Job 9 Cross References - Geneva

¹ Then Iob answered, and sayd, ² I knowe verily that it is so: for howe should man compared vnto God, be iustified? ³ If I would dispute with him, hee could not answere him one thing of a thousand. ⁴ He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath bene fierce against him and hath prospered? ⁵ He remoueth the mountaines, and they feele not when he ouerthroweth them in his wrath. ⁶ Hee remooueth the earth out of her place, that the pillars thereof doe shake. ⁷ He commandeth the sunne, and it riseth not: hee closeth vp the starres, as vnder a signet. ⁸ Hee himselfe alone spreadeth out the heauens, and walketh vpon the height of the sea. ⁹ He maketh the starres Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the climates of the South. ¹⁰ He doeth great things, and vnsearcheable: yea, marueilous things without nomber. ¹¹ Lo, when he goeth by me, I see him not: and when he passeth by, I perceiue him not. ¹² Behold, when he taketh a pray, who can make him to restore it? who shall say vnto him, What doest thou? ¹³ God will not withdrawe his anger, and the most mightie helpes doe stoupe vnder him. ¹⁴ Howe much lesse shall I answere him? or howe should I finde out my words with him? ¹⁵ For though I were iust, yet could I not answere, but I would make supplication to my Iudge. ¹⁶ If I cry, and he answere me, yet woulde I not beleeue, that he heard my voyce. ¹⁷ For he destroyeth mee with a tempest, and woundeth me without cause. ¹⁸ He wil not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitternesse. ¹⁹ If we speake of strength, behold, he is strog: if we speake of iudgement, who shall bring me in to pleade? ²⁰ If I woulde iustifie my selfe, mine owne mouth shall condemne mee: if I would be perfite, he shall iudge me wicked. ²¹ Though I were perfite, yet I knowe not my soule: therefore abhorre I my life. ²² This is one point: therefore I said, Hee destroyeth the perfite and the wicked. ²³ If the scourge should suddenly slay, should God laugh at the punishment of the innocent? ²⁴ The earth is giuen into the hand of ye wicked: he couereth the faces of the iudges therof: if not, where is he? or who is he? ²⁵ My dayes haue bene more swift then a post: they haue fled, and haue seene no good thing. ²⁶ They are passed as with the most swift ships, and as the eagle that flyeth to the pray. ²⁷ If I say, I wil forget my complaynt, I will cease from my wrath, and comfort mee, ²⁸ Then I am afrayd of all my sorowes, knowing that thou wilt not iudge me innocent. ²⁹ If I be wicked, why labour I thus in vaine? ³⁰ If I wash my selfe with snowe water, and purge mine hands most cleane, ³¹ Yet shalt thou plunge mee in the pit, and mine owne clothes shall make me filthie. ³² For he is not a man as I am, that I shoulde answere him, if we come together to iudgement. ³³ Neyther is there any vmpire that might lay his hand vpon vs both. ³⁴ Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his feare astonish me: ³⁵ Then will I speake, and feare him not: but because I am not so, I holde me still.

⁶ Againe God said, Let there be a firmament in the mids of the waters: and let it separate the waters from the waters. ⁷ Then God made the firmament, and separated the waters, which were vnder the firmament, from the waters which were aboue the firmament: and it was so.

¹⁶ God then made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesse light to rule the night: he made also the starres.

⁹ So Moses told the children of Israel thus: but they hearkened not vnto Moses, for anguish of spirit and for cruel bondage.

¹⁴ For I will at this time send all my plagues vpon thine heart, and vpon thy seruants, and vpon thy people, that thou mayest knowe that there is none like me in all the earth. ¹⁵ For nowe I will stretch out mine hande, that I may smite thee and thy people with the pestilence: and thou shalt perish from the earth. ¹⁶ And in deede, for this cause haue I appointed thee, to shewe my power in thee, and to declare my Name throughout all the world. ¹⁷ Yet thou exaltest thy selfe against my people, and lettest them not goe.

²¹ Againe ye Lord said vnto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heauen, that there may be vpon the lande of Egypt darkenesse, euen darkenesse that may be felt. ²² Then Moses stretched forth his hande towarde heauen, and there was a blacke darkenesse in all the land of Egypt three daies.

¹⁷ And I, beholde, I will harden the heart of the Egyptians, that they may follow them, and I wil get me honour vpon Pharaoh, and vpon all his host, vpon his charets, and vpon his horsemen. ¹⁸ Then the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I haue gotten me honour vpon Pharaoh, vpon his charets, and vpon his horsemen.

¹¹ Who is like vnto thee, O Lord, among the Gods! who is like thee so glorious in holinesse, fearefull in prayses, doing wonders!

⁷ Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vaine: for the Lord will not hold him guiltles that taketh his Name in vayne.

⁵ And these are the names of the men that shall stand with you, of the tribe of Reuben, Elizur, the sonne of Shedeur: ⁶ Of Simeon, Shelumiel the sonne of Zurishaddai:

¹⁹ God is not as man, that he should lie, neither as the sonne of man that he shoulde repent: hath he sayde and shall he not do it? and hath he spoken, and shall he not accomplish it?

¹² Then spake Ioshua to the Lord, in the day when the Lord gaue the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he sayd in the sight of Israel, Sunne, stay thou in Gibeon, and thou moone, in the valley of Aialon.

¹³ To whome Gideon answered, Ah my Lord, if the Lord be with vs, why then is all this come vpon vs? and where be all his miracles which our fathers tolde vs of, and sayd, Did not the Lord bring vs out of Egypt? but now the Lord hath forsaken vs, and deliuered vs into the hand of the Midianites.

⁸ He raiseth vp ye poore out of the dust, and lifteth vp the begger from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherite the seate of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lordes, and he hath set the world vpon them.

²⁵ If one man sinne against another, the Iudge shall iudge it: but if a man sinne against the Lord, who will pleade for him? Notwithstanding they obeyed not the voyce of their father, because the Lord would slay them.

⁷ But the Lord said vnto Samuel, Looke not on his countenance, nor on the height of his stature, because I haue refused him: for God seeth not as man seeth: for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord beholdeth the heart.

²³ Saul and Ionathan were louely and pleasant in their liues, and in their deaths they were not deuided: they were swifter then eagles, they were stronger then lions.

¹⁵ Nowe therefore that I am come to speake of this thing vnto my lord the King, the cause is that the people haue made me afrayd: therefore thine handmayde sayd, Nowe will I speake vnto the King: it may be that the King will perfourme the request of his handmayde.

¹⁷ Therefore thine handmaid sayd, The word of my lord the King shall now be comfortable: for my lorde the King is euen as an Angel of God in hearing of good and bad: therefore the Lord thy God be with thee.

³⁰ And Dauid went vp the mount of oliues and wept as he went vp, and had his head couered, and went barefooted: and al the people that was with him, had euery man his head couered, and as they went vp, they wept.

⁴ So the King hid his face, and the King cryed with a loude voyce, My sonne Absalom, Absalom my sonne, my sonne.

¹⁶ Then came two harlots vnto the King, and stoode before him. ¹⁷ And the one woman sayd, Oh my lorde, I and this woman dwell in one house, and I was deliuered of a childe with her in the house. ¹⁸ And the third day after that I was deliuered, this woman was deliuered also: and we were in the house together: no stranger was with vs in the house, saue we twaine. ¹⁹ And this womans sonne died in the night: for she ouerlay him. ²⁰ And she rose at midnight, and tooke my sonne from my side, while thine handmaide slept, and layde him in her bosome, and layde her dead sonne in my bosome. ²¹ And when I rose in the morning to giue my sonne sucke, beholde, he was dead: and when I had well considered him in the morning, beholde, it was not my sonne, whom I had borne. ²² Then the other woman sayd, Nay, but my sonne liueth, and thy sonne is dead. Againe she sayde, No, but thy sonne is dead, and mine aliue: thus they spake before the King. ²³ Then sayde the King, She sayth, This that liueth is my sonne, and the dead is thy sonne: and the other sayth, Nay, but the dead is thy sonne, and the liuing is my sonne. ²⁴ Then the King said, Bring me a sworde: and they brought out a sworde before the King. ²⁵ And the King sayde, Deuide ye the liuing child in twaine, and giue the one halfe to the one, and the other halfe to the other. ²⁶ Then spake the woman, whose the liuing child was, vnto the King, for her compassion was kindled toward her sonne, and she sayde, Oh my lorde, giue her the liuing childe, and slay him not: but the other sayde, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but deuide it. ²⁷ Then the King answered, and sayde, Giue her the liuing childe, and slay him not: this is his mother. ²⁸ And all Israel heard the iudgement, which the King had iudged, and they feared the King: for they sawe that the wisedome of God was in him to doe iustice.

²⁷ Is it true in deede that God will dwell on the earth? beholde, the heauens, and the heauens of heauens are not able to conteine thee: howe much more vnable is this house that I haue built?

