display: Esther 3:12

text: Then were the kings scribes called on the thirteenth day of the first moneth, and there was written, according to all that Haman had commanded, vnto the kings Lieutenants, and to the gouernours, that were ouer euery prouince, and to the rulers of euery people of euery prouince, according to the writing thereof, and to euery people, after their language, in the name of king Ahasuerus was it written, and sealed with the kings ring.


display: Esther 3:13

Esther

testament: OT

text: And the letters were sent by posts into all the kings prouinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish all Iewes, both yong and olde, litle children and women, in one day, euen vpon the thirteenth day of the twelfth moneth (which is the moneth Adar) and to take the spoile of them for a pray.


display: Esther 3:14

text: The copie of the writing for a commandement to bee giuen in euery prouince, was published vnto all people, that they should bee ready against that day.


display: Esther 3:15

text: The postes went out, being hastened by the kings commandement, and the decree was giuen in Shushan the palace: and the king and Haman sate downe to drinke, but the citie Shushan was perplexed.


display: Esther 4:1

text: When Mordecai perceiued all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the citie, and cried with a loud and a bitter crie:


display: Esther 4:2

text: And came euen before the kings gate: for none might enter into the kings gate clothed with sackcloth.


display: Esther 4:3

text: And in euery prouince, whithersoeuer the kings commaundement, and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Iewes, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing, and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.


display: Esther 4:4

text: ¶ So Esthers maides and her chamberlaines came, and told it her: then was the Queene exceedingly grieued, and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take away the sackcloth from him: but he receiued it not.


display: Esther 4:5

text: Then called Esther for Hatach, one of the kings chamberlaines, whom he had appointed to attend vpon her, and gaue him a commaundement to Mordecai, to know what it was, and why it was.


display: Esther 4:6

text: So Hatach went forth to Mordecai, vnto the street of the citie, which was before the kings gate:


display: Esther 4:7

text: And Mordecai tolde him of all that had happened vnto him, and of the summe of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the Kings treasuries for the Iewes, to destroy them.


display: Esther 4:8

text: Also he gaue him the copie of the writing of the decree, that was giuen at Shushan to destroy them, to shewe it vnto Esther, and to declare it vnto her, and to charge her that she should goe in vnto the king, to make supplication vnto him, and to make request before him, for her people.


display: Esther 4:9

text: And Hatach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.


display: Esther 4:10

text: ¶ Againe Esther spake vnto Hatach, and gaue him commaundement vnto Mordecai;


display: Esther 4:11

text: All the Kings seruants, and the people of the kings prouinces do know, that whosoeuer, whether man or woman, shall come vnto the King into the inner court, who is not called, there is one lawe of his to put him to death, except such to whom the King shall hold out the golden scepter, that he may liue: but I haue not beene called to come in vnto the King, these thirtie dayes.


display: Esther 4:12

text: And they tolde to Mordecai Esthers words.


display: Esther 4:13

text: Then Mordecai commanded to answere Esther; Thinke not with thy selfe that thou shalt escape in the kings house, more then all the Iewes.


display: Esther 4:14

text: For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliuerance arise to the Iewes from another place, but thou and thy fathers house shall be destroyed: And who knoweth, whether thou art come to the kingdome for such a time as this?


display: Esther 4:15

text: ¶ Then Esther bade them returne Mordecai this answere:


display: Esther 4:16

text: Goe, gather together all the Iewes that are present in Shushan, and fast yee for me, and neither eate nor drinke three dayes, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise, and so will I goe in vnto the king, which is not according to the Law, and if I perish, I perish.


display: Esther 4:17

text: So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him.


display: Esther 5:1

text: Now it came to passe on the third day, that Esther put on her royall apparell, and stood in the inner court of the kings house, ouer against the kings house: and the King sate vpon his royall throne in the royall house, ouer against the gate of the house.


display: Esther 5:2

text: And it was so, when the king saw Esther the Queene standing in the court, that shee obtained fauour in his sight: and the king helde out to Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand: So Esther drew neere, and touched the top of the scepter.


display: Esther 5:3

text: Then sayd the King vnto her, What wilt thou, Queene Esther? and what is thy request? it shall bee euen giuen thee to the halfe of the kingdome.


display: Esther 5:4

text: And Esther answered, If it seeme good vnto the King, let the King and Haman come this day vnto the banquet that I haue prepared for him.


display: Esther 5:5

text: Then the King sayd, Cause Haman to make haste, that he may doe as Esther hath said: So the king and Haman came to the banquet that Esther had prepared.


display: Esther 5:6

text: ¶ And the king said vnto Esther at the banquet of wine, What is thy petition, and it shall be granted thee? and what is thy request? euen to the halfe of the kingdome it shall be performed.


display: Esther 5:7

text: Then answered Esther, and said, My petition, and my request is,


display: Esther 5:8

text: If I haue found fauour in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my petition, and to performe my request, let the king, and Haman, come to the banquet that I shall prepare for them, and I wil do to morow, as the king hath said.


display: Esther 5:9

text: ¶ Then went Haman foorth that day, ioyfull, and with a glad heart: but when Haman saw Mordecai in the kings gate, that hee stood not vp, nor mooued for him, hee was full of indignation against Mordecai.


display: Esther 5:10

text: Neuerthelesse Haman refrained himselfe, and when he came home, hee sent and called for his friends, and Zeresh his wife.


display: Esther 5:11

text: And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all the things wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had aduanced him aboue the Princes, and seruants of the king.


display: Esther 5:12

text: Haman said moreouer, Yea Esther the Queene did let no man come in with the king vnto the banquet that she had prepared, but my selfe; and to morrow am I inuited vnto her also with the king.


display: Esther 5:13

text: Yet all this auaileth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Iew sitting at the kings gate.


display: Esther 5:14

text: ¶ Then saide Zeresh his wife, and all his friends vnto him, Let a gallous be made of fifty cubits hie, and to morrow speake thou vnto the king, that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then goe thou in merily with the king vnto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman, and hee caused the gallous to be made.


display: Esther 6:1

text: On that night could not the King sleepe, and hee commaunded to bring the booke of Records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king.


display: Esther 6:2

text: And it was found written, that Mordecai had told of Bigthana, and Teresh, two of the kings chamberleus, the keepers of the doore, who sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus.


display: Esther 6:3

text: And the king said, What honour and dignitie hath bene done to Mordecai for this? Then said the kings seruants that ministred vnto him, There is nothing done for him.


display: Esther 6:4

text: ¶ And the king said, Who is in the court? (now Haman was come into the outward court of the kings house, to speake vnto the king, to hang Mordecai on the gallons that hee had prepared for him.)


display: Esther 6:5

text: And the kings seruants said vnto him, Behold, Haman standeth in the court. And the King saide, Let him come in.


display: Esther 6:6

text: So Haman came in, and the king said vnto him, What shall be done vnto the man whom the king delighteth to honour? (now Haman thought in his heart, To whom would the king delight to doe honour, more then to my selfe?)


display: Esther 6:7

text: And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king delighteth to honour,


display: Esther 6:8

text: Let the royall apparell bee brought, which the King vseth to weare, and the horse that the King rideth vpon, and the crowne royal which is set vpon his head:


display: Esther 6:9

text: And let this apparell and horse bee deliuered to the hand of one of the kings most noble Princes, that they may aray the man withall, whom the king delighteth to honour, and bring him on horsebacke through the streete of the city, and proclaime before him, Thus shal it be done to the man whom the king delighteth to honour.


display: Esther 6:10

text: Then the king saide to Haman, Make haste, and take the apparell, and the horse, as thou hast said, and doe euen so to Mordecai the Iew, that sitteth at the Kings gate: let nothing faile of all that thou hast spoken.


