Iobs riches. Satan. sentences, and sheweth himselfe as a desperate man in many things, and as one that would resist God: and this is his good cause which he doth not handle well. Againe the aduersaries maintaine with many goodly arguments, that God punisheth continually according to the trespasse, grounding vpon Gods prouidence, his iustice, and mans sinnes, yet their intention is euill: for they labour to bring Iob into despaire, and so they maintaine an euill cause. Ezekiel commendeth Iob as a iust man, Ezek.14.14. and Iames setteth out his pacience for an example, Iam.5.11. CHAP. I. 1 The holinesse, riches, and care of Iob for his children. 10 Satan hath permi&esset;ion to tempt him. 13 Hee tempteth him by taking away his substance, and his children. 20 His faith and patience.

1   There was a man in the lande of ^note Vz called Iob, & this man ^note was an vpright and iust man, ^note one that feared God, and eschewed euill.

2   And he had seu&ebar; sonnes, & three daughters.

3   His ^note 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 ^note men of ^note the East.

4   And his sonnes went & banketted in their houses, euery one his day, and sent, & called their three sisters to eate and to drinke with them.

5   And when the dayes of their banketting were gone about, Iob sent, and ^note sanctified them, and rose vp early in the morning, and ^note offred burnt offrings according to the nomber of them all. For Iob thought, It may be that my sonnes haue sinned, & ^note blasphemed God in their hearts: thus did Iob ^note euery day.

6   ¶2; Nowe on a day when the ^note children of God came and stoode ^note before the Lorde, Satan ^note came also among them.

7   Then the Lord sayde vnto Satan, Whence ^note commest thou? And Satan answered the Lord, saying, ^note From compassing the earth to and fro, and from walking in it.

8   And 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?

9   Then Satan answered the Lord, and sayde, Doeth Iob feare God for ^note nought?

10   Hast thou not made ^note an hedge about him and about his house, & about all that he hath on euery side? thou hast blessed the worke of his hands, & his substance is increased in the land.

11   But stretch out now thine hand & ^note touch all that he hath, to see if he will not blaspheme thee to ^note thy face.

12   Then the Lorde sayde vnto Satan, Lo, all Iobs plagues. that he hath is in ^note thine hand: onely vpon himselfe shalt thou not stretch out thine hand. So Satan departed from the ^note presence of the Lord.

13   ¶2; And on a day, when his sonnes and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brothers house,

14   There came a messenger vnto Iob, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding in their places,

15   And the ^note 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.

16   And whiles he was yet speaking, another came, and sayde, The ^note fire of God is fallen from the heauen, & hath burnt vp the sheepe and the seruants, and deuoured them: but I onely am escaped alone to tell thee.

17   And 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.

18   And whiles he was yet speaking, came an other, and sayd, Thy ^note sonnes, and thy daughters were eating, and drinking wine in their eldest brothers house,

19   And 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.

20   Then Iob arose, and ^note rent his garment, and shaued his head, and fel downe vpon the ground, and worshipped,

21   And sayd, ^note Naked came I out of my mothers wombe, and naked shall I returne ^note thither: the Lord hath giuen, and the Lord hath taken it: ^note blessed be the Name of the Lord.

22   In all this did not Iob sinne, nor charge God ^note foolishly. CHAP. II. 6 Satan hath permi&esset;ion to afflict Iob. 9 His wife tempteth him to forsake God. 11 His three friends visite him.

1   And on a day the ^note children of God came and stood before the Lord, and ^note Satan came also among them, and stoode before the Lord.

2   Then the Lord sayde vnto Satan, Whence commest thou? And Satan answered the Lorde, and sayd, From compassing the earth to and fro, and from walking in it.

3   And the Lord sayd vnto Satan, Hast thou not considered my seruant Iob, how none is like him in the earth? ^note an vpright and iust man, one that feareth God, and escheweth euill? for yet he continueth in his vprightnesse, ^note although thou mouedst me against him, to destroy ^note him without cause.

Iobs plagues. He curseth his byrth day, and desireth death.

4   And Satan answered the Lorde, and sayde, ^note Skin for skin, and all that euer a man hath, will he giue for his life.

5   But stretch now out thine hand, and touch his ^note bones and his flesh, to see if he will not blaspheme thee to thy face.

6   Then the Lorde said vnto Satan, Lo, he is in thine hand, but saue ^note his life.

7   ¶2; So Satan departed from the presence of the Lord, and smote Iob with sore ^note boyles, from the sole of his foote vnto his crowne.

8   And he tooke a ^note potsharde to scrape him, and he sate downe among the ashes.

9   Then said his ^note wife vnto him, Doest thou ^note continue yet in thine vprightnes? ^noteBlaspheme God, and dye.

10   But he said vnto her, Thou speakest like a foolish woman: what? shall we receiue good at the hande of God, and not ^note receiue euill? In all this did not Iob sinne with his ^note lippes.

11   Nowe when Iobs three ^note 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.

12   So 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 ^note dust vpon their heads toward the heauen.

13   So 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 ^note great. CHAP. III. 1 Iob complayneth and curseth the day of his birth. 11 He desireth to dye, as though death were the ende of all mans miserie.

1   Afterward ^note Iob opened his mouth, and ^note cursed his day.

2   And Iob cryed out, and sayd,

3   Let the day ^note perish, wherein I was borne, and the night when it was sayde, There is a man childe conceiued.

4   Let that day bee darkenesse, let not God ^note regarde it from aboue, neyther let the light shine vpon it,

5   But let darkenesse, and the ^note shadowe of death staine it: let the cloude remayne vpon it, and let them make it fearefull as a bitter day.

6   Let darkenesse possesse that night, let it not be ioyned vnto the dayes of the yeere, nor let it He curseth his byrth day, and desireth death. come into the count of the moneths.

7   Yea, desolate be that night, and let no ioy be in it.

8   Let them that curse the day, (being ^note readie to renue their mourning) curse it.

9   Let the starres of that twilight be dimme through darkenesse of it: let it looke for light, but haue none: neither let it ^note see ^note the dawning of the day,

10   Because it shut not vp the dores of my mothers wombe: nor hid sorowe from mine eyes.

11    ^noteWhy died I not in the birth? or why dyed I not, when I came out of the wombe?

12   Why did the knees preuent me? and why did I sucke the breasts?

13   For so shoulde I now haue ^note lyen and bene quiet, I should haue slept then, and bene at rest,

14   With the Kings & counselers of the earth, which haue buylded themselues ^note desolate places:

15   Or with the princes that had golde, and haue filled their houses with siluer.

16   Or why was I not hid, as an vntimely birth, either as infants, which haue not seene the light?

17   The wicked ^note haue there ceased from their tyrannie, and there they that laboured valiantly, are at rest.

18   The ^note prisoners rest together, and heare not the voyce of the oppressour.

19   There are small and great, and the seruant is free from his master.

20   Wherefore is the light giuen to him that is in miserie? and ^note life vnto them that haue heauie hearts?

21   Which long for death, and if it come not, they would euen search it more then treasures:

22   Which ioy for gladnes, and reioyce, when they can finde the graue.

23   Why is the light giuen to the man whose way is ^note hid, and whom God hath hedged in?

24   For my sighing commeth before I eate, and my roarings are powred out like the water.

25   For the thing I ^note feared, is come vpon me, and the thing þt; I was afraid of, is come vnto me.

26   I had no peace, neither had I quietnesse, neither had I rest, ^note yet trouble is come. CHAP. IIII. 5 Iob is reprehended of impaciencie, 7 and vniustice, 17 and of the presumption of his owne righteousnesse.

1   Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, and sayde,

2   If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieued? but ^note who can withholde himselfe from speaking?

3   Behold, thou hast taught many, and ^note hast strengthened the wearie hands.

4   Thy wordes haue confirmed him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the weake knees.

5   But now it is come vpon thee, and thou art grieued: it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.

6   Is not this thy ^note feare, thy confidence, thy pacience, and the vprightnesse of thy wayes?

7   Remember, I pray thee: who euer perished,

The wicked punished. being an ^note innocent? or where were the vpright destroyed?

8   As I haue seene, they that ^note plow iniquitie, and sowe wickednesse, reape the same.

9   With the ^note blast of God they perish, and with the breath of his nostrels are they c&obar;sumed.

10   The roaring of the ^note Lion, and the voyce of the Lionesse, & the teeth of the Lions whelpes are broken.

11   The Lyon perisheth for lacke of pray, and the Lyons whelpes are scattered abroade.

12   But a thing was brought to me ^note secretly, and mine eare hath receiued a litle thereof.

13   In the thoughtes of þe; visions of the night, when sleepe falleth on men,

14   Feare came vpon me, & dread which made all my bones ^note to tremble.

15   And the wind passed before me, and made the heares of my flesh to stande vp.

16   Then stoode one, and I knewe not his face: an image was before mine eyes, and in ^note silence heard I a voyce, saying,

17   Shall man be more ^note iust then God? or shall a man be more pure then his maker?

18   Beholde, he founde no stedfastnesse in his Seruants, and laid follie vpon his ^note Angels.

19   Howe much more in them that dwell in houses of ^note clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which shalbe destroyed before the moth?

20   They be destroyed from ^note the morning vnto the euening: they perish for euer, ^note without regarde.

21   Doeth not their dignitie goe away with them? do they not die, & that without ^note wisdom? CHAP. V. 1. 2 Eliphaz sheweth the difference betweene the children of God and the wicked. 3 The fall of the wicked. 9 Gods power who destroyeth the wicked, and deliuereth his.

1   Call nowe, if any will ^note answere thee, and to which of the Saintes wilt thou turne?

2   Doubtlesse ^note anger killeth the foolish, and enuie slayeth the idiote.

3   I haue seene the ^note foolish well rooted, and suddenly I ^note cursed his habitation, saying,

4   His ^note children shalbe farre from saluation, and they shall be destroyed in the ^note gate, & none shall deliuer them.

5   The hungrie shall eate vp his haruest: yea, they shall take it from among the ^note thornes, and the thirstie shall drinke vp their substance.

6   For miserie commeth not foorth of the dust, ^note neither doeth affliction spring out of the earth.

7   But man is borne vnto ^note trauaile, as the sparkes flie vpwarde. The godly rewarded.

8   But I would inquire ^note at God, and turne my talke vnto God:

9   Which ^note doeth great things and vnsearchable, and marueilous things without nomber.

10   He ^note giueth raine vpon the earth, and powreth water vpon the streetes,

11   And setteth vp on hie them that be lowe, that the sorowfull may be exalted to saluation.

12   He scattereth the deuices of the craftie: so that their handes can not accomplish that which they doe enterprise.

13    ^noteHe taketh the wise in their craftinesse, and the counsel of the wicked is made foolish.

14   They meete with ^note darkenesse in the day time, and ^note grope at noone day, as in the night.

15   But he saueth the ^note poore from the sword, from their ^note mouth, and from the hande of the violent man,

16   So that the poore hath his hope, but iniquitie shall ^note stop her mouth.

17   Beholde, blessed is the man whome God correcteth: therefore refuse not thou the chastising of the Almightie.

18   For he maketh the wound, and bindeth it vp: he smiteth, and his handes make whole.

19   He shall deliuer thee in ^note sixe troubles, and in the seuenth the euill shall not touch thee.

20   In famine he shal deliuer thee from death: and in battel from the power of the sworde.

21   Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue, and thou shalt not be afraid of destruction when it commeth.

22   But thou shalt ^note laugh at destruction and dearth, and shalt not be afraide of the beast of the earth.

23   For the stones of the fielde ^note shall be in league with thee, and the beastes of the field shal be at peace with thee.

24   And thou shalt knowe, that peace shall be in thy tabernacle, and thou shalt visite thine habitation, and shalt not ^note sinne.

25   Thou shalt perceiue also, that thy seede shalbe great, and thy posteritie as the grasse of the earth.

26   Thou shalt goe to thy graue in ^note a ful age, as a ricke of corne commeth in due season into the barne.

27   Lo, ^note thus haue we inquired of it, and so it is: heare this and knowe it for thy selfe. CHAP. VI. 1 Iob answereth, that his paine is more grieuous then his fault. 8 He wisheth death. 14 He complaineth of his friendes.

1   Bvt Iob answered, and said,

2   Oh that my griefe were well weighed, and my miseries were layed together in the ^note balance.

3   For it woulde be nowe heauier then the sande of the sea: therefore my wordes are ^note swallowed vp.

4   For the arrowes of the Almightie are in me, the venime whereof doeth drinke vp my spirit, and the terrours of God ^note fight against me.

Iob complaineth of his friendes.

