knowledge, speaketh with thee. 5Behold, the mighty God casteth away none that is mighty and valiant of courage. 6He mainteineth not the wicked, but he giueth iudgement to the afflicted. 7He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous, but they are with Kings in ye throne, where he placeth them for euer: thus they are exalted. 8And if they bee bound in fetters and tyed with the cordes of affliction, 9Then will he shewe them their worke and their sinnes, because they haue bene proude. 10He openeth also their eare to discipline, and commandeth them that they returne from iniquity. 11If they obey and serue him, they shall end their dayes in prosperity, and their yeres in pleasures. 12But if they wil not obey, they shall passe by the sworde, and perish without knowledge. 13But the hypocrites of heart increase the wrath: for they call not when he bindeth them. 14Their soule dyeth in youth, and their life among the whoremongers. 15He deliuereth the poore in his affliction, and openeth their eare in trouble. 16Euen so woulde he haue taken thee out of the streight place into a broade place and not shut vp beneath: and that which resteth vpon thy table, had bene full of fat. 17But thou art ful of the iudgement of the wicked, though iudgement and equitie maintaine all things. 18For Gods wrath is, least hee should take that away in thine abundance: for no multitude of giftes can deliuer thee. 19Wil he regard thy riches? he regardeth not golde, nor all them that excel in strength. 20Be not carefull in the night, howe he destroyeth the people out of their place. 21Take thou heede: looke not to iniquitie: for thou hast chosen it rather then affliction. 22Beholde, God exalteth by his power: what teacher is like him? 23Who hath appointed to him his way? or who can say, Thou hast done wickedly? 24Remember that thou magnifie his worke, which men behold. 25All men see it, and men beholde it afarre off. 26Beholde, God is excellent, and we knowe him not, neither can the nomber of his yeres bee searched out. 27When he restraineth the droppes of water, the rayne powreth down by the vapour thereof, 28Which raine the cloudes do droppe and let fall abundantly vpon man. 29Who can know the diuisions of ye clouds and the thunders of his tabernacle? 30Beholde, he spreadeth his light vpon it, and couereth the bottome of the sea. 31For thereby hee iudgeth the people, and giueth meate abundantly. 32He couereth the light with the clouds, and commandeth them to go against it. 33His companion sheweth him thereof, and there is anger in rising vp.

37At this also mine heart is astonied, and is mooued out of his place. 2Heare the sound of his voyce, and the noyse that goeth out of his mouth. 3He directeth it vnder the whole heauen, and his light vnto the endes of the world. 4After it a noyse soundeth: hee thundereth with the voyce of his maiestie, and hee will not stay them when his voyce is heard. 5God thundereth marueilously with his voyce: he worketh great things, which we know not. 6For he sayth to the snowe, Be thou vpon the earth: likewise to the small rayne and to the great rayne of his power. 7With the force thereof he shutteth vp euery man, that all men may knowe his worke. 8Then the beastes go into the denne, and remaine in their places. 9The whirlewind commeth out of the South, and the colde from the North winde. 10At the breath of God the frost is giuen, and the breadth of the waters is made narrowe. 11He maketh also the cloudes to labour, to water the earth, and scattereth the cloude of his light. 12And it is turned about by his gouernment, that they may doe whatsoeuer he commandeth them vpon the whole worlde: 13Whether it be for punishment, or for his lande, or of mercie, he causeth it to come. 14Hearken vnto this, O Iob: stand and consider the wonderous workes of God. 15Diddest thou knowe when God disposed them? and caused the light of his cloud to shine? 16Hast thou knowen the varietie of the cloude, and the wonderous workes of him, that is perfite in knowledge? 17Or howe thy clothes are warme, when he maketh the earth quiet through the South winde? 18Hast thou stretched out the heaues, which are strong, and as a molten glasse? 19Tell vs what we shall say vnto him: for we can not dispose our matter because of darknes. 20Shall it be told him when I speake? or shall man speake when he shalbe destroyed? 21And nowe men see not the light, which shineth in the cloudes, but the winde passeth and clenseth them. 22The brightnesse commeth out of the North: the praise thereof is to God, which is terrible. 23It is the Almightie: we can not finde him out: he is excellent in power and iudgement, and aboundant in iustice: he afflicteth not. 24Let men therefore feare him: for he will not regarde any that are wise in their owne conceit.