display: Esther 6:11

text: Then tooke Haman the apparell, and the horse, & arayed Mordecai, and brought him on hors-backe through the streete of the city, and proclaimed before him: Thus shall it bee done vnto the man whom the King delighteth to honour.


display: Esther 6:12

text: ¶ And Mordecai came againe to the kings gate: but Haman hasted to his house, mourning, and hauing his head couered.


display: Esther 6:13

text: And Haman told Zeresh his wife, and all his friends, euery thing that had befallen him. Then saide his wise men, and Zeresh his wife vnto him, If Mordecai be of the seed of the Iewes, before whom thou hast begun to fall, thou shalt not preuaile against him, but shalt surely fall before him.


display: Esther 6:14

text: And while they were yet talking with him, came the kings chamberlens, and hasted to bring Haman vnto the banquet that Esther had prepared.


display: Esther 7:1

text: So the King and Haman came to banquet with Esther the Queene.


display: Esther 7:2

text: And the king said againe vnto Esther, on the second day at the banquet of wine, What is thy petition, Queene Esther, and it shalbe granted thee? and what is thy request? and it shall bee performed, euen to the halfe of the kingdome.


display: Esther 7:3

text: Then Esther the Queene answered, and said; If I haue found fauour in thy sight, O King, and if it please the King, let my life be giuen me at my petition, and my people at my request.


display: Esther 7:4

text: For we are sold, I, and my people, to be destroyed, to be slaine, and to perish: but if we had bene sold for bondmen, and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not counteruaile the kings dammage.


display: Esther 7:5

text: ¶ Then the king Ahasuerus answered, & said vnto Esther the Queene: Who is he? and where is he, that durst presume in his heart to do so?


display: Esther 7:6

text: And Esther said, The aduersary and enemie, is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the King and the Queene.


display: Esther 7:7

text: ¶ And the king arising from the banquet of wine in his wrath, went into the palace garden: and Haman stood vp to make request for his life to Esther the Queene: for he saw that there was euill determined against him by the King.


display: Esther 7:8

text: Then the king returned out of the palace garden, into the place of the banquet of wine, and Haman was fallen vpon the bed whereon Esther was. Then said the King, Will hee force the Queene also before me in the house? As the word went out of the Kings mouth, they couered Hamans face.


display: Esther 7:9

text: And Harbonah one of the chamberlaines, said before the king; Behold also the gallowes, fiftie cubites high, which Haman had made for Mordecai, who had spoken good for the king, standeth in the house of Haman. Then the king said, Hang him thereon.


display: Esther 7:10

text: So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the Kings wrath pacified.


display: Esther 8:1

text: On that day did the King Ahasuerus giue the house of Haman, the Iewes enemy, vnto Esther the Queene; and Mordecai came before the King; for Esther hade told what he was vnto her.


display: Esther 8:2

text: And the king tooke off his Ring which he had taken from Haman, and gaue it vnto Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai ouer the house of Haman.


display: Esther 8:3

text: ¶ And Esther spake yet againe before the king, and fell downe at his feet, and besought him with teares, to put away the mischiefe of Haman the Agagite, and his deuice, that he had deuised against the Iewes.


display: Esther 8:4

text: Then the king helde out the golden scepter toward Esther. So Esther arose, and stood before the king,


display: Esther 8:5

text: And said, If it please the king, and if I haue found fauour in his sight, and the thing seeme right before the king, and I bee pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reuerse the letters deuised by Haman the sonne of Hammedatha the Agagite, which hee wrote to destroy the Iewes, which are in all the kings prouinces.


display: Esther 8:6

text: For how can I endure to see the euill that shall come vnto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kinred?


display: Esther 8:7

text: ¶ Then the king Ahasuerus said vnto Esther the Queene, and to Mordecai the Iewe, Behold, I haue giuen Esther the house of Haman, and him they haue hanged vpon the gallowes, because hee layde his hand vpon the Iewes.


display: Esther 8:8

text: Write ye also for the Iewes, as it liketh you, in the Kings name, and seale it with the Kings ring: for the writing which is written in the Kings name, and sealed with the Kings ring, may no man reuerse.


display: Esther 8:9

text: Then were the kings scribes called at that time, in the third moneth, (that is, the month Siuan) on the three and twentieth day thereof, and it was written (according to all that Mordecai commanded) vnto the Iewes, and to the Lieutenants, and the deputies and rulers of the prouinces, which are from India vnto Ethiopia, an hundred, twentie and seuen prouinces, vnto euery prouince according to the writing thereof, and vnto euery people after their language, and to the Iewes, according to their writing, and according to their language.


display: Esther 8:10

text: And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus name, and sealed it with the kings Ring, and sent letters by Postes, on horsebacke, and riders on mules, camels, and yong dromedaries:


display: Esther 8:11

text: Wherein the King granted the Iewes, which were in euery citie, to gather themselues together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish all the power of the people and prouince that would assault them, both little ones, and women, and to take the spoile of them for a pray:


display: Esther 8:12

text: Upon one day, in all the prouinces of king Ahasuerus, namely vpon the thirteenth day of the twelfth moneth, which is the moneth Adar.


display: Esther 8:13

text: The copy of the writing, for a commandement to bee giuen in euery prouince, was published vnto all people, and that the Iewes should be readie against that day, to auenge themselues on their enemies.


display: Esther 8:14

text: So the posts that rode vpon mules and camels went out, being hastened, and pressed on by the kings commandement, and the decree was giuen at Shushan the palace.


display: Esther 8:15

text: ¶ And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king, in royall apparell, of blew and white, and with a great crowne of gold, and with a garment of fine linnen, and purple, and the citie of Shushan reioyced, and was glad:


display: Esther 8:16

text: The Iewes had light and gladnesse, and ioy and honour.


display: Esther 8:17

text: And in euery prouince, and in euery city, whithersoeuer the kings commandement, and his decree came, the Iewes had ioy and gladnes, a feast and a good day: And many of the people of the land became Iewes; for the feare of the Iewes fell vpon them.


display: Esther 9:1

text: Now in the twelfth month (that is the moneth Adar) on the thirteenth day of the same, when the Kings commaundement and his decree drew neere to bee put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Iewes hoped to haue power ouer them: (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Iewes had rule ouer them that hated them.)


display: Esther 9:2

text: The Iewes gathered themselues together in their cities, throughout all the prouinces of the king Ahasuerus, to lay hand on such as sought their hurt, and no man could withstand them: for the feare of them fell vpon all people.


display: Esther 9:3

text: And all the rulers of the prouinces, and the Lieutenants, and the deputies, and officers of the king, helped the Iewes: because the feare of Mordecai fell vpon them.


display: Esther 9:4

text: For Mordecai was great in the kings house, and his fame went out, throughout all the prouinces: for this man Mordecai waxed greater and greater.


display: Esther 9:5

text: Thus the Iewes smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they would vnto those that hated them.


display: Esther 9:6

text: And in Shushan the palace the Iewes slew and destroyed fiue hundred men:


display: Esther 9:7

text: And Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha,


display: Esther 9:8

text: And Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha,


display: Esther 9:9

text: And Parmashta, and Arisai, and Aridai, and Uaiezatha,


display: Esther 9:10

text: The ten sonnes of Haman the sonne of Hammedatha, the enemie of the Iewes, slew they, but on the spoile laid they not their hand.


display: Esther 9:11

text: On that day, the number of those that were slaine in Shushan the palace, was brought before the king.


