Job 22:8 Cross References - Bishops

⁸ But the mightie man had the earth, and he that was in auctoritie dwelt in it

¹¹ And the men of his citie, euen the elders and gouernours whiche dwelt in his citie, dyd as Iezabel had sent vnto them, and as it was written in the letter whiche she had sent vnto them ¹² They proclaymed a fast, and set Naboth among the chiefe of the people ¹³ And there came in two men the children of Belial, and sate before him: And the [two] vnthriftie persons witnessed against Naboth in the presence of the people, saying: Naboth dyd blaspheme God and the king. And they caried him out of the citie, & stoned him with stones, that he died ¹⁴ And then they sent to Iezabel, saying: Naboth is stoned to death ¹⁵ And it fortuned, when Iezabel hearde that Naboth was stoned to death, she sayde to Ahab: Up, and take possession of the vineyarde of Naboth the Iezraelite, whiche he denied to geue for money: for Naboth is not alyue, but dead

⁸ Wyll ye accept the person of him? or wyll ye contende for God

⁷ When I went out to the gate, euen to the iudgement seate, and when I prepared my seate in the streete ⁸ The young men saw me and hid them selues, and the aged arose, and stoode vp ⁹ The princes left of their talking, and layed their hand to their mouth ¹⁰ The mightie kept still their voyce, and their tongue cleaued to the roofe of their mouth ¹¹ When the eare heard me, it blessed me: & when the eye sawe me, it gaue witnesse to me ¹² For I deliuered the poore when he cryed, and the fatherlesse, and hym that had none to helpe hym ¹³ The blessing of him that was redy to perishe came vpon me, and I caused the widowes heart to reioyce ¹⁴ And why? I put vpon me righteousnesse, which couered me as a garment, and equitie was my crowne ¹⁵ I was an eye to the blinde, and a foote to the lame ¹⁶ I was a father to the poore: and when I knewe not the cause, I sought it out diligently ¹⁷ I brake the iawes of the vnrighteous man, and pluckt the spoyle out of his teeth

³⁴ Though I coulde haue made afeard a great multitude, yet the most contemptible of the families dyd feare me: so I kept scilence, and went not out of the doore

⁸ The vngodly walke on euery side: when the worst sort be exalted amongst the chyldren of men

³ The captayne of fiftie & the honorable, the senatour, the cunnyng artificer, and the eloquent oratour

¹⁵ By the head, is vnderstande the senatour and honourable man, and by the tayle, the prophete that preached lyes

³ Yet they say they do wel, when they do euyll: the prince asketh, and the iudge [iudgeth] for a rewarde, therfore the great man speaketh out of the corruption of his soule, and so they wrappe it vp