- 1. Then Iob answered, and sayde,
- 2. In deede because that ye are the people onely, wisedome must dye with you.
- 3. But I haue vnderstanding aswel as you, and am not inferior vnto you: yea, who knoweth not such things?
- 4. I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth vpon God, and he heareth him: the iust and the vpright is laughed to scorne.
- 5. Hee that is readie to fall, is as a lampe despised in the opinion of the riche.
- 6. The tabernacles of robbers doe prosper, and they are in safetie, that prouoke God, whome God hath enriched with his hand.
- 7. Aske now the beasts, and they shall teach thee, and the foules of the heauen, and they shall tell thee:
- 8. Or speake to the earth, and it shall shewe thee: or the fishes of the sea, and they shall declare vnto thee.
- 9. Who is ignorant of all these, but that the hande of the Lord hath made these?
- 10. In whose hande is the soule of euery liuing thing, and the breath of all mankinde.
- 11. Doeth not the eares discerne the words? and the mouth taste meate for it selfe?
- 12. Among the ancient is wisedome, and in the length of dayes is vnderstanding.
- 13. With him is wisedome and strength: he hath counsell and vnderstanding.
- 14. Beholde, he will breake downe, and it can not be built: he shutteth a man vp, and he can not be loosed.
- 15. Beholde, he withholdeth the waters, and they drie vp: but when he sendeth them out, they destroy the earth.
- 16. With him is strength and wisedome: hee that is deceiued, and that deceiueth, are his.
- 17. He causeth the counsellers to goe as spoyled, and maketh the iudges fooles.
- 18. He looseth the collar of Kings, and girdeth their loynes with a girdle.
- 19. He leadeth away the princes as a pray, and ouerthroweth the mightie.
- 20. He taketh away the speach from the faithfull counsellers, and taketh away the iudgement of the ancient.
- 21. He powreth contempt vpon princes, and maketh the strength of the mightie weake.
- 22. He discouereth the deepe places from their darkenesse, and bringeth foorth the shadowe of death to light.
- 23. He increaseth the people, and destroyeth them: he inlargeth the nations, and bringeth them in againe.
- 24. He taketh away the heartes of the that are the chiefe ouer the people of the earth, & maketh them to wander in the wildernes out of the way.
- 25. They grope in the darke without light: and he maketh the to stagger like a drunken ma.
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