5   Doeth the ^note wilde asse bray when he hath grasse? or loweth the oxe when he hath fodder?

6   That which is ^note vnsauerie, shall it be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egge?

7   Such things as my soule refused to touch, as were sorowes, are my meate.

8   Oh that I might haue my ^note desire, and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!

9   That is, that God would destroy me: that he would let his hand go, and cut me off.

10   Then should I yet haue comfort, (though I burne with sorowe, let him not spare) ^note because I haue not denyed the wordes of the Holy one.

11   What power haue I that I should endure? or what is mine ^note end, if I should prolong my life?

12   Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brasse?

13   Is it not so, that there is in me no ^note helpe? and that ^note strength is taken from me?

14   He that is in miserie, ought to be comforted of his neighbour: but men haue forsaken the feare of the Almightie.

15   My brethr&ebar; haue deceiued me as a ^note brook, and as the rising of the riuers they passe away.

16   Which are blackish with yee, and wherein the snowe is hid.

17   But in time they are dryed vp with heate and are consumed: and when it is hote they faile out of their places,

18   Or they depart from their way and course, yea, they vanish and perish.

19   They that go to Tema, ^note considered them, and they that goe to Sheba, waited for them.

20   But they were confounded: when they hoped, they came thither and were ashamed.

21   Surely nowe are ye like ^note vnto it: ye haue seene my fearefull plague, and are afraide.

22   Was it because I said, Bring vnto me? or giue a rewarde to me of your ^note substance?

23   And deliuer me from the enemies hande, or ransome me out of the hand of tyrants?

24   Teach me, and I wil ^note hold my tongue: & cause me to vnderstande, wherein I haue erred.

25   Howe ^note stedfast are the wordes of righteousnes? and what can any of you iustly reproue?

26   Doe ye imagine to reproue ^note wordes, that the talke of the afflicted should be as the winde?

27   Ye make your wrath to fall vpon the fatherlesse, and dig a pit for your friende.

28   Nowe therefore be content to ^note looke vpon me: for I will not lie before your face.

29   Turne, 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? CHAP. VII. 1 Iob sheweth the shortnesse and miserie of mans life.

1   Is there not an appointed time to man vpon earth? and are not his dayes as the dayes of an ^note hyreling? Mans miserie.

2   As a seruant longeth for the shadowe, and as an hyreling looketh for the ende of his worke,

3   So haue I had as an inheritance the ^note moneths of vanitie, and painefull nights haue bene appointed vnto me.

4   If I layed me downe, I sayde, When shall I arise? and measuring the euening I am euen full with tossing to and fro vnto the dawning of the day.

5   My flesh is ^note clothed with wormes and filthinesse of the dust: my skinne is rent, and become horrible.

6   My dayes are swifter then ^note a weauers shittle, and they are spent without hope.

7   Remember that my life is but a wind, and that mine eye shall not returne to see pleasure.

8   The eye that hath seene me, shall see me no more: thine eyes are vpon me, and I shall be no longer.

9    ^noteAs the cloude vanisheth and goeth away, so he that goeth downe to the graue, shall ^note come vp no more.

10   He shall returne no more to his house, neither shall his place knowe him any more.

11   Therefore I will not ^note spare my mouth, but will speake in the trouble of my spirite, and muse in the bitternesse of my minde.

12   Am I a sea ^note or a whalefish, that thou keepest me in warde?

13   When I say, My couch shal relieue me, and my bed shall bring comfort in my meditation,

14   Then fearest thou me ^note with dreames, and astonishest me with visions.

15   Therefore my soule ^note chuseth rather to be strangled and to die, then to be in my bones.

16   I abhorre it, I shall not liue alway: ^note spare me then, for my dayes are but vanitie.

17   What is man, that thou ^note doest magnifie him, and that thou settest thine heart vpon him?

18   And doest visite him euery morning, and tryest him euery moment?

19   Howe long will it be yer thou depart from me? thou wilt not let me alone whiles I may swallowe my spettle.

20   I haue ^note sinned, what shal I do vnto thee? O thou preseruer of m&ebar;, why hast thou set me as a marke against thee, so that I am a burden vnto my selfe?

21   And 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 ^note not be found. CHAP. VIII. 1 Bildad sheweth that Iob is a sinner, because God punisheth the wicked and preserueth the good.

1   Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and saide,

2   Howe long wilt thou talke of these things? and howe long shall the wordes of thy mouth ^note be as a mightie winde?

3   Doeth God peruert iudgement? or doeth the Almightie subuert iustice?

4   If thy sonnes haue sinned against him, and he hath sent them into the place of their ^note iniquitie,

Gods power.

5   Yet if thou ^note wilt early seeke vnto God, and pray to the Almightie,

6   If thou be pure and vpright, then surely hee will awake vp vnto thee, and he wil make the habitation of thy righteousnesse prosperous.

7   And though thy beginning ^note be small, yet thy latter ende shall greatly encrease.

8    ^noteInquire therefore, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thy selfe to search of their fathers.

9   (For we are but ^note of yesterday, and are ignorant: for our dayes vpon earth are but a shadowe)

10   Shall not they teach thee and tell thee, and vtter the wordes of their heart?

11   Can a rush ^note grow without myre? or can þe; grasse growe without water?

12   Though it were in greene and not cutte downe, yet shall it wither before any other herbe.

13   So are the paths of al that forget God, and the hypocrites hope shall perish.

14   His confidence also shalbe cut off, and his trust shalbe as the house of a ^note spyder.

15   He shall leane vpon his house, but it shall not stand: he shal holde him fast by it, yet shall it not endure.

16   The ^note tree is greene before the sunne, and the branches spread ouer the garden thereof.

17   The rootes thereof are wrapped about the fountaine, and are folden about þe; house of stones.

18   If any plucke it from his place, and it ^note denie, saying, I haue not seene thee,

19   Beholde, it will reioyce ^note by this meanes, that it may growe in another molde.

20   Behold, God will not cast away an vpright man, neither will he take the wicked by the hand,

21   Till he haue filled thy mouth with ^note laughter, and thy lippes with ioy.

22   They that hate thee, shall be clothed with shame, and the dwelling of the wicked shall not remaine. CHAP. IX. 1 Iob declared the mightie power of God, and that mans righteousnesse is nothing.

1   Then Iob answered, and sayd,

2   I knowe verily that it is so: for howe should man compared vnto God, be ^note iustified?

3   If I would dispute with him, hee could not answere him one thing of a ^note thousand.

4   He is wise in heart, & mighty in str&ebar;gth: who hath bene fierce against him & hath prospered?

5   He remoueth the mountaines, and they feele not when he ouerthroweth them in his wrath.

6   Hee ^note remooueth the earth out of her place, that the pillars thereof doe shake.

7   He commandeth the sunne, & it riseth not: hee closeth vp the starres, as vnder a signet.

8   Hee himselfe alone spreadeth out the heauens, and walketh vpon the height of the sea.

9   He maketh the starres ^note Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the climates of the South.

10   He doeth great things, and vnsearcheable: yea, marueilous things without nomber.

11   Lo, when he goeth ^note by me, I see him not: Mans righteousnesse. and when he passeth by, I perceiue him not.

12   Behold, when he taketh a pray, ^note who can make him to restore it? who shall say vnto him, What doest thou?

13   God ^note will not withdrawe his anger, and the most mightie helpes ^note doe stoupe vnder him.

14   Howe much lesse shall I answere him? or howe should I finde out ^note my words with him?

15   For though I were iust, yet could I ^note not answere, but I would make supplicati&obar; to my Iudge.

16   If I ^note cry, and he answere me, yet woulde I not beleeue, that he heard my voyce.

17   For he destroyeth mee with a tempest, and woundeth me ^note without cause.

18   He wil not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitternesse.

19   If we speake of strength, behold, he is ^note str&obar;g: if we speake of iudgement, who shall bring me in to pleade?

20   If I woulde iustifie my selfe, mine owne mouth shall condemne mee: ^note if I would be perfite, he shall iudge me wicked.

21   Though I were perfite, yet I knowe not my soule: therefore abhorre I my life.

22   This is one point: therefore I said, Hee destroyeth the ^note perfite and the wicked.

23   If the scourge should sudd&ebar;ly ^note slay, should God ^note laugh at the punishment of the innocent?

24   The earth is giuen into the hand of þe; wicked: he ^note couereth the faces of the iudges therof: if not, where ^note is he? or who is he?

25   My dayes haue bene more swift then a post: they haue fled, and haue seene no good thing.

26   They are passed as &wt; the most swift ships, and as the eagle that flyeth to the pray.

27   If ^note I say, I wil forget my complaynt, I will cease from my wrath, and comfort mee,

28   Then I am afrayd of all my sorowes, knowing that thou wilt not iudge me innocent.

29   If I be wicked, why ^note labour I thus in vaine?

30   If I ^note wash my selfe with snowe water, and purge mine hands most cleane,

31   Yet shalt thou plunge mee in the pit, and mine owne ^note clothes shal make me filthie.

32   For he is not a man as I am, that I shoulde answere him, if we come together to iudgement.

33   Neyther is there any vmpire ^note that might lay his hand vpon vs both.

34   Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his feare astonish me:

35   Then will I speake, & feare him not: ^note but because I am not so, I holde me still. CHAP. X. 1 Iob is wearie of his life, and setteth out his fragilitie before God. 20 He desireth him to stay his hand. 22 A description of death.

1   My soule is cut off ^note though I liue: I wil leaue my ^note complaint vpon my selfe, & wil speake

Mans creation. in the bitternesse of my soule.

2   I will say vnto God, ^note Condemne mee not: shew me, wherefore thou contendest with mee.

3   Thinkest thou it ^note good to oppresse me, and to cast off the ^note labour of thine handes, and to fauour the ^note counsel of the wicked?

4   Hast thou ^note carnall eyes? or doest thou see as man seeth?

5   Are thy dayes as mans ^note dayes? or thy yeres, as the time of man,

6   That thou inquirest of mine iniquitie, and searchest out my sinne?

7   Thou knowest that I can not do ^note wickedly: for none can deliuer me out of thine hand.

8   Thine ^note handes haue made me, and fashioned mee wholy rounde about, and wilt thou destroy me?

9   Rem&ebar;ber, I pray thee, that thou hast made me as ^note the clay, and wilt thou bring me into dust againe?

10   Hast thou not powred me out as milke? & turned me to cruds like cheese?

11   Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and ioyned me together with bones and sinewes.

12   Thou hast giuen me life, & ^note grace: & thy ^note visitation hath preserued my spirit.

13   Though thou hast hid these things in thine heart, yet I knowe ^note that it is so with thee.

14   If I haue sinned, then thou wilt streightly looke vnto me, and wilt not holde mee giltlesse of mine iniquitie.

15   If I haue done wickedly, wo vnto me: if I haue done righteously, I will not ^note lift vp mine head, being full of confusion, because I see mine affliction.

16   But let it increase: hunt thou me as a lyon: returne and shew thy selfe ^note marueilous vpon me.

17   Thou renuest thy plagues against me, and thou increasest thy wrath against me: ^note changes and armies of sorowes are against me.

18   Wherfore then hast thou brought me out of the wombe? Oh that I had perished, and that none eye had seene me!

19   And that I were as I had not bene, but brought from the wombe to the graue!

20   Are not my dayes fewe? let him ^note cease, and leaue off from me, that I may take a litle comfort,

21   Before I goe and shall not ^note returne, euen to the land of darkenesse and shadow of death:

22   Into a land, I say, darke as darknes it selfe, and into the shadow of death, where is none ^note order, but the light is there as darkenesse. CHAP. XI. 1 Iob is vniustly reprehended of Zophar. 7 God is incomprehensible. 14 He is mercifull to the repentant. 18 Their assurance that liue godly.

1   Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and sayde,

2   Should not the multitude of wordes be answered? or should a great ^note talker be iustified?

3   Should men holde their peace at thy lyes? & when thou mockest others, shall none make thee The perfection of God. ashamed?

4   For thou hast sayde, ^note My doctrine is pure, and I am cleane in thine eyes.

5   But, oh that God would speake and open his lippes against thee!

6   That he might shewe thee the ^note secretes of wisedome, howe thou hast deserued double, according to right: know therefore that God hath forgotten thee for thine iniquitie.

7   Canst thou by searching finde out God? canst thou finde out þe; Almighty to his perfection?

8   The heauens are hie, what canst thou doe? ^note it is deeper then the hel, how canst thou know it?

9   The measure thereof is longer then the earth, and it is broader then the sea.

10   If hee cut off and ^note shut vp, or gather together, who can turne him backe?

11   For hee knoweth vaine men, and seeth iniquitie, and him that vnderstandeth nothing.

12   Yet vaine man would be wise, though man new borne is like a wilde asse ^note colte.

13   If thou ^note prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him:

14   If iniquitie be in thine ^note hand, put it farre away, and let no wickednesse dwell in thy Tabernacle.

15   Th&ebar; truely shalt thou lift vp thy ^note face without spot, and shalt be stable, and shalt not feare.

16   But thou shalt forget thy miserie, and remember it as waters that are past.

17   Thine age also shall appeare more cleare then the noone day: thou shalt shine and bee as the morning.

18   And thou shalt bee bolde, because there is hope: and thou shalt digge pittes, and shalt lye downe safely.

19    ^noteFor when thou takest thy rest, none shal make thee afraide: yea, many shall make sute vnto thee.

