- 1. But Iob answered, and sayd,
- 2. Heare diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.
- 3. Suffer me that I may speake, and after that I haue spoken, mocke on.
- 4. As for mee, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?
- 5. Marke mee, and be astonished, and lay your hand vpon your mouth.
- 6. Euen when I remember, I am afraid, and trembling taketh holde on my flesh.
- 7. Wherefore doe the wicked liue, become old, yea, are mightie in power?
- 8. Their seede is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
- 9. Their houses are safe from feare, neither is the rod of God vpon them.
- 10. Their bull gendreth and faileth not, their cow calueth, and casteth not her calfe.
- 11. They send foorth their little ones like a flocke, and their children dance.
- 12. They take the timbrell and harpe, and reioyce at the sound of the organe.
- 13. They spend their daies in wealth, and in a moment goe downe to the graue.
- 14. Therefore they say vnto God, Depart from vs: for we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes.
- 15. What is the Almightie, that wee should serue him? and what profite should we haue, if we pray vnto him?
- 16. Loe, their good is not in their hand, the counsell of the wicked is farre from me.
- 17. How oft is the candle of the wicked put out? and how oft commeth their destruction vpon them? God distributeth sorrowes in his anger.
- 18. They are as stubble before the winde, and as chaffe that the storme carieth away.
- 19. God layeth vp his iniquitie for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.
- 20. His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drinke of the wrath of the Almightie.
- 21. For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his moneths is cut off in the middest?
- 22. Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he iudgeth those that are high.
- 23. One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
- 24. His breasts are full of milke, and his bones are moistened with marrow.
- 25. And another dieth in the bitternesse of his soule, and neuer eateth with pleasure.
- 26. They shall lie downe alike in the dust, and the wormes shall couer them.
- 27. Behold, I know your thoughts, and the deuices which yee wrongfully imagine against me.
- 28. For ye say, where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?
- 29. Haue ye not asked them that goe by the way? and doe ye not know their tokens?
- 30. That the wicked is reserued to the day of destruction; they shall bee brought foorth to the day of wrath.
- 31. Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?
- 32. Yet shall hee be brought to the graue, & shall remaine in the tombe.
- 33. The cloudes of the valley shalbe sweete vnto him, and euery man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.
- 34. How then comfort ye me in vaine, seeing in your answeres there remaineth falshood?
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