1   Eliv therfore pronouncing, spake these wordes also.

2   Heare ye wise men my wordes, and ye learned harken

to me:

3   For the eare proueth wordes, and the throate discerneth meates by the tast.

4   Let vs choose vs iudgement, and among vs let vs see what is the better.

5   Because Iob sayd: I am iust, and God hath ^note subuerted my iudgement.

6   For in iudging me there is a lie: mine arrow is violent without anie sinne.

7   What man is there as is Iob, that drinketh skorning as it were water?

8   That goeth with them that worke iniquitie, and walketh with impious men?

9   For he hath sayd: Man shal not please God ^note although he runne with him.

10   Therfore ye discrete men heare me, far from God be impietie, and iniquitie from the Omnipotent.

11   For he wil render a man his worke, and according to the waies of euerie one he wil recompence them.

12   For in verie deed God wil not condemne without cause, neither wil the Omnipotent subuert iudgement.

13   What other hath he appointed ouer the earth? or whom hath he sette ouer the world, which he made?

14   If he direct his hart to him, he shal drawe his spirit and breath vnto him.

15   Al flesh shal faile together, and man shal returne into ashes.

16   If then thou haue vnderstanding, heare that is sayd, and harken to the voice of my speach.

17   Can he that loueth not iudgement, be healed? and how doest thou so far condemne him, that is iust?

18   That sayth to the king, Apostata: that calleth dukes impious:

19   Who accepteth not the persones of princes: nor hath knowen the tyrant, when he contended against the poore man: for al are the worke of his handes.

20   They shal sodenly die, and at midnight peoples shal be trubled, and shal passe, and take away the violent without hand.

21   For his eies are vpon the waies of men, and he considereth al their steppes.

22   There is not darkenesse, and there is not shadow of death, that they may be hid there which worke iniquitie.

23   For it is no more in mans powre, to come to God into iudgement.

24   He shal destroy manie, & innumerable, & shal make other to stand for them.

25   For he knoweth their workes: and therfore he shal bring night, and they shal be destroyed.

26   As impious men he hath stroken them in the place of them that see.

27   Who as it were of purpose haue reuolted from him, and would not vnderstand al his waies:

28   That they caused the crie of the needie man to come to him, and he heard the voice of the poore.

29   For he granting peace, who is there that can condemne? After he shal hide his countenance, who is there that may behold him,

both vpon nations, and vpon al men?

30   Who maketh a man that is ^note an hypocrite reigne for the sinnes of the people.

31   Therfore because I haue spoken to God, thee also I wil not prohibite.

32   If I haue erred, teach thou me: if I haue spoken iniquitie, I wil adde no more.

33   Doth God require it of thee, because it hath displeased thee? for thou beganst to speake, and not I: but if thou know anie better thing, speake.

34   Let men of vnderstanding speake to me, and let a wiseman heare me.

35   But Iob hath spoken folishly, and his wordes sound not discipline.

36   O my father, let Iob be proued euen to the end: cease not from the man of iniquity.

37   Who addeth blasphemie vpon his sinnes, let him be restrayned in the meane time among vs: and then let him prouoke God to iudgement with his speaches.

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