20   But the eyes ^note of the wicked shall faile, and their refuge shall perish, and their hope shalbe sorow of minde. CHAP. XII. 1 Iob accuseth his friends of ignorance. 7 Hee declareth the might, and power of God, 17 And howe hee changeth the course of things.

1   Then Iob answered, and sayde,

2   In deede because that ye are the people onely, ^note wisedome must dye with you.

3   But I haue vnderstanding aswel as you, and am not inferior vnto you: yea, who knoweth not such things?

4    ^noteI am ^note as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth vpon God, and he ^note heareth him: the iust and the vpright is laughed to scorne.

5    ^noteHee that is readie to fall, is as a lampe despised in the opinion of the riche.

6   The tabernacles of robbers doe prosper, and they are in safetie, that prouoke God, ^note whome God hath enriched with his hand.

7   Aske now the beasts, ^note and they shall teach

The wisedome of God. thee, and the foules of the heauen, and they shall tell thee:

8   Or speake to the earth, and it shall shewe thee: or the fishes of the sea, and they shall declare vnto thee.

9   Who is ignorant of all these, but that the hande of the Lord hath made these?

10   In whose hande is the soule of euery liuing thing, and the breath of all ^note mankinde.

11   Doeth not the eares ^note discerne the words? and the mouth taste meate for it selfe?

12   Among the ^note ancient is wisedome, and in the length of dayes is vnderstanding.

13   With him is wisedome and strength: he hath counsell and vnderstanding.

14   Beholde, he will breake downe, and it can not be built: he shutteth a man vp, and he can not be loosed.

15   Beholde, he withholdeth the waters, and they drie vp: but when he sendeth them out, they destroy the earth.

16   With him is strength and wisedome: hee that is deceiued, and that ^note deceiueth, are his.

17   He causeth the counsellers to goe as spoyled, and maketh the iudges fooles.

18    ^noteHe looseth ^note the collar of Kings, and girdeth their loynes with a girdle.

19   He leadeth away the princes as a pray, and ouerthroweth the mightie.

20   He taketh away the speach from the ^note faithfull counsellers, and taketh away the iudgement of the ancient.

21   He powreth contempt vpon princes, and maketh the strength of the mightie weake.

22   He discouereth the deepe places from their darkenesse, and bringeth foorth the shadowe of death to light.

23   He ^note increaseth the people, and destroyeth them: he inlargeth the nations, and bringeth them in againe.

24   He taketh away the heartes of th&ebar; that are the chiefe ouer the people of the earth, & maketh them to wander in the wildernes out of the way.

25   They grope in the darke without light: and he maketh th&ebar; to stagger like a drunken m&abar;. CHAP. XIII. 1 Iob compareth his knowledge with the experience of his friendes. 16 The penitent shalbe saued, and the hypocrite condemned. 20 He prayeth vnto God that he woulde not handle him rigorously.

1   Loe, mine eye hath seene all this: mine eare hath heard, and vnderstande it.

2   I knowe also as much as you knowe: I am not inferiour vnto you.

3   But I will speake to the Almightie, and I desire ^note to dispute with God.

4   For in deede ye forge lyes, and all you are ^note physitions of no value.

5   Oh, that you woulde holde your tongue, that it might be imputed to you for wisedome!

6   Nowe heare my disputation, and giue eare to the arguments of my lips.

7   Will ye speake ^note wickedly for Gods defence, and talke deceitfully for his cause?

8   Will ye accept his person? or will ye contende for God? Iobs confidence.

9   Is it well that he shoulde seeke of you? will you make a lye for him, as one lyeth for a man?

10   He will surely reprooue you, if ye doe secretly accept any person.

11   Shall not his excellencie make you afraid? and his feare fall vpon you?

12   Your ^note memories may be compared vnto ashes, and your bodyes to bodyes of clay.

13   Holde your tongues in my presence, that I may speake, and let come vpon what will.

14   Wherefore doe I ^note take my flesh in my teeth, and put my soule in mine hande?

15   Loe, though he slay me, yet will I trust in him, and I will reprooue my wayes in his sight.

16   He shalbe my saluation also: for the ^note hypocrite shall not come before him.

17   Heare diligently my wordes, and marke my talke.

18   Beholde nowe: if I prepare me to iudgement, I knowe that I shalbe ^note iustified.

19   Who is he, that will pleade ^note with me? for if I nowe holde my tongue, I ^note dye.

20   But doe not these two things vnto me: then will I not hide my selfe from thee.

21    ^noteWithdrawe thine hande from me, and let not thy feare make me afraide.

22   Then call thou, and I will answere: or let me speake, and answere thou me.

23   Howe many are ^note mine iniquities & sinnes? shewe me my rebellion, and my sinne.

24   Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and takest me for thine enemie?

25   Wilt thou breake a leafe driuen to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the drie stubble?

26   For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possesse ^note the iniquities of my youth.

27   Thou puttest my feete also in the ^note stocks, and lookest narrowly vnto all my pathes, and makest the print thereof in þe; ^note heeles of my feet.

28   Such one consumeth like a rotten thing, and as a garment that is motheaten. CHAP. XIIII. 1 Iob describeth the shortnes and miserie of the life of man. 14 Hope susteineth the godly. 22 The condition of mans life.

1   Man ^note that is borne of woman, is of short continuance, and full of trouble.

2   He shooteth foorth as a flowre, and is cut downe: he vanisheth also as ^note a shadowe, and continueth not.

3   And yet thou openest thine eyes vpon such ^note one, and causest me to enter into iudgement with thee.

4    ^noteWho can bring a cleane thing out of filthinesse? there is not one.

5   Are not his dayes determined? the n&obar;ber of his moneths are with thee: thou hast appointed his boundes, which he can not passe.

6   Turne from him that he may cease vntill his desired day, ^note as an hyreling.

7   For there is hope of a tree, if it bee cut downe, that it will yet sproute, and the branches thereof will not cease.

8   Though the roote of it waxe olde in the earth, & the stocke thereof be dead in þe; ground,

9   Yet by the sent of water it will bud, and

The condition of mans life. bring foorth boughes like a plant.

10    ^noteBut man is sicke, and dyeth, and man perisheth, and where is he?

11   As the waters passe from the sea, and as the flood decayeth and dryeth vp,

12   So man sleepeth and riseth not: for hee shall not wake againe, nor be raised from his sleepe till the heauen be no more.

13   Oh that thou wouldest hide me in the graue, and keepe me secret, vntill thy ^note wrath were past, and wouldest giue me terme, and ^note remember me.

14   If a man die, shall he liue againe? All the dayes of mine appointed time will I waite, till ^note my changing shall come.

15   Thou shalt call me, and I shall ^note answere thee: thou louest the worke of thine own hands.

16   But nowe thou ^note nombrest my steppes, and doest not delay my sinnes.

17   Mine iniquitie is sealed vp, as in a ^note bagge, and thou addest vnto my wickednesse.

18   And surely as the mountaine that falleth, commeth to nought, and the ^note rocke that is remooued from his place:

19   As the water breaketh the stones, when thou ouerflowest the things which growe in the dust of þe; earth: so thou destroyest þe; hope of man.

20   Thou preuailest alway against him, so that he passeth away: he changeth his face when thou castest him away.

21   And he knoweth not if his sonnes shall be honourable, neither shall he vnderstand concerning them, whether they shalbe of lowe degree,

22   But while his ^note flesh is vpon him, he shall be sorowfull, and while his soule is in him, it shal mourne. CHAP. XV. 1 Eliphaz reprehendeth Iob, because he ascribeth wisedome, and purenesse to him selfe. 16 He describeth the curse that falleth on the wicked, reckoning Iob to be one of the nomber.

1   Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and saide,

2   Shal a wise man speake words of þe; ^note winde, and fill his bellie ^note with the East winde?

3   Shall he dispute with wordes not comely? or with talke that is not profitable?

4   Surely thou hast cast off ^note feare, and restrainest prayer before God.

5   For thy mouth declareth thine iniquitie, seeing thou hast chosen ^note þe; tongue of the crafty.

6   Thine owne mouth condemneth thee, and not I, and thy lippes testifie against thee.

7   Art thou the ^note first man, that was borne? and wast thou made before the hils?

8   Hast thou heard the secret counsell of God, and doest thou restraine wisedome ^note to thee?

9   What knowest thou that we knowe not? and vnderstandest that is not in vs?

10   With vs are both auncient and very aged men, farre older then thy father.

11   Seeme the consolations of God ^note smal vnto thee? is this thing strange vnto thee?

12   Why doeth thine heart ^note take thee away, and what doe thine eyes meane,

13   That thou answerest to God ^note at thy pleasure, and bringest such wordes out of thy mouth? The punishment of the wicked.

14   What is man, that he should be cleane? and he that is borne of woman, that he shoulde ^note be iust?

15   Beholde, he founde no stedfastnesse in his Saintes: yea, the heauens are not cleane in his sight.

16   How much more is man abominable, and filthie, which ^note drinketh iniquitie like water?

17   I will tell thee: heare me, and I will declare that which I haue seene:

18   Which wise men haue tolde, as they haue heard of their fathers, and haue not kept it secret:

19   To whome alone the land was ^note giuen and no stranger passed through them.

20   The wicked man is continually as one that traueileth of childe, and the nomber ^note of yeeres is hid from the tyrant.

21   A sounde of feare is in his eares, and in his prosperitie the destroyer shall come vpon him.

22   He beleeueth not to returne out of ^note darknesse: for he seeth the sworde before him.

23   He wandreth ^note to and fro for bread where he may: he knoweth that the day of darkenesse is prepared at hande.

24   Affliction and ^note anguish shall make him afraide: they shall preuaile against him as a King readie to the battell.

25   For he hath stretched out his hand against God, and made him selfe strong against the Almightie.

26   Therefore God shall runne vpon him, euen vpon his necke, and against the most thicke part of his shielde.

27   Because he hath couered his face with ^note his fatnesse, and hath colloppes in his flancke.

28   Though he dwell ^note in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, but are become heapes,

29   He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the ^note perfection thereof in the earth.

30   He shall neuer depart out of darkenesse: the flame shall drie vp his branches, and he shall goe away with the breath of his mouth.

31   He ^note beleeueth not that he erreth in vanitie: therefore vanitie shalbe his change.

32   His branch shall not be greene, but shall be cut off before his day.

33   God shall destroy him as the vine her sower ^note grape, and shall cast him off, as the oliue doeth her flowre.

34   For the congregation of the hypocrite shalbe desolate, and fire shall deuoure the houses of ^note bribes.

35   For they ^note conceiue mischiefe and bring foorth vanitie, and their bellie hath prepared deceite. CHAP. XVI. 1 Iob mooued by the importunacie of his friendes, 7 Counteth in what extremitie he is, 19 And taketh God witnes of his innocencie.

1   Bvt Iob answered, and said,

2   I haue oft times heard such things: miserable comforters are ye all.

3   Shall there be none ende of wordes of

Iobs afflictions. ^note winde? or what maketh thee bold so to ^note answere?

4   I could also speake as yee doe: (but woulde God your ^note soule were in my soules stead) I could keepe you company in speaking, and could ^note shake mine head at you,

5   But I woulde strengthen you ^note with my mouth, and the comfort of my lips should asswage your sorowe.

6   Though I speake, my sorow ^note can not be asswaged: though I cease, what release haue I?

7   But now ^note hee maketh mee wearie: O God, thou hast made all my ^note congregation desolate,

8   And hast made me full of ^note wrinkles which is a witnesse thereof, and my leannes ryseth vp in me, testifying the same in my face.

9    ^noteHis wrath hath torne me, and hee hateth me, and gnasheth vpon mee with his teeth: mine enemie hath sharpened his eyes against me.

10   They haue opened their mouthes vpon me, and smitten me on the ^note cheeke in reproch; they gather themselues together against me.

11   God hath deliuered me to the vniust, and hath made mee to turne out of the way by the ^note hands of the wicked.

12   I 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.

13   His ^note archers compasse mee rounde about: he cutteth my reines, and doth not spare, & powreth my gall ^note vpon the ground.

