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  • 1. Then aunswered Eliphaz the Themanite, and saide:
  • 2. Shall a wyse mans aunswere be as the winde, and fill a mans belly as it were with the winde of the east?
  • 3. Shall he reproue with a worde that is nothing worth, & speake the thinges which can do no good?
  • 4. Surely thou hast cast of feare, and restrainest prayer before God.
  • 5. For thy mouth setteth forth thyne owne iniquitie, seeing thou hast chosen the tongue of the craftie.
  • 6. Thyne owne mouth condempneth thee, and not I: yea, thyne owne lippes shape an aunswere against thee.
  • 7. Art thou the first man that euer was borne? or wast thou made before the hils?
  • 8. Hast thou heard the secret counsell of God? and doest thou restraine wysdome to thee?
  • 9. What knowest thou, that we knowe not? And what vnderstandest thou, but we can the same?
  • 10. With vs are both olde and aged men, yea such as haue liued longer then thy father.
  • 11. Thinkest thou it a small thing of the consolations of God? with thee is a lying worde.
  • 12. Why doth thyne heart so bewitche thee? And wherefore winckest thou with thyne eyes,
  • 13. That thy minde is so pufte vp against God, and lettest such wordes go out of thy mouth?
  • 14. What is man, that he should be cleane? and he which is borne of a woman, whereby he might be righteous?
  • 15. Beholde he doth not trust his sainctes, yea, the very heauens are not cleane in his sight:
  • 16. How much more then an abhominable and vyle man, which drincketh wickednesse like water.
  • 17. I will tel thee, heare me, and I will shewe thee that I haue seene:
  • 18. Which wyse men haue tolde, and haue not hid that which they receaued from theyr fathers:
  • 19. Unto whom alone the earth was geue, and no straunger went among them.
  • 20. The vngodly soroweth all the dayes of his lyfe as it were a woman with childe, and the number of a tirauntes yeres is vnknowen.
  • 21. A feareful sounde is [euer] in his eares, and when he is in peace, the destroyer shall come vpon him.
  • 22. He beleueth neuer to be deliuered out of darknesse: for the sworde is alwayes before his eyes.
  • 23. He wandreth abrode for bread where it is, knowing that the day of darkenesse is redie at his hande.
  • 24. Trouble and anguishe wil make him afrayde, and compasse him about, as is a king in the middest of an armie.
  • 25. For he hath stretched out his hande against God, and armed him selfe against the almightie.
  • 26. He runneth proudly vpon him, & with a stiffe necke fighteth he against him.
  • 27. Where as he couereth his face with fatnesse, and maketh his body well lyking.
  • 28. Therefore shall his dwelling be in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, but are become heapes of stones.
  • 29. He shall not be riche, neither shall his substaunce continue, neither shal the prosperitie thereof be prolonged vpon earth.
  • 30. He shall neuer depart out of darkenesse, the flame shal drye vp his branches, with the blast of ye mouth [of God] shall he be taken away.
  • 31. He beleeueth not that he erreth in vanitie, and yet vanitie shalbe his recompence.
  • 32. He shal perishe afore his time be worne out, and his braunche shall not be greene.
  • 33. He shalbe plucked of as an vntimely grape from the vine, and shall let his floure fall as the oliue doth.
  • 34. For the congregation of hypocrites shalbe desolate, and the fire shall consume the houses of such as are greedie to receaue giftes.
  • 35. He conceaueth trauaile, and beareth vanitie, and their body bringeth foorth disceyte.