display: Esther 9:12

text: ¶ And the king said vnto Esther the Queene; The Iewes haue slaine and destroied fiue hundred men in Shushan the palace, & the ten sonnes of Haman; what haue they done in the rest of the kings prouinces? now what is thy petition? and it shalbe granted thee: or what is thy request further? and it shall be done.


display: Esther 9:13

text: Then said Esther, If it please the king, Let it bee granted to the Iewes which are in Shushan, to doe to morow also, according vnto this dayes decree, and let Hamans ten sonnes be hanged vpon the gallous.


display: Esther 9:14

text: And the king commanded it so to be done; and the decree was giuen at Shushan, and they hanged Hamans ten sonnes.


display: Esther 9:15

text: For the Iewes that were in Shushan, gathered themselues together on the fourteenth day also of the moneth Adar, and slewe three hundred men at Shushan: but on the pray they laid not their hand.


display: Esther 9:16

text: But the other Iewes that were in the kings prouinces, gathered themselues together, & stood for their liues, and had rest from their enemies, and slew of their foes seuenty and fiue thousand, but they laid not their handes on the pray.


display: Esther 9:17

text: On the thirteenth day of the moneth Adar, and on the fourteenth day of the same, rested they, and made it a day of feasting and gladnes.


display: Esther 9:18

text: But the Iewes that were at Shushan, assembled together on the thirteenth day therof, and on the fourteenth thereof; and on the fifteenth day of the same, they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladnesse.


display: Esther 9:19

text: Therefore the Iewes of the villages, that dwelt in the vnwalled townes, made the foureteenth day of the moneth Adar, a day of gladnesse and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.


display: Esther 9:20

text: ¶ And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters vnto all the Iewes, that were in all the prouinces of the king Ahasuerus, both nigh & farre,


display: Esther 9:21

text: To stablish this among them, that they should keepe the fourteenth day of the moneth Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yeerely:


display: Esther 9:22

text: As the dayes wherein the Iewes rested from their enemies, & the moneth which was turned vnto them, from sorrow to ioy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them daies of feasting and ioy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poore.


display: Esther 9:23

text: And the Iewes vndertooke to doe, as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written vnto them:


display: Esther 9:24

text: Because Haman the sonne of Hammedatha the Agagite, the enemie of all the Iewes, had deuised against the Iewes to destroy them, and had cast Pur (that is, the lot) to consume them, and to destroy them.


display: Esther 9:25

text: But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters, that his wicked deuice which he deuised against the Iewes, should returne vpon his owne head, and that he and his sonnes, should be hanged on the gallous.


display: Esther 9:26

text: Wherefore they called these dayes Purim, after the name of Pur: therefore for all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seene concerning this matter, and which had come vnto them,


display: Esther 9:27

text: The Iewes ordeined, and tooke vpon them, and vpon their seed, and vpon all such as ioyned themselues vnto them, so as it should not faile, that they would keepe these two dayes, according to their writing, and according to their appointed time, euery yeere:


display: Esther 9:28

text: And that these dayes should be remembred, and kept throughout euery generation, euery family, euery prouince, and euery citie, and that these dayes of Purim should not faile from among the Iewes, nor the memoriall of them perish from their seed.


display: Esther 9:29

text: Then Esther the Queene, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Iew, wrote with all authoritie, to confirme this second letter of Purim.


display: Esther 9:30

text: And hee sent the letters vnto all the Iewes, to the hundred, twentie and seuen prouinces of the kingdome of Ahasuerus, with wordes of peace and trueth:


display: Esther 9:31

text: To confirme these dayes of Purim, in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Iew, and Esther the Queene had enioyned them, and as they had decreed for themselues and for their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry.


display: Esther 9:32

text: And the decree of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim, and it was written in the booke.


display: Esther 10:1

text: And the king Ahasuerus layde a tribute vpon the land, and vpon the Isles of the sea.


display: Esther 10:2

text: And all the actes of his power, and of his might, and the declaration of the greatnesse of Mordecai, whereunto the king aduanced him, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?


display: Esther 10:3

text: For Mordecai the Iew was next vnto King Ahasuerus, and great among the Iewes, and accepted of the multitude of his brethren, seeking the wealth of his people, and speaking peace to all his seed.


display: Job 1:1

text: There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Iob, and that man was perfect and vpright, and one that feared God, and eschewed euill.


display: Job 1:2

text: And there were borne vnto him seuen sonnes, and three daughters.


display: Job 1:3

text: His substance also was seuen thousand sheepe, and three thousand camels, and fiue hundred yoke of oxen, and fiue hundred shee asses, and a very great houshold; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the East.


display: Job 1:4

text: And his sonnes went and feasted in their houses, euery one his day, and sent and called for their three sisters, to eate and to drinke with them.


display: Job 1:5

text: And it was so, when the dayes of their feasting were gone about, that Iob sent and sanctified them, and rose vp early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: For Iob said, It may be that my sonnes haue sinned, and cursed God in their hearts: Thus did Iob continually.


display: Job 1:6

text: ¶ Now there was a day, when the sons of God came to present themselues before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.


display: Job 1:7

text: And the LORD said vnto Satan, Whence commest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and sayde, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking vp and downe in it.


display: Job 1:8

text: And the LORD sayd vnto Satan, Hast thou considered my seruant Iob, that there is none like him in the earth? a perfect and an vpright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth euill?


display: Job 1:9

text: Then Satan answered þ LORD, and sayd, Doeth Iob feare God for nought?


text: Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on euery side? thou hast blessed the worke of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.


text: But put foorth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.


text: And the LORD said vnto Satan, Behold, all that hee hath is in thy power, onely vpon himselfe put not foorth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD.


text: ¶ And there was a day, when his sonnes and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brothers house:


text: And there came a messenger vnto Iob, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them,


text: And the Sabeans fell vpon them, and tooke them away: yea they haue slaine the seruants with the edge of the sword, and I onely am escaped alone, to tell thee.


text: While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heauen, and hath burnt vp the sheepe, and the seruants, and consumed them, and I onely am escaped alone, to tell thee.


text: While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Caldeans made out three bands, and fell vpon the camels, and haue caried them away, yea, and slaine the seruants with the edge of the sword, and I onely am escaped alone, to tell thee.


text: While he was yet speaking, there came also another, & said, Thy sonnes, and thy daughters, were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brothers house.


text: And beholde, there came a great winde from the wildernes, and smote the foure corners of the house, and it fell vpon the yong men, and they are dead, and I onely am escaped alone to tell thee.


text: Then Iob arose, and rent his mantle, and shaued his head, and fell downe vpon the ground and worshipped,


text: And said, Naked came I out of my mothers wombe, and naked shall I returne thither: the LORD gaue, and the LORD hath taken away, blessed be the Name of the LORD.


text: In all this Iob sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.


display: Job 2:1

text: Againe there was a day when the sonnes of God came to present themselues before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to present himselfe before the LORD.


display: Job 2:2

text: And the LORD said vnto Satan, From whence commest thou? And Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to & fro in the earth, and from walking vp and downe in it.


display: Job 2:3

text: And the LORD said vnto Satan, Hast thou considered my seruant Iob, that there is none like him in the earth; a perfect and an vpright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth euill? and still hee holdeth fast his integritie, although thou moouedst mee against him, to destroy him without cause.


display: Job 2:4

text: And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skinne for skinne, yea all that a man hath, wil he giue for his life.


display: Job 2:5

text: But put foorth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.


display: Job 2:6

text: And the LORD said vnto Satan, Behold, hee is in thine hand, but saue his life.


display: Job 2:7

text: ¶ So went Satan foorth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Iob with sore biles, from the sole of his foote vnto his crowne.


display: Job 2:8

text: And hee tooke him a potsheard to scrape himselfe withall; and hee sate downe among the ashes.