14   He hath broken me with one breaking vpon another, and runneth vpon me like a gyant.

15   I haue sowed a sackcloth vpon my skinne, and haue abased mine ^note horne vnto the dust.

16   My face is withered with weeping, and the shadow of death is vpon mine eyes,

17   Though there be no wickednesse in ^note mine hands, and my prayer ^note be pure.

18   O earth, couer not thou my ^note blood, & let my crying finde no place.

19   For lo, now my ^note witnesse is in the heauen, and my record is on hie.

20   My friends ^note speake eloquently against me: but mine eye powreth out teares vnto God.

21   Oh that a man might ^note pleade with God, as man with his neighbour!

22   For the yeeres accounted come, and I shal go the way, whence I shall not returne. CHAP. XVII. 1 Iob sayth that he consumeth away, and yet doeth paciently abide it. 10 He exhorteth his friends to repentance, 13 shewing that he looketh but for death.

1   My breath is corrupt: my dayes are cut off, & the graue is readie for me.

2   There are none but ^note mockers with mee, & mine eye continueth in ^note their bitternesse.

3    ^noteLay downe nowe and put me in suretie for thee: who is hee, that ^note will touch mine hand?

4   For thou hast hid their heart from ^note vnderstanding: therefore shalt thou not set them vp on hie. No hope in prosperitie.

5    ^noteFor the eyes of his children shall faile, that speaketh flattery to his friends.

6   Hee hath also made mee a ^note byword of the people, and I am as a Tabret ^note before them.

7   Mine eye therefore is dimme for griefe, and all my strength is like a shadowe.

8   The righteous shalbe astonied at ^note this, and the innocent shalbe moued against þe; hypocrite.

9   But the righteous wil holde his ^note way, & he whose hands are pure, shall increase his strength.

10   All ^note you therefore turne you, and come nowe, and I shall not finde one wise among you.

11   My dayes are past, mine enterprises are broken, and the thoughts of mine heart

12   Haue changed the ^note nyght for the day, and the light that approched, for darkenesse.

13   Though I hope, ^note yet the graue shall bee mine house, and I shal make my bed in the darke.

14   I shall say to corruption, Thou art my ^note father, and to the worme, Thou art my mother and my sister.

15   Where is then now mine hope? or who shal consider the thing, that I hoped for?

16    ^noteThey shal goe downe into the bottome of the pit: surely it shall lye together in the dust. CHAP. XVIII. 1 Bildad rehearseth the paines of the vnfaithfull and wicked.

1   Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

2   When will ^note yee make an ende of your words? ^note cause vs to vnderstande, and then wee will speake.

3   Wherefore are wee counted as beastes, and are vile in your sight?

4   Thou art ^note as one that teareth his soule in his anger. Shall the ^note earth bee forsaken for thy sake? or the rocke remoued out of his place?

5   Yea, the light of the wicked shalbe ^note quenched, and the sparke of his fire shall not shine.

6   The light shalbe darke in his dwelling, and his candle shalbe put out with him.

7   The steps of his strength shalbe restrained, and his owne counsell shall cast him downe.

8   For hee is taken in the net by his feete, and he ^note walketh vpon the snares.

9   The grenne shall take him by the heele, and the theefe shall come vpon him.

10   A snare is layed for him in the ground, and a trappe for him in the way.

11   Fearefulnesse shall make him afrayde on euery side, and shall driue him to his feete.

12   His strength shalbe ^note famine: and destruction shalbe readie at his side.

13   It shall deuoure the inner partes of his skinne, and the ^note first borne of death shall deuoure his strength.

14   His hope shalbe rooted out of his dwelling, & shal cause him to go to the ^note King of feare.

15   Feare shall dwell in his house (because it is not ^note his) ^note and brimstone shalbe scattered vpon his habitation.

16   His rootes shalbe dryed vp beneath, and aboue shall his branche be cut downe.

17   His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall haue no name in the streete.

Hope of the resurrection.

18   They shall driue him out of the ^note light vnto darkenesse, and chase him out of the world.

19   Hee shall neither haue sonne nor nephewe among his people, nor any posteritie in his dwellings.

20   The posteritie shalbe astonied at his ^note day, and feare shall come vpon the ancient.

21   Surely such are the habitations of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God. CHAP. XIX. 2 Iob reprooueth his friends, 15 and reciteth his miseries & grieuous paines. 25 Hee assureth himselfe of the generall resurrection.

1   Bvt Iob answered, and said,

2   Howe long will yee vexe my soule, and torment me with wordes?

3   Ye haue now ^note ten times reproched me, and are not ashamed: ye are impudent toward mee.

4   And though I had in deede erred, mine errour ^note remaineth with me.

5   But in deede if ye will aduance your selues against me, and rebuke me for my reproche,

6   Know nowe, that God hath ^note ouerthrowen me, and hath compassed me with his net.

7   Beholde, I crie out of violence, but I haue none answere: I crie, but there is no iudgement.

8   Hee hath hedged vp my way that I cannot ^note passe, and he hath set darkenesse in my paths.

9   Hee hath spoyled mee of mine honour, and taken the ^note crowne away from mine head.

10   He hath destroyed mee on euery side and I am gone: and he hath remoued mine hope like ^note a tree.

11   And he hath kindled his wrath against me, and counteth mee as one of his enemies.

12   His ^note armies came together, & made their way vpon me, and camped about my tabernacle.

13   He hath remooued my brethr&ebar; farre from me, and also mine acquaintance were strangers vnto me.

14   My neighbours haue forsaken me, and my familiars haue forgotten me.

15    ^noteThey that dwel in mine house, and my maydes tooke me for a stranger: for I was a stranger in their sight.

16   I called my seruant, but he would not answere, though I prayed him with my mouth.

17   My breath was strange vnto my wife, though I prayed her for the childrens sake of mine ^note owne body.

18   The wicked also despised mee, and when I rose, they spake against me.

19   All my secret friends abhorred me, & they whome I loued, are turned against me.

20   My bone ^note cleaueth to my skinne and to my flesh, and I haue escaped with the ^note skinne of my teeth.

21   Haue pitie vpon me: haue ^note pitie vpon me, (O yee my friendes) for the hande of God hath touched me.

22   Why do ye persecute me, as ^note God? & are not satisfied with my ^note flesh?

23   Oh that my wordes were nowe written! oh that they were written euen in a booke,

24   And grauen with ^note an yron pen in lead, or in stone for euer!

25   For I am sure, that my ^note Redeemer liueth, and he shall stand the last on the earth.

26   And though after my skin wormes destroy The plagues of the wicked. this bodie, yet shall I see God ^note in my flesh.

27   Whome I my selfe shall see, and mine eyes shall beholde, and none other for me, though my reynes are consumed within me.

28   But yee sayde, Why is hee persecuted? And there was a ^note deepe matter in me.

29   Be ye afraide of the sworde: for the sworde will be ^note auenged of wickednesse, that yee may knowe that there is a iudgement. CHAP. XX. 1 Zophar sheweth, that the wicked and the couetous shall haue a short ende, 22 though for a time they florish.

1   Then answered Zophar the Naamathite and saide,

2   Doubtles my thoughts cause me to answere, and therefore I make haste.

3   I haue heard ^note the correction of my reproch: therefore the spirite of mine vnderstanding causeth me to answere.

4   Knowest thou not this of olde? and since God placed man vpon the earth,

5   That the reioycing of the wicked is short, and that the ioy of hypocrites is but a moment?

6   Though ^note his excellencie mount vp to the heauen, and his head reache vnto the cloudes,

7   Yet shall hee perish for euer, like his dung, and they which haue seene him, shall say, Where is hee?

8   He shal flee away as a dreame, and they shal not finde him, and shall passe away as a vision of the night,

9   So that the eye which had seene him, shall do so no more, & his place shal see him no more.

10   His children shall ^note flatter the poore, & his hands shall ^note restore his substance.

11   His bones are full of the sinne of his youth, and ^note it shal lie downe with him in the dust.

12   When wickednesse ^note was sweete in his mouth, and he hid it vnder his tongue,

13   And fauoured it, and would not forsake it, but kept it close in his mouth,

14   Then his meat in his bowels was turned: the gall of Aspes was in the middes of him.

15   He hath deuoured substance, and hee shall vomit it: for God shall drawe it out of his bellie.

16   He shall sucke the ^note gall of Aspes, and the vipers tongue shall slay him.

17   He shall not see the ^note riuers, nor the floods and streames of honie and butter.

18   He shal restore the labour, and shall deuoure no more: euen according to the substance shalbe his exchange, ^note & he shal enioy it no more.

19   For he hath vndone many: he hath forsaken the poore, and hath spoyled houses which he builded not.

20   Surely he shall feele no quietnes in his bodie, neither shall he reserue of þt; which he desired.

21   There shall none of his ^note meate bee left: therefore none shal hope for his goods.

22   When he shalbe filled with his abundance, he shalbe in paine, and the hand ^note of all the wicked shall assaile him.

The prosperitie of the wicked.

23   He shall be about to fill his belly, but God shall sende vpon him his fierce wrath, ^note and shall cause to rayne vpon him, euen vpon his meate.

24   He shall flee from the yron weapons, and the bow of steele shal strike him through.

25   The arrowe is drawen out, and commeth forth of the ^note body, & shineth of his gall, so feare commeth vpon him.

26    ^noteAll darkenes shalbe hid in his secret places: the fire that is not ^note blowen, shall deuoure him, and that which remaineth in his tabernacle, shalbe destroyed.

27   The heauen shal declare his wickednes, & the earth shal rise vp against him.

28   The ^note increase of his house shal go away: it shal flow away in the day of his wrath.

29   This is the portion of the wicked man fr&obar; ^note God, and the heritage that he shal haue of God for his ^note wordes. CHAP. XXI. 7 Iob declareth how the prosperitie of the wicked maketh them proude, 15 In so much that they blaspheme God. 16 Their destruction is at hand. 23 None ought to be iudged wicked for affliction, neither good for prosperitie.

1   Bvt Iob answered, and sayd,

2   Heare diligently my wordes, and this ^note shalbe in stead of your consolations.

3   Suffer mee, that I may speake, and when I haue spoken, mocke on.

4   Doe I direct my talke to man? If it ^note were so, how should not my spirit be troubled?

5   Marke mee, and be abashed, and lay your hand vpon your ^note mouth.

6   Euen when I remember, I am afrayde, and feare taketh hold on my flesh.

7   Wherefore do the wicked ^note liue, and waxe olde, and grow in wealth?

8   Their seede is established in their sight with them, and their generation before their eyes.

9   Their houses are peaceable without feare, and the rod of God is not vpon them.

10   Their bullocke gendreth, and fayleth not: their cow calueth, and casteth not her calfe.

11   They send forth their children ^note like sheepe, and their sonnes dance.

12   They take the tabret & harpe, and reioyce in the sound of the organs.

13   They spend their dayes in wealth, and suddenly ^note they go downe to the graue.

14   They say also vnto God, Depart fr&obar; vs: for we desire not the ^note knowledge of thy wayes.

15   Who is the Almightie, that we should serue him? and what profit should we haue, if we should pray vnto him?

16   Lo, their wealth is not in their ^note hand: therfore let the counsell of the wicked ^note bee farre from me.

17   How oft shal the candle of the wicked be put out? and their destruction come vpon them? he wil deuide their liues in his wrath.

18   They shall be as stubble before the winde, and as chaffe that the storme carieth away.

19   God wil lay vp the sorowe of the father for his children: when he rewardeth him, hee shall knowe it.

20    ^noteHis eyes shall see his destruction, and he Iob accused of vnmercifulnes. shall drinke of the wrath of the Almightie.

21   For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the nomber of his moneths is cut off?

22   Shall any teache ^note God knowledge, who iudgeth the hiest things?

23   One ^note dyeth in his full strength, being in all ease and prosperitie.

24   His breasts are full of milke, and his bones runne full of marowe.

25   And another ^note dieth in the bitternes of his soule, and neuer eateth with pleasure.

26   They shal sleepe both in ^note the dust, & the wormes shal couer them.

27   Behold, I know your thoughts, and the enterprises, wherewith ye do me wrong.

28   For ye say, Where is the princes ^note house? & where is the tabernacle of the wickeds dwelling?

29   May ye not ^note aske th&ebar; that go by the way? and ye can not deny their signes.

30   But the wicked is kept vnto the day of ^note destruction, and they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.

31   Who shal declare his way ^note to his face? & who shal reward him for that he hath done?

32   Yet shal he be brought to the graue, & remaine in the heape.

33   The ^note slimie valley shalbe sweete vnto him, and euery man shal draw after him, as before him there were innumerable.

34   How then comfort ^note ye me in vaine, seeing in your answeres there remaine but lyes? CHAP. XXII. 2 Eliphaz affirmeth that Iob is punished for his sinnes. 6 He accuseth him of vnmercifulnes, 13 And that he denied Gods prouidence. 21 He exhorteth him to repentance.

1   Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, and sayde,

2   May a man be ^note profitable vnto God, as he that is wise, may be profitable to himselfe?

3    ^noteIs it any thing vnto the Almightie, that thou art righteous? or is it profitable to him, that thou makest thy wayes vpright?