³⁸ Then what prayer, and supplication so euer shalbe made of any man or of all thy people Israel, when euery one shall knowe the plague in his owne heart, and stretch foorth his handes in this house, ³⁹ Heare thou then in heauen, in thy dwelling place, and be mercifull, and doe, and giue euery man according to all his wayes, as thou knowest his heart, (for thou only knowest the heartes of all the children of men)

⁴⁶ If they sinne against thee, ( for there is no man that sinneth not) and thou be angry with them, and deliuer them vnto the enemies, so that they cary them away prisoners vnto the land of the enemies, either farre or neere,

¹² And behold, this God is with vs, as a captaine, and his Priests with the sounding trumpets, to crie an alarme against you. O yee children of Israel, fight not against the Lord God of your fathers: for ye shall not prosper.

¹³ And prayed vnto him: and God was entreated of him, and heard his prayer, and brought him againe to Ierusalem into his kingdome: then Manasseh knewe that the Lord was God.

¹² And Mordecai came againe to the Kings gate, but Haman hasted home mourning and his head couered.

⁸ And when the King came againe out of the palace garden, into the house where they dranke wine, Haman was fallen vpon the bed whereon Ester sate! therefore the King sayd, Will he force the Queene also before me in the house? As the worde went out of the Kings mouth, they couered Hamans face.

¹⁴ So the postes rode vpon beasts of price, and dromedaries, and went forth with speede, to execute the Kings commandement, and the decree was giuen at Shushan the palace.

¹ There was a man in the lande of Vz called Iob, and this man was an vpright and iust man, one that feared God, and eschewed euill.

¹³ And on a day, when his sonnes and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brothers house, ¹⁴ There came a messenger vnto Iob, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding in their places, ¹⁵ And the Shabeans came violently, and tooke them: yea, they haue slayne the seruants with the edge of the sworde: but I onely am escaped alone to tell thee. ¹⁶ And whiles he was yet speaking, another came, and sayde, The fire of God is fallen from the heauen, and hath burnt vp the sheepe and the seruants, and deuoured them: but I onely am escaped alone to tell thee. ¹⁷ And whiles he was yet speaking, another came, and sayd, The Caldeans set on three bands, and fell vpon the camels, and haue taken them, and haue slayne the seruantes with the edge of the sworde: but I onely am escaped alone to tell thee. ¹⁸ And whiles he was yet speaking, came an other, and sayd, Thy sonnes, and thy daughters were eating, and drinking wine in their eldest brothers house, ¹⁹ And behold, there came a great wind from beyonde the wildernesse, and smote the foure corners of the house, which fel vpon the children, and they are dead, and I onely am escaped alone to tell thee.

³ And the Lord sayd vnto Satan, Hast thou not considered my seruant Iob, how none is like him in the earth? an vpright and iust man, one that feareth God, and escheweth euill? for yet he continueth in his vprightnesse, although thou mouedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.

⁷ So Satan departed from the presence of the Lord, and smote Iob with sore boyles, from the sole of his foote vnto his crowne.

¹³ So they sate by him vpon the ground seuen dayes, and seuen nights, and none spake a worde vnto him: for they sawe, that the griefe was very great.

²⁰ Wherefore is the light giuen to him that is in miserie? and life vnto them that haue heauie hearts?

²⁵ For the thing I feared, is come vpon me, and the thing that I was afraid of, is come vnto me.

⁷ Remember, I pray thee: who euer perished, being an innocent? or where were the vpright destroyed?

¹⁷ Shall man be more iust then God? or shall a man be more pure then his maker?

¹⁹ Howe much more in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which shalbe destroyed before the moth?

⁸ But I would inquire at God, and turne my talke vnto God: ⁹ Which doeth great things and vnsearchable, and marueilous things without nomber.

¹⁰ Then should I yet haue comfort, (though I burne with sorowe, let him not spare) because I haue not denyed the wordes of the Holy one.

⁶ My dayes are swifter then a weauers shittle, and they are spent without hope. ⁷ Remember that my life is but a wind, and that mine eye shall not returne to see pleasure.

¹¹ Therefore I will not spare my mouth, but will speake in the trouble of my spirite, and muse in the bitternesse of my minde.

¹³ When I say, My couch shall relieue me, and my bed shall bring comfort in my meditation,

¹⁵ Therefore my soule chuseth rather to be strangled and to die, then to be in my bones. ¹⁶ I abhorre it, I shall not liue alway: spare me then, for my dayes are but vanitie.

¹⁹ Howe long will it be yer thou depart from me? thou wilt not let me alone whiles I may swallowe my spettle.

²¹ And why doest thou not pardon my trespasse? and take away mine iniquitie? for nowe shall I sleepe in the dust, and if thou seekest me in the morning, I shall not be found.

⁵ Yet if thou wilt early seeke vnto God, and pray to the Almightie,

²⁰ Behold, God will not cast away an vpright man, neither will he take the wicked by the hand,

² I knowe verily that it is so: for howe should man compared vnto God, be iustified? ³ If I would dispute with him, hee could not answere him one thing of a thousand. ⁴ He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath bene fierce against him and hath prospered?

¹⁹ If we speake of strength, behold, he is strog: if we speake of iudgement, who shall bring me in to pleade? ²⁰ If I woulde iustifie my selfe, mine owne mouth shall condemne mee: if I would be perfite, he shall iudge me wicked.

²⁰ If I woulde iustifie my selfe, mine owne mouth shall condemne mee: if I would be perfite, he shall iudge me wicked. ²¹ Though I were perfite, yet I knowe not my soule: therefore abhorre I my life. ²² This is one point: therefore I said, Hee destroyeth the perfite and the wicked.

³² For he is not a man as I am, that I shoulde answere him, if we come together to iudgement. ³³ Neyther is there any vmpire that might lay his hand vpon vs both.

² I will say vnto God, Condemne mee not: shew me, wherefore thou contendest with mee. ³ Thinkest thou it good to oppresse me, and to cast off the labour of thine handes, and to fauour the counsel of the wicked?

⁷ Thou knowest that I can not do wickedly: for none can deliuer me out of thine hand. ⁸ Thine handes haue made me, and fashioned mee wholy rounde about, and wilt thou destroy me?

¹⁴ If I haue sinned, then thou wilt streightly looke vnto me, and wilt not holde mee giltlesse of mine iniquitie.

¹⁴ If I haue sinned, then thou wilt streightly looke vnto me, and wilt not holde mee giltlesse of mine iniquitie. ¹⁵ If I haue done wickedly, wo vnto me: if I haue done righteously, I will not lift vp mine head, being full of confusion, because I see mine affliction.

¹⁵ If I haue done wickedly, wo vnto me: if I haue done righteously, I will not lift vp mine head, being full of confusion, because I see mine affliction. ¹⁶ But let it increase: hunt thou me as a lyon: returne and shew thy selfe marueilous vpon me. ¹⁷ Thou renuest thy plagues against me, and thou increasest thy wrath against me: changes and armies of sorowes are against me.

⁴ For thou hast sayde, My doctrine is pure, and I am cleane in thine eyes. ⁵ But, oh that God would speake and open his lippes against thee! ⁶ That he might shewe thee the secretes of wisedome, howe thou hast deserued double, according to right: know therefore that God hath forgotten thee for thine iniquitie.

¹⁰ If hee cut off and shut vp, or gather together, who can turne him backe?

⁶ The tabernacles of robbers doe prosper, and they are in safetie, that prouoke God, whome God hath enriched with his hand. ⁷ Aske now the beasts, and they shall teach thee, and the foules of the heauen, and they shall tell thee: ⁸ Or speake to the earth, and it shall shewe thee: or the fishes of the sea, and they shall declare vnto thee. ⁹ Who is ignorant of all these, but that the hande of the Lord hath made these? ¹⁰ In whose hande is the soule of euery liuing thing, and the breath of all mankinde.

¹³ With him is wisedome and strength: he hath counsell and vnderstanding.

¹⁷ He causeth the counsellers to goe as spoyled, and maketh the iudges fooles.

¹¹ Shall not his excellencie make you afraid? and his feare fall vpon you?

¹⁸ Beholde nowe: if I prepare me to iudgement, I knowe that I shalbe iustified. ¹⁹ Who is he, that will pleade with me? for if I nowe holde my tongue, I dye. ²⁰ But doe not these two things vnto me: then will I not hide my selfe from thee.

²⁰ But doe not these two things vnto me: then will I not hide my selfe from thee. ²¹ Withdrawe thine hande from me, and let not thy feare make me afraide.

²¹ Withdrawe thine hande from me, and let not thy feare make me afraide. ²² Then call thou, and I will answere: or let me speake, and answere thou me.

²² Then call thou, and I will answere: or let me speake, and answere thou me. ²³ Howe many are mine iniquities and sinnes? shewe me my rebellion, and my sinne.