display: Job 2:9

text: ¶ Then saide his wife vnto him, Doest thou still reteine thine integritie? Curse God, and die.


text: But he said vnto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh; what? shall wee receiue good at the hand of God, and shall wee not receiue euill? In all this did not Iob sinne with his lippes.


text: ¶ Now when Iobs three friends heard of all this euill, that was come vpon him, they came euery one from his owne place: Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; for they had made an appointment together to come to mourne with him, and to comfort him.


text: And when they lift vp their eyes afarre off, and knew him not, they lifted vp their voice, and wept; and they rent euery one his mantle, and sprinckled dust vpon their heades toward heauen.


text: So they sate downe with him vpon the ground seuen dayes, and seuen nights, and none spake a word vnto him; for they saw that his griefe was very great.


display: Job 3:1

text: After this, opened Iob his mouth, and cursed his day.


display: Job 3:2

text: And Iob spake, and said,


display: Job 3:3

text: Let the day perish, wherein I was borne, and the night in which it was said, There is a man-childe conceiued.


display: Job 3:4

text: Let that day bee darkenesse, let not God regard it from aboue, neither let the light shine vpon it.


display: Job 3:5

text: Let darkenes and the shadowe of death staine it, let a cloud dwell vpon it, let the blacknes of the day terrifie it.


display: Job 3:6

text: As for that night, let darkenesse seaze vpon it, let it not be ioyned vnto the dayes of the yeere, let it not come into the number of the moneths.


display: Job 3:7

text: Loe, let that night be solitarie, let no ioyfull voice come therein.


display: Job 3:8

text: Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise vp their mourning.


display: Job 3:9

text: Let the starres of the twilight thereof be darke, let it looke for light, but haue none, neither let it see the dawning of the day:


text: Because it shut not vp the doores of my mothers wombe, nor hid sorrowe from mine eyes.


text: Why died I not from the wombe? why did I not giue vp the ghost when I came out of the bellie?


text: Why did the knees preuent mee? or why the breasts, that I should sucke?


text: For now should I haue lien still and beene quiet, I should haue slept; then had I bene at rest,


text: With Kings and counsellers of the earth, which built desolate places for themselues,


text: Or with Princes that had golde, who filled their houses with siluer:


text: Or as an hidden vntimely birth, I had not bene; as infants which neuer saw light.


text: There the wicked cease from troubling: and there the wearie be at rest.


text: There the prisoners rest together, they heare not the voice of the oppressour.


text: The small and great are there, and the seruant is free from his master.


text: Wherefore is light giuen to him that is in misery, and life vnto the bitter in soule?


text: Which long for death, but it commeth not, and dig for it more then for hid treasures:


text: Which reioice exceedingly, and are glad when they can finde the graue?


text: Why is light giuen to a man, whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?


text: For my sighing commeth before I eate, and my roarings are powred out like the waters.


text: For the thing which I greatly feared is come vpon me, and that which I was afraid of, is come vnto me.


text: I was not in safetie, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet: yet trouble came.


display: Job 4:1

text: Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, and said,


display: Job 4:2

text: If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieued? But who can withhold himselfe from speaking?


display: Job 4:3

text: Beholde, Thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weake hands.


display: Job 4:4

text: Thy words haue vpholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.


display: Job 4:5

text: But now it is come vpon thee, and thou faintest, it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.


display: Job 4:6

text: Is not this thy feare, thy confidence; the vprightnesse of thy wayes and thy hope?


display: Job 4:7

text: Remember, I pray thee, who euer perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?


display: Job 4:8

text: Euen as I haue seene, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickednsse, reape the same.


display: Job 4:9

text: By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.


text: The roaring of the Lyon, and the voice of the fierce Lyon, and the teeth of the yong Lyons are broken.


text: The old Lyon perisheth for lacke of pray, and the stout Lyons whelpes are scattered abroad.


text: Nowe a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine eare receiued a litle thereof.


text: In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deepe sleepe falleth on men:


text: Feare came vpon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.


text: Then a spirit passed before my face: the haire of my flesh stood vp.


text: It stood still, but I could not discerne the forme thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voyce, saying,


text: Shall mortall man be more iust then God? shall a man bee more pure then his maker?


text: Behold, hee put no trust in his seruants; and his Angels hee charged with folly:


text: Howe much lesse on them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth.


text: They are destroyed from morning to euening: they perish for euer, without any regarding it.


text: Doeth not their excellencie which is in them, goe away? they die, euen without wisedome.


display: Job 5:1

text: Call now, if there be any that wil answere thee, and to which of the Saints wilt thou turne?


display: Job 5:2

text: For wrath killeth the foolish man, and enuy slayeth the silly one.


display: Job 5:3

text: I haue seene the foolish taking roote: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.


display: Job 5:4

text: His children are farre from safetie, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliuer them.


display: Job 5:5

text: Whose haruest the hungry eateth vp, and taketh it euen out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth vp their substance.


display: Job 5:6

text: Although affliction commeth not forth of the dust, neither doeth trouble spring out of the ground:


display: Job 5:7

text: Yet man is borne vnto trouble, as the sparkes flie vpward.


display: Job 5:8

text: I would seeke vnto God, and vnto God would I commit my cause:


display: Job 5:9

text: Which doth great things & vnsearchable: marueilous things without number.


text: Who giueth raine vpon the earth, and sendeth waters vpon the fields:


text: To set vp on high those that be low; that those which mourne, may be exalted to safetie.


text: Hee disappointeth the deuices of the craftie, so that their hands cannot performe their enterprise.


text: He taketh the wise in their owne craftinesse: and the counsell of the froward is caried headlong.


text: They meete with darkenesse in the day time, and grope in the noone day as in the night.


text: But he saueth the poore from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mightie.


text: So the poore hath hope, and iniquitie stoppeth her mouth.


text: Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almightie.


text: For he maketh sore, and bindeth vp: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.


text: Hee shall deliuer thee in sixe troubles, yea in seuen there shall no euill touch thee.


text: In famine he shall redeeme thee from death: and in warre from the power of the sword.


text: Thou shalt be hidde from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction, when it commeth.


text: At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.


text: For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.


text: And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall bee in peace; and thou shalt visite thy habitation, and shalt not sinne.


text: Thou shalt know also that thy seede shalbe great, and thine offspring as the grasse of the earth.


text: Thou shalt come to thy graue in a full age, like as a shocke of corne commeth in, in his season.


text: Loe this, wee haue searched it, so it is; heare it, and know thou it for thy good.


display: Job 6:1

text: But Iob answered, and sayd,


display: Job 6:2

text: Oh that my griefe were throughly weighed, and my calamitie layd in the balances together.


display: Job 6:3

text: For now it would be heauier then the sand of the sea, therefore my words are swallowed vp.


display: Job 6:4

text: For the arrowes of the Almightie are within me, the poyson whereof drinketh vp my spirit: the terrors of God doe set themselues in aray against mee.


display: Job 6:5

text: Doeth the wilde asse bray when he hath grasse? or loweth the oxe ouer his fodder?


display: Job 6:6

text: Can that which is vnsauery, bee eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egge?


display: Job 6:7

text: The things that my soule refused to touch, are as my sorrowfull meat.


display: Job 6:8

text: O that I might haue my request! and that God would graunt mee the thing that I long for!


display: Job 6:9

text: Euen that it would please God to destroy mee, that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off.


text: Then should I yet haue comfort, yea I would harden my selfe in sorrow; let him not spare, for I haue not concealed the words of the holy One.


text: What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine ende, that I should prolong my life?


text: Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brasse?


text: Is not my helpe in me? and is wisedome driuen quite from me?


