Job 21:7 Cross References - Bishops

⁷ Wherefore do wicked men liue, come to their olde age, and increase in richesse

⁶ The houses of robbers are in wealth and prosperitie, and they that maliciouslie meddle against God dwell without care, in those thinges that God hath geuen richely with his hande

¹⁰ They haue nowe compassed me on euery syde [where] our way [lyeth]: they toote with their eyes to ouerthrow [me] downe on the grounde

³⁵ I my selfe haue seene the vngodly in great power: and florishing lyke a greene bay tree

³ For I enuied at the case of the foolishe: I sawe the wicked [flowe] in all kynde of prosperitie ⁴ For there be no bondes of death that can holde them: and the galaries of their houses be strong ⁵ They come in no misfortune lyke other folke: neither are they plagued lyke other men ⁶ And this is the cause that pride compasse them rounde about: and crueltie couereth them as a garment ⁷ Their eyes stande out for fatnesse: and the cogitations of their heartes do passe from them ⁸ They make other dissolute, they speake oppression with iniurie: they talke proudely and presumptuously ⁹ For they stretch foorth their mouth vnto the heauen: and their tongue goeth through the worlde ¹⁰ Therfore [God] his people turneth thither: and there is drawen vnto them waters in a full [cuppe. ¹¹ And they say, howe shoulde God perceaue it? is there knowledge in the most hyghest ¹² Lo these vngodly and fortunate in the worlde: do possesse riches

¹ O Lorde thou art more righteous, then that I shoulde dispute with thee: neuerthelesse, let me talke with thee in thynges reasonable. Howe happeneth it that the way of the vngodly is so prosperous? and that it goeth so well with them which without any shame offend and liue in wickednesse ² Thou plantest them, they take roote, they growe, and bryng foorth fruite: they boast much of thee, yet art thou farre from their raynes ³ But thou Lorde to whom I am well knowen, thou that hast sene and proued my heart, take them away, like as a flocke is caryed to the slaughter house, & appoynt them for the day of slaughter

¹⁷ This sentence [is] according to the decree of the watchers, and the request according to the word of the holy ones: because liuing men should knowe that the hyghest hath power ouer the kingdome of men, and geueth it to whom it liketh hym, and setteth vp ouer it the basese among men

¹³ Thou art of pure eyes, and canst not see euyl, thou canst not behold wickednesse: wherfore [then] doest thou loke vpo the transgressours, and holdest thy tongue, when the wicked deuoureth the man that is more righteous then he

¹⁵ They take vp all with the angle, they catche it in their net, and gather it in their yarne: wherof they reioyce and are glad ¹⁶ Therfore they sacrifice vnto their net, and burne incense vnto their yarne: because by them their portion is fat, and their meate plenteous

² And the beast which I sawe, was like a Leoparde, and his feete were as [the feete] of a Beare, and his mouth as the mouth of a Lion: And the dragon gaue hym his power, and his seate, and great aucthoritie ³ And I sawe one of his heades, as it were wounded to death, and his deadly wounde was healed: And all the world wondred after the beast ⁴ And they worshipped the dragon which gaue power vnto the beast, and they worshipped the beast, saying: Who is lyke vnto the beast? who is able to warre with hym ⁵ And there was geuen vnto hym a mouth, that spake great thynges and blasphemies, and power was geuen vnto hym, to do .xlij. monethes ⁶ And he opened his mouth vnto blasphemie agaynst God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heauen ⁷ And it was geuen vnto hym to make warre with the saintes, & to ouercome them: And power was geuen him ouer all kinredes, and tongues, and nations

² With whom haue committed fornication the kynges of the earth, and the inhabiters of the earth are dronken with the wyne of her fornication ³ So he caryed me away in the spirite into the wildernesse: And I sawe a woman sit vpon a scarlet coloured beast, ful of names of blasphemie, which had seuen heades, and ten hornes ⁴ And the woman was arayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with golde, precious stone, and pearles, and had a cup of golde in her hande, full of abhominations and fylthynesse of her fornication