³ And yet thou openest thine eyes vpon such one, and causest me to enter into iudgement with thee. ⁴ Who can bring a cleane thing out of filthinesse? there is not one.

¹⁶ But nowe thou nombrest my steppes, and doest not delay my sinnes.

⁵ For thy mouth declareth thine iniquitie, seeing thou hast chosen ye tongue of the crafty. ⁶ Thine owne mouth condemneth thee, and not I, and thy lippes testifie against thee.

⁶ Thine owne mouth condemneth thee, and not I, and thy lippes testifie against thee.

²³ He wandreth to and from for bread where he may: he knoweth that the day of darkenesse is prepared at hande. ²⁴ Affliction and anguish shall make him afraide: they shall preuaile against him as a King readie to the battell. ²⁵ For he hath stretched out his hand against GOD, and made him selfe strong against the Almightie. ²⁶ Therefore God shall runne vpon him, euen vpon his necke, and against the most thicke part of his shielde. ²⁷ Because he hath couered his face with his fatnesse, and hath colloppes in his flancke.

¹¹ God hath deliuered me to the vniust, and hath made mee to turne out of the way by the hands of the wicked. ¹² I was in welth, but he hath brought me to nought: he hath taken me by the necke, and beaten me, and set me as a marke for himselfe.

¹⁴ He hath broken me with one breaking vpon another, and runneth vpon me like a gyant.

¹⁷ Though there be no wickednesse in mine hands, and my prayer be pure.

⁶ Euen when I remember, I am afrayde, and feare taketh hold on my flesh. ⁷ Wherefore do the wicked liue, and waxe olde, and grow in wealth? ⁸ Their seede is established in their sight with them, and their generation before their eyes. ⁹ Their houses are peaceable without feare, and the rod of God is not vpon them. ¹⁰ Their bullocke gendreth, and fayleth not: their cow calueth, and casteth not her calfe. ¹¹ They send forth their children like sheepe, and their sonnes dance. ¹² They take the tabret and harpe, and reioyce in the sound of the organs. ¹³ They spend their dayes in wealth, and suddenly they go downe to the graue. ¹⁴ They say also vnto God, Depart from vs: for we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes. ¹⁵ Who is the Almightie, that we should serue him? and what profit should we haue, if we should pray vnto him? ¹⁶ Lo, their wealth is not in their hand: therfore let the counsell of the wicked bee farre from me. ¹⁷ How oft shall the candle of the wicked be put out? and their destruction come vpon them? he wil deuide their liues in his wrath.

²⁷ Behold, I know your thoughts, and the enterprises, wherewith ye do me wrong.

⁵ Is not thy wickednes great, and thine iniquities innumerable? ⁶ For thou hast taken the pledge from thy brother for nought, and spoyled the clothes of the naked. ⁷ To such as were wearie, thou hast not giuen water to drinke, and hast withdrawen bread from the hungrie. ⁸ But the mightie man had the earth, and he that was in autoritie, dwelt in it. ⁹ Thou hast cast out widowes emptie, and the armes of the fatherles were broken. ¹⁰ Therefore snares are round about thee, and feare shall suddenly trouble thee: ¹¹ Or darkenes that thou shouldest not see, and abundance of waters shall couer thee. ¹² Is not God on hie in the heauen? and behold the height of the starres how hie they are. ¹³ But thou sayest, How should God know? can he iudge through the darke cloude? ¹⁴ The cloudes hide him that he can not see, and he walketh in the circle of heauen. ¹⁵ Hast thou marked the way of the worlde, wherein wicked men haue walked? ¹⁶ Which were cut downe before the time, whose foundation was as a riuer that ouerflowed: ¹⁷ Which sayd vnto God, Depart from vs, and asked what the Almightie could do for them. ¹⁸ Yet hee filled their houses with good things: but let the counsell of the wicked be farre from me. ¹⁹ The righteous shall see them, and shall reioyce, and the innocent shall laugh them to scorne. ²⁰ Surely our substance is hid: but the fire hath deuoured the remnant of them. ²¹ Therefore acquaint thy selfe, I pray thee, with him, and make peace: thereby thou shalt haue prosperitie. ²² Receiue, I pray thee, the law of his mouth, and lay vp his words in thine heart. ²³ If thou returne to the Almightie, thou shalt be buylt vp, and thou shalt put iniquitie farre from thy tabernacle. ²⁴ Thou shalt lay vp golde for dust, and the gold of Ophir, as the flintes of the riuers. ²⁵ Yea, the Almightie shalbe thy defence, and thou shalt haue plentie of siluer. ²⁶ And thou shalt then delite in the Almightie, and lift vp thy face vnto God. ²⁷ Thou shalt make thy praier vnto him, and he shall heare thee, and thou shalt render thy vowes.

²⁷ Thou shalt make thy praier vnto him, and he shall heare thee, and thou shalt render thy vowes. ²⁸ Thou shalt also decree a thing, and he shall establish it vnto thee, and the light shall shine vpon thy wayes. ²⁹ When others are cast downe, then shalt thou say, I am lifted vp: and God shall saue the humble person. ³⁰ The innocent shall deliuer the yland, and it shalbe preserued by the purenes of thine hands.

³ Would God yet I knew how to finde him, I would enter vnto his place. ⁴ I would pleade the cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

⁴ I would pleade the cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. ⁵ I would knowe the wordes, that he would answere me, and would vnderstand what he would say vnto me. ⁶ Would he plead against me with his great power? No, but he would put strength in me. ⁷ There the righteous might reason with him, so I shoulde be deliuered for euer from my Iudge.

⁷ There the righteous might reason with him, so I shoulde be deliuered for euer from my Iudge. ⁸ Behold, if I go to the East, he is not there: if to the West, yet I can not perceiue him: ⁹ If to the North where he worketh, yet I cannot see him: he wil hide himselfe in the South, and I cannot beholde him.

¹³ Yet he is in one minde, and who can turne him? yea, he doeth what his minde desireth.

¹⁵ Therefore I am troubled at his presence, and in considering it, I am afraid of him.

¹² Men cry out of the citie, and the soules of the slayne cry out: yet God doth not charge them with follie.

²⁵ But if it be not so, where is he? or who wil proue me a lyer, and make my words of no value?

⁴ And howe may a man be iustified with God? or how can he be cleane, that is borne of woman?

⁶ How much more man, a worme, euen the sonne of man, which is but a worme?

¹¹ The pillars of heauen tremble and quake at his reproofe. ¹² The sea is calme by his power, and by his vnderstanding he smiteth the pride thereof.

¹² The sea is calme by his power, and by his vnderstanding he smiteth the pride thereof. ¹³ His Spirite hath garnished the heauens, and his hand hath formed the crooked serpent. ¹⁴ Loe, these are part of his wayes: but how litle a portion heare we of him? and who can vnderstand his fearefull power?

² The liuing God hath taken away my iudgement: for the Almightie hath put my soule in bitternesse.

⁹ He putteth his hand vpon the rockes, and ouerthroweth the mountaines by the rootes.

² Oh that I were as in times past, when God preserued me! ³ When his light shined vpon mine head: and when by his light I walked thorowe the darkenesse, ⁴ As I was in the dayes of my youth: when Gods prouidence was vpon my tabernacle: ⁵ When the almightie was yet with me, and my children round about me. ⁶ When I washed my pathes with butter, and when the rocke powred me out riuers of oyle: ⁷ When I went out to the gate, euen to the iudgement seat, and when I caused them to prepare my seate in the streete. ⁸ The yong men saw me, and hid themselues, and the aged arose, and stood vp. ⁹ The princes stayed talke, and layde their hand on their mouth. ¹⁰ The voyce of princes was hidde, and their tongue cleaued to the roofe of their mouth. ¹¹ And when the eare heard me, it blessed me: and when the eye sawe me, it gaue witnesse to me. ¹² For I deliuered the poore that cryed, and the fatherlesse, and him that had none to helpe him. ¹³ The blessing of him that was ready to perish, came vpon me, and I caused the widowes heart to reioyce. ¹⁴ I put on iustice, and it couered me: my iudgement was as a robe, and a crowne. ¹⁵ I was the eyes to the blinde, and I was the feete to the lame. ¹⁶ I was a father vnto the poore, and when I knewe not the cause, I sought it out diligently. ¹⁷ I brake also the chawes of the vnrighteous man, and pluckt the praye out of his teeth. ¹⁸ Then I sayde, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiplie my dayes as the sand. ¹⁹ For my roote is spread out by the water, and the dewe shall lye vpon my branche. ²⁰ My glory shall renue towarde me, and my bowe shall be restored in mine hand. ²¹ Vnto me men gaue eare, and wayted, and helde their tongue at my counsell. ²² After my wordes they replied not, and my talke dropped vpon them. ²³ And they wayted for me, as for the raine, and they opened their mouth as for the latter rayne. ²⁴ If I laughed on them, they beleeued it not: neither did they cause the light of my countenance to fall.