4   Is it for feare ^note of thee that he will accuse thee? or go with thee into iudgement?

5   Is not thy wickednes great, and thine iniquities innumerable?

6   For thou hast taken the ^note pledge from thy brother for nought, and spoyled the clothes of the naked.

7   To such as were wearie, thou hast not giuen water to drinke, and hast withdrawen bread from the hungrie.

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

9   Thou hast cast out widowes emptie, & the armes of ^note the fatherles were broken.

10   Therefore snares are round about thee, and feare shal suddenly trouble thee:

11   Or darkenes that thou shouldest not see, & ^note abundance of waters shal couer thee.

12   Is not God on ^note hie in the heauen? and behold the height of the ^note starres how hie they are.

13   But thou sayest, How should God ^note know? can he iudge through the darke cloude?

Iob exhorted to repentance.

14   The cloudes hide him that he can not see, and he walketh in the circle of heauen.

15   Hast thou marked the way of the worlde, ^note wherein wicked men haue walked?

16   Which were ^note cut downe before the time, whose foundation was as a riuer that ouerflowed:

17   Which sayd vnto God, Depart from vs, & asked what the Almightie could do for them.

18   Yet hee ^note filled their houses with good things: but let the counsell of the wicked be farre from me.

19   The righteous shal see them, & shal reioyce, ^note and the innocent shal laugh them to scorne.

20   Surely ^note our substance is hid: but the fire hath deuoured the remnant of ^note them.

21   Therefore acquaint thy selfe, I pray thee, ^note with him, and make peace: thereby thou shalt haue prosperitie.

22   Receiue, I pray thee, the law of his mouth, and lay vp his words in thine heart.

23   If thou returne to the Almightie, thou shalt ^note be buylt vp, and thou shalt put iniquitie farre from thy tabernacle.

24   Thou shalt lay vp golde for ^note dust, and the gold of Ophir, as the flintes of the riuers.

25   Yea, the Almightie shalbe thy defence, and thou shalt haue plentie of siluer.

26   And thou shalt then delite in the Almightie, and lift vp thy face vnto God.

27   Thou shalt make thy praier vnto him, & he shal heare thee, & thou shalt render thy vowes.

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

29    ^noteWhen others are cast downe, then shalt thou say, I am lifted vp: and God shall saue the humble person.

30   The innocent shal deliuer the ^note yland, & it shalbe preserued by the purenes of thine hands. CHAP. XXIII. 2 Iob affirmeth that he both knoweth and feareth the power & sentence of the Iudge, 10 And that he is not punished onely for his sinnes.

1   Bvt Iob answered and sayd,

2   Though my talke be this day in ^note bitternes, and my plague greater then my groning,

3   Would God yet I knew how to finde him, I would enter vnto his place.

4   I would pleade the cause before him, & fill my mouth with arguments.

5   I would knowe the wordes, that he would answere me, & would vnderstand what he would say vnto me.

6   Would he ^note plead against me with his great power? No, but he would ^note put strength in me.

7    ^noteThere the righteous might reason with him, so I shoulde be deliuered for euer from my Iudge.

8    ^noteBehold, if I go to the East, he is not there: if to the West, yet I can not perceiue him:

9   If to the North where he worketh, yet I cannot see him: he wil hide himselfe in the South, and I cannot beholde him. The oppression of the wicked.

10   But he knoweth my ^note way, & trieth mee, and I shal come forth like the gold.

11   My foote hath followed his steps: his way haue I kept, and haue not declined.

12   Neyther haue I departed from the commandement of his lippes, and I haue ^note esteemed the words of his mouth more then mine appointed foode.

13   Yet he is in one minde, & who can ^note turne him? yea, he doeth what his minde desireth.

14   For he will performe that, which is decreed of me, and ^note many such things are with him.

15   Therefore I am troubled at his presence, & in considering it, I am afraid of him.

16   For God ^note hath softened mine heart, & the Almightie hath troubled me.

17   For I am not cut off in ^note darknesse, but he hath hid the darkenesse from my face. CHAP. XXIIII. 2 Iob describeth the wickednes of men, & sheweth what curse belongeth to the wicked, 12 Howe all things are gouerned by Gods prouidence, 17 And the destruction of the wicked.

1   Howe should not the times ^note be hid from the Almightie, seeing that they which knowe him, see not his ^note dayes?

2   Some remoue the land marks, that rob the flockes and feede thereof.

3   They leade away the asse of the fatherles: and take the widowes oxe to pledge.

4   They make the poore to turne out of the way, so that the poore of the earth hide themselues ^note together.

5   Behold, others as wilde asses in the wildernesse, goe forth to their businesse, and ^note rise early for a praye: the wildernesse ^note giueth him and his children foode.

6   They reape ^note his prouision in the fielde, but they gather the late ^note vintage of the wicked.

7   They cause the naked to lodge without garment, and without couering in the colde.

8   They are wet with the showres of the mo&ubar;taines, ^note and they imbrace the rocke for want of a couering.

9   They plucke the fatherles ^note from the breast, and take the pledge ^note of the poore.

10   They cause him to go naked without clothing, and take the glening from the hungrie.

11   They þt; make oyle ^note betweene their walles, and treade their wine presses, suffer thirst.

12   Men ^note cry out of the citie, and the soules of the slayne ^note cry out: yet God doth ^note not charge them with follie.

13   These are they, that abhorre the ^note light: they know not the wayes thereof, nor continue in the paths thereof.

14   The murtherer riseth earely & killeth the poore and the needie: and in the night he is as a theefe.

15   The eye also of the ^note adulterer waiteth for the twilight, and sayth, None eye shal see me, and disguiseth his face.

16   They digge through houses in the darke, which they marked for themselues in the daye:

Gods power. they knowe not the light.

17   But 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.

18   He is swift vpon the ^note waters: their ^note portion shalbe cursed in the earth: he will not behold the way of the vineyardes.

19   As the dry ground and heate consume the snowe waters, so shall the graue ^note the sinners.

20    ^noteThe pitifull man shall forget him: the worme shal feele his sweetenes: he shalbe no more rem&ebar;bred, & the wicked shalbe brok&ebar; like a tree.

21   He ^note doth euil intreat þe; barren, that doeth not beare, neither doeth he good to the widowe.

22   He draweth also the ^note mighty by his power, and when he riseth vp, none is sure of life.

23   Though men giue him assurance to be in safetie, yet his eyes are vpon their wayes.

24   They 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.

25   But if it be not ^note so, where is he? or who wil proue me a lyer, & make my words of no value? CHAP. XXV. Bildad prooueth that no man is cleane nor without sinne before God.

1   Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and sayd,

2    ^notePower and feare is with him, that maketh peace in his hie places.

3   Is there any nomber in his armies? and vpon whom ^note shall not his light arise?

4   And howe may a man ^note be iustified with God? or how can he be cleane, that is borne of woman?

5   Behold, he wil giue no light to the moone, ^note and the starres are vncleane in his sight.

6   How much more man, a worme, euen the sonne of man, which is but a worme? CHAP. XXVI. Iob sheweth that man can not helpe God, and proueth it by his miracles.

1   Bvt Iob answered, and sayde,

2    ^noteWhom helpest thou? him that hath no power? sauest thou the arme þt; hath no strength?

3   Whome counsellest thou? him that hath no wisedome? thou ^note shewest right well as the thing is.

4   To whom doest thou declare these words? or whose spirit ^note commeth out of thee?

5   The ^note dead things are formed vnder the waters, and neere vnto them.

6   The graue is ^note naked before him, and there is no couering for ^note destruction.

7   He stretcheth out the ^note North ouer the emptie place, & hangeth the earth vpon nothing.

8   He bindeth the waters in his cloudes, and the cloude is not broken vnder them.

9   He holdeth backe the face of his throne: The rewarde of the wicked. ^note and spreadeth his cloude vpon it.

10   He hath set bounds about the waters, vntil the ^note day and night come to an ende.

11   The ^note pillars of heauen tremble and quake at his reproofe.

12   The sea is calme by his power, and by his vnderstanding he smiteth the pride thereof.

13   His Spirite hath garnished the heauens, & his hand hath formed the crooked ^note serpent.

14   Loe, these are part of his wayes: but ^note how litle a portion heare we of him? and who can vnderstand his fearefull power? CHAP. XXVII. 3 The constancie and perfitnesse of Iob. 13 The rewarde of the wicked and of the tyrants.

1   Moreouer Iob proceeded and continued his parable, saying,

2   The liuing God hath taken away my ^note iudgement: for the Almightie hath put my soule in bitternesse.

3   Yet so long as my breath is in me, and the Spirit of God in my nostrels,

4   My lips surely shall speake no wickednesse, ^note and my tongue shall vtter no deceite.

5   God forbid, that I should ^note iustifie you: vntill I dye, I will neuer take away mine ^note innocencie from my selfe.

6   I will keepe my righteousnesse, and wil not forsake it: mine heart shall not reprooue me of my ^note dayes.

7   Mine enemie shal be as the wicked, and he that riseth against me, as the vnrighteous.

8   For what ^note hope hath the hypocrite when he hath heaped vp riches, if God take away his soule?

9   Will God heare his cry, when trouble commeth vpon him?

10   Will he set his delight on the Almightie? will he call vpon God at all times?

11   I will teache you what is in the hande of ^note God, and I wil not conceale that which is with the Almightie.

12   Beholde, all ye your selues ^note haue seene it: why then doe you thus vanish ^note in vanitie?

13   This is the ^note portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of tyrants, which they shal receiue of the Almightie.

14   If his children be in great nomber, the sworde shall destroy them, and his posteritie shall not be satisfied with bread.

15   His remnant shall be buried in death, and his widowes ^note shall not weepe.

16   Though he shoulde heape vp siluer as the dust, and prepare rayment as the clay,

17   He may prepare it, but the iust shall put it on, and the innocent shall deuide the siluer.

18   He buildeth his house as the ^note moth, and as a lodge that the watchman maketh.

19   When the rich man sleepeth, ^note he shal not be gathered to his fathers: they opened their eyes, and he was gone.

20   Terrours shal take him as waters, & a tempest shall cary him away by night.

21   The East winde shall take him away, & he shal depart: & it shal hurle him out of his place.

22   And God shal cast vpon him and not spare, though he would faine flee out of his hand.

Wisedome.

23   Euery man shall clap their hands at him, & hisse at him out of their place. CHAP. XXVIII. Iob sheweth that the wisedome of God is vnsearchable.

1   The siluer surely hath his veyne, ^note and þe; gold his place, where they take it.

2   Yron is taken out of the dust, and brasse is molten out of the stone.

3   God putteth an end to darkenesse, ^note and he tryeth the perfection of all things: he setteth a bond of darkenesse, and of the shadowe of death.

4   The flood breaketh out against the ^note inhabitant, and the waters ^note forgotten of the foote, being higher then man, are gone away.

5   Out of the same earth commeth ^note bread, & vnder it, as it were fire is turned vp.

6   The stones thereof are a place ^note of saphirs, and the dust of it is golde.

7   There is a path which no foule hath knowen, neyther hath the kites eye seene it.

8   The lyons whelpes haue not walked it, nor the lyon passed thereby.

9   He putteth his hand vpon the ^note rockes, & ouerthroweth the mountaines by the rootes.

10   He breaketh riuers in the rockes, and his eye seeth euery precious thing.

11   He bindeth the floods, that they doe not ouerflowe, and the thing that is hid, bringeth he to light.

12   But where is wisdome found? ^note and where is the place of vnderstanding?

13   Man knoweth not ^note the price thereof: for it is not found in the land of the liuing.

14   The depth sayth, It is not in mee: the sea also sayth, It is not with me.

15    ^noteGolde shall not be giuen for it, neyther shall siluer be weighed for the price thereof.

16   It shall not be valued with the wedge of golde of Ophir, nor with the precious onix, nor the saphir.

17   The golde nor the chrystall shall be equall vnto it, nor the exchange shalbe for plate of fine golde.

18   No mention shall be made of coral, nor of the ^note gabish: for wisedome is more precious then pearles.

19   The Topaz of Ethiopia shal not be equall vnto it, neither shall it be valued with the wedge of pure gold.

20   Whence then commeth wisedome? and where is the place of vnderstanding,

21   Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all the liuing, and is hid from the ^note foules of the heauen?

22   Destruction and death say, We haue heard the fame thereof with our eares.

23   But God vnderstandeth the ^note way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.

24   For he beholdeth the endes of the world, and seeth all that is vnder heauen,

25   To make the weight of the windes, and to weigh the waters by measure.

26   When he made a decree for the rayne, and a way for the lightening of the thunders,

27   Then did he see it, and counted it: he prepared it and also considered it.

28   And vnto man he said, Behold, ^note the ^note feare of the Lord is wisedome, and to depart from euil is vnderstanding. Iobs former life. CHAP. XXIX. 1 Iob complayneth of the prosperitie of the time past. 7. 21 His authoritie, 12 iustice and equitie.

