Psalms 17:14 Cross References - Coverdale

¹⁴ Fro the men of thy honde (o LORDE) from the men off the worlde, which haue their porcion in this life: whose belies thou fyllest with thy treasure.

⁶ The houses of robbers are in wealth and prosperite, & they that maliciously medle agaynst God, dwel without care: yee God geueth all thinges richely with his honde.

⁹ What is he, but he knoweth, that ye hode of the LORDE made all these?

⁷ Wherfore do wicked me lyue in health and prosperite, come to their olde age, & increase in riches? ⁸ Their childers children lyue in their sight, & their generacion before their eyes. ⁹ Their houses are safe from all feare, for the rodd of God doth not smyte the. ¹⁰ Their bullocke gendreth, and that not out of tyme: their cow calueth, and is not vnfrutefull. ¹¹ They sende forth their children by flockes, and their sonnes lede the daunce. ¹² They beare with them tabrettes and harpes, and haue instrumentes of musick at their pleasure. ¹³ They spende their dayes in welthynesse: but sodenly they go downe to hell. ¹⁴ They saye vnto God: go from vs, we desyre not the knowlege of thy wayes. ¹⁵ What maner of felowe is the Allmightie, that we shulde serue him? What profit shulde we haue, to submitte oure selues vnto him?

²¹ For whath careth he, what become of his housholde after his death? whose monethes passe awaye swifter then an arowe.

¹⁸ where as he (not with stodinge) fylleth their houses wt all good. Which meanynge of the vngodly be farre fro me.

¹⁴ Yf he get many childre, they shal perish wt the swearde, & his posterite shall haue scarcenesse of bred. ¹⁵ Loke whom he leaueth behinde him, they shal dye & be buried, & no man shall haue pite of his wyddowes. ¹⁶ Though he haue as moch money as the dust of the earth, & raymet as ready as the claye, ¹⁷ he maye well prepare it: but the godly shal put it vpon him, and the innocet shal deale out the money.

⁶ Beholde, thou hast made my dayes a spanne longe, and my life is as it were nothinge before the. O how vayne are all men lyuynge?

¹⁷ For he shal cary nothinge awaye wt him when he dyeth, nether shal his pompe folowe him. ¹⁸ Whyle he lyueth, he is counted an happie man: & so loge as he is in prosperite, me speake good of him. ¹⁹ But whe he foloweth his fathers generacion, he shal neuer se light eny more.

³ And why. I was greued at ye wicked, to se the vngodly in soch prosperite. ⁴ For they are in no parell of death, but stonde fast like a palace. ⁵ They come in no misfortune like other folke, nether are they plaged like other men. ⁶ And this is the cause that they be so puft vp in pryde, & ouerwhelmed with cruelte and vnrigthuousnesse. ⁷ Their eyes swell for fatnesse, they do euen what they lyst.

¹² Lo, these are the vngodly, these prospere in the worlde, these haue riches in possession.

⁴ yf thou sekest after her as after money, and dyggest for her as for treasure:

⁴⁴ Agayne, the kingdome of heauen is like vnto a treasure hyd in the felde, which a ma founde and hid it, and for ioye therof he wete & solde all yt he had, and bought yt felde.

¹⁹ & wil saye vnto my soule: Soule, thou hast moch goodes layed vp in stoare for many yeares, take now thine ease, eate, drinke, and be mery. ²⁰ But God sayde vnto him: Thou foole, this night shal they requyre thy soule from the, and whose shal it be that thou hast prepared? ²¹ Thus goeth it with him yt gathereth treasure for himself, and is not riche in God.

⁸ And the lorde comended the vnrighteous stewarde, because he had done wysely. For the children of this worlde are in their kynde wyser, the the children of light.

²⁵ But Abraha saide: Remebre sonne, yt thou hast receaued good in yi life, & contrary wyse Lazarus receaued euell. But now is he comforted, and thou art tormented.

²⁷ Then sayde he: I pray the then father, that thou wilt sende him vnto my fathers house, ²⁸ for I haue yet fyue brethren, that he maye warne them, lest they also come in to this place of torment.

²³ And he sayde vnto them: Ye are from beneth, I am from aboue: Ye are of this worlde, I am not of this worlde.

¹⁹ Yf ye were of the worlde, the worlde wolde loue his awne. Howbeit because ye are not of the worlde, but I haue chosen you from the worlde, therfore the worlde hateth you.

¹⁴ I haue geuen them thy worde, and the worlde hateth the: for they are not of the worlde, euen as I also am not of the worlde.

⁵ Ye haue liued in pleasure on the earth and in wantannes. Ye haue norysshed youre hertes, as in a daye of slaughter.

⁴ Litle children, ye are off God, and haue ouercome them: for greater is he that is in you, then he that is in the worlde. ⁵ They are off the worlde, therfore speake they off the worlde, and the worlde herkeneth vnto them.