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  • 1. Crye I pray thee, if there be any that will aunswere thee, & loke thou vpon any of the holy.
  • 2. As for the foolish ma, wrathfulnesse killeth him, and enuie slayeth the ignorant.
  • 3. I haue seene my selfe when the foolish was deepe rooted, and sodenly I cursed his habitation.
  • 4. His children were without prosperitie, and they were slayne in the gate, and there was no man to deliuer them.
  • 5. His haruest was eaten of the hungrie, & taken from among the thornes, and the thurstie drunke vp their labour: It is not the earth that bringeth foorth iniquitie,
  • 6. Neither commeth sorowe out of the ground:
  • 7. But man is borne vnto labour, like as the sparkes flee vp [out of the hot coles,]
  • 8. But I woulde aske counsell at the Lorde, and talke with God?
  • 9. Whiche doth great thinges and vnsearcheable, [and] maruels without number.
  • 10. He geueth rayne vpon the earth, and powreth water vpon the streetes,
  • 11. To set vp them that be of lowe degree, and that those which are in heauinesse may be exalted to saluation.
  • 12. He destroyeth the deuices of the subtyll, so that their handes are not able to perfourme that which they do enterprise.
  • 13. He compasseth the wise in their owne craftinesse, & maketh foolishe the counsell of the wicked.
  • 14. They runne into darknesse by fayre day, and grope at the noone day as in the night.
  • 15. But he deliuereth the poore from the sworde, from their threatninges, and from the violence of the mightie.
  • 16. He is the hope of the poore, & the mouth of the wicked shalbe stopped.
  • 17. Behold, blessed is the man whom God correcteth, therefore refuse not thou the chastening of the almightie:
  • 18. For be maketh a wounde and he healeth: he smiteth, and his hande maketh whole againe.
  • 19. He shall deliuer thee in sixe troubles, & in the seuenth there shall no euil come to thee.
  • 20. In hunger he shall saue thee from death, and when it is warre, from the power of the sworde.
  • 21. Thou shalt be hyd from the scourge of the tongue, & when destruction commeth thou shalt not neede to feare.
  • 22. In destruction and dearth thou shalt be mery, and shalt not be afrayde of the beastes of the earth.
  • 23. For the stones of the land shalbe confederate with thee, and the beastes of the fielde shalbe at peace with thee.
  • 24. And thou shalt knowe that thy dwelling place shalbe in rest, and thou shalt visite thy habitation, & shalt not sinne.
  • 25. Thou shalt see also that thy seede shall be great, and thy posteritie as the grasse vpon the earth.
  • 26. Thou shalt come also to thy graue in a full age, like a corne sheafe cut downe in due season.
  • 27. Lo, this we our selues haue proued by experience, and euen thus it is: Hearken thou to it also, that thou mayest take heede to thy selfe.