1   So Iob proceeded and continued his parable, saying,

2   Oh that I were as ^note in times past, when God preserued me!

3   When his ^note light shined vpon mine head: and when by his light I walked thorowe the ^note darkenesse,

4   As I was in the dayes of my youth: when ^note Gods prouidence was vpon my tabernacle:

5   When the almightie was yet with me, and my children round about me.

6   When I washed my pathes ^note with butter, & when the rocke powred me out riuers of oyle:

7   When I went out to the gate, euen to the iudgement seat, and when I caused them to prepare my seate in the streete.

8   The yong men saw me, & ^note hid themselues, and the aged arose, and stood vp.

9   The princes stayed talke, and layde their hand on their ^note mouth.

10   The voyce of princes was hidde, and their tongue cleaued to the roofe of their mouth.

11   And when the ^note eare heard me, it blessed me: and when the eye sawe me, it gaue witnesse to ^note me.

12   For I deliuered the ^note poore that cryed, and the fatherlesse, and him that had none to helpe him.

13    ^noteThe blessing of him that was ready to perish, came vpon me, and I caused the widowes heart to reioyce.

14   I put ^note on iustice, and it couered me: my iudgement was as a robe, and a crowne.

15   I was the eyes to the blinde, and I was the feete to the lame.

16   I was a father vnto the poore, and when I knewe not the cause, I sought it out diligently.

17   I brake also the chawes of the vnrighteous man, and pluckt the praye out of his teeth.

18   Then I sayde, I shall die in my ^note nest, and I shall multiplie my dayes as the sand.

19   For my roote is ^note spread out by the water, and the dewe shall lye vpon my branche.

20   My glory shall renue towarde me, and my bowe shall be restored in mine hand.

21   Vnto me men gaue eare, and wayted, and helde their tongue at my counsell.

22   After my wordes they replied not, and my talke ^note dropped vpon them.

23   And they wayted for me, as for the raine, and they opened their mouth ^note as for the latter rayne.

24   If I ^note laughed on them, they beleeued it not: neither did they cause the light of my countenance ^note to fall.

25   I appoynted out ^note their way, and did sit as chiefe, and dwelt as a King in the army, and like him that comforteth the mourners. CHAP. XXX. 1 Iob complayneth that he is contemned of the most contemptible, 11. 21 because of his aduersitie and affliction. 23 Death is the house of all flesh.

1   Bvt now they that are yonger then I, ^note mocke me: yea, they whose fathers I haue refused to set with the ^note dogges of my flockes.

What men mocked Iob.

2   For whereto shoulde the strength of their handes haue serued mee, seeing age ^note perished in them?

3   For pouertie and famine they were solitary, fleeing into the wildernes, which is darke, desolate and waste.

4   They cut vp ^note nettels by the bushes, & the iuniper rootes was their meate.

5   They were ^note chased forth fr&obar; among men: they shouted at them, as at a theefe.

6   Therfore they dwelt in the clefts of riuers, in the holes of the earth and rockes.

7   They roared among the bushes, and vnder the thistles they gathered themselues.

8   They were the children of fooles and the children of villaines, which were more vile then the earth.

9   And now am I their ^note song, and I am their talke.

10   They abhorre me, & flee farre from mee, and spare not to spit in my face.

11   Because that God hath loosed my ^note corde and humbled mee, ^note they haue loosed the bridle before me.

12   The youth rise vp at my right hand: they haue pusht my feete, and haue trode on me as on the ^note paths of their destruction.

13   They haue destroyed my paths: they tooke pleasure at my calamitie, they had none ^note helpe.

14   They came as a great breach of waters, & ^note vnder this calamitie they come on heapes.

15   Feare is turned vpon mee: and they pursue my soule as the winde, and mine health passeth away as a cloude.

16   Therefore my soule is nowe ^note powred out vpon me, and the dayes of affliction haue taken holde on me.

17    ^noteIt pearceth my bones in the night, and my sinewes take no rest.

18   For the great vehemencie is my garment changed, which compasseth me about as the colar of my coate.

19    ^noteHe hath cast me into the myre, and I am become like ashes and dust.

20   Wh&ebar; I cry vnto thee, thou doest not heare me, neither regardest me, when I stand vp.

21   Thou turnest thy selfe ^note cruelly against me, and art enemie vnto mee with the strength of thine hand.

22   Thou takest me vp & causest mee to ride vp&obar; the ^note winde, & makest my ^note strength to faile.

23   Surely I knowe that thou wilt bring mee to death, and to the house appoynted for all the liuing.

24   Doubtles none can stretch his hand ^note vnto the graue, though they cry in his destruction.

25   Did not I weepe with him that was in trouble? was not my soule in heauinesse for the poore?

26   Yet when I looked for good, ^note euill came vnto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkenesse.

27   My bowels did boyle without rest: for the dayes of affliction are come vpon me.

28   I went mourning ^note without sunne: I stood vp in the congregation ^note and cryed.

29   I am a brother to the ^note dragons, & a companion to the ostriches.

30   My skinne is blacke vpon me, & my bones are burnt with ^note heate. Iobs vprightnes.

31   Therefore mine harpe is turned to mourning, and mine organs into the voyce of them that weepe. CHAP. XXXI. 1 Iob reciteth the innocencie of his liuing, & nomber of his vertues, which declareth what ought to be the life of the faithful.

1   I made a couenant with mine ^note eyes: why then should I thinke on ^note a mayde?

2   For what portion should I haue of God from aboue? and what inheritance of the Almightie from on hie?

3   Is not destruction to the wicked & strange punishment to ^note the workers of iniquitie?

4   Doeth not he beholde my wayes and tell all my steps?

5   If I haue walked in vanitie, or if my foote hath made haste to deceite,

6   Let God weigh me in the iust balance, and he shal know mine ^note vprightnes.

7   If my steppe hath turned out of the way, or mine heart hath ^note walked after mine eye, or if any blot hath cleaued to mine handes,

8   Let me sowe, & let another ^note eate: yea, let my plantes be rooted out.

9   If mine heart hath bene deceiued by a woman, or if I haue layde wayte at the doore of my neighbour,

10   Let my wife ^note grinde vnto another man, and let other men bow downe vpon her:

11   For this is a wickednes, and iniquitie to bee condemned:

12   Yea, this is a fire that shal deuoure ^note to destructi&obar;, & which shal roote out al mine increase,

13   If I did contemne the iudgement of my seruant, and of my mayde, when they ^note did contend with me,

14   What then shal I do when ^note God standeth vp? & when he shal visit me, what shal I answere?

15   He that hath made me in the wombe, hath he not made ^note him? hath not he alone facioned vs in the wombe?

16   If I restrained the poore of their desire, or haue caused the eyes of the widow ^note to faile,

17   Or haue eaten my morsels alone, and the fatherles hath not eaten thereof,

18   (For from my youth hee hath growen vp with me ^note as with a father, and from my mothers wombe I haue bene a guide vnto her)

19   If I haue seene any perish for want of clothing, or any poore without couering,

20   If his loynes haue not blessed me, because he was warmed with the fleece of my sheepe,

21   If I haue lift ^note vp mine hande against the fatherlesse, when I saw that I might helpe him in the gate,

22   Let mine ^note arme fal from my shoulder, & mine arme be broken from the bone.

23   For Gods punishment was ^note fearefull vnto me, & I could not be deliuered from his highnes.

24   If I made gold mine hope, or haue sayd to the wedge of golde, Thou art my confidence,

25   If I reioyced because my substance was great, or because mine hand had gotten much,

26   If I did behold the ^note sunne, when it shined, or the moone, walking in her brightnes,

27   If mine heart did flatter me in secrete, or if my mouth did kisse mine ^note hand,

28   (This also had bene an iniquitie to be condemned: for I had denied the God ^note aboue)

29   If I reioyced at his destruction that hated

Wisedome commeth of God. me, or was mooued to ioye when euill came vpon him,

30   Neither haue I suffred my mouth to sinne, by wishing a curse vnto his soule.

31   Did not the men of my ^note Tabernacle say, Who shall giue vs of his flesh? we can not bee satisfied.

32   The stranger did not lodge in the streete, but I opened my doores vnto him, that went by the way.

33   If I haue hid ^note my sinne, as Adam, concealing mine iniquitie in my bosome,

34   Though I could haue made afraid a great multitude, yet the most contemptible of the families did ^note feare me: so I kept ^note silence, and went not out of the doore.

35   Oh that I had some to heare me! beholde my ^note signe that the Almightie will witnesse for me: though mine aduersary should write a booke against me,

36   Woulde not I take it vpon my shoulder, and binde it as ^note a crowne vnto me?

37   I will tell him the nomber of my goings, and goe vnto him as to a ^note prince.

38   If my lande ^note cry against me, or the furrowes thereof complayne together,

39   If I haue eaten the fruites thereof without siluer: or if I haue grieued ^note the soules of the masters thereof,

40   Let thistles growe in steade of wheate, and cockle in the stead of Barley. THE ^note WORDES OF IOB ARE ENDED. CHAP. XXXII. 1 Elihu reproueth them of follie. 8 Age maketh not a man wise, but the spirit of God.

1   So these three men ceased to answere Iob, because he ^note esteemed himselfe iust.

2   Then the wrath of Elihu the sonne of Barachel the ^note Buzite, of the familie of ^note Ram, was kindled: his wrath, I say, was kindled against Iob, because he iustified himselfe ^note more then God.

3   Also 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 ^note they were more ancient in yeeres then he)

5   So when Elihu saw, that there was none answere in the mouth of the three men, his wrath was kindled.

6   Therefore Elihu the sonne of Barachel, the Buzite answered, & sayd, I am yong in yeres, and ye are ancient: therefore I doubted, and was afraide to shewe you mine opinion.

7   For I said, The dayes ^note shall speake, and the multitude of yeeres shall teach wisedome.

8   Surely there is a spirite in man, ^note but the inspiration of the Almightie giueth vnderstanding.

9   Great men are not alway wise, neither doe the aged alway vnderstand iudgement.

10   Therefore I say, Heare me, and I will shew also mine opinion.

11   Behold, I did waite vpon your wordes, and hearkened vnto your knowledge, whiles you sought out ^note reasons.

12   Yea, when I had considered you, lo, there The ende of affliction. was none of you that reproued Iob, nor answered his wordes:

13   Lest ye should say, We haue ^note found wisedome: for God hath cast him downe, and no man.

14   Yet hath ^note he not directed his words to me, neyther will I answere ^note him by your wordes.

15   Then they fearing, answered no more, but left off their talke.

16   When I had wayted (for they spake not, but stood still and answered no more)

17   Then answered I in my turne, and I shewed mine opinion.

18   For I am full of ^note matter, and the spirite within me compelleth me.

19   Beholde, my belly is as the wine, which hath no vent, and like the new bottels that brast.

20   Therefore will I speake, that I may take breath: I will open my lippes, and will answere.

21   I will not now accept the person of man, ^note neyther will I giue titles to man.

22   For I may not giue ^note titles, lest my Maker should take me away suddenly. CHAP. XXXIII. 5 Elihu accuseth Iob of ignorance. 14 He sheweth that God hath diuers meanes to instruct man and to drawe him from sinne. 19. 29 He afflicteth man and suddenly deliuereth him. 26 Man being deliuered giueth thankes to God.

1   Wherefore, Iob, I pray thee, heare my talke and hearken vnto all my wordes.

2   Beholde now, I haue opened my mouth: my tongue hath spoken in my mouth.

3   My words are in the vprightnesse of mine heart, & my lippes shall speake pure knowledge.

4   The ^note Spirite of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almightie hath giuen me life.

5   If thou canst giue me answere, prepare thy selfe and stand before me.

6   Beholde, I am according to thy wish in ^note Gods stead: I am also formed of the clay.

7   Beholde, my terrour shall not feare thee, neither shall mine hand ^note be heauie vpon thee.

8   Doubtles thou hast spoken in mine eares, and I haue heard the voyce of thy wordes.

9   I am ^note cleane, without sinne: I am innocent, and there is none iniquitie in me.

10   Lo, he hath found occasions against me, and counted me for his enemie.

11   He hath put my feete in the stockes, and looketh narrowly vnto all my paths.

12   Behold, in this hast thou not done right: I will answere thee, that God is greater then man.

13   Why doest thou striue against him? for he doeth not ^note giue account of all his matters.

14   For God speaketh ^note once or twise, and one seeth it not.

15   In dreames and ^note visions of the night, when sleepe falleth vpon men, and they sleepe vpon their beds,

16   Then he openeth the eares of men, euen by their corrections, which he ^note had sealed,

17   That he might cause man to turne away from his enterprise, and that he might hide the ^note pride of man,

18   And keepe backe his soule from the pit, & that his life should not passe by the sword.

19   He is also striken with sorow vpon his bed,

Gods is iust in his iudgments. and the griefe of his bones is sore,

20   So that his ^note life causeth him to abhorre bread, and his soule daintie meate.

21   His flesh faileth that it can not be seene, and his bones which were not seene, clatter.

22   So his soule draweth to the graue, and his life ^note to the buriers.

23   If there be a ^note messenger with him, or an interpreter, one of a thousand ^note to declare vnto man his righteousnesse,

24   Then will he haue ^note mercie vpon him, and will say, ^note Deliuer him, that he go not downe into the pit: for I haue receiued a reconciliation.

