Job 16:17 Cross References - Coverdale

¹⁷ Howbeit there is no wickednesse in my hondes, and my prayer is clene.

⁵ Yff thou woldest now resorte vnto God by tymes, and make thine humble prayer to ye Allmightie: ⁶ yf thou woldest lyue a pure and a godly life: shulde he not wake vp vnto the immediatly, & geue the the bewtie of rightuousnesse agayne?

¹⁴ yf thou woldest put awaye the wickednesse, which thou hast in honde, so that no vngodlynesse dwelt in thy house:

²⁰ The vngodly despayreth all the dayes of his life, & the nombre of a tyrauntes yeares is vnknowne.

³⁴ For the congregacion of Ypocrites is vnfrutefull, & the fyre shal consume the houses of soch, as are gredy to receaue giftes.

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:

⁵ Cometh not this for ye greate wickednesse, & for thine vngracious dedes which are innumerable? 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.

⁶ My rightuous dealynge wil I kepe fast, & not forsake it: For my conscience reproueth me not in all my conuersacion. ⁷ Therfore myne enemy shalbe founde as the vngodly, & he yt taketh parte agaynst me, as the vnrightuous.

¹² For I delyuered ye poore whe he cried, & the fatherlesse yt wanted helpe. ¹³ He yt shulde haue bene lost, gaue me a good worde, & ye widdowes hert praised me. ¹⁴ And why? I put vpon me rightuousnes, which couered me as a garmet, & equite was my crowne. ¹⁵ I was an eye vnto the blynde, & a fote to the lame. ¹⁶ I was a father vnto the poore, & whe I knew not their cause, I sought it out diligetly. ¹⁷ I brake the chaftes of ye vnrightuous, & plucte the spoyle out of their teth.

