Job 13:4 Cross References - Coverdale

⁴ As for you, ye are workmasters of lyes: and vnprofitable Phisicians alltogether.

¹⁶ Thou shalt beare no false wytnesse agaynst thy neghboure.

⁷ Considre (I praye the) who euer peryshed, beynge an innocent? Or, when were the godly destroyed? ⁸ As for those that plowe wickednesse (as I haue sene myself) and sowe myschefe, they reape ye same. ⁹ For whe God bloweth vpon them, they perysh, and are destroyed thorow the blast of his wrath. ¹⁰ The roaringe of the lyon, the cryenge off the lyonesse, & ye teth off ye lyos whelpes are broke. ¹¹ The greate lyon perysheth, because he ca get no pray and the lyons whelpes are scatred abrode.

¹ Name me one els, yf thou canst fynde eny: yee loke aboute the, vpon eny of the holy men. ² As for the foolish man displeasure kylleth him, and anger slayeth ye ignoraunt. ³ I haue sene my self, when the foolish was depe roted, that his bewty was sodely destroyed: ⁴ that his children were without prosperite or health: that they were slayne in the dore, and no ma to delyuer them: ⁵ that his haruest was eaten vp off the hungrie: that the weapened man had spoyled it, and that the thurstie had droncke vp his riches. It is not the earth that bryngeth forth trauayle,

²¹ Eue so are ye also come vnto me: but now that ye se my mysery, ye are afrayed.

³ Doth God peruerte the thinge that is laufull? Or, doth the Allmightie destroye the thynge that is right? ⁴ Whe thy sonnes synned agaynst him, dyd not he punysh the for their wickednesse?

² I haue oft tymes herde soch thinges. Miserable geuers of comforte are ye, all the sorte of you.

⁵ Shal not the light of the vngodly be put out? yee the flame of his fyre shal not burne. ⁶ The light shalbe darcke in his dwellinge, & his candle shalbe put out with him. ⁷ His presumptuous goinges shal be kepte in, and his owne councell shal cast him downe. ⁸ For his fete shalbe taken in the nett, and he shal walke in the snare. ⁹ His fote shalbe holden in the gilder, and the thurstie shal catch him. ¹⁰ The snare is layed for him in the grounde, and a pytfall in the waye. ¹¹ Fearfulnesse shal make him afrayed on euery syde, that he shall not knowe, where to get out. ¹² Honger shalbe his substaunce, and my?fortune shall hange vpon him. ¹³ He shall eate his owne skynne, yee his owne armes shall he deuoure, beynge a firstborne of death. ¹⁴ All his comforte and hope shalbe roted out of his dwellynge, very fearfulnesse shall brynge him to the kynge. ¹⁵ Other men shall dwel in his house (which now is none of his) and brymstone shalbe scatered vpon his habitacion. ¹⁶ His rotes shalbe dryed vp beneth, & aboue shall his haruest be cut downe. ¹⁷ His remembraunce shall perish from the earth, & his name shall not be praysed in the stretes: ¹⁸ he shalbe dryuen from the light into darcknesse, and be cast clene out of the worlde. ¹⁹ He shall nether haue children ner kyn?folkes amonge his people, no ner eny posterite in his countre: ²⁰ yonge & olde shalbe astonyshed at his death. ²¹ Soch are now the dwellynges of the wicked, and this is ye place of him that knoweth not God.

²⁷ But I knowe what ye thinke, yee and what ye ymagin agaynst me vnrightuously. ²⁸ For ye saye: where is the prynces palace? where is the dwellynge of the vngodly: ²⁹ Axe eny man that goeth by the waye, and (yf ye will not regarde their tokens & dedes) he shal tell you, ³⁰ that the wicked is kepte vnto the daye of destruccion, and that the vngodly shalbe brought forth in the daye of wrath. ³¹ Who darre reproue him for his wayes to his face? who rewardeth him for the vngraciousnesse that he doth? ³² Yet shal he be brought to his graue, and watch amonge the heape of the deed. ³³ The shal he be fayne to be buried amoge the stones by the broke syde. All men must folowe him, & there are innumerable gone before him. ³⁴ O how vayne is the comforte yt ye geue me? Are not youre answeres cleane contrary to right and treuth?

