- 1. So Iob aunswered, & saide:
- 2. Then no doubt ye are the men alone, and wysdome shall perishe with you.
- 3. But I haue vnderstanding aswell as ye, and am not inferior to you: Yea who knoweth not these thinges?
- 4. I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth vpon God, & he heareth him: The iust & the vpright is laughed to scorne.
- 5. Being as alight despised in the heartes of the riche, and as one redy to fall.
- 6. The houses of robbers are in wealth and prosperitie, and they that maliciouslie meddle against God dwell without care, in those thinges that God hath geuen richely with his hande.
- 7. Aske the cattaile, and they shall enfourme thee: the foules of the ayre, and they shall tell thee.
- 8. Or the encrease of the earth, and it shall shew thee: or the fishes of the sea, and they shall certifie thee.
- 9. What is he but he knoweth that the hande of the Lorde made all these?
- 10. In whose hande is the soule of euery liuing thing, and the breath of all mankinde.
- 11. Haue not the eares pleasure in hearing? and the mouth in tasting the thing that it eateth?
- 12. Among olde persons there is wysedome, and in age is vnderstanding.
- 13. Yea, with [God] is wysdome and strength, it is he that hath counsell and foreknowledge.
- 14. Beholde if he breake downe a thing, who can set it vp againe? yf he shut a thing, who wyll open it?
- 15. Beholde, if he withholde the waters, they drye vp: yf he let them go, they destroy the earth.
- 16. With him is strength and wysdome: both the deceauer and he that is deceaued are his.
- 17. He carieth away the wyse men as it were a spoyle, and bringeth the iudges out of their wittes.
- 18. He taketh away the subiection of the people from their kinges, and girdeth their loynes with a bonde.
- 19. He leadeth away the great men into captiuitie, and turneth the mightie vpside downe.
- 20. He stoppeth the mouth of them that speake trueth, & disapoynteth the aged of their reason.
- 21. He powreth contempt vpon princes, and maketh the strength of the mightie weake.
- 22. Loke what lyeth hid in darkenesse he declareth it openly, and the very shadowe of death bringeth he to light.
- 23. He [both] increaseth the people and destroyeth them, he maketh them to multiplie, and diminisheth them.
- 24. He taketh away the hearte of them that be heades of ye people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in the wildernesse out of the way.
- 25. They grope in the darke without light, and he maketh them to stacker like a drunken man.
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