Job 9:34 Cross References - Coverdale

³⁴ Let him take his rod awaye fro me, yee let him make me nomore afrayed of him,

¹¹ Shall he not make you afrayed, when he sheweth himself? Shal not his terrible feare fall vpo you?

²⁰ Neuerthelesse graunte me ij. thinges, and then will I not hyde my self from the. ²¹ Withdrawe thine honde fro me, & let not the fearfull drede of the make me afrayed. ²² And then sende for me to the lawe, yt I maye answere for my self: or els, let me speake, and geue thou the answere.

¹⁵ This is ye cause, that I shrenke at his presence, so that when I considre him, I am afrayed of him.

² O yt I were as I was in the monethes by past, & in the dayes whe God preserued me: ³ when his light shyned vpon my heade: whe I wente after the same light & shyne eue thorow the darcknesse. ⁴ As it stode wt me, whe I was welthy & had ynough: whe God prospered my house: ⁵ when the allmightie was with me: when my housholde folkes stode aboute me: ⁶ whe my wayes ranne ouer wt butter, & when the stony rockes gaue me ryuers of oyle: ⁷ when I wente thorow the cite vnto the gate, & whe they set me a chayre in ye strete: ⁸ whe the yonge me (as soone as they sawe me) hyd the selues, & when the aged arose, & stode vp vnto me: ⁹ whe the princes left of their talkinge, & laied their hade to their mouth: ¹⁰ whe the mightie kepte still their voyce, and whe their tonges cleued to the rofe of their mouthes. ¹¹ When all they yt herde me, called me happie: & when all they yt sawe me, wysshed me good. 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. ¹⁸ Therfore, I thought verely, yt I shulde haue dyed in my nest: & yt my dayes shulde haue bene as many as the sondes of the see. ¹⁹ For my rote was spred out by the waters syde, & the dew laye vpo my corne. ²⁰ My honor encreased more & more, and my bowe was euer the stronger in my hande. ²¹ Vnto me men gaue eare, me they regarded, & wt sylence they taried for my coucell. ²² Yf I had spoken, they wolde haue it none other wayes, my wordes were so well taken amonge the. ²³ They wayted for me, as the earth doth for the rayne: & gaped vpon me, as the groude doth to receaue the latter shower. ²⁴ When I laughed, they knew well it was not earnest: & this testimony of my coutenaunce pleased the nothinge at all. ²⁵ When I agreed vnto their waye, I was the chefe, & sat as a kynge amonge his seruauntes: Or as one that comforteth soch as be in heuynesse.

²³ For I haue euer feared ye vengeaunce & punyshmet of God, & knew very well, yt I was not able to beare his burthe.

⁷ Therfore, thou nedest not be afrayed of me, nether nedest thou to feare, that my auctorite shal be to heuy for the.

¹ At this my hert is astonnied, and moued out of his place.

¹⁰ I kepe sylece, and open not my mouth, for thou hast done it. Turne thy plages awaye fro me, for I am cosumed thorow the feare of thy hade.

¹¹ But who regardeth the power of thy wrath, thy fearfull & terrible displeasure?