text: To him that is afflicted, pitie should be shewed from his friend; But he forsaketh the feare of the Almighty.


text: My brethren haue delt deceitfully as a brooke, & as the streame of brookes they passe away,


text: Which are blackish by reason of the yce, and wherein the snow is hid:


text: What time they waxe warme, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.


text: The pathes of their way are turned aside; they goe to nothing, and perish.


text: The troupes of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.


text: They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.


text: For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting downe, and are afraid.


text: Did I say, Bring vnto mee? or giue a reward for me of your substance?


text: Or deliuer me from the enemies hand, or redeeme me from the hand of the mighty?


text: Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause mee to vnderstand wherein I haue erred.


text: How forcible are right wordes? but what doeth your arguing reproue?


text: Do ye imagine to reproue words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as winde?


text: Yea, ye ouerwhelme the fatherlesse, and you digge a pit for your friend.


text: Now therefore be content, looke vpon mee, for it is euident vnto you, if I lie.


text: Returne, I pray you, let it not be iniquitie; yea returne againe: my righteousnesse is in it.


text: Is there iniquitie in my tongue? cannot my taste discerne peruerse things?


display: Job 7:1

text: Is there not an appointed time to man vpon earth? are not his dayes also like the dayes of an hireling?


display: Job 7:2

text: As a seruant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his worke:


display: Job 7:3

text: So am I made to possesse moneths of vanitie, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.


display: Job 7:4

text: When I lie downe, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro, vnto the dawning of the day.


display: Job 7:5

text: My flesh is cloathed with wormes and clods of dust, my skinne is broken, and become loathsome.


display: Job 7:6

text: My dayes are swifter then a weauers shuttle, and are spent without hope.


display: Job 7:7

text: O remember that my life is winde: mine eye shall no more see good.


display: Job 7:8

text: The eye of him that hath seene me, shall see mee no more: thine eyes are vpon me, and I am not.


display: Job 7:9

text: As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth downe to the graue, shall come vp no more.


text: Hee shall returne no more to his house: neither shall his place know him any more.


text: Therefore I will not refraine my mouth, I wil speake in the anguish of my spirit, I will complaine in the bitternesse of my soule.


text: Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch ouer me?


text: When I say, My bed shal comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint:


text: Then thou skarest mee with dreames, and terrifiest me through visions.


text: So that my soule chooseth strangling: and death rather then my life.


text: I loath it, I would not liue alway: let me alone, for my dayes are vanitie.


text: What is man, that thou shouldest magnifie him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart vpon him?


text: And that thou shouldest visite him euery morning, and trie him euery moment?


text: How long wilt thou not depart from me? nor let me alone till I swallow downe my spittle?


text: I haue sinned, what shall I doe vnto thee, O thou preseruer of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to my selfe?


text: And why doest thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquitie? for now shall I sleepe in the dust, and thou shalt seeke me in the morning, but I shall not be.


display: Job 8:1

text: Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,


display: Job 8:2

text: How long wilt thou speake these things? and how long shall the wordes of thy mouth be like a strong wind?


display: Job 8:3

text: Doth God peruert iudgement? or doth the Almightie peruert iustice?


display: Job 8:4

text: If thy children haue sinned against him, and he haue cast them away for their transgression:


display: Job 8:5

text: If thou wouldest seeke vnto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almightie:


display: Job 8:6

text: If thou wert pure and vpright, surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousnes prosperous.


display: Job 8:7

text: Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.


display: Job 8:8

text: For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thy selfe to the search of their fathers.


display: Job 8:9

text: (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our dayes vpon earth are a shadow.)


text: Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, & vtter words out of their heart?


text: Can the rush growe vp without myre? can the flag growe without water?


text: Whilest it is yet in his greennesse, and not cut downe, it withereth before any other herbe.


text: So are the paths of all that forget God, and the hypocrites hope shall perish:


text: Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spiders web.


text: He shall leane vpon his house, but it shall not stand: he shal hold it fast, but it shall not endure.


text: He is greene before the sunne, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.


text: His roots are wrapped about the heape, and seeth the place of stones.


text: If he destroy him from his place, then it shal denie him, saying, I haue not seene thee.


text: Beholde, this is the ioy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.


text: Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will hee helpe the euill doers:


text: Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with reioycing.


text: They that hate thee shall be cloathed with shame, and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.


display: Job 9:1

text: Then Iob answered, and said,


display: Job 9:2

text: I know it is so of a trueth: but howe should man be iust with God.


display: Job 9:3

text: If he will contend with him, he cannot answere him one of a thousand.


display: Job 9:4

text: He is wise in heart, and mightie in strength: who hath hardened himselfe against him, and hath prospered?


display: Job 9:5

text: Which remoueth the mountains, and they know not: which ouerturneth them in his anger:


display: Job 9:6

text: Which shaketh the earth out of her place, & the pillars thereof tremble:


display: Job 9:7

text: Which commandeth the Sunne, and it riseth not: and sealeth vp the starres.


display: Job 9:8

text: Which alone spreadeth out the heauens, and treadeth vpon the waues of the Sea.


display: Job 9:9

text: Which maketh Arcturus, Orion and Pleiades, and the chambers of the South.


text: Which doeth great things past finding out, yea and wonders without number.


text: Loe, hee goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceiue him not.


text: Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say vnto him, What doest thou?


text: If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers doe stoupe vnder him.


text: How much lesse shall I answere him, and choose out my words to reason with him?


text: Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answere, but I would make supplication to my Iudge.


text: If I had called, and had answered me, yet would I not beleeue that he had hearkened vnto my voice:


text: For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.


text: Hee will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitternesse.


text: If I speake of strength, loe, hee is strong: and if of iudgement, who shall set me a time to pleade?


text: If I iustifie my selfe, mine owne mouth shall condemne me: If I say, I am perfect, it shall also prooue me peruerse.


text: Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soule: I would despise my life.


text: This is one thing, therefore I said it; he destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.


text: If the scourge slay suddenly, hee will laugh at the triall of the innocent.


text: The earth is giuen into the hand of the wicked: he couereth the faces of the Iudges thereof; if not, where, and who is hee?


text: Now my dayes are swifter then a Poste: they flee away, they see no good.


text: They are passed away as the ships: as the Eagle that hasteth to the pray.


text: If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leaue off my heauinesse, and comfort my selfe.


text: I am afraid of all my sorrowes, I know that thou wilt not holde me innocent.


text: If I be wicked, why then labour I in vaine?


text: If I wash my selfe with snow water, and make my handes neuer so cleane:


text: Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine owne clothes shall abhorre me.


text: For he is not a man as I am, that I should answere him, and we should come together in iudgement.


text: Neither is there any dayes-man betwixt vs, that might lay his hand vpon vs both.


text: Let him take his rodde away from me, & let not his feare terrifie me:


text: Then would I speake, and not feare him; but it is not so with me.


text: My soule is weary of my life, I will leaue my complaint vpon my selfe; I will speake in the bitternesse of my soule.


text: I will say vnto God, Doe not condemne mee; shewe me wherefore thou contendest with me.


text: Is it good vnto thee, that thou shouldest oppresse? that thou shouldest despise the worke of thine hands? and shine vpon the counsell of the wicked?


text: Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?


text: Are thy dayes as the dayes of man? are thy yeeres as mans dayes,


text: That thou enquirest after mine iniquitie, and searchest after my sinne?


text: Thou knowest that I am not wicked, and there is none that can deliuer out of thine hand.


text: Thine hands haue made me and fashioned me together round about yet thou doest destroy me.


text: Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay, and wilt thou bring me into dust againe?


