A   Iob also proceaded and w&ebar;te forth in his communicacion, say&ebar;ge: As truly as God lyueth (which hath taken awaye my power fro me) ∧ the Allmightie, that hath vexed my mynde: My lippes shall talke of no vanite, and my tonge shal speake no disceate, whyle my breth is in me, and as longe as the wynde (that God hath geuen me) is in my nostrels.

God forbydde, that I shulde graunte youre cause to be right. As for me, vntill myne ende come wil I neuer go fro myne innocency. My rightuous dealynge wil I kepe fast, ∧ not forsake it: For my conscience reproueth me not in all my conuersacion. Therfore myne enemy shalbe founde as the vngodly, ∧ he þt; taketh parte agaynst me, as the vnrightuous. What hope hath þe; Ypocrite, though he haue greate good, and though God geue him riches after his hertes desyre? Doth God heare him the sooner, wh&ebar; he crieth vnto him in his necessite? B   Hath he soch pleasure ∧ delyte in the Allmightie, that he darre allwaye call vpon God? I wil teach you in the name of God, ∧ the thinge that I haue of þe; Allmightie, wil I not kepe from you. Beholde, ye stonde in yo&highr; owne conceate, as though ye knew all thinges. Wherfore then do ye go aboute &wt; soch vayne wordes, say&ebar;ge: This is the porcion that the wicked shall haue of God, ∧ the heretage that Tyrauntes shal receaue of þe; Allmightie. Yf he get many childr&ebar;, they shal perish &wt; the swearde, ∧ his posterite shall haue scarcenesse of bred. Loke whom he leaueth behinde him, they shal dye ∧ be buried, ∧ no man shall haue pite of his wyddowes. C   Though he haue as moch money as the dust of the earth, ∧ raym&ebar;t as ready as the claye, he maye well prepare it: but the godly shal put it vpon him, and the innoc&ebar;t shal deale out the money. His house shal endure as the moth, ∧ as a bothe that the watch man maketh. When the rich man dyeth, he carieth nothinge with him: he is gone in þe; twincklynge of an eye. Destruccion taketh holde vp&obar; him as a water floude, ∧ þe; t&ebar;pest stealeth him awaye in the night season. A vehement wynde carieth him hence, ∧ departeth: a storme plucketh him out of his place. It ru&esset;sheth in vpon him, and spareth him not, he maye not escape from the power therof. Than clappe m&ebar; their h&obar;des at him, yee and ieast of him, wh&ebar; they loke vpon his place.

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