Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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Chap. XXVIII.
The maruelous workes of God, the author of nature, shew his powre and
wisdome, 12. and that true riches consist not in temporal creatures, but in
wisdome, 28. and feare of God.
1 Silver hath note beginnings of her vaines, and gold hath
a place, where in it is molten.
2 Yron is taken out of the
earth, and stone resolued with heate, is turned into brasse.
3 He hath set a time for darkenesse, and the end of al thinges
he considereth, the stone also of darkenesse, and the shadow
of death.
4 The note torrent diuideth from the pilgrime people,
them whom the foote of the needie man hath forgotten, and
to whom there is no way.
5 The land, out of which bread
grew in his place, is destroyed with fire.
6 The place of the
sapphire the stones thereof, and the cloddes of it gold.
7 The
bird hath not knowen the path, neither hath the eie of the
vulter beheld it.
8 The children of merchantes haue not troden
it, neither hath the lionesse passed by it.
9 He hath stretched
forth his hand to the flint, he hath ouerthrowen mountaines
from the rootes.
10 In the rockes he hath cut out riuers,
and his eie hath seene euerie pretious thing.
11 The depthes
also of riuers he hath searched, & hid things he hath brought
forth to light:
12 But where is wisdome to be found, and
what is the place of vnderstanding?
13 Man knoweth not
the price therof, note neither is it found in the land of them
-- --
that liue pleasently.
14 The depth sayth: It is not in me: and
the sea speaketh: It is not with me.
15 The finest gold shal not
be geuen for it, neither shal siluer be weyed in the change
therof.
16 It shal not be compared with the died colours of
India, nor with Sardonyx the most pretious stone, or with
the Sapphire.
17 Gold or glasse shal not be equal to it, neither
shal vessels of gold be changed for it.
18 High and eminent
thinges shal not be mentioned in comparison of it: and wisedom
is drawen out of secrete places.
19 The topazius of Æthiopia
shal not be equal to it, neither shal it be compared to
the cleanest diyng.
20 From whence then cometh wisedom?
and what is the place of vnderstanding?
21 It is hid from the
eies of al liuing, the foules of the ayre also know it not.
22 Perdition
and death haue sayd: With our eares we haue heard the
fame therof.
23 God vnderstandeth the way of it, and he knoweth
the place therof.
24 For he beholdeth the endes of the
world: & looketh on al thinges that are vnder heauen.
25 Who
made a poise to the windes, and weyed the waters in a measure.
26 When he gaue a lawe to the raynes, and a way to the
sounding stormes.
27 Then he saw it, and declared, and prepared
and searched it.
28 And he sayd to man: Behold note the feare
of our Lord, that is wisedom: and to note depart from euil vnderstanding.
Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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