text: Hast thou not powred me out as milke, and cruddled me like cheese?


text: Thou hast cloathed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinewes.


text: Thou hast granted me life and fauour, and thy visitation hath preserued my spirit.


text: And these things hast thou hid in thine heart; I know that this is with thee.


text: If I sinne, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquite me from mine iniquitie.


text: If I be wicked, woe vnto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift vp my head: I am full of confusion, therefore see thou mine affliction:


text: For it increaseth: thou huntest me as a fierce Lion: and againe thou shewest thy selfe marueilous vpon me.


text: Thou renuest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation vpon me; Changes and warre are against me.


text: Wherfore then hast thou brought me forth out of the wombe? Oh that I had giuen vp the ghost, and no eye had seene me!


text: I should haue bene as though I had not bene, I should haue bene caried from the wombe to the graue.


text: Are not my dayes few? cease then, and let me alone that I may take comfort a litle,


text: Before I goe whence I shall not returne, euen to the land of darknes and the shadow of death,


text: A land of darknes, as darknes it selfe, and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkenes.


text: Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,


text: Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should man ful of talke be iustified?


text: Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?


text: For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am cleane in thine eyes.


text: But, O that God would speake, and open his lippes against thee,


text: And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisedome, that they are double to that which is: know therefore that God exacteth of thee lesse then thine iniquitie deserueth.


text: Canst thou by searching finde out God? canst thou finde out the Almightie vnto perfection?


text: It is as high as heauen, what canst thou doe? deeper then hell, what canst thou know?


text: The measure therof is longer then the earth, and broader then the sea.


text: If he cut off, and shut vp, or gather together, then who can hinder him?


text: For, he knoweth vaine men: hee seeth wickednesse also, will he not then consider it?


text: For vaine man would be wise; though man be borne like a wilde asses coult.


text: If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him:


text: If iniquitie be in thine hand, put it farre away, and let not wickednes dwell in thy tabernacles.


text: For then shalt thou lift vp thy face without spot, yea thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not feare:


text: Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that passe away:


text: And thine age shalbe clearer then the noone day; thou shalt shine foorth, thou shalt be as the morning.


text: And thou shalt be secure because there is hope, yea thou shalt digge about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety.


text: Also thou shalt lye downe, and none shall make thee afraid; yea many shall make suite vnto thee.


text: But the eyes of the wicked shall faile, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giuing vp of the ghost.


text: And Iob answered, and sayd,


text: No doubt but ye are the people, and wisedome shall die with you.


text: But I haue vnderstanding as well as you, I am not inferiour to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?


text: I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth vpon God, and he answereth him: the iust vpright man is laughed to scorne.


text: He that is ready to slippe with his feet, is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.


text: The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that prouoke God are secure, into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.


text: But aske now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the foules of the aire, and they shall tell thee.


text: Or speake to the earth, and it shall teach thee; and the fishes of the sea shall declare vnto thee.


text: Who knoweth not in all these, that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this?


text: In whose hand is the soule of euery liuing thing, and the breath of all mankinde.


text: Doeth not the eare trie wordes? and the mouth taste his meate?


text: With the ancient is wisedome, and in length of dayes, vnderstanding.


text: With him is wisedome & strength, he hath counsell and vnderstanding.


text: Behold, he breaketh downe, and it cannot be built againe: hee shutteth vp a man, and there can be no opening.


text: Behold, hee withholdeth the waters, and they drie vp: also hee sendeth them out, and they ouerturne the earth.


text: With him is strength & wisedome: the deceiued, and the deceiuer, are his.


text: He leadeth counsellers away spoiled, and maketh the Iudges fooles.


text: He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loines with a girdle.


text: He leadeth Princes away spoiled, and ouerthroweth the mightie.


text: He remooueth away the speech of the trustie, and taketh away the vnderstanding of the aged.


text: He powreth contempt vpon princes, and weakeneth the strength of the mightie.


text: Hee discouereth deepe things out of darkenesse, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.


text: He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: hee inlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them againe.


text: He taketh away the heart of the chiefe of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wildernes where there is no way.


text: They grope in the darke without light, and hee maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.


text: Loe, mine eye hath seene all this, mine eare hath heard and vnderstood it.


text: What yee know, the same doe I know also, I am not inferiour vnto you.


text: Surely I would speake to the Almighty, & I desire to reason with God.


text: But ye are forgers of lies, yee are all Physicians of no value.


text: O that you would altogether hold your peace, & it should be your wisdome.


text: Heare now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.


text: Wil you speake wickedly for God? and talke deceitfully for him?


text: Will ye accept his person? Will yee contend for God?


text: Is it good that hee should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, doe ye so mocke him?


text: He will surely reprooue you, if yee doe secretly accept persons.


text: Shall not his excellencie make you afraid? and his dread fall vpon you?


text: Your remembrances are like vnto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.


text: Hold your peace, let me alone that I may speake, and let come on me what will.


text: Wherefore doe I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?


text: Though hee slay mee, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintaine mine owne wayes before him.


text: Hee also shall be my saluation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.


text: Heare diligently my speach, and my declaration with your eares.


text: Behold now, I haue ordered my cause, I know that I shall be iustified.


text: Who is hee that will plead with me? for now if I hold my tongue, I shall giue vp the ghost.


text: Only doe not two things vnto me: then will I not hide my selfe from thee.


text: Withdrawe thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make mee afraid.


text: Then call thou, and I will answere: or let me speake, and answere thou mee.


text: How many are mine iniquities and sinnes? make mee to knowe my transgression, and my sinne.


text: Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemie?


text: Wilt thou breake a leafe driuen to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the drie stubble?


text: For thou writest bitter things against mee, and makest me to possesse the iniquities of my youth.


text: Thou puttest my feete also in the stockes, and lookest narrowly vnto all my pathes; thou settest a print vpon the heeles of my feete.


text: And hee, as a rotten thing consumeth, as a garment that is moth-eaten.


text: Man that is borne of a woman, is of few dayes, and full of trouble.


text: Hee commeth forth like a flower, and is cut downe: he fleeth also, as a shaddow and continueth not.


text: And doest thou open thine eies vpon such an one, and bringest me into iudgment with thee?


text: Who can bring a cleane thing out of an vncleane? not one.


text: Seeing his daies are determined, the number of his moneths are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot passe.


text: Turne from him that hee may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hircling, his day.


text: For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut downe, that it will sprout againe, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.


text: Though the roote thereof waxe old in the earth, and the stocke thereof die in the ground:


text: Yet through the sent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughes like a plant.


text: But man dyeth, and wasteth away; yea, man giueth vp the ghost, and where is hee?


text: As the waters faile from the sea, and the floud decayeth and dryeth vp:


text: So man lyeth downe, and riseth not, till the heauens be no more, they shall not awake; nor bee raised out of their sleepe.


text: O that thou wouldest hide mee in the graue, that thou wouldest keepe me secret, vntill thy wrath bee past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me.


text: If a man die, shall he liue againe? All the dayes of my appointed time will I waite, till my change come.


text: Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt haue a desire to the worke of thine hands.


text: For nowe thou numbrest my steppes, doest thou not watch ouer my sinne?


text: My transgression is sealed vp in a bagge, and thou sowest vp mine iniquitie.


text: And surely the mountaine falling commeth to nought: and the rocke is remoued out of his place.


text: The waters weare the stones, thou washest away the things which growe out of the dust of the earth, and thou destroyest the hope of man.


text: Thou preuailest for euer against him, and hee passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.


text: His sonnes come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought lowe, but he perceiueth it not of them.


text: But his flesh vpon him shall haue paine, and his soule within him shall mourne.


