1   So ^note Eliphas the Themanite gaue aunswere, and sayde:

2   May a man be profitable vnto God, as he that is wise may be profitable vnto him selfe?

3   Is it any aduauntage to the almightie that thou art righteous? or shall it profite him that thou makest thy wayes perfect?

4   Is he afrayde to reproue thee, and to step foorth with thee into iudgement?

5   Is ^note not thy wickednesse great, and thy vngratious deedes innumerable?

6   For thou ^note hast taken the pledge from thy brother for naught, and robbed the naked of their clothing.

7   To such as were weery, hast thou geuen no water to drinke, ∧ hast withdrawen bread from the hungrie.

8   But the mightie man had the earth, and he that was in auctoritie dwelt in it.

9   Thou hast sent wydowes away emptie, and the armes of the fatherlesse were broken.

10   Therefore art thou ^note compassed about with snares, ∧ sodenly vexed with feare.

11   Shouldest thou then see no ^note darknesse? shoulde not the water fludde run ouer thee?

12   Is not God on high in the heauen? beholde the heyght of the starres how hie they are.

13   Wilt thou therfore say, Tushe, howe should God know? can he iudge through the darke cloude?

14   Tushe, the cloudes couer him that he may not see, and he walketh on the top of heauen.

15   Hast thou marked the way of the world, wherin wicked men haue walked?

16   Whiche were cut downe out of time, and whose ^note foundation was as an ouerflowing ryuer.

17   Whiche sayd vnto God, Go from vs: and asked what the almightie coulde do for them?

18   He filled their houses with good things: but the counsell of the vngodly be farre from me.

19   The righteous sawe it and were glad, and the innocent laughed them to scorne.

20   Is our substaunce bewen downe? As for the remnaunt of them ^note the fire hath consumed.

21   Therefore ^note reconcile thee vnto God, and be at peace: so shall all thinges prospere with thee right well.

22   Receaue I pray thee the lawe at his mouth, and lay vp his wordes in thyne heart.

23   For if thou wilt turne to the almightie, thou shalt be buyld vp, and put all vnrighteousnes from thy dwelling.

24   Thou shalt lay vp golde [as plentyful] as the dust, and the golde of Ophir as the flyntes of the riuers.

25   Yea almightie God his owne selfe shalbe thy defence, and thou shalt haue plentie of siluer.

26   Then shalt thou haue thy delite in the almightie, and lift vp thy face vnto God.

27   Then shalt thou make thy prayer vnto him, and he shall heare thee, and thou shalt ^note kepe thy promises.

28   Thou shalt also decree a thing, and he shall establishe it vnto thee, and the ^note light shall shine in thy wayes.

29   When [the wicked] be cast downe, thou shalt say, I am lifted vp: and God shall saue the humble person.

30   The innocent shal deliuer the Ilande: ^note it shalbe preserued by the purenesse of thyne handes.

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