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CHAP. IIII.
Of vertue and the commoditie thereof. 10 The death of the righteous,
and the condemnation of the vnfaithfull.
1 Better is barennes with vertue: for the memoriall
thereof is immortall: for it is knowen with
God and with men.
2 When it is present, men take example thereat,
and if it goe away, yet they desire it: it is alway
crowned and triumpheth, and winneth the battell
and the vndefiled rewardes.
3 But the multitude of the vngodly which abound
in children, is vnprofitable: and the bastard
plants shall take no deepe roote, nor lay any fast
foundation.
4 For though they bud foorth in the branches
for a time, note yet they shalbe shaken with the winde:
for they stand not fast, and through the vehemencie
of the winde they shalbe rooted out.
5 For the vnperfect branches shalbe broken,
and their fruite shalbe vnprofitable and sowre to
eate, and meete for nothing.
6 For all the children that are borne of the
wicked bed, shalbe witnes of the wickednes against
their parents when they be asked.
7 But though the righteous be preuented with
death, yet shall he be in rest.
8 For the honourable age is not that which is
of long time, neither that which is measured by the
number of yeeres.
9 But wisdome is the gray heare, and an vndefiled
life is the olde age.
10 noteHe pleased God, and was beloued of him,
so that where as he liued among sinners, he translated
him.
11 He was taken away, least wickednesse should
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alter his vnderstanding, or deceit beguile his minde.
12 For wickednes by bewitching obscureth the
thinges that are good, and the vnstedfastnesse of
concupiscence peruerteth the simple minde.
13 Though he was soone dead, yet fulfilled hee
much time.
14 For his soule pleased God: therefore hasted
he to take him away from wickednes.
15 Yet the people see and vnderstand it not, and
consider no such things in their heartes, howe that
grace and mercie is vpon his Saintes, and his prouidence
ouer the elect.
16 Thus the righteous that is dead, condemneth
the vngodly which are liuing: and the youth that is
soone brought to an ende, the long life of the vnrighteous.
17 For they see the ende of the wise, but they
vnderstand not what God hath deuised for him, and
wherefore the Lord hath preserued him in safetie.
18 They see him and despise him, but the Lorde
wil laugh them to scorne,
19 So that they shall fall hereafter without honour,
and shall haue a shame among the dead for
euermore: for without any voice shal he burst them
and cast them downe, & shake them from the fundations,
so that they shalbe vtterly wasted, and they
shalbe in sorow, and their memoriall shall perish.
20 So they being afraide, shall remember their
sinnes, and their owne wickednes shall come before
them to conuince them.
Geneva [1587], THE BIBLE: THAT IS, THE HOLY SCRIPTVRES CONTEINED IN THE OLDE AND NEWE TESTAMENT. TRANSLATED ACCORDING TO the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in diuers languages. With most profitable annotations vpon all the hard places, and other things of great importance (Imprinted... by Christopher Barker [etc.], LONDON) [word count] [B07000].
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