38Then answered the Lord vnto Iob out of the whirle winde, and said, 2Who is this that darkeneth the counsell by wordes without knowledge? 3Girde vp nowe thy loynes like a man: I will demande of thee and declare thou vnto me. 4Where wast thou when I layd the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast vnderstanding, 5Who hath layde the measures thereof, if thou knowest, or who hath stretched the line ouer it: 6Whereupon are the foundations thereof set: or who layed the corner stone thereof: 7When the starres of the morning praysed me together, and all the children of God reioyced: 8Or who hath shut vp the Sea with doores, when it yssued and came foorth as out of the wombe: 9When I made the cloudes as a couering thereof, and darkenesse as the swadeling bands thereof: 10When I stablished my commandement vpon it, and set barres and doores, 11And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther, and here shall it stay thy proude waues. 12Hast thou commanded the morning since thy dayes? hast thou caused the morning to knowe his place, 13That it might take hold of the corners of the earth, and that the wicked might be shaken out of it? 14It is turned as clay to facion, and all stand vp as a garment. 15And from the wicked their light shall be taken away, and the hie arme shalbe broken. 16Hast thou entred into the bottomes of the sea? or hast thou walked to seeke out the depth? 17Haue the gates of death bene opened vnto thee? or hast thou seene the gates of the shadowe of death? 18Hast thou perceiued the breadth of the earth? tell if thou knowest all this. 19Where is the way where light dwelleth? and where is the place of darkenesse, 20That thou shouldest receiue it in the boundes thereof, and that thou shouldest knowe the paths to the house thereof? 21Knewest thou it, because thou wast then borne, and because the nomber of thy dayes is great? 22Hast thou entred into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seene the treasures of ye haile, 23Which I haue hid against the time of trouble, against the day of warre and battell? 24By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the East winde vpon the earth? 25Who hath deuided the spowtes for the raine? or the way for the lightning of ye thunders, 26To cause it to raine on the earth where no man is, and in the wildernes where there is no man? 27To fulfil the wilde and waste place, and to cause the bud of the herbe to spring forth? 28Who is the father of the rayne? or who hath begotten the droppes of the dewe? 29Out of whose wombe came the yee? who hath ingendred the frost of the heauen? 30The waters are hid as with a stone: and the face of the depth is frosen. 31Canst thou restraine the sweete influences of the Pleiades? or loose the bandes of Orion? 32Canst thou bring foorth Mazzaroth in their time? canst thou also guide Arcturus with his sonnes? 33Knowest thou the course of heauen, or canst thou set the rule thereof in the earth? 34Canst thou lift vp thy voice to the cloudes that the aboundance of water may couer thee? 35Canst thou sende the lightenings that they may walke, and say vnto thee, Loe, heere we are? 36Who hath put wisedome in the reines? or who hath giuen the heart vnderstanding? 37Who can nomber cloudes by wisedome? or who can cause to cease the bottels of heaue, 38When the earth groweth into hardnesse, and the clottes are fast together?

