- 1. So Eliphas the Themanite gaue aunswere, and sayde:
- 2. May a man be profitable vnto God, as he that is wise may be profitable vnto him selfe?
- 3. Is it any aduauntage to the almightie that thou art righteous? or shall it profite him that thou makest thy wayes perfect?
- 4. Is he afrayde to reproue thee, and to step foorth with thee into iudgement?
- 5. Is not thy wickednesse great, and thy vngratious deedes innumerable?
- 6. For thou hast taken the pledge from thy brother for naught, and robbed the naked of their clothing.
- 7. To such as were weery, hast thou geuen no water to drinke, & hast withdrawen bread from the hungrie.
- 8. But the mightie man had the earth, and he that was in auctoritie dwelt in it.
- 9. Thou hast sent wydowes away emptie, and the armes of the fatherlesse were broken.
- 10. Therefore art thou compassed about with snares, & sodenly vexed with feare.
- 11. Shouldest thou then see no darknesse? shoulde not the water fludde run ouer thee?
- 12. Is not God on high in the heauen? beholde the heyght of the starres how hie they are.
- 13. Wilt thou therfore say, Tushe, howe should God know? can he iudge through the darke cloude?
- 14. Tushe, the cloudes couer him that he may not see, and he walketh on the top of heauen.
- 15. Hast thou marked the way of the world, wherin wicked men haue walked?
- 16. Whiche were cut downe out of time, and whose foundation was as an ouerflowing ryuer.
- 17. Whiche sayd vnto God, Go from vs: and asked what the almightie coulde do for them?
- 18. He filled their houses with good things: but the counsell of the vngodly be farre from me.
- 19. The righteous sawe it and were glad, and the innocent laughed them to scorne.
- 20. Is our substaunce bewen downe? As for the remnaunt of them the fire hath consumed.
- 21. Therefore reconcile thee vnto God, and be at peace: so shall all thinges prospere with thee right well.
- 22. Receaue I pray thee the lawe at his mouth, and lay vp his wordes in thyne heart.
- 23. For if thou wilt turne to the almightie, thou shalt be buyld vp, and put all vnrighteousnes from thy dwelling.
- 24. Thou shalt lay vp golde [as plentyful] as the dust, and the golde of Ophir as the flyntes of the riuers.
- 25. Yea almightie God his owne selfe shalbe thy defence, and thou shalt haue plentie of siluer.
- 26. Then shalt thou haue thy delite in the almightie, and lift vp thy face vnto God.
- 27. Then shalt thou make thy prayer vnto him, and he shall heare thee, and thou shalt kepe thy promises.
- 28. Thou shalt also decree a thing, and he shall establishe it vnto thee, and the light shall shine in thy wayes.
- 29. When [the wicked] be cast downe, thou shalt say, I am lifted vp: and God shall saue the humble person.
- 30. The innocent shal deliuer the Ilande: it shalbe preserued by the purenesse of thyne handes.
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