Job 5:27 Cross References - Coverdale

²⁷ Lo, this is the matter, as we oure selues haue proued by experience. Therfore now that thou hearest it, take better hede to thy selff.

¹³ and yt thou kepe the comaundementes of ye LORDE, & his ordinaunces, which I comaunde the this daye, yt thou mayest prospere?

⁸ Enquere of them that haue bene before the, search diligently amonge thy forefathers: ⁹ Namely, yt we are but of yesterdaye, and considre not, that oure dayes vpon earth are buth a very shadow. ¹⁰ They shall shewe the, they shall tell the, yee they will gladly confesse the same.

² Then (no doute) ye are the men alone, and wy?dome shal perish with you.

⁹ What knowest thou, yt we knowe not? What vnderstondest thou, but we can the same? ¹⁰ With vs are olde and aged men, yee soch as haue lyued longer then thy forefathers.

¹⁷ I will tell the, heare me: I wil shewe the a thinge, that I knowe:

² Maye a man be copared vnto God in wy?dome, though he seme to himself, for to be like him?

¹¹ For whe I had wayted till ye made an ende of youre talkynge, & herde youre wy?dome, what argumetes ye made in youre communicacion: ¹² yee when I had diligently pondred what ye sayde, I founde not one of you that made eny good argument agaynst Iob, or that directly coude make answere vnto his wordes:

² The workes of the LORDE are greate, sought out of all the that haue pleasure therin.

³ For yf thou criest after wy?dome, & callest for knowlege: ⁴ yf thou sekest after her as after money, and dyggest for her as for treasure: ⁵ The shalt thou vnderstonde ye feare of the LORDE, and fynde ye knowlege of God.

¹² Yf thou be wyse, yi wysdome shal do yi selfe good: but yf thou thynkest scorne therof, it shalbe thine owne harme.