text: Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,


text: Should a wise man vtter vaine knowledge, and fill his belly with the East winde?


text: Should hee reason with vnprofitable talke? or with speeches wherewith he can doe no good?


text: Yea thou castest off feare, and restrainest prayer before God.


text: For thy mouth vttereth thine iniquitie, and thou choosest the tongue of the craftie.


text: Thine owne mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea thine owne lippes testifie against thee.


text: Art thou the first man that was borne? or wast thou made before the hilles?


text: Hast thou heard the secret of God? and doest thou restraine wisedome to thy selfe?


text: What knowest thou that we know not? what vnderstandest thou, which is not in vs?


text: With vs are both the gray headed, and very aged men, much elder then thy father.


text: Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?


text: Why doeth thine heart carie thee away? and what doe thine eyes winke at,


text: That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words goe out of thy mouth?


text: What is man, that he should be cleane? and he which is borne of a woman, that he should be righteous?


text: Beholde, he putteth no trust in his Saints, yea, the heauens are not cleane in his sight.


text: How much more abominable and filthie is man, which drinketh iniquitie like water?


text: I will shew thee, heare me, and that which I haue seene, I wil declare,


text: Which wise men haue tolde from their fathers, and haue not hid it:


text: Unto whom alone the earth was giuen, and no stranger passed among them.


text: The wicked man trauaileth with paine all his dayes, and the number of yeeres is hidden to the oppressour.


text: A dreadfull sound is in his eares; in prosperitie the destroyer shall come vpon him.


text: He beleeueth not that he shall returne out of darkenesse, and he is waited for, of the sword.


text: He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkenes is ready at his hand.


text: Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall preuaile against him, as a king ready to the battell.


text: For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himselfe against the Almightie.


text: He runneth vpon him, euen on his necke, vpon the thicke bosses of his bucklers:


text: Because he couereth his face with his fatnesse, and maketh collops of fat on his flankes.


text: And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heapes.


text: He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof vpon the earth.


text: He shall not depart out of darkenesse, the flame shall drie vp his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he goe away.


text: Let not him that is deceiued, trust in vanitie: for vanitie shalbe his recompence.


text: It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not bee greene.


text: He shal shake off his vnripe grape as the Uine, and shall cast off his flowre as the Oliue.


text: For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of briberie.


text: They conceiue mischiefe, and bring forth vanitie, and their belly prepareth deceit.


text: Then Iob answered, and said,


text: I haue heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.


text: Shall vaine words haue an ende? or what emboldeneth thee, that thou answerest?


text: I also could speake as yee doe: if your soule were in my soules stead, I could heape vp words against you, and shake mine head at you.


text: But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the mouing of my lips should asswage your griefe.


text: Though I speake, my griefe is not asswaged: and though I forbeare; what am I eased?


text: But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate al my companie.


text: And thou hast filled mee with wrinckles, which is a witnesse against me: and my leannesse rising vp in me, beareth witnesse to my face.


text: He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth vpon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes vpon me.


text: They haue gaped vpon me with their mouth, they haue smitten me vpon the cheeke reprochfully, they haue gathered themselues together against mee.


text: God hath deliuered me to the vngodly, and turned me ouer into the hands of the wicked.


text: I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my necke, and shaken me to pieces, and set me vp for his marke.


text: His archers compasse me round about, he cleaueth my reines asunder, and doeth not spare; he powreth out my gall vpon the ground.


text: He breaketh me with breach vpon breach, he runneth vpon me like a giant.


text: I haue sowed sackcloth vpon my skin, and defiled my horne in the dust.


text: My face is fowle with weeping, and on mine eye-lids is the shadow of death;


text: Not for any iniustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.


text: O earth couer not thou my blood, and let my cry haue no place.


text: Also now, behold my witnesse is in heauen, and my record is on high.


text: My friends scorne me: but mine eye powreth out teares vnto God.


text: O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour.


text: When a few yeeres are come, then I shall goe the way whence I shall not returne.


text: My breath is corrupt, my dayes are extinct, the graues are ready for me.


text: Are there not mockers with mee? and doeth not mine eye continue in their prouocation?


text: Lay downe now, put me in a suretie with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?


text: For thou hast hid their heart from vnderstanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.


text: Hee that speaketh flattery to his friends, euen the eyes of his children shall faile.


text: He hath made me also a by-word of the people, and afore time I was as a tabret.


text: Mine eye also is dimme by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.


text: Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stirre vp himselfe against the hypocrite.


text: The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath cleane hands shalbe stronger, and stronger.


text: But as for you all, doe you returne, and come now, for I cannot find one wise man among you.


text: My dayes are past, my purposes are broken off, euen the thoughts of my heart:


text: They change the night into day: the light is short, because of darknes.


text: If I waite, the graue is mine house: I haue made my bedde in the darknesse.


text: I haue said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worme, Thou art my mother, and my sister.


text: And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?


text: They shall goe downe to the barres of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.


text: Then answered Bildad the Shuhite and said,


text: How long will it bee, ere you make an ende of words? Marke, and afterwards we will speake.


text: Wherefore are wee counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?


text: He teareth himselfe in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rocke bee remooued out of his place?


text: Yea, the light of the wicked shalbe put out, and the sparke of his fire shall not shine.


text: The light shalbe darke in his tabernacle, and his candle shalbe put out with him.


text: The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his owne counsell shall cast him downe.


text: For hee is cast into a net by his owne feete, & he walketh vpon a snare.


text: The grinne shall take him by the heele, and the robber shall preuaile against him.


text: The snare is laide for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.


text: Terrours shall make him afraid on euery side, and shall driue him to his feete.


text: His strength shalbe hunger-bitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.


text: It shall deuoure the strength of his skinne: euen the first borne of death shall deuoure his strength.


text: His confidence shalbe rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrours.


text: It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered vpon his habitation.


text: His rootes shall be dryed vp beneath: and aboue shall his branch be cut off.


text: His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and hee shall haue no name in the streete.


text: He shall be driuen from light into darkenesse, and chased out of the world.


text: Hee shall neither haue sonne nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.


text: They that come after him shalbe astonied at his day, as they that went before, were affrighted.


text: Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.


text: Then Iob answered, and sayd,


text: How long will yee vexe my soule, and breake me in pieces with words?


text: These tenne times haue ye reproched me: you are not ashamed that you make your selues strange to me.


text: And be it indeed that I haue erred, mine errour remaineth with my selfe.


text: If indeed yee will magnifie your selues against me, and plead against me my reproch:


text: Know now that God hath ouerthrowen me, and hath compassed me with his net.


text: Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloude, but there is no iudgement.


text: Hee hath fenced vp my way that I cannot passe; and hee hath set darkenesse in my pathes.


text: Hee hath stript me of my glory, and taken the crowne from my head.


text: He hath destroyed me on euery side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he remooued like a tree.


text: He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and hee counteth me vnto him as one of his enemies.


text: His troupes come together, and raise vp their way against me, and encampe round about my tabernacle.


text: Hee hath put my brethren farre from me, and mine acquaintance are verely estranged from me.


text: My kinsefolke haue failed, and my familiar friends haue forgotten me.


text: They that dwell in mine house, and my maides count me for a stranger: I am an aliant in their sight.


text: I called my seruant, and he gaue me no answere: I intreated him with my mouth.


text: My breath is strange to my wife, though I entreated for the childrens sake of mine owne body.


text: Yea, yong children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.


text: All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loued, are turned against me.


text: My bone cleaueth to my skinne, and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skinne of my teeth.


text: Haue pity vpon me, haue pitie vpon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.


text: Why doe ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?


text: Oh that my wordes were now written, oh that they were printed in a booke!


