1   Bvt Eliphaz the Themanite answering, sayd: ^note

2   Can man be compared with God, yea though he be of perfect knowledge.

3   What doth it ^note profite God if thou be iust? or what doest thou aduantage him if thy way be vnspotted.

4   Shal he be afrayde to reproue thee, and come with thee into iudgement:

5   And not for thy very great malice, and thine infinite iniquities?

6   For thou hast taken away the pledge of thy brethren without cause, and the naked thou hast spoyled of clothes.

7   Water to the wearie thou hast not geuen, and from the hungrie thou hast withdrawen bread.

8   In the strength of thine arme thou didst possesse the earth, and being the mightiest thou didst obteyne it.

9   Widowes thou hast sent away emptie, and the armes of pupilles thou hast broken in peeces.

10   Therfore art thou compassed with snares, and soden feare trubleth thee.

11   And thoughtest thou that thou shouldest not see darkenes, and that thou shouldest not be oppressed with the violence of ouerflowing waters?

12   Doest thou not thinke that God is higher then heauen, & is exalted aboue the toppe of the starres?

13   And thou sayest: For what knoweth God? and he iudgeth as it were by a mist.

14   The cloudes are his couert, ^note neither doth he consider our thinges, and he walketh about the poles of heauen

15   Doest thou couet to keepe the path of worldes, which wicked men haue troden?

16   Who

were taken away before their time, and a floud hath ouerthrowen their foundation:

17   Who sayd to God: Depart from vs: and as though the Omnipotent could do nothing, they estemed him:

18   Whereas he had filled their houses with good things, whose sentence be far from me.

19   The iust shal see, and shal reioyse, and the innocent man shal skorne them

20   Is not their exaltation cut downe, and hath not fire deuoured the remnantes of them?

21   Agree thou therfore to him, and haue peace: and by these thinges thou shalt haue the best fruites.

22   Receiue the law of his mouth, and put his wordes in thy hart.

23   If thou wilt returne to the Omnipotent, thou shalt be builded vp, and shalt make iniquitie far from thy tabernacle.

24   He shal geue for earth flint, and for flint torrentes of gold.

25   And the Omnipotent shal be agaynst thine enemies, & siluer shal be heaped together vnto thee.

26   Then shalt thou abound in delightes vpon the Omnipoten, and shalt lift vp thy face to God.

27   Thou shalt aske him, and he wil heare thee, and thou shal pay thy vowes.

28   Thou shalt decree a thing, and it shal come to thee, and light shal shine in thy waies.

29   For who wil be humbled, shal be in glorie: and he that wil bow downe his eies, he shal be saued.

30   The innocent shal be saued, but he shal be saued in the cleannesse of his handes.

Previous section

Next section