²⁴ If I laughed on them, they beleeued it not: neither did they cause the light of my countenance to fall. ²⁵ I appoynted out their way, and did sit as chiefe, and dwelt as a King in the army, and like him that comforteth the mourners.

²² Thou takest me vp and causest mee to ride vpon the winde, and makest my strength to faile.

⁷ If my steppe hath turned out of the way, or mine heart hath walked after mine eye, or if any blot hath cleaued to mine handes,

²³ For Gods punishment was fearefull vnto me, and I could not be deliuered from his highnes.

³⁵ Oh that I had some to heare me! beholde my signe that the Almightie will witnesse for me: though mine aduersary should write a booke against me,

³⁵ Oh that I had some to heare me! beholde my signe that the Almightie will witnesse for me: though mine aduersary should write a booke against me, ³⁶ Woulde not I take it vpon my shoulder, and binde it as a crowne vnto me? ³⁷ I will tell him the nomber of my goings, and goe vnto him as to a prince.

¹ So these three men ceased to answere Iob, because he esteemed himselfe iust. ² Then the wrath of Elihu the sonne of Barachel the Buzite, of the familie of Ram, was kindled: his wrath, I say, was kindled against Iob, because he iustified himselfe more then God.

² Then the wrath of Elihu the sonne of Barachel the Buzite, of the familie of Ram, was kindled: his wrath, I say, was kindled against Iob, because he iustified himselfe more then God.

⁵ If thou canst giue me answere, prepare thy selfe and stand before me.

⁵ If thou canst giue me answere, prepare thy selfe and stand before me. ⁶ Beholde, I am according to thy wish in Gods stead: I am also formed of the clay. ⁷ Beholde, my terrour shall not feare thee, neither shall mine hand be heauie vpon thee.

⁷ Beholde, my terrour shall not feare thee, neither shall mine hand be heauie vpon thee. ⁸ Doubtles thou hast spoken in mine eares, and I haue heard the voyce of thy wordes. ⁹ I am cleane, without sinne: I am innocent, and there is none iniquitie in me.

⁹ I am cleane, without sinne: I am innocent, and there is none iniquitie in me. ¹⁰ Lo, he hath found occasions against me, and counted me for his enemie. ¹¹ He hath put my feete in the stockes, and looketh narrowly vnto all my paths. ¹² Behold, in this hast thou not done right: I will answere thee, that God is greater then man.

¹² Behold, in this hast thou not done right: I will answere thee, that God is greater then man. ¹³ Why doest thou striue against him? for he doeth not giue account of all his matters.

¹³ Why doest thou striue against him? for he doeth not giue account of all his matters.

⁵ For Iob hath saide, I am righteous, and God hath taken away my iudgement. ⁶ Should I lye in my right? my wound of the arrowe is grieuous without my sinne.

¹⁴ If he set his heart vpon man, and gather vnto him selfe his spirit and his breath, ¹⁵ All flesh shall perish together, and man shall returne vnto dust.

²⁹ And when he giueth quietnesse, who can make trouble? and when he hideth his face, who can beholde him, whether it be vpon nations, or vpon a man onely?

³¹ Surely it appertaineth vnto God to say, I haue pardoned, I will not destroy. ³² But if I see not, teach thou me: if I haue done wickedly, I will doe no more.

³⁵ Iob hath not spoken of knowledge, neyther were his wordes according to wisedome.

⁵ Looke vnto the heauen, and see and behold the cloudes which are hyer then thou. ⁶ If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him, yea, when thy sinnes be many, what doest thou vnto him? ⁷ If thou be righteous, what giuest thou vnto him? or what receiueth he at thine hand?

¹⁴ Although thou sayest to God, Thou wilt not regard it, yet iudgement is before him: trust thou in him.

¹⁶ Therfore Iob openeth his mouth in vaine, and multiplieth wordes without knowledge.

⁵ Behold, the mighty God casteth away none that is mighty and valiant of courage.

¹⁷ But thou art ful of the iudgement of the wicked, though iudgement and equitie maintaine all things. ¹⁸ For Gods wrath is, least hee should take that away in thine abundance: for no multitude of giftes can deliuer thee. ¹⁹ Wil he regard thy riches? he regardeth not golde, nor all them that excel in strength.

¹ At this also mine heart is astonied, and is mooued out of his place.

⁷ With the force thereof he shutteth vp euery man, that all men may knowe his worke.

⁹ The whirlewind commeth out of the South, and the colde from the North winde.

¹⁸ Hast thou stretched out the heaues, which are strong, and as a molten glasse?

²³ It is the Almightie: we can not finde him out: he is excellent in power and iudgement, and aboundant in iustice: he afflicteth not.

⁴ Where wast thou when I layd the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast vnderstanding, ⁵ Who hath layde the measures thereof, if thou knowest, or who hath stretched the line ouer it: ⁶ Whereupon are the foundations thereof set: or who layed the corner stone thereof: ⁷ When the starres of the morning praysed me together, and all the children of God reioyced:

¹¹ And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther, and here shall it stay thy proude waues. ¹² Hast thou commanded the morning since thy dayes? hast thou caused the morning to knowe his place, ¹³ That it might take hold of the corners of the earth, and that the wicked might be shaken out of it? ¹⁴ It is turned as clay to facion, and all stand vp as a garment. ¹⁵ And from the wicked their light shall be taken away, and the hie arme shalbe broken. ¹⁶ Hast thou entred into the bottomes of the sea? or hast thou walked to seeke out the depth?

¹⁹ Where is the way where light dwelleth? and where is the place of darkenesse, ²⁰ That thou shouldest receiue it in the boundes thereof, and that thou shouldest knowe the paths to the house thereof?

³¹ Canst thou restraine the sweete influences of the Pleiades? or loose the bandes of Orion? ³² Canst thou bring foorth Mazzaroth in their time? canst thou also guide Arcturus with his sonnes? ³³ Knowest thou the course of heauen, or canst thou set the rule thereof in the earth? ³⁴ Canst thou lift vp thy voice to the cloudes that the aboundance of water may couer thee? ³⁵ Canst thou sende the lightenings that they may walke, and say vnto thee, Loe, heere we are? ³⁶ Who hath put wisedome in the reines? or who hath giuen the heart vnderstanding? ³⁷ Who can nomber cloudes by wisedome? or who can cause to cease the bottels of heaue, ³⁸ When the earth groweth into hardnesse, and the clottes are fast together? ^{39 40 41}

²⁷ He swalloweth the ground for fearcenes and rage, and he beleeueth not that it is the noise of the trumpet. ²⁸ He sayth among the trumpets, Ha, ha: hee smellleth the battell afarre off, and the noyse of the captaines, and the shouting. ²⁹ Shall the hauke flie by thy wisedome, stretching out his wings toward the South? ³⁰ Doeth the eagle mount vp at thy commandement, or make his nest on hie? [ (Job 39:31) Shee abideth and remaineth in the rocke, euen vpon the toppe of the rocke, and the tower. ] [ (Job 39:32) From thence she spieth for meate, and her eyes beholde afarre off. ] [ (Job 39:33) His young ones also sucke vp blood: and where the slaine are, there is she. ] [ (Job 39:34) Moreouer ye Lord spake vnto Iob, and said, ] [ (Job 39:35) Is this to learne to striue with the Almightie? he that reprooueth God, let him answere to it. ] [ (Job 39:36) Then Iob answered the Lord, saying, ] [ (Job 39:37) Beholde, I am vile: what shall I answere thee? I will lay mine hand vpon my mouth. ] [ (Job 39:38) Once haue I spoken, but I will answere no more, yea twise, but I will proceede no further. ]

² Girde vp now thy loynes like a man: I will demaunde of thee, and declare thou vnto me.

⁹ Then will I confesse vnto thee also, that thy right hand can saue thee.

⁹ Then will I confesse vnto thee also, that thy right hand can saue thee.

⁹ Then will I confesse vnto thee also, that thy right hand can saue thee. ¹⁰ Behold now Behemoth (whom I made with thee) which eateth grasse as an oxe.

¹⁰ Behold now Behemoth (whom I made with thee) which eateth grasse as an oxe. ¹¹ Behold now, his strength is in his loynes, and his force is in the nauil of his belly.

¹⁴ From men by thine hand, O Lord, from men of the world, who haue their portion in this life, whose bellies thou fillest with thine hid treasure: their children haue ynough, and leaue the rest of their substance for their children.

⁶ But in my trouble did I call vpon the Lord, and cryed vnto my God: he heard my voyce out of his Temple, and my crye did come before him, euen into his eares.

¹² Who can vnderstand his faultes? clense me from secret fautes.

³ So all that hope in thee, shall not be ashamed: but let them be confounded, that transgresse without cause.

⁶ I will wash mine handes in innocencie, O Lord, and compasse thine altar,

⁵ The voyce of the Lord breaketh the cedars: yea, the Lord breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.