39Wilt thou hunt the pray for the lyon? or fill the appetite of the lyons whelpes, 2When they couch in their places, and remaine in the couert to lye in waite? 3Who prepareth for the rauen his meate, when his birdes crie vnto God, wandering for lacke of meate? 4Knowest thou the time when the wilde goates bring foorth yong? or doest thou marke when the hindes doe calue? 5Canst thou nomber the moneths that they fulfill? or knowest thou the time when they bring foorth? 6They bow them selues: they bruise their yong and cast out their sorowes. 7Yet their yong waxe fatte, and growe vp with corne: they goe foorth and returne not vnto them. 8Who hath set the wilde asse at libertie? or who hath loosed the bondes of the wilde asse? 9It is I which haue made the wildernesse his house, and the salt places his dwellings. 10He derideth the multitude of the citie: he heareth not the crie of the driuer. 11He seeketh out the mountaine for his pasture, and searcheth after euery greene thing. 12Will the vnicorne serue thee? or will he tary by thy cribbe? 13Canst thou binde the vnicorne with his band to labour in the furrowe? or will he plowe the valleyes after thee? 14Wilt thou trust in him, because his strength is great, and cast off thy labour vnto him? 15Wilt thou beleeue him, that he will bring home thy seede, and gather it vnto thy barne? 16Hast thou giuen the pleasant wings vnto the peacockes? or winges and feathers vnto the ostriche? 17Which leaueth his egges in the earth, and maketh them hote in the dust, 18And forgetteth that the foote might scatter the, or that the wild beast might breake the. 19He sheweth himselfe cruell vnto his yong ones, as they were not his, and is without feare, as if he trauailed in vaine. 20For God had depriued him of wisedom, and hath giuen him no part of vnderstanding. 21When time is, he mounteth on hie: he mocketh the horse and his rider. 22Hast thou giuen the horse strength? or couered his necke with neying? 23Hast thou made him afraid as the grashopper? his strong neying is fearefull. 24He diggeth in the valley, and reioyceth in his strength: he goeth foorth to meete the harnest man. 25He mocketh at feare, and is not afraid, and turneth not backe from the sworde, 26Though the quiuer rattle against him, the glittering speare and the shield. 27He swalloweth the ground for fearcenes and rage, and he beleeueth not that it is the noise of the trumpet. 28He sayth among the trumpets, Ha, ha: hee smellleth the battell afarre off, and the noyse of the captaines, and the shouting. 29Shall the hauke flie by thy wisedome, stretching out his wings toward the South? 30Doeth the eagle mount vp at thy commandement, or make his nest on hie? 31Shee abideth and remaineth in the rocke, euen vpon the toppe of the rocke, and the tower. 32From thence she spieth for meate, and her eyes beholde afarre off. 33His young ones also sucke vp blood: and where the slaine are, there is she. 34Moreouer ye Lord spake vnto Iob, and said, 35Is this to learne to striue with the Almightie? he that reprooueth God, let him answere to it. 36Then Iob answered the Lord, saying, 37Beholde, I am vile: what shall I answere thee? I will lay mine hand vpon my mouth. 38Once haue I spoken, but I will answere no more, yea twise, but I will proceede no further.

40Againe the Lord answered Iob out of the whirle winde, and said, 2Girde vp now thy loynes like a man: I will demaunde of thee, and declare thou vnto me. 3Wilt thou disanul my iudgement? or wilt thou condemne me, that thou mayst be iustified? 4Or hast thou an arme like God? or doest thou thunder with a voyce like him? 5Decke thy selfe now with maiestie and excellencie, and aray thy selfe with beautie and glory. 6Cast abroad the indignation of thy wrath, and beholde euery one that is proude, and abase him. 7Looke on euery one that is arrogant, and bring him lowe: and destroy the wicked in their place. 8Hide them in the dust together, and binde their faces in a secret place. 9Then will I confesse vnto thee also, that thy right hand can saue thee. 10Behold now Behemoth (whom I made with thee) which eateth grasse as an oxe. 11Behold now, his strength is in his loynes, and his force is in the nauil of his belly. 12When hee taketh pleasure, his taile is like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapt together. 13His bones are like staues of brasse, and his small bones like staues of yron. 14He is the chiefe of the wayes of God: he that made him, will make his sworde to approch vnto him. 15Surely the mountaines bring him foorth grasse, where all the beastes of the fielde play. 16Lyeth hee vnder the trees in the couert of the reede and fennes? 17Can the trees couer him with their shadow? or can the willowes of the riuer compasse him about? 18Behold, he spoyleth the riuer, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw vp Iorden into his mouth. 19Hee taketh it with his eyes, and thrusteth his nose through whatsoeuer meeteth him. 20Canst thou drawe out Liuiathan with an hooke, and with a line which thou shalt cast downe vnto his tongue? 21Canst thou cast an hooke into his nose? canst thou perce his iawes with an angle? 22Will he make many prayers vnto thee, or speake thee faire? 23Will hee make a couenant with thee? and wilt thou take him as a seruant for euer? 24Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bynd him for thy maydes? 25Shall the companions baket with him? shall they deuide him among the marchants? 26Canst thou fill the basket with his skinne? or the fishpanier with his head? 27Lay thine hand vpon him: remember the battel, and do no more so. 28Behold, his hope is in vaine: for shall not one perish euen at the sight of him?

