Job 1:1 Cross References - Coverdale

¹ In the lode of Hus there was a man called Iob: an innocent and vertuous man, soch one as feared God, and eschued euell.

⁹ This is ye generacion of Noe. Noe was a righteous and parfecte ma, and led a godly life in his tyme,

²³ The childre of Aram are these: Vz, Hul, Gether & Mas.

¹ Now whan Abram was nyentye yeare olde and nyene, the LORDE appeared vnto him, & sayde vnto him: I am the allmightie God, walke before me, & be vncorrupte.

¹² He sayde: Laye not thy handes vpon the childe, & do nothinge vnto him: for now I knowe that thou fearest God, and hast not spared thine onely sonne for my sake.

²⁰ After these actes it fortuned, that it was tolde Abraham: Beholde, Milca hath borne children also vnto thy brother Nahor: ²¹ namely, Hus ye eldest, and Bus his brother, and Kemnel, of whom came the Syrians:

²⁸ The children of Disan were: Vz & Aran.

²¹ But loke out amonge all the people, for honest men, that feare God, soch as are true, & hate couetousnes: make these rulers ouer them, some ouer thousandes, ouer hundredes, ouer fiftie, and ouer ten,

³ Remembre (O LORDE) that I haue walked faithfully before the, & with a perfecte hert, and haue done yt which is good in thy syghte. And Ezechias wepte sore.

¹⁷ The childre of Sem are these: Elam, Assur, Arphachsad, Lud, Aram, Vz, Hul, Gether & Masech.

⁴² The children of Ezer are: Bilhan, Seauan & Acan. The children of Disan are: Vz and Aran.

²⁰ Thus dyd Ezechias in all Iuda, and dyd that which was good, righte and true in the sighte of the LORDE his God. ²¹ And in all the busynes that he toke in hade concernynge the seruyce of the house of God, acordinge to the lawe and commaundement, to seke his God, that dyd he with all his hert, and therfore prospered he well.

⁸ Then sayde the LORDE vnto Satha: hast thou not considered my seruaunt Iob, how that he is an innocet and vertuous ma: soch one as feareth God, and eschueth euell, and that there is none like him in the londe?

³ Then sayde the LORDE vnto Sathan: Hast thou not considered my seruaunt Iob, how that he is an innocent & vertuous man soch one as feareth God, and eschueth euell, and that there is none like him in the londe? But thou mouedest me agaynst him, to punysh him: yet is it in vayne, for he contynueth still in his godlynesse.

¹¹ Neuertheles my fete kepe his path, his hye strete haue I holden, and not gone out of it. ¹² I haue not forsaken the comaundemet of his lippes, but loke what he charged me with his mouth, that haue I shutt vp in my herte.

²⁸ And vnto man he sayde: Beholde, to feare the LORDE, is wy?dome: & to forsake euell, is vnderstondinge.

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.

¹³ With me is the feare of the LORDE, and ye eschuynge of euell. As for pryde, disdayne, an euell waye, & a mouth that speaketh wicked thiges, I vtterly abhorre the.

⁶ With louynge mercy & faithfulnesse synnes be forgeuen, and who so feareth ye LORDE eschueth euell.

²⁰ and all kinges of the londe of Hus, all kinges of the Philistynes londe, Ascalon, Gaza, Accaron & the remnaunt of A?dod,

²¹ And thou (O doughter Edom) that dwellest in the londe of Hus, be glad and reioyce: for the cuppe shal come vnto the also, which whe thou suppest of, thou shalt be droncke.

¹⁴ And though Noe, Daniel and Iob these thre men were amonge them, yet shal they in their rightuousnesse delyuer but their owne soules, saieth the LORDE God.

²⁰ and yf Noe, Daniel and Iob were therin: As truly as I lyue (saieth the LORDE God) they shal delyuer nether sonnes ner doughters, but saue their owne soules in their rightuousnesse.

⁶ They were both righteous before God, and walked in all the commaundementes and statutes of the LORDE vnreproueably.

¹¹ Beholde we counte them happy which endure. Ye haue hearde of ye paciece of Iob, and haue knowen what ende the LORDE made. For the LORDE is very pitifull and mercifull.

¹¹ Let him eschue euell, & do good: Let him seke peace and ensue it.