⁶ By the worde of the Lord were the heauens made, and all the hoste of them by the breath of his mouth.

³³ But the Lord wil not leaue him in his hand, nor condemne him, when he is iudged.

⁵ Beholde, thou hast made my dayes as an hand breadth, and mine age as nothing in respect of thee: surely euery man in his best state is altogether vanitie. Selah.

¹⁰ Take thy plague away from mee: for I am consumed by the stroke of thine hand. ¹¹ When thou with rebukes doest chastise man for iniquitie, thou as a mothe makest his beautie to consume: surely euery man is vanitie. Selah.

¹³ Stay thine anger from me, that I may recouer my strength, before I go hence and be not.

¹² For innumerable troubles haue compassed mee: my sinnes haue taken such holde vpon me, that I am not able to looke vp: yea, they are moe in nomber then the heares of mine head: therefore mine heart hath failed me.

⁷ One deepe calleth another deepe by the noyse of thy water spoutes: all thy waues and thy floods are gone ouer me.

²² Surely for thy sake are we slaine continually, and are counted as sheepe for the slaughter.

² Therefore will not we feare, though the earth be moued, and though the mountaines fall into the middes of the sea.

¹¹ God spake once or twise, I haue heard it, that power belongeth vnto God,

¹⁸ If I regard wickednesse in mine heart, the Lord will not heare me. ¹⁹ But God hath heard me, and considered the voyce of my prayer. ²⁰ Praysed be God, which hath not put backe my prayer, nor his mercie from me.

⁸ The earth shooke, and the heauens dropped at the presence of this God: euen Sinai was moued at the presence of God, euen the God of Israel.

¹⁵ My mouth shall daily rehearse thy righteousnesse, and thy saluation: for I knowe not the nomber.

¹⁸ Blessed be the Lord God, euen the God of Israel, which onely doeth wonderous things.

³ For I feared at the foolish, when I sawe the prosperitie of the wicked. ⁴ For there are no bandes in their death, but they are lustie and strong. ⁵ They are not in trouble as other men, neither are they plagued with other men. ⁶ Therefore pride is as a chayne vnto them, and crueltie couereth them as a garment. ⁷ Their eyes stande out for fatnesse: they haue more then heart can wish.

¹³ Certainely I haue clensed mine heart in vaine, and washed mine hands in innocencie.

³ The earth and all the inhabitantes thereof are dissolued: but I will establish the pillars of it. Selah.

² In the day of my trouble I sought ye Lord: my sore ranne and ceased not in the night: my soule refused comfort. ³ I did thinke vpon God, and was troubled: I praied, and my spirit was full of anguish. Selah.

¹⁹ Thy way is in the Sea, and thy paths in the great waters, and thy footesteps are not knowen.

¹⁵ So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraide with thy storme.

⁷ Thine indignation lyeth vpon me, and thou hast vexed me with all thy waues. Selah.

¹⁵ I am afflicted and at the point of death: from my youth I suffer thy terrours, doubting of my life.

¹⁵ I am afflicted and at the point of death: from my youth I suffer thy terrours, doubting of my life. ¹⁶ Thine indignations goe ouer me, and thy feare hath cut me off.

¹⁶ Thine indignations goe ouer me, and thy feare hath cut me off. ¹⁷ They came round about me dayly like water, and compassed me together. ¹⁸ My louers and friends hast thou put away from me, and mine acquaintance hid themselues.

¹⁰ Thou hast beaten downe Rahab as a man slaine: thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy mightie arme.

⁴⁷ Remember of what time I am: wherefore shouldest thou create in vaine all the children of men?

⁹ For all our dayes are past in thine anger: we haue spent our yeeres as a thought. ¹⁰ The time of our life is threescore yeeres and ten, and if they be of strength, fourescore yeeres: yet their strength is but labour and sorowe: for it is cut off quickly, and we flee away. ¹¹ Who knoweth the power of thy wrath? for according to thy feare is thine anger.

³ The floodes haue lifted vp, O Lord: the floodes haue lifted vp their voyce: the floods lift vp their waues. ⁴ The waues of ye sea are marueilous through the noyse of many waters, yet the Lord on High is more mightie.

² Which couereth himselfe with light as with a garment, and spreadeth the heauens like a curtaine. ³ Which layeth the beames of his chambers in the waters, and maketh the cloudes his chariot, and walketh vpon the wings of the winde.

³ Which layeth the beames of his chambers in the waters, and maketh the cloudes his chariot, and walketh vpon the wings of the winde.

¹³ He watereth the mountaines from his chambers, and the earth is filled with the fruite of thy workes.

²⁴ O Lord, howe manifolde are thy workes! in wisdome hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.

²³ Therefore he minded to destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stand in the breach before him to turne away his wrath, least he shoulde destroy them.

⁶ Ye mountaines, why leaped ye like rams, and ye hils as lambes? ⁷ The earth trembled at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Iaakob,

¹ I love the Lord, because he hath heard my voyce and my prayers. ² For he hath inclined his eare vnto me, whe I did call vpon him in my dayes.

¹²⁰ My flesh trembleth for feare of thee, and I am afraide of thy iudgements.

¹ A song of degrees, or Psalme of David. When ye Lord brought againe the captiuitie of Zion, we were like them that dreame.

³ If thou, O Lord, straightly markest iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?

⁴ Which onely doeth great wonders: for his mercie endureth for euer: ⁵ Which by his wisedome made the heauens: for his mercie endureth for euer:

²³ Try mee, O God, and knowe mine heart: prooue me and know my thoughtes, ²⁴ And consider if there be any way of wickednes in me, and leade me in the way for euer.

² (And enter not into iudgement with thy seruant: for in thy sight shall none that liueth, be iustified)

⁴ He counteth the nomber of the starres, and calleth them all by their names.

¹⁹ In many wordes there cannot want iniquitie: but he that refrayneth his lippes, is wise.

²⁰ The froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a naughtie tongue, shall fall into euill.

⁵ Wilt thou cast thine eyes vpon it, which is nothing? for riches taketh her to her wings, as an eagle, and flyeth into the heauen.

¹³ He that hideth his sinnes, shall not prosper: but he that confesseth, and forsaketh them, shall haue mercy. ¹⁴ Blessed is the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his heart, shall fall into euill.

²⁶ Hee that trusteth in his owne heart, is a foole: but he that walketh in wisdome, shall be deliuered.

¹ A man that hardeneth his necke when he is rebuked, shall suddenly be destroyed and can not be cured.

¹¹ He hath made euery thing beautifull in his time: also he hath set the worlde in their heart, yet can not man finde out the worke that God hath wrought from the beginning euen to the end.

¹⁰ What is that that hath bene? the name thereof is nowe named: and it is knowen that it is man: and he cannot striue with him that is stronger then he.

¹ I have surely giuen mine heart to all this, and to declare all this, that the iust, and the wise, and their workes are in the hand of God: and no man knoweth eyther loue or hatred of all that is before them. ² All things come alike to all: and the same condition is to the iust and to the wicked, to the good and to the pure, and to the polluted, and to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner, he that sweareth, as he that feareth an othe. ³ This is euill among all that is done vnder the sunne, that there is one condition to all, and also the heart of the sonnes of men is full of euill, and madnes is in their heartes whiles they liue, and after that, they goe to the dead.

¹⁶ Wash you, make you cleane: take away the euill of your workes from before mine eyes: cease to doe euill. ¹⁷ Learne to doe well: seeke iudgement, relieue the oppressed: iudge the fatherlesse and defend the widowe. ¹⁸ Come nowe, and let vs reason together, sayth the Lord: though your sinnes were as crimsin, they shalbe made white as snowe: though they were red like skarlet, they shalbe as wooll.

¹⁹ Then they shall goe into the holes of the rockes, and into the caues of the earth, from before the feare of the Lord, and from the glory of his maiestie, when he shall arise to destroy the earth.

²¹ To goe into the holes of the rockes, and into the toppes of the ragged rockes from before the feare of the Lord, and from the glory of his maiestie, when he shall rise to destroy the earth.

⁵ Then I sayd, Wo is me: for I am vndone, because I am a man of polluted lips, and I dwell in the middes of a people of polluted lips: for mine eyes haue seene the King and Lord of hostes.

¹⁰ For the starres of heauen and the planets thereof shall not giue their light: the sunne shalbe darkened in his going foorth, and the moone shall not cause her light to shine.

¹³ Therefore I will shake the heauen, and the earth shall remooue out of her place in the wrath of the Lord of hostes, and in the day of his fierce anger. ¹⁴ And it shall be as a chased doe, and as a sheepe that no man taketh vp. euery man shall turne to his owne people, and flee eche one to his owne lande.

² Sending ambassadours by the Sea, euen in vessels of reedes vpon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation that is scattered abroade, and spoyled, vnto a terrible people from their beginning euen hitherto: a nation by litle and litle, euen troden vnder foote, whose land the floods haue spoyled.

