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  • 1. Iob aunswered, and saide:
  • 2. O heare diligently my wordes, and that shalbe in steede of your consolations,
  • 3. Suffer me that I may speake, and when I haue spoken mocke on.
  • 4. Is it for mans sake that I make this disputation? Which if it were so, shoulde not my spirite then be in sore trouble?
  • 5. Marke me [well] and be abashed, and lay your hande vpon your mouth.
  • 6. For when I consider [my selfe] I am afrayde, and my fleshe is smitten with feare.
  • 7. Wherefore do wicked men liue, come to their olde age, and increase in richesse?
  • 8. Their children lyue in their sight, and their generation before their eyes.
  • 9. Their houses are safe from all feare, and the rod of God is not vpon them.
  • 10. Their bullocke gendreth and that not out of time, their cowe calueth and is not vnfruitfull.
  • 11. They sende foorth their children by flockes, & their sonnes [leade the] daunce.
  • 12. They beare with them tabrets and harpes, and reioyce in the sounde of the organs.
  • 13. They spend their dayes in wealthines, but sodainely they go downe to the graue.
  • 14. They say also vnto God: Go from vs, we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes.
  • 15. Who is the almightie that we should serue him? And what profite should we haue if we should pray vnto him?
  • 16. Lo, there is vtterly no goodnesse in their hande, therefore wyll I not haue to do with the counsaile of the vngodly.
  • 17. How oft shall the candell of the wicked be put out, and their destruction come vpon them? O what sorowe shall God geue them for their part in his wrath?
  • 18. Yea, they shalbe euen as hay before the winde, and as chaffe that the storme carieth away.
  • 19. God wyll lay vp the sorowe of the father for his children: & when he rewardeth him, he shall know it.
  • 20. Their owne miserie shal they see with their eyes, and drinke of the fearefull wrath of the almightie.
  • 21. For what careth he for his house after his death, when the number of his monethes is cut short?
  • 22. Seeing God hath the highest power of all, who can teache him any knowledge?
  • 23. One dyeth in his full strength, being in all ease and prosperitie,
  • 24. His breastes are full of milke, and his bones runne full of marowe.
  • 25. Another dyeth in the bitternes of his soule, and neuer eateth with pleasure.
  • 26. They shall sleepe both alyke in the earth, and the wormes shall couer them.
  • 27. Beholde, I know what ye thinke, yea and the subtiltie that ye imagine against me.
  • 28. For ye say where is the princes palace? and where is the dwelling of the vngodly?
  • 29. Haue ye not asked them that go by the way? Doubtlesse ye cannot denie their tokens,
  • 30. That the wicked is kept vnto the day of destruction, and the vngodly shalbe brought foorth to the day of wrath.
  • 31. Who dare declare his way to his face? who wil rewarde him for that he doth?
  • 32. Yet shall he be brought to his graue, and dwell among the heape [of the dead.]
  • 33. Then shal the slymie valley be sweet vnto him, all men also must folowe him, as there are innumerable gone before him.
  • 34. Howe vayne then is the comfort that ye geue me, seyng falshood remayneth in all your aunsweres?