25   Then shal his flesh be ^note as fresh as a childes, and shall returne as in the dayes of his youth.

26   He shall pray vnto God, and he will be fauourable vnto him, and he shall see his face with ioy: for he will render vnto m&abar; his ^note righteousnes.

27   He looketh vpon men, and if one say, I haue sinned, and ^note peruerted righteousnesse, and it did not profite ^note me,

28    ^noteHe will deliuer his soule from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.

29   Lo, all these things will God worke ^note twise or thrise with a man,

30   That he may turne backe his soule from the pit, to be illuminate in the light of the liuing.

31   Marke well, O Iob, and heare me: keepe silence, and I will speake.

32   If there be ^note matter, answere me, and speak: for I desire to ^note iustifie thee.

33   If thou hast not, heare me: holde thy tongue, and I will teach thee wisedome. CHAP. XXXIIII. 5 Elihu chargeth Iob, that he called him selfe righteous. 12 He sheweth that God is iust in his iudgements. 24 God destroyeth the mightie. 30 By him the hypocrite reigneth.

1   Moreouer Elihu answered, and saide,

2   Heare my wordes, ye ^note wise men, and hearken vnto me, ye that haue knowledge.

3   For the eare tryeth the words, as the mouth tasteth meate.

4   Let vs seeke ^note iudgement among vs, and let vs knowe among our selues what is good.

5   For Iob hath saide, I am righteous, & God hath taken ^note away my iudgement.

6   Should I lye in my ^note right? my wound of the arrowe is ^note grieuous without my sinne.

7   What man is like Iob, that drinketh ^note scornfulnesse like water?

8   Which goeth in the ^note companie of them þt; worke iniquitie, and walketh with wicked men?

9   For he hath saide, ^note It profiteth a man nothing that he should ^note walke with God.

10   Therefore hearken vnto me, ye men of wisedome, God forbid that wickednesse should be in God, and iniquitie in the Almightie.

11   For he will render vnto man according to his worke, and cause euery one to finde according to his way.

12   And certainely God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almightie peruert iudgement.

13   Whome ^note hath he appointed ouer the earth beside him selfe? or who hath placed the whole worlde? God respecteth not persons.

14   If ^note he set his heart vpon man, and gather vnto him selfe his spirit ^note and his breath,

15   All flesh shal perish together, and man shal returne vnto dust.

16   And if thou hast vnderstanding, heare this and hearken to the voyce of my wordes.

17   Shal he that hateth iudgement, ^note gouerne? & wilt thou iudge him wicked that is most iust?

18   Wilt thou say vnto a King, Thou art ^note wicked? or to princes, Ye are vngodly?

19   How much lesse to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, & regardeth not the rich, more then the poore? for they be all the worke of his handes.

20   They shall die suddenly, ^note and the people shalbe troubled at midnight, ^note & they shall passe foorth and take away the mightie without hand.

21   For his eyes are vpon the wayes of man, and he seeth all his goings.

22   There is no darkenesse nor shadowe of death, that the workers of iniquitie might be hid therein.

23   For he will not lay on man so much, that he should ^note enter into iudgement with God.

24   He shall breake the mightie without ^note seeking, and shall set vp other in their stead.

25   Therefore shall he declare their ^note works: he shall turne the ^note night, & they shalbe destroyed.

26   He striketh them as wicked men in the places of the ^note seers,

27   Because they haue turned backe from him, and would not consider all his wayes:

28   So that they haue caused the voyce of the poore to ^note come vnto him, and he hath heard the cry of the afflicted.

29   And 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?

30   Because the ^note hypocrite doeth reigne, and because the people are snared.

31   Surely it appertaineth vnto God ^note to say, I haue pardoned, I will not destroy.

32    ^noteBut if I see not, teach thou me: if I haue done wickedly, I will doe no more.

33   Wil he performe the thing through ^note thee? for thou hast reproued ^note it, because that thou hast chosen, & not I. now speake what thou knowest.

34   Let men of vnderstanding tell me, and let a wise man hearken vnto me.

35   Iob hath not spoken of knowledge, neyther were his wordes according to wisedome.

36   I desire that Iob may be ^note tryed, vnto the ende touching the answeres for wicked men.

37   For he ^note addeth rebellion vnto his sinne: he clappeth his handes among vs, and multiplieth his wordes against God. CHAP. XXXV. 6 Neither doeth godlinesse profite, or vngodlinesse hurt God, but man. 13 The wicked crie vnto God & are not heard.

1   Elihu spake moreouer, and said,

2   Thinkest thou this right, that thou hast said, I am ^note more righteous then God?

3   For thou hast said, What profiteth it thee and what auaileth it me, to purge me fr&obar; my sinne?

Why God punisheth.

4   Therefore will I answere thee, & thy ^note companions with thee.

5   Looke vnto the heauen, and see and behold the ^note cloudes which are hyer then thou.

6   If thou sinnest, what doest thou ^note against him, yea, when thy sinnes be many, what doest thou vnto him?

7   If thou be righteous, what giuest thou vnto him? or what receiueth he at thine hand?

8   Thy wickednesse may hurt a man as thou art: and thy righteousnes may profite þe; sonne of man.

9   They cause many that are oppressed, ^note to crye, which crye out for þe; violence of the mightie.

10   But none saieth, Where is God that made me, which giueth songs in the nyght?

11   Which teacheth vs more then the beastes of the earth, and giueth vs more wisdome then the foules of the heauen.

12   Then they crye because of the violence of the wicked, but ^note he answereth not.

13   Surely God will not heare vanitie, neyther will the Almightie regard it.

14   Although thou sayest to God, Thou wilt not regard it, ^note yet iudgement is before him: trust thou in him.

15   But nowe because his anger hath not visited, nor called to count the euill with great extremitie,

16   Therfore Iob ^note openeth his mouth in vaine, and multiplieth wordes without knowledge. CHAP. XXXVI. 1 Elihu sheweth the power of God, 6 And his iustice, 9 And wherefore he punisheth. 13 The propertie of the wicked.

1   Elihu also proceeded and sayde,

2   Suffer me a litle, and I will instruct thee: for I haue yet to speake on Gods behalfe.

3   I will fetche ^note my knowledge afarre off, & will attribute rigteousnesse vnto my Maker.

4   For truely my wordes shall not be false, and he that is ^note perfect in knowledge, speaketh &wt; thee.

5   Behold, the mighty God casteth away none that is ^note mighty and valiant of courage.

6    ^noteHe mainteineth not the wicked, but he giueth iudgement to the afflicted.

7   He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous, but they are with ^note Kings in þe; throne, where he placeth them for euer: thus they are exalted.

8   And if they bee bound in fetters and tyed with the cordes of affliction,

9   Then will he shewe them their ^note worke and their sinnes, because they haue bene proude.

10   He openeth also their eare to discipline, and commandeth them that they returne fr&obar; iniquity.

11    ^noteIf they obey and serue him, they shal end their dayes in prosperity, & their yeres in pleasures.

12   But if they wil not obey, they shal passe by the sworde, and perish ^note without knowledge.

13   But the hypocrites ^note of heart increase the wrath: for they ^note call not when he bindeth them.

14   Their soule dyeth in ^note youth, and their life among the whoremongers.

15   He deliuereth the poore in his affliction, & openeth their eare in trouble.

16   Euen so woulde he haue taken thee out of the streight place into a broade place and not shut vp beneath: and ^note that which resteth vpon thy table, The power of God. had bene full of fat.

17   But thou art ful of the ^note iudgement of the wicked, though iudgement and equitie maintaine all things.

18    ^noteFor Gods wrath is, least hee should take that away in thine abundance: for no multitude of giftes can deliuer thee.

19   Wil he regard thy riches? he regardeth not golde, nor all them that excel in strength.

20    ^noteBe not carefull in the night, howe he destroyeth the people out of their place.

21   Take thou heede: looke not to ^note iniquitie: for thou hast chosen it rather then affliction.

22   Beholde, God exalteth by his power: what teacher is like him?

23   Who hath appointed to him his way? or who can say, Thou hast done wickedly?

24   Remember that thou magnifie his worke, which men behold.

25   All men see it, and men beholde it ^note afarre off.

26   Beholde, God is excellent, ^note and we knowe him not, neither can the nomber of his yeres bee searched out.

27   When he restraineth the droppes of water, the rayne ^note powreth down by the vapour thereof,

28   Which raine the cloudes do droppe and let fall abundantly vpon man.

29   Who can know the diuisions of þe; clouds and the thunders of his ^note tabernacle?

30   Beholde, he spreadeth his light vpon ^note it, and couereth the ^note bottome of the sea.

31   For thereby hee iudgeth ^note the people, and giueth meate abundantly.

32   He couereth the light with the clouds, and commandeth them to go ^note against it.

33    ^noteHis companion sheweth him thereof, and there is anger in rising vp. CHAP. XXXVII. 2 Elihu proueth that the vnsearcheable wisedome of God is manifest by his works, 4 As by the thunders, 6 The snow, 9 The whirlewinde, 11 And the raine.

1   At this also mine heart is ^note astonied, & is mooued out of his place.

2   Heare the ^note sound of his voyce, and the noyse that goeth out of his mouth.

3   He directeth it vnder the whole heauen, and his light vnto the endes of the world.

4   After it a noyse soundeth: hee thundereth with the voyce of his maiestie, and hee will not stay ^note them when his voyce is heard.

5   God thundereth marueilously &wt; his voyce: he worketh great things, which we know not.

6   For he sayth to the snowe, Be thou vpon the earth: ^note likewise to the small rayne and to the great rayne of his power.

7   With the force thereof he ^note shutteth vp euery man, that all men may knowe his worke.

8   Then the beastes go into the denne, and remaine in their places.

9   The whirlewind commeth out of the South, and the colde from the ^note North winde.

Mans weaknesse.

10   At the breath of God the frost is giuen, & the breadth of the waters ^note is made narrowe.

11   He maketh also the cloudes to ^note labour, to water the earth, and scattereth the cloude of ^note his light.

12   And it is turned about by his gouernment, that they may doe whatsoeuer he commandeth them vpon the whole worlde:

13   Whether it be for ^note punishment, or for his lande, or of mercie, he causeth it to come.

14   Hearken vnto this, O Iob: stand and consider the wonderous workes of God.

15   Diddest thou knowe when God disposed them? & caused the ^note light of his cloud to shine?

16   Hast thou knowen the ^note varietie of the cloude, and the wonderous workes of him, that is perfite in knowledge?

17   Or howe thy clothes are ^note warme, when he maketh the earth quiet through the South winde?

18   Hast thou stretched out the heau&ebar;s, which are strong, and as a molten ^note glasse?

19   Tell vs what we shall say vnto him: for we can not dispose our matter because of ^note darknes.

20   Shall it be ^note told him when I speake? or shall man speake when he shalbe ^note destroyed?

21   And nowe men see not the light, ^note which shineth in the cloudes, but the winde passeth and clenseth them.

22   The ^note brightnesse commeth out of the North: the praise thereof is to God, which is terrible.

23   It is the Almightie: we can not finde him out: he is excellent in power and iudgement, & aboundant in iustice: he ^note afflicteth not.

24   Let men therefore feare him: for he will not regarde any that are wise in their owne conceit. CHAP. XXXVIII. 1 God speaketh to Iob, and delareth the weaknesse of man in the consideration of his creatures, by whose excellencie the power, iustice and prouidence of the Creator is knowen.

1   Then answered the Lord vnto Iob out of the ^note whirle winde, and said,

2   Who is this that ^note darkeneth the counsell by wordes without knowledge?

3   Girde vp nowe thy loynes like a man: I ^note will demande of thee & declare thou vnto me.

4   Where wast thou when I layd the ^note foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast vnderstanding,

5   Who hath layde the measures thereof, if thou knowest, or who hath stretched the line ouer it:

6   Whereupon are the foundations thereof set: or who layed the corner stone thereof:

7   When the starres of the morning ^note praysed me together, and all the ^note children of God reioyced:

8   Or who hath shut vp the Sea with doores, when it yssued and came foorth as out of the wombe: The secrete workes of God.