¹ Behold, the Lord maketh the earth emptie, and hee maketh it waste: hee turneth it vpside downe, and scattereth abrode the inhabitants thereof.

¹⁹ The earth is vtterly broken downe: the earth is cleane dissolued: the earth is mooued exceedingly. ²⁰ The earth shall reele to and from like a drunken man, and shall be remooued like a tent, and the iniquitie thereof shall be heauie vpon it: so that it shall fall, and rise no more.

¹⁷ Iudgement also will I laye to the rule, and righteousnesse to the balance, and the haile shall sweepe away the vaine confidence, and the waters shall ouerflowe the secret place.

⁷ For the Egyptians are vanitie, and they shall helpe in vaine. Therefore haue I cried vnto her, Their strength is to sit still.

² But he yet is wisest: therefore he wil bring euill, and not turne backe his worde, but he will arise against the house of the wicked, and against the helpe of them that worke vanitie. ³ Now the Egyptians are men, and not God, and their horses flesh and not spirite: and when the Lord shall stretch out his hand, the helper shall fall, and hee that is holpen shall fall, and they shall altogether faile.

¹² Who hath measured the waters in his fist? and counted heauen with the spanne, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure? and weighed ye mountaines in a weight, and the hilles in a balance?

²² He sitteth vpon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grashoppers, hee stretcheth out ye heauens, as a curtaine, and spreadeth them out, as a tent to dwell in.

²⁶ Lift vp your eyes on hie, and beholde who hath created these things, and bringeth out their armies by nomber, and calleth them all by names? by the greatnesse of his power and mightie strength nothing faileth. ²⁷ Why sayest thou, O Iaakob, and speakest O Israel, My way is hid from the Lord, and my iudgement is passed ouer of my God? ²⁸ Knowest thou not? or hast thou not heard, that the euerlasting God, the Lord hath created the endes of the earth? he neither fainteth, nor is wearie: there is no searching of his vnderstanding.

⁵ Thus sayeth God the Lord (he that created the heauens and spred them abroad: he that stretched foorth the earth, and the buddes thereof: he that giueth breath vnto the people vpon it, and spirit to them that walke therein)

²⁴ Thus sayeth the Lord thy redeemer and he that formed thee from the wombe, I am the Lord, that made all things, that spred out the heauens alone, and stretched out the earth by my selfe.

⁹ Woe be vnto him that striueth with his maker, the potsherd with the potsherds of the earth: shall the clay say to him that facioneth it, What makest thou? or thy worke, It hath none hands?

⁹ Rise vp, rise vp, and put on strength, O arme of the Lord: rise vp as in the olde time in the generations of the worlde. Art not thou the same, that hath cutte Rahab, and wounded the dragon?

¹⁵ For thus sayth he that is hie and excellent, he that inhabiteth the eternitie, whose Name is the Holy one, I dwell in the high and holy place: with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirite to reuiue the spirite of the humble, and to giue life to them that are of a contrite heart. ¹⁶ For I will not contende for euer, neither will I be alwayes wroth, for the spirite should fayle before me: and I haue made the breath.

⁶ Their webbes shall be no garment, neither shall they couer themselues with their labours: for their workes are workes of iniquitie, and the worke of crueltie is in their handes.

⁶ But we haue all bene as an vncleane thing, and all our righteousnes is as filthie cloutes, and we all doe fade like a leafe, and our iniquities like the winde haue taken vs away.

²² Though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much sope, yet thine iniquitie is marked before me, sayeth the Lord God.

³⁵ Yet thou saiest, Because I am giltles, surely his wrath shall turne from mee: beholde, I will enter with thee into iudgement, because thou saiest, I haue not sinned.

¹³ Beholde, he shall come vp as the cloudes, and his charets shalbe as a tempest: his horses are lighter then eagles. Woe vnto vs, for wee are destroyed. ¹⁴ O Ierusalem, wash thine heart from wickednes, that thou maiest be saued: how long shall thy wicked thoughtes remaine within thee?

²⁴ I behelde the mountaines: and loe, they trembled and all the hilles shooke.

¹⁸ I would haue comforted my selfe against sorowe, but mine heart is heauie in me.

¹¹ (Thus shall you say vnto them, The gods that haue not made the heauens and the earth, shall perish from the earth, and from vnder these heauens)

¹ O Lord, if I dispute with thee, thou art righteous: yet let mee talke with thee of thy iudgements: wherefore doeth the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they in wealth that rebelliously transgresse? ² Thou hast planted them, and they haue taken roote: they grow, and bring forth fruite: thou art neere in their mouth, and farre from their reines.

⁴ For the grounde was destroyed, because there was no rayne in the earth: the plowmen were ashamed, and couered their heads.

⁹ The heart is deceitfull and wicked aboue all things, who can knowe it? ¹⁰ I the Lord search the heart, and try ye reines, euen to giue euery man according to his wayes, and according to the fruite of his workes.

⁶ O house of Israel, cannot I doe with you as this potter, sayth the Lord? beholde, as the clay is in the potters hande, so are you in mine hande, O house of Israel.

¹⁹ Beholde, the tempest of the Lord goeth forth in his wrath, and a violent whirlewinde shall fall downe vpon the head of the wicked.

⁹ They shall come weeping, and with mercie will I bring them againe: I will lead them by the riuers of water in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my first borne.

¹⁹ Beholde, hee shall come vp like a lyon from the swelling of Iorden vnto the strong dwelling place: for I will make Israel to rest, euen I will make him to haste away from her, and who is a chosen man that I may appoynt against her? for who is like mee? and who will appoint me the time? and who is the shepheard that will stande before me?

³ Surely he is turned against me: he turneth his hand against me all the day.

¹⁵ He hath filled me with bitternes, and made me drunken with wormewood.

¹⁸ And I saide, My strength and mine hope is perished from the Lord, ¹⁹ Remembring mine affliction, and my mourning, the wormewood and the gall.

¹⁹ Our persecuters are swifter then the eagles of the heauen: they pursued vs vpon the mountaines, and layed waite for vs in the wildernes.

¹³ Therefore thus sayth the Lord God, I will cause a stormie winde to breake foorth in my wrath, and a great showre shall bee in mine anger, and hailestones in mine indignation to consume it.

¹⁹ Or if I send a pestilence into this land, and powre out my wrath vpon it in blood, to destroy out of it man and beast, ²⁰ And though Noah, Daniel and Iob were in the middes of it, As I liue, sayth the Lord God, they shall deliuer neither sonne nor daughter: they shall but deliuer their owne soules by their righteousnes. ²¹ For thus saith the Lord God, Howe much more when I sende my foure sore iudgements vpon Ierusalem, euen the sworde, and famine, and the noysome beast and pestilence, to destroy man and beast out of it?

³ And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the Lord, Beholde, I come against thee, and will drawe my sword out of his sheath, and cut off from thee both the righteous and the wicked. ⁴ Seeing then that I will cut off from thee both the righteous and wicked, therefore shall my sworde goe out of his sheath against all flesh from the South to the North,

¹³ For it is a triall, and what shall this be, if the sworde contemne euen the rodde? It shall be no more, saith the Lord God.

⁷ And when I shall put thee out, I will couer the heauen, and make the starres thereof darke: I will couer the sunne with a cloude, and the moone shall not giue her light. ⁸ All the lightes of heauen will I make darke for thee, and bring darkenesse vpon thy lande, sayeth the Lord God.

²⁰ And Daniel answered and sayde, The Name of God be praysed for euer and euer: for wisedome and strength are his,

² Saw a dreame, which made me afraide, and the thoughtes vpon my bed, and the visions of mine head troubled me. ³ Therefore made I a decree, that they should bring all the wise men of Babel before mee, that they might declare vnto me the interpretation of the dreame.

¹⁷ The tree that thou sawest, which was great and mightie, whose height reached vnto the heauen, and the sight thereof through all the world,

³⁴ Now therefore I Nebuchad-nezzar prayse and extoll and magnifie the King of heauen, whose workes are all trueth, and his wayes iudgement, and those that walke in pride, he is able to abase. ³⁵

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¹⁸ O King, heare thou, The most high God gaue vnto Nebuchad-nezzar thy father a kingdome, and maiestie, and honour and glory. ¹⁹ And for the maiestie that he gaue him, all people, nations, and languages trembled, and feared before him: he put to death whom he would: he smote whome he would: whome he would he set vp, and whome he would he put downe. ²⁰ But when his heart was puft vp, and his minde hardened in pride, hee was deposed from his kingly throne, and they tooke his honour from him.

²⁰ But when his heart was puft vp, and his minde hardened in pride, hee was deposed from his kingly throne, and they tooke his honour from him. ²¹ And hee was driuen from the sonnes of men, and his heart was made like the beastes, and his dwelling was with the wilde asses: they fed him with grasse like oxen, and his body was wet with the dewe of the heauen, till he knewe, that the most high God bare rule ouer the kingdome of men, and that he appointeth ouer it, whomsoeuer he pleaseth.

