- 1. And Eliphas the Themanite aunswered, & sayde:
- 2. If we assay to come with thee, wilt thou be discontent? But who can withhold him selfe from speaking?
- 3. Beholde, thou hast ben an instructer of many, & hast strenghtned the weery handes:
- 4. Thy wordes haue set vp him that was falling, thou hast refreshed the weake knees.
- 5. But nowe it is come vpon thee, and thou art greeued: it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
- 6. Was not thy feare according to thy hope? and the perfectnesse of thy wayes according to thy expectation?
- 7. Consider I pray thee who euer perished beyng an innocent? or when were the godly destroyed?
- 8. For as I haue proued by experience, they that plow iniquitie & sow wretchednesse, reape the same.
- 9. With the blast of God they perishe, with the breath of his nostrels are they consumed away.
- 10. The roring of the lion, and the voyce of the lion, and the teeth of the lions whelpes are pulled out.
- 11. The lion perisheth for lake of pray, & the lions whelpes are scattered abrode.
- 12. But wheras a thing was hyd from me, yet myne care hath receaued a litle therof.
- 13. In the thoughtes and visions of the night when sleepe commeth on men,
- 14. Feare came vpon me & dread, which made all my bones to shake.
- 15. The winde passed by before my presence, and made the heeres of my fleshe to stande vp.
- 16. He stoode thereon and I knewe not his face, an image there was before myne eyes, and in the stilnesse hearde I a voyce.
- 17. Shall man be more iust then God? or shall a man be purer then his maker?
- 18. Beholde, he founde not trueth in his seruauntes, and in his angels there was folly:
- 19. Howe much more in them that dwel in houses of clay, and whose foundation is but dust, which shall be consumed as it were with a moth?
- 20. They shalbe smitten from the morning vnto the euening: yea they shall perishe for euer, when no man regardeth them.
- 21. Is not their royaltie gone away with them? they shall dye truely, and not in wysdome.
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