9   When I made the cloudes as a couering thereof, and darkenesse as the ^note swadeling bands thereof:

10   When I stablished my commandement vpon it, and set barres and doores,

11   And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther, and here ^note shall it stay thy proude waues.

12   Hast thou commanded the ^note morning since thy dayes? hast thou caused the morning to knowe his place,

13   That it might take hold of the corners of the earth, and that the wicked might be ^note shaken out of it?

14   It is turned as clay to facion, ^note and all stand vp as a garment.

15   And from the wicked their light shall be taken away, and the hie arme shalbe broken.

16   Hast thou entred into the bottomes of the sea? or hast thou walked to seeke out the ^note depth?

17   Haue the gates of death bene opened vnto thee? or hast thou seene the gates of the shadowe of death?

18   Hast thou perceiued the breadth of the earth? tell if thou knowest all this.

19   Where is the way where light dwelleth? and where is the place of darkenesse,

20   That thou ^note shouldest receiue it in the boundes thereof, and that thou shouldest knowe the paths to the house thereof?

21   Knewest thou it, because thou wast then borne, and because the nomber of thy dayes is great?

22   Hast thou entred into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seene the treasures of þe; haile,

23   Which I haue ^note hid against the time of trouble, against the day of warre and battell?

24   By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the East winde vpon the earth?

25   Who hath deuided the spowtes for the raine? or the way for the lightning of þe; thunders,

26   To cause it to raine on the earth where no man is, and in the wildernes where there is no man?

27   To fulfil the wilde and waste place, and to cause the bud of the herbe to spring forth?

28   Who is the father of the rayne? or who hath begotten the droppes of the dewe?

29   Out of whose wombe came the yee? who hath ingendred the frost of the heauen?

30   The waters are hid ^note as with a stone: and the face of the depth is frosen.

31   Canst thou restraine the sweete influences of ^note the Pleiades? or loose the bandes of ^note Orion?

32   Canst thou bring foorth ^note Mazzaroth in their time? canst thou also guide ^note Arcturus with his sonnes?

33   Knowest thou the course of heauen, or canst thou set ^note the rule thereof in the earth?

34   Canst thou lift vp thy voice to the cloudes that the aboundance of water may couer thee?

35   Canst thou sende the lightenings that they may walke, and say vnto thee, Loe, heere we are?

36   Who hath put wisedome in the ^note reines? or who hath giuen the heart vnderstanding?

37   Who can nomber cloudes by wisedome? or who can cause to cease the ^note bottels of heau&ebar;,

38   When the earth groweth into hardnesse, ^note and the clottes are fast together?

Gods mercie and power. CHAP. XXXIX. The bountie and prouidence of God, which extendeth euen to the yong rauens, giueth man full occasion to put his confidence in God. 37 Iob confesseth and humbleth himselfe.

1   Wilt ^note thou hunt the pray for the lyon? or fill the appetite of the lyons whelpes,

2   When they couch in their places, and remaine in the couert to lye in waite?

3   Who prepareth for the rauen his meate, when his birdes ^note crie vnto God, wandering for lacke of meate?

4   Knowest thou the time when the wilde goates bring foorth yong? or doest thou marke when the ^note hindes doe calue?

5   Canst thou nomber the moneths that they ^note fulfill? or knowest thou the time when they bring foorth?

6   They bow them selues: they ^note bruise their yong and cast out their sorowes.

7   Yet their yong waxe fatte, and growe vp with corne: they goe foorth and returne not vnto them.

8   Who hath set the wilde asse at libertie? or who hath loosed the bondes of the wilde asse?

9   It is I which haue made the wildernesse his house, and the ^note salt places his dwellings.

10   He derideth the multitude of the citie: he heareth not the crie of the driuer.

11   He seeketh out the mountaine for his pasture, and searcheth after euery greene thing.

12   Will the vnicorne ^note serue thee? or will he tary by thy cribbe?

13   Canst thou binde the vnicorne with his band to labour in the furrowe? or will he plowe the valleyes after thee?

14   Wilt thou trust in him, because his str&ebar;gth is great, and cast off thy labour vnto him?

15   Wilt thou beleeue him, that he will bring home thy seede, and gather it vnto thy barne?

16   Hast thou giuen the pleasant wings vnto the peacockes? or winges and feathers vnto the ostriche?

17   Which leaueth his egges in the earth, and maketh ^note them hote in the dust,

18   And forgetteth that the foote might scatter th&ebar;, or that the wild beast might breake th&ebar;.

19   He sheweth himselfe cruell vnto his yong ones, as they were not his, and is without feare, as if he trauailed ^note in vaine.

20   For God had depriued him of ^note wisedom, and hath giuen him no part of vnderstanding.

21   When ^note time is, he mounteth on hie: he mocketh the horse and his rider.

22   Hast thou giuen the horse strength? or couered his necke with ^note neying?

23   Hast thou made him afraid as the grashopper? his strong neying is fearefull.

24   He ^note diggeth in the valley, and reioyceth in his strength: he goeth foorth to meete the harnest man.

25   He mocketh at feare, and is not afraid, and turneth not backe from the sworde,

26   Though the quiuer rattle against him, the glittering speare and the shield.

27   He ^note swalloweth the ground for fearcenes and rage, and he beleeueth not that it is the noise of the trumpet.

28   He sayth among the trumpets, Ha, ha: hee smelleth the battell afarre off, and the noyse of the captaines, and the shouting. Iobs repentance.

29   Shall the hauke flie by thy wisedome, stretching out his wings toward the ^note South?

30   Doeth the egle mount vp at thy commandement, or make his nest on hie?

31   Shee abideth and remaineth in the rocke, euen vpon the toppe of the rocke, and the tower.

32   From thence she spieth for meate, and her eyes beholde afarre off.

33   His young ones also sucke vp blood: and where the slaine are, there is she.

34   Moreouer þe; Lord spake vnto Iob, & said,

35   Is this to ^note learne to striue with the Almightie? he that reprooueth God, let him answere to it.

36   ¶2; Then Iob answered the Lord, saying,

37   Beholde, I am ^note vile: what shall I answere thee? I will lay mine hand vpon my mouth.

38   Once haue I spoken, but I will answere no more, yea twise, but I will proceede no further. CHAP. XL. 2 Howe weake mans power is, being compared to the workes of God: 10 Whose power appeareth in the creation, and gouerning of the great beastes.

1   Againe the Lord answered Iob out of ^note the whirle winde, and said,

2   Girde vp now thy loynes like a man: I will demaunde of thee, and declare thou vnto me.

3   Wilt thou disanul ^note my iudgement? or wilt thou condemne me, that thou mayst be iustified?

4   Or hast thou an arme like God? or doest thou thunder with a voyce like him?

5   Decke thy selfe now with ^note maiestie & excellencie, & aray thy selfe with beautie & glory.

6   Cast abroad the indignation of thy wrath, and beholde euery one that is proude, and abase him.

7   Looke on euery one that is arrogant, and bring him lowe: and destroy the wicked in their place.

8   Hide them in the dust together, and binde ^note their faces in a secret place.

9   Then will I confesse vnto thee also, that thy right hand can ^note saue thee.

10   ¶2; Behold now ^note Behemoth (whom I made ^note with thee) which eateth ^note grasse as an oxe.

11   Behold now, his strength is in his loynes, and his force is in the nauil of his belly.

12   When hee taketh pleasure, his taile is like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapt together.

13   His bones are like staues of brasse, and his small bones like staues of yron.

14    ^noteHe is the chiefe of the wayes of God: ^note he that made him, will make his sworde to approch vnto him.

15   Surely the mountaines bring him foorth grasse, where all the beastes of the fielde play.

16   Lyeth hee vnder the trees in the couert of the reede and fennes?

17   Can the trees couer him with their shadow? or can the willowes of the riuer compasse him about?

18   Behold, he spoyleth the riuer, ^note and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw vp Iorden into his mouth.

19   Hee taketh it with his eyes, and thrusteth his nose through whatsoeuer meeteth him.

20   ¶2; Canst thou drawe out ^note Liuiathan with an hooke, and with a line which thou shalt cast downe vnto his tongue?

21   Canst thou cast an hooke into his nose?

Liuiathan. canst thou perce his iawes with an angle?

22   Will he make many ^note prayers vnto thee, or speake thee faire?

23   Will hee make a couenant with thee? and wilt thou take ^note him as a seruant for euer?

24   Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bynd him for thy maydes?

25   Shall the companions b&abar;ket with him? shal they deuide him among the marchants?

26   Canst thou fill the basket with his skinne? or the fishpanier with his head?

27   Lay thine hand vpon him: remember ^note the battel, and do no more so.

28   Behold, ^note his hope is in vaine: for shal not one perish euen at the sight of him? CHAP. XLI. 1 By the greatnesse of this monster Liuiathan God sheweth his greatnesse, and his power, which nothing can resist.

1   None is so fearce that dare stirre him vp. Who is he then that can stand ^note before me?

2   Who hath preuented mee that I shoulde ^note make an ende? Al vnder heauen is mine.

3   I will not keepe silence concerning ^note his partes, nor his power nor his comely proportion.

4   Who can discouer the face ^note of his garm&ebar;t? or who shall come to him with a double ^note bridle?

5   Who shall ^note open the doores of his face? his teeth are fearefull ronnd about.

6   The maiestie of his scales is like str&obar;g shields, and are sure sealed.

7   One is set to another, that no winde can come betweene them.

8   One is ioyned to another: they sticke together, that they cannot be sundered.

9   His niesings ^note make the light to shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.

10   Out of his mouth go lampes, and sparkes of fire leape out.

11   Out of his nostrels commeth out smoke, as out of a boyling pot or caldron.

12   His breath maketh the coales burne: for a flame goeth out of his mouth.

13   In his necke remayneth strength, & ^note labour is reiected before his face.

14   The members of his bodie are ioyned: they are strong in themselues, and cannot be mooued.

15   His heart is as strong as a stone, & as hard as the nether milstone.

16   The mightie are afrayd of his maiestie, and for feare they faint in themselues.

17   When the sword doeth touch him, he will not rise vp, nor for the speare, dart nor habergeon.

18   He esteemeth yron as strawe, and brasse as rotten wood.

19   The archer c&abar;not make him flee: þe; stones of the sling are turned into stubble vnto him:

20   The dartes are counted as strawe: and hee laugheth at the shaking of the speare.

21   Sharpe stones ^note are vnder him, and he spreadeth sharpe things vpon the myre.

22   He maketh the depth to ^note boyle like a pot, and maketh the sea like a pot of oyntment.

23   He maketh a path to ^note shine after him: one Iobs felicitie. would thinke the depth as an hoare head.

24   In the earth there is none like him: hee is made without feare.

25   He beholdeth ^note al hie things: he is a King ouer all the children of pride. CHAP. XLII. 6 The repentance of Iob. 9 Hee prayeth for his friends. 12 His goods are restored double vnto him. 13 His children, age and death.

1   Then Iob answered the Lord, and sayd,

2   I knowe that thou canst doe all things, and that there is no ^note thought hidde from thee.

3   Who is hee that hideth counsell without ^note knowledge? therefore haue I spoken that I vnderstood not, euen things too wonderfull for me, ^note and which I knew not.

4   Heare, I beseech thee, and I will speake: I will demaunde of thee, ^note & declare thou vnto me.

5   I haue ^note heard of thee by the hearing of the eare, but now mine eye seeth thee.

6   Therefore I abhorre my selfe, and repent in dust and ashes.

7   ¶2; Now after that the Lord had spoken these wordes vnto Iob, þe; Lord also said vnto Eliphaz þe; Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for yee haue not spoken of me the thing þt; is ^note right, like my seruant ^note Iob.

8   Therefore 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 ^note 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.

9   So Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the Lorde had saide vnto them, and the Lord accepted Iob.

10   ¶2; Then the Lord turned the ^note captiuitie of Iob, when he prayed for his friends: also the Lord gaue Iob twise so much as he had before.

11   Then came vnto him all his ^note brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had bene of his acquaintance before, and did eate bread with him in his house, & had compassion of him, & comforted him for al the euil, that the Lord had brought vpon him, and euery man gaue him a ^note piece of money, and euery one an earing of golde.

12   So the Lorde blessed the last dayes of Iob more then the first: for he had ^note foureteene thousand sheepe, and sixe thousand camels, & a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand shee asses.

13   He had also seu&ebar; sonnes, & three daughters.

14   And he called the name of one ^note Iemimah, and the name of the seconde ^note Keziah, and the name of the third ^note Keren-happuch.

15   In all the lande were no women found so faire as the daughters of Iob, & their father gaue them inheritaunce among their brethren.

16   And after this liued Iob an hundreth and fourtie yeres, and sawe his sonnes, and his sonnes sonnes, euen foure generations.

17   So Iob dyed, being old, and full of dayes.