²¹ And hee was driuen from the sonnes of men, and his heart was made like the beastes, and his dwelling was with the wilde asses: they fed him with grasse like oxen, and his body was wet with the dewe of the heauen, till he knewe, that the most high God bare rule ouer the kingdome of men, and that he appointeth ouer it, whomsoeuer he pleaseth. ²² And thou his sonne, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all these things, ²³ But hast lift thy selfe vp against the Lord of heauen, and they haue brought the vessels of his House before thee, and thou and thy princes, thy wiues and thy concubines haue drunke wine in them, and thou hast praysed the gods of siluer and golde, of brasse, yron, wood and stone, which neither see, neither heare, nor vnderstand: and the God in whose hand thy breath is and all thy wayes, him hast thou not glorified. ²⁴ Then was the palme of the hand sent from him, and hath written this writing. ²⁵ And this is the writing that he hath written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL UPHARSIN. ²⁶ This is the interpretation of the thing, MENE, God hath nombred thy kingdome, and hath finished it. ²⁷ TEKEL, thou art wayed in the balance, and art found too light. ²⁸ PERES, thy kingdome is deuided, and giuen to the Medes and Persians. ²⁹ Then at the commandement of Belshazzar they clothed Daniel with purple, and put a chaine of golde about his necke, and made a proclamation concerning him that he should be the third ruler in the kingdome. ³⁰ The same night was Belshazzar the King of the Caldeans slaine.

⁷ After this I saw in the visions by night, and beholde, the fourth beast was fearefull and terrible and very strong. It had great yron teeth: it deuoured and brake in pieces and stamped the residue vnder his feete: and it was vnlike to the beasts that were before it: for it had ten hornes. ⁸ As I considered the hornes, beholde, there came vp among them another litle horne, before whome there were three of the first hornes pluckt away: and behold, in this horne were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking presumptuous things. ⁹ I behelde, till the thrones were set vp, and the Ancient of dayes did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the heare of his head like the pure wooll: his throne was like the fierie flame, and his wheeles as burning fire. ¹⁰ A fierie streame yssued, and came foorth from before him: thousand thousandes ministred vnto him, and tenne thousand thousands stoode before him: the iudgement was set, and the bookes opened. ¹¹ Then I behelde, because of the voyce of the presumptuous wordes, which the horne spake: I behelde, euen till the beast was slaine, and his body destroyed, and giuen to the burning fire. ¹² As concerning the other beastes, they had taken away their dominion: yet their liues were prolonged for a certaine time and season. ¹³ As I behelde in visions by night, behold, one like the sonne of man came in the cloudes of heauen, and approched vnto the Ancient of dayes, and they brought him before him. ¹⁴ And he gaue him dominion, and honour, and a kingdome, that all people, nations and languages should serue him: his dominion is an euerlasting dominion, which shall neuer bee taken away: and his kingdome shall neuer be destroyed. ¹⁵ I Daniel was troubled in my spirit, in the middes of my body, and the visions of mine head made me afraide. ¹⁶ Therefore I came vnto one of them that stoode by, and asked him the trueth of all this: so he tolde me, and shewed me the interpretation of these things. ¹⁷ These great beastes which are foure, are foure Kings, which shall arise out of the earth, ¹⁸ And they shall take the kingdome of the Saintes of the most High, and possesse the kingdome for euer, euen for euer and euer. ¹⁹ After this, I woulde knowe the trueth of the fourth beast, which was so vnlike to all the others, very fearefull, whose teeth were of yron, and his nailes of brasse: which deuoured, brake in pieces, and stamped the residue vnder his feete. ²⁰ Also to know of the tenne hornes that were in his head, and of the other which came vp, before whome three fell, and of the horne that had eyes, and of the mouth that spake presumptuous thinges, whose looke was more stoute then his fellowes. ²¹ I beheld, and the same horne made battel against the Saintes, yea, and preuailed against them, ²² Vntill the Ancient of dayes came, and iudgement was giuen to the Saintes of the most High: and the time approched, that the Saintes possessed the kingdome. ²³ Then he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdome in the earth, which shall be vnlike to all the kingdomes, and shall deuoure the whole earth, and shall treade it downe and breake it in pieces. ²⁴ And the ten hornes out of this kingdome are tenne Kings that shall rise: and an other shall rise after them, and he shall be vnlike to the first, and he shall subdue three Kings, ²⁵ And shall speake wordes against the most High, and shall consume the Saintes of the most High, and thinke that he may change times and lawes, and they shalbe giuen into his hand, vntill a time, and times and the deuiding of time. ²⁶ But the iudgement shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and destroy it vnto the ende. ²⁷ And the kingdome, and dominion, and the greatnesse of the kingdome vnder the whole heauen shalbe giue to the holy people of the most High, whose kingdome is an euerlasting kingdome and all powers shall serue and obey him. ²⁸ Euen this is the ende of the matter, I Daniel had many cogitations which troubled mee, and my countenance changed in me: but I kept the matter in mine heart.

³ And I turned my face vnto the Lord God, and sought by prayer and supplications with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

¹⁸ O my God, encline thine eare and heare: open thine eyes, and beholde our desolations, and the citie whereupon thy Name is called: for we doe not present our supplications before thee for our owne righteousnes, but for thy great tender mercies.

¹⁰ The earth shall tremble before him, ye heauens shall shake, the sunne and the moone shalbe darke, and the starres shall withdraw their shining,

¹³ For lo, he that formeth the mountaines, and createth the winde, and declareth vnto man what is his thought: which maketh the morning darkenesse, and walketh vpon the hie places of the earth, the Lord God of hostes is his Name.

⁸ He maketh Pleiades, and Orion, and he turneth the shadowe of death into the morning, and he maketh the day darke as night: he calleth the waters of the sea, and powreth them out vpon the open earth: the Lord is his Name.

⁹ And in that day, saith the Lord God, I will euen cause the sunne to go downe at noone: and I will darken the earth in the cleare day.

⁸ Their horses also are swifter then the leopards, and are more fierce then the wolues in the euening: and their horsemen are many: and their horsemen shall come from farre: they shall flie as the eagle hasting to meate.

¹⁴ And makest men as the fishes of the sea, and as the creeping things, that haue no ruler ouer them. ¹⁵ They take vp all with the angle: they catch it in their net, and gather it in their yarne, whereof they reioyce and are glad. ¹⁶ Therefore they sacrifice vnto their net, and burne incense vnto their yarne, because by them their portion is fat and their meat plenteous. ¹⁷ Shall they therefore stretch out their net and not spare continually to slay the nations?

⁶ He stoode and measured the earth: he behelde and dissolued the nations and the euerlasting mountaines were broken, and the ancient hilles did bowe: his wayes are euerlasting.

¹⁰ The mountaines sawe thee, and they trembled: the streame of the water passed by: the deepe made a noyse, and lift vp his hand on hie.

⁶ According to the worde that I couenanted with you, when ye came out of Egypt: so my Spirite shall remaine among you, feare ye not.

²¹ And againe the worde of the Lord came vnto Haggai in the foure and twentieth day of the moneth, saying,

⁷ Who art thou, O great mountaine, before Zerubbabel? thou shalt be a plaine, and he shall bring foorth the head stone thereof, with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace vnto it.

¹ The burden of the worde of the Lord vpon Israel, sayth the Lord, which spred the heauens, and layed the foundation of the earth, and formed the spirite of man within him.

⁴ And his feete shall stand in that day vpon the mount of oliues, which is before Ierusalem on the Eastside, and the mount of oliues shall cleaue in the middes thereof: toward the East and toward the West there shalbe a very great valley, and halfe of ye mountaine shall remooue toward the North, and halfe of the mountaine towarde the South. ⁵ And yee shall flee vnto the valley of the mountaines: for the valley of the mountaines shall reache vnto Azal: yea, yee shall flee like as ye fled from the earthquake in the daies of Vzziah King of Iudah: and the Lord my God shall come, and all the Saints with thee.

¹³ And leade vs not into tentation, but deliuer vs from euill: for thine is the kingdome, and the power, and the glorie for euer. Amen.

²⁷ And the raine fell, and the floods came, and the windes blewe, and beat vpon that house, and it fell, and the fall thereof was great.

²⁶ It is so, O Father, because thy good pleasure was such.

²⁰ A bruised reede shall he not breake, and smoking flaxe shall he not quenche, till he bring forth iudgement vnto victorie.

³⁶ But I say vnto you, that of euery idle word that men shall speake, they shall giue account thereof at the day of iudgement. ³⁷ For by thy wordes thou shalt be iustified, and by thy wordes thou shalt be condemned.