⁶ Thou hast take the pledge from thy brethre for naught, & robbed the naked of their clothinge: ⁷ To soch as were weery, hast thou geue no water to drynke, thou hast withdrawe bred fro the hungrie: ⁸ Shulde soch one the as vseth violece, wroge & oppression (doinge all thinges of parcialyte, & hauynge respecte of personnes) dwell in the lode? ⁹ Thou hast sent wyddowes awaye emptie and oppressed the poore fatherlesse. ¹⁰ Therfore art thou compased aboute with snares on euery syde, & sodely vexed wt feare. ¹¹ Shuldest thou the se no darcknesse? Shulde not the water floude runne ouer the? ¹² Now because yt God is hyer the the heauens, & because thou seist yt the starres are so hye, ¹³ wilt thou therfore saye: Tush, how shulde God knowe? Doth his dominion reach beyonde the cloudes? ¹⁴ Tush, the cloudes couer him, yt he maye not se, for he dwelleth in heauen. ¹⁵ Well, thou wilt kepe the olde waye, yt all wicked me haue gone: ¹⁶ both olde & yonge, whose foundacion is a runnynge water, ¹⁷ which saye vnto God: go from vs, and after this maner: Tush, what wil the Allmightie do vnto vs? ¹⁸ where as he (not with stodinge) fylleth their houses wt all good. Which meanynge of the vngodly be farre fro me. ¹⁹ For wt ioy shal the godly, and with gladnesse shal the innocent se, ²⁰ that their increase shal be hewen downe, & their posterite consumed with the fyre. ²¹ Therfore recocile the vnto God, & be content, so shal all thinges prospere wt the right well. ²² Receaue the lawe at his mouth, & laye vp his wordes in thine herte. ²³ For yf thou wilt turne to the Allmightie, thou shalt stonde fast, & all vnrightuousnesse shall be farre from thy dwellinge: ²⁴ He shal geue the an haruest, which in plenty & abundaunce shall exceade the dust of the earth, and the golde of Ophir like ryuer stones. ²⁵ Yee the Allmightie his owne self shalbe thine haruest, & the heape of thy money. ²⁶ Then shalt thou haue thy delyte in the Allmightie, & lift vp thy face vnto God. ²⁷ The shalt thou make thy prayer vnto him, & he shal heare the, & thou shalt kepe thy promyses. ²⁸ The, loke what thou takest in honde, he shal make it to prospere with the, and the light shall shyne in thy wayes. ²⁹ For who so humbleth himself, him shal he set vp: and who so loketh mekely, shalbe healed. ³⁰ Yf thou be innocet, he shal saue the: and thorow the vngiltynesse of thyne handes shalt thou be delyuered.

⁶⁹ The proude ymagin lyes vpon me, but I kepe thy commaundemetes with my whole herte.

¹⁴ And besyde that, they heale the hurte of my people with swete wordes, sayenge: peace, peace, when there is no peace at all.

²² for there is no more Triacle at Galaad, and there is no Phisician, that ca heale the hurte of my people.

³² , that darre prophecy lies, and disceaue my people with their vanities and miracles, whom I neuer sent, ner commaunded them. They shal do this people greate harme, saieth the LORDE.

¹³ There is no man to medle with thy cause, or to bynde vp thy woundes: there maye no man helpe the.

¹¹ Go vp (o Galaad) & bringe triacle vnto the doughter off Egipte: But in vayne shalt thou go to surgery, for thy wounde shall not be stopped.

⁴ The weake haue ye not holden vp, the sicke haue ye not healed: the broken haue ye not bounde together, the outcastes haue ye not brought agayne: ye lost haue ye not sought, but churlishly and cruelly haue ye ruled the.

¹³ When Ephraim sawe his sicknesse, and Iuda his disease: Ephraim wente vnto Assur, and sent vnto kinge Iareb: yet coude not he helpe you, ner ease you of youre payne.

¹⁷ Whan Iesus herde that, he sayde vnto the: The whole nede not ye Phisician, but they that are sycke. I am not come to call the righteous, but the synners to repetaunce.

²⁶ and had suffred moch of many phisicians, and spent all that she had, and was not helped, but rather in worse case.