41None is so fearce that dare stirre him vp. Who is he then that can stand before me? 2Who hath preuented mee that I shoulde make an ende? Al vnder heauen is mine. 3I will not keepe silence concerning his partes, nor his power nor his comely proportion. 4Who can discouer the face of his garmet? or who shall come to him with a double bridle? 5Who shall open the doores of his face? his teeth are fearefull round about. 6The maiestie of his scales is like strog shields, and are sure sealed. 7One is set to another, that no winde can come betweene them. 8One is ioyned to another: they sticke together, that they cannot be sundered. 9His niesings make the light to shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning. 10Out of his mouth go lampes, and sparkes of fire leape out. 11Out of his nostrels commeth out smoke, as out of a boyling pot or caldron. 12His breath maketh the coales burne: for a flame goeth out of his mouth. 13In his necke remayneth strength, and labour is reiected before his face. 14The members of his bodie are ioyned: they are strong in themselues, and cannot be mooued. 15His heart is as strong as a stone, and as hard as the nether milstone. 16The mightie are afrayd of his maiestie, and for feare they faint in themselues. 17When the sword doeth touch him, he will not rise vp, nor for the speare, dart nor habergeon. 18He esteemeth yron as strawe, and brasse as rotten wood. 19The archer canot make him flee: ye stones of the sling are turned into stubble vnto him: 20The dartes are counted as strawe: and hee laugheth at the shaking of the speare. 21Sharpe stones are vnder him, and he spreadeth sharpe things vpon the myre. 22He maketh the depth to boyle like a pot, and maketh the sea like a pot of oyntment. 23He maketh a path to shine after him: one would thinke the depth as an hoare head. 24In the earth there is none like him: hee is made without feare. 25He beholdeth al hie things: he is a King ouer all the children of pride.

42Then Iob answered the Lord, and sayd, 2I knowe that thou canst doe all things, and that there is no thought hidde from thee. 3Who is hee that hideth counsell without knowledge? therefore haue I spoken that I vnderstood not, euen things too wonderfull for me, and which I knew not. 4Heare, I beseech thee, and I will speake: I will demaunde of thee, and declare thou vnto me. 5I haue heard of thee by the hearing of the eare, but now mine eye seeth thee. 6Therefore I abhorre my selfe, and repent in dust and ashes. 7Now after that the Lord had spoken these wordes vnto Iob, ye Lord also said vnto Eliphaz ye Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for yee haue not spoken of me the thing that is right, like my seruant Iob. 8Therefore take vnto you nowe seuen bullockes, and seuen rammes, and go to my seruant Iob, and offer vp for your selues a burnt offring, and my seruant Iob shall pray for you: for I wil accept him, least I should put you to shame, because ye haue not spoken of me the thing, which is right, like my seruant Iob. 9So Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the Lord had saide vnto them, and the Lord accepted Iob. 10Then the Lord turned the captiuitie of Iob, when he prayed for his friends: also the Lord gaue Iob twise so much as he had before. 11Then came vnto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had bene of his acquaintance before, and did eate bread with him in his house, and had compassion of him, and comforted him for al the euil, that the Lord had brought vpon him, and euery man gaue him a piece of money, and euery one an earing of golde. 12So the Lord blessed the last dayes of Iob more then the first: for he had foureteene thousand sheepe, and sixe thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand shee asses. 13He had also seue sonnes, and three daughters. 14And he called the name of one Iemimah, and the name of the seconde Keziah, and the name of the third Keren-happuch. 15In all the lande were no women found so faire as the daughters of Iob, and their father gaue them inheritaunce among their brethren. 16And after this liued Iob an hundreth and fourtie yeres, and sawe his sonnes, and his sonnes sonnes, euen foure generations. 17So Iob dyed, being old, and full of dayes.