²⁵ And in the fourth watch of the night, Iesus went vnto them, walking on the sea. ²⁶ And when his disciples sawe him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It is a spirit, and cried out for feare. ²⁷ But straight way Iesus spake vnto them, saying, Be of good comfort, It is I: be not afraide. ²⁸ Then Peter answered him, and saide, Master, if it be thou, bid me come vnto thee on the water. ²⁹ And he saide, Come. And when Peter was come downe out of the shippe, he walked on the water, to goe to Iesus. ³⁰ But when he sawe a mightie winde, he was afraide: and as he began to sinke, he cried, saying, Master, saue me.

¹⁵ Is it not lawfull for me to do as I will with mine owne? Is thine eye euil, because I am good?

²¹ And Iesus answered and said vnto them, Verely I say vnto you, if ye haue faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only doe that, which I haue done to the figge tree, but also if ye say vnto this mountaine, Take thy selfe away, and cast thy selfe into the sea, it shalbe done.

²⁹ And immediatly after ye tribulations of those dayes, shall the sunne be darkened, and the moone shall not giue her light, and the starres shall fal from heauen, and ye powers of heaue shalbe shake.

⁵¹ And behold, the vayle of the Temple was rent in twaine, from the top to the bottome, and the earth did quake, and the stones were cloue.

²⁹ But he willing to iustifie himselfe, said vnto Iesus, Who is then my neighbour?

² And Iesus answered, and saide vnto them, Suppose ye, that these Galileans were greater sinners then al the other Galileans, because they haue suffered such things? ³ I tell you, nay: but except ye amend your liues, ye shall all likewise perish. ⁴ Or thinke you that those eighteene, vpon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slewe them, were sinners aboue all men that dwel in Hierusalem?

¹⁵ Then he sayde vnto them, Yee are they, which iustifie your selues before men: but God knoweth your heartes: for that which is highly esteemed among men, is abomination in the sight of God.

¹¹ And great earthquakes shall be in diuers places, and hunger, and pestilence, and fearefull things, and great signes shall there be from heauen.

²⁵ Then there shalbe signes in the sunne, and in the moone, and in the starres, and vpon the earth trouble among the nations with perplexitie: the sea and the waters shall roare. ²⁶ And mens hearts shall faile them for feare, and for looking after those thinges which shall come on the worlde: for the powers of heauen shall be shaken.

⁴¹ And while they yet beleeued not for ioy, and wondred, he saide vnto them, Haue ye here any meate?

¹⁹ And when they had rowed about fiue and twentie, or thirtie furlongs, they sawe Iesus walking on the sea, and drawing neere vnto the ship: so they were afraide.

³ Iesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents, but that the workes of God should be shewed on him.

²⁵ But it is that the worde might be fulfilled, that is written in their Lawe, They hated me without a cause.

¹⁴ But when she knew Peters voyce, she opened not the entrie doore for gladnesse, but ranne in, and tolde howe Peter stood before the entrie. ¹⁵ But they said vnto her, Thou art mad. Yet she affirmed it constantly, that it was so. Then said they, It is his Angel. ¹⁶ But Peter continued knocking, and when they had opened it, and sawe him, they were astonied.

¹³ And from thence we set a compasse, and came to Rhegium: and after one day, the South wind blewe, and we came the seconde day to Putioli:

²⁰ Therefore by the woorkes of the Lawe shall no flesh be iustified in his sight: for by the Lawe commeth the knowledge of sinne.

¹⁸ Therefore he hath mercie on whome he will, and whom he will, he hardeneth. ¹⁹ Thou wilt say then vnto me, Why doeth he yet complaine? for who hath resisted his will? ²⁰ But, O man, who art thou which pleadest against God? shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

²⁰ But, O man, who art thou which pleadest against God? shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

³ For they, being ignorant of the righteousnes of God, and going about to stablish their owne righteousnes, haue not submitted themselues to the righteousnes of God.

³³ O the deepenesse of the riches, both of the wisdome, and knowledge of God! howe vnsearcheable are his iudgements, and his wayes past finding out! ³⁴ For who hath knowen the minde of the Lord? or who was his counsellour?

²⁵ For the foolishnesse of God is wiser then men, and the weakenesse of God is stronger then men.

⁴ For I know nothing by my selfe, yet am I not thereby iustified: but he that iudgeth me, is the Lord.

²² Doe we prouoke the Lord to anger? are we stronger then he?

² And though I had the gift of prophecie, and knewe all secrets and all knowledge, yea, if I had all faith, so that I could remooue mountaines and had not loue, I were nothing.

⁸ Whereby he hath bene aboundant toward vs in all wisedome and vnderstanding,

¹¹ In whom also we are chosen when we were predestinate according to ye purpose of him, which worketh all things after the counsell of his owne will,

¹⁹ And what is the exceeding greatnesse of his power toward vs, which beleeue, according to the working of his mightie power,

¹⁰ To the intent, that nowe vnto principalities and powers in heauenly places, might be knowen by the Church the manifolde wisedome of God,

²⁰ Vnto him therefore that is able to do exceeding aboundantly aboue all that we aske or thinke, according to the power that worketh in vs,

⁸ Yea, doubtlesse I thinke all thinges but losse for the excellent knowledge sake of Christ Iesus my Lord, for whome I haue counted all things losse, and doe iudge them to bee dongue, that I might winne Christ, ⁹ And might bee founde in him, that is, not hauing mine owne righteousnesse, which is of the Lawe, but that which is through the faith of Christ, euen the righteousnesse which is of God through faith,

¹² Not as though I had alreadie attained to it, either were alreadie perfect: but I follow, if that I may comprehend that for whose sake also I am comprehended of Christ Iesus. ¹³ Brethren, I count not my selfe, that I haue attained to it, but one thing I doe: I forget that which is behinde, and endeuour my selfe vnto that which is before, ¹⁴ And follow hard toward the marke, for the prise of the hie calling of God in Christ Iesus. ¹⁵ Let vs therefore as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if yee be otherwise minded, God shall reueile euen the same vnto you.

⁵ Frowarde disputations of men of corrupt mindes and destitute of ye trueth, which thinke that gaine is godlines: from such separate thy selfe.

¹⁶ Who onely hath immortalitie, and dwelleth in the light that none can attaine vnto, whom neuer man sawe, neither can see, vnto whome bee honour and power euerlasting, Amen.

³⁶ And others haue bene tryed by mockings and scourgings, yea, moreouer by bondes and prisonment. ³⁷ They were stoned, they were hewen asunder, they were tempted, they were slaine with the sworde, they wandred vp and downe in sheepes skinnes, and in goates skinnes, being destitute, afflicted, and tormented:

¹¹ Now no chastising for the present seemeth to be ioyous, but, grieuous: but afterwarde, it bringeth the quiet fruite of righteousnesse, vnto them which are thereby exercised.

²⁶ Whose voyce then shooke the earth and nowe hath declared, saying, Yet once more will I shake, not the earth onely, but also heauen.

² For in many things we sinne all. If any man sinne not in word, he is a perfect man, and able to bridle all the body.

⁶ But the Scripture offereth more grace, and therefore sayth, God resisteth the proude, and giueth grace to the humble. ⁷ Submit your selues to God: resist the deuill, and he will flee from you.

¹⁴ (And yet ye cannot tell what shalbe to morowe. For what is your life? It is euen a vapour that appeareth for a litle time, and afterward vanisheth away)

²³ Who when hee was reuiled, reuiled not againe: when hee suffered, hee threatned not, but comitted it to him that iudgeth righteously.

⁸ If we say that we haue no sinne, we deceiue our selues, and trueth is not in vs.

¹ My little children, these things write I vnto you, that ye sinne not: and if any man sinne, wee haue an Aduocate with the Father, Iesus Christ, the Iust. ² And he is the reconciliation for our sinnes: and not for ours onely, but also for the sinnes of the whole world.

²⁰ For if our heart condemne vs, God is greater then our heart, and knoweth all things.

²⁴ Nowe vnto him that is able to keepe you, that ye fall not, and to present you faultlesse before the presence of his glorie with ioy, ²⁵ That is, to God only wise, our Sauiour, be glorie, and maiestie, and dominion, and power, both nowe and for euer, Amen.

¹⁴ And heauen departed away, as a scroule, when it is rolled, and euery mountaine and yle were mooued out of their places.

¹³ And the same houre shall there bee a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the citie shall fall, and in the earthquake shalbe slaine in nomber seuen thousande: and the remnant were sore feared, and gaue glorie to the God of heauen.

¹⁸ And there were voyces, and thundrings, and lightnings, and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were vpon the earth, euen so mightie an earthquake. ¹⁹ And the great citie was deuided into three partes, and the cities of the nations fell: and that great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to giue vnto her the cup of the wine of the fiercenesse of his wrath. ²⁰ And euery yle fled away, and the mountaines were not found.

¹¹ And I saw a great white throne, and one that sate on it, from whose face fled away both the earth and heauen, and their place was no more found.