¹ I made a couenaunt wt myne eyes, yt I wolde not loke vpo a dasell. ² For how greate a porcio shal I haue of God fro aboue? & what enheritauce fro ye Almightie on hie? ³ As for the vngodly & he yt ioyneth himself to ye copani of wicked doers shal not destruccion & misery came vpon him? ⁴ Doth not he se my wayes, & tell all my goinges? ⁵ Yf I haue cleued vnto vanite, or yf my fete haue runne to disceaue: ⁶ let me be weyed in an eauen balaunce, that God maye se my innocency. ⁷ Yf so be that I haue withdrawen my fote out of the right waye, yf my hert hath folowed myne eyesight, yf I haue stayned or defyled my hodes: ⁸ O then is it reason that I sowe, and another eate: yee that my generacion and posterite be clene roted out. ⁹ Yf my hert hath lusted after my neghbours wife, or yf I haue layed wayte at his dore: ¹⁰ O then let my wife be another mans harlot, and let other lye with her. ¹¹ For this is a wickednesse and synne, that is worthy to be punyshed, ¹² yee a fyre that vtterly shulde consume, & rote out all my substaunce. ¹³ Dyd I euer thynke scorne to do right vnto my seruautes and maydens, when they had eny matter agaynst me? ¹⁴ But seynge that God wil sytt in iudgment, what shal I do? And for so moch as he wil nedes vyset me, what answere shal I geue him? ¹⁵ He that fashioned me in my mothers wombe, made he not him also? were we not both shappen alyke in oure mothers bodies? ¹⁶ When the poore desyred enythinge at me, haue I denyed it them? Haue I caused ye wyddowe stonde waytinge for me in vayne? ¹⁷ Haue I eaten my porcion alone, that the fatherles hath had no parte with me? ¹⁸ (for mercy grewe vp with me fro my youth, & compassion fro my mothers wombe.) ¹⁹ Haue I sene eny man perish thorow nakednes & want of clothinge? Or, eny poore man for lack of rayment, ²⁰ whose sydes thanked me not, because he was warmed wt ye woll of my shepe? ²¹ Dyd I euer lyft vp my honde to hurte the fatherlesse? Yee in the gate where I sawe my self to be in auctorite: ²² The let myne arme fall fro my shulder, & myne arme holes be broken from the ioyntes. ²³ For I haue euer feared ye vengeaunce & punyshmet of God, & knew very well, yt I was not able to beare his burthe. ²⁴ Haue I put my trust in golde? Or, haue I sayde to the fynest golde of all: thou art my cofidence? ²⁵ Haue I reioysed because my substaunce was greate, and because my honde gat so moch? ²⁶ Dyd I euer greatly regarde the rysinge of the Sonne? Or, had I the goinge downe of ye Moone in greate reputacion? ²⁷ Hath my hert medled priuely wt eny disceate? Or, dyd I euer kysse myne owne honde ²⁸ (that were a wickednesse worthy to be punyshed, for then shulde I haue denyed the God that is aboue.) ²⁹ Haue I euer reioysed at the hurte of myne enemy? Or, was I euer glad, yt eny harme happened vnto him? Oh no, ³⁰ I neuer suffred my mouth to do soch a sinne, as to wysh him euell. ³¹ Yet they of myne owne housholde saye: who shal let vs, to haue oure bely ful of his flesh? ³² I haue not suffred a straunger to lye wt out, but opened my dores vnto him. ³³ Haue I euer done eny wicked dede where thorow I shamed my self before men: Or eny abhominacion, yt I was fayne to hyde it? ³⁴ For yf I had feared eny greate multitude of people: Or yf I had bene dispysed of ye symple, Oh then shulde I haue bene afrayed. Thus haue I quyetly spent my lyfe, and not gone out at ye dore. ³⁵ O that I had one which wolde heare me. Lo, this is my cause. Let ye Allmightie geue me answere: & let him that is my cotrary party, sue me with a lybell. ³⁶ Then shall I take it vpon my shulder, & as a garlade aboute my heade. ³⁷ I haue tolde the nombre of my goinges, and delyuered them vnto him as to a prynce. ³⁸ But yf case be that my londe crie agaynst me, or yt the forowes therof make eny complaynte: ³⁹ yf I haue eaten the frutes therof vnpayed for, yee yf I haue greued eny of the plow men: ⁴⁰ Than, let thistles growe in steade of my wheate, & thornes for my barlye.Here ende the wordes of Iob.

³ O LORDE my God, yff I haue done eny soch thinge: yf there be eny vnrightuousnes in my hades: ⁴ Yff I haue rewarded euell vnto the yt dealt frendly wt me or hurte the yt wt out eny cause are myne enemies: ⁵ Then let myne enemie persecute my soule, & take me: yee let hi treade my life downe in the earth, & laye myne honor in the dust.

¹⁷ For the voyce of the slaunderer & blasphemer, for the enemie and auenger. ¹⁸ All this is come vpon vs, & yet haue we not forgotten the, ner behaued oure selues vnfaithfully in thy couenaunt. ¹⁹ Oure hert is not turned backe, nether oure steppes gone out of thy waye. ²⁰ That thou smytest vs so in the place of the serpet, & couerest vs with ye shadowe of death. ²¹ Yf we had forgotten the name of oure God, & holde vp oure hondes to eny straunge God: Shulde not God fynde it out? for he knoweth the very secretes of the hert.

¹⁸ (Yff I enclyne vnto wickednes with my herte, ye LORDE wil not heare me.) ¹⁹ Therfore God hath herde me, ad considred the voyce off my prayer.

⁸ The LORDE abhorreth ye sacrifice of the vngodly, but the prayer of the rightuous is acceptable vnto him.

⁶ Their webbe maketh no clothe, & they maye not couer the wt their labours. Their dedes are ye dedes of wickednes, & ye worke of robbery is in their hodes.

⁸ but put on sack cloth both man and beest, and crye mightely vnto God: yee se that euery man turne fro his euell waye, and from the wickednesse, yt he hath in honde.

⁸ I wil therfore that men praye in all places, liftinge vp pure hades without wrath or dowtynge.