text: That they were grauen with an iron pen and lead, in the rocke for euer.


text: For I know that my Redeemer liueth, and that he shall stand at the latter day, vpon the earth:


text: And though after my skin, wormes destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:


text: Whom I shal see for my selfe, and mine eyes shall beholde, and not another, though my reines bee consumed within me.


text: But ye should say, Why persecute we him? seeing the root of the matter is found in me.


text: Bee ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that yee may know there is a iudgement.


text: Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and saide,


text: Therefore doe my thoughts cause mee to answere, and for this I make haste.


text: I haue heard the checke of my reproach, and the spirit of my vnderstanding causeth me to answere.


text: Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed vpon earth,


text: That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the ioy of the hypocrite but for a moment?


text: Though his excellencie mount vp to the heauens, and his head reach vnto the clouds:


text: Yet he shall perish for euer, like his owne doung: they which haue seene him, shall say, Where is he?


text: He shall flie away as a dreame, and shall not be found: yea he shalbe chased away as a vision of the night.


text: The eye also which saw him, shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.


text: His children shall seeke to please the poore, and his hands shall restore their goods.


text: His bones are ful of the sinne of his youth, which shall ye downe with him in the dust.


text: Though wickednes be sweet in his mouth, though hee hide it vnder his tongue;


text: Though he spare it, and forsake it not, but keepe it stil within his mouth:


text: Yet his meate in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of Aspes within him.


text: He hath swallowed downe riches, and hee shall vomite them vp againe: God shall cast them out of his belly.


text: He shall sucke the poison of Aspes: the vipers tongue shall slay him.


text: Hee shall not see the riuers, the floods, the brookes of hony and butter.


text: That which he laboured for, shall he restore, & shall not swallow it downe: according to his substance shall the restitution bee, and hee shall not reioyce therein.


text: Because hee hath oppressed, and hath forsaken the poore; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not:


text: Surely he shall not feele quietnesse in his belly, hee shall not saue of that which he desired.


text: There shall none of his meat be left, therefore shall no man looke for his goods.


text: In the fulnesse of his sufficiencie, he shalbe in straites: euery hand of the wicked shall come vpon him.


text: When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the furie of his wrath vpon him, and shall raine it vpon him while he is eating.


text: He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steele shall strike him through.


text: It is drawen, and commeth out of the body; yea the glistering sword commeth out of his gall; terrours are vpon him.


text: All darknesse shalbe hid in his secret places: a fire not blowen shall consume him; it shall goe ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.


text: The heauen shall reueale his iniquitie: and the earth shall rise vp against him.


text: The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.


text: This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed vnto him by God.


text: But Iob answered, and sayd,


text: Heare diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.


text: Suffer me that I may speake, and after that I haue spoken, mocke on.


text: As for mee, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?


text: Marke mee, and be astonished, and lay your hand vpon your mouth.


text: Euen when I remember, I am afraid, and trembling taketh holde on my flesh.


text: Wherefore doe the wicked liue, become old, yea, are mightie in power?


text: Their seede is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.


text: Their houses are safe from feare, neither is the rod of God vpon them.


text: Their bull gendreth and faileth not, their cow calueth, and casteth not her calfe.


text: They send foorth their little ones like a flocke, and their children dance.


text: They take the timbrell and harpe, and reioyce at the sound of the organe.


text: They spend their daies in wealth, and in a moment goe downe to the graue.


text: Therefore they say vnto God, Depart from vs: for we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes.


text: What is the Almightie, that wee should serue him? and what profite should we haue, if we pray vnto him?


text: Loe, their good is not in their hand, the counsell of the wicked is farre from me.


text: How oft is the candle of the wicked put out? and how oft commeth their destruction vpon them? God distributeth sorrowes in his anger.


text: They are as stubble before the winde, and as chaffe that the storme carieth away.


text: God layeth vp his iniquitie for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.


text: His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drinke of the wrath of the Almightie.


text: For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his moneths is cut off in the middest?


text: Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he iudgeth those that are high.


text: One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.


text: His breasts are full of milke, and his bones are moistened with marrow.


text: And another dieth in the bitternesse of his soule, and neuer eateth with pleasure.


text: They shall lie downe alike in the dust, and the wormes shall couer them.


text: Behold, I know your thoughts, and the deuices which yee wrongfully imagine against me.


text: For ye say, where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?


text: Haue ye not asked them that goe by the way? and doe ye not know their tokens?


text: That the wicked is reserued to the day of destruction; they shall bee brought foorth to the day of wrath.


text: Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?


text: Yet shall hee be brought to the graue, & shall remaine in the tombe.


text: The cloudes of the valley shalbe sweete vnto him, and euery man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.


text: How then comfort ye me in vaine, seeing in your answeres there remaineth falshood?


text: Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, and said,


text: Can a man be profitable vnto God? as hee that is wise may be profitable vnto himselfe.


text: Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gaine to him, that thou makest thy waies perfite?


text: Will hee reproue thee for feare of thee? will he enter with thee into iudgment?


text: Is not thy wickednesse great? and thine iniquities infinite?


text: For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.


text: Thou hast not giuen water to the wearie to drinke, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.


text: But as for the mightie man, hee had the earth, and the honourable man dwelt in it.


text: Thou hast sent widowes away emptie, and the armes of the fatherlesse haue bene broken.


text: Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden feare troubleth thee,


text: Or darkenes that thou canst not see, and abundance of waters couer thee.


text: Is not God in the height of heauen? and behold the height of the starres how high they are.


text: And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he iudge through the darke cloude?


text: Thicke cloudes are a couering to him that he seeth not, and hee walketh in the circuit of heauen.


text: Hast thou marked the olde way which wicked men haue troden?


text: Which were cut downe out of time, whose foundation was ouerflowen with a flood.


text: Which said vnto God, Depart from vs, and what can the Almightie doe for them?


text: Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsell of the wicked is farre from me.


text: The righteous see it, and are glad, and the innocent laugh them to scorne.


text: Whereas our substance is not cut downe, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.


text: Acquaint now thy selfe with him, and be at peace: thereby good shal come vnto thee.


text: Receiue, I pray thee, the Lawe from his mouth, and lay vp his words in thine heart.


text: If thou returne to the Almightie, thou shalt be built vp, thou shalt put away iniquitie farre from thy tabernacles.


text: Then shalt thou lay vp golde as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brookes.


text: Yea the Almightie shall bee thy defence, and thou shalt haue plenty of siluer.


text: For then shalt thou haue thy delight in the Almightie, and shalt lift vp thy face vnto God.


text: Thou shalt make thy prayer vnto him, and he shall heare thee, and thou shalt pay thy vowes.


text: Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shal be established vnto thee: and the light shall shine vpon thy wayes.


text: When men are cast downe, then thou shalt say, There is lifting vp: and he shall saue the humble person.


text: He shall deliuer the Iland of the innocent: and it is deliuered by the purenesse of thine hands.


text: Then Iob answered, and said,


text: Euen to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heauier then my groning.


text: O that I knewe where I might find him! that I might come euen to his seate!


text: I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.


text: I would know the words which he would answere me, and vnderstand what he would say vnto me.


text: Will he plead against me with his great power? No, but hee would put strength in me.


text: There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be deliuered for euer from my Iudge.


text: Behold, I goe forward, but he is not there, and backward, but I cannot perceiue him:


text: On the left hand where hee doeth worke, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himselfe on the right hand, that I cannot see him.


text: But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.


text: My foot hath held his steps, his way haue I kept, and not declined.


text: Neither haue I gone backe from the commaundement of his lippes, I haue esteemed the words of his mouth more then my necessary food.


text: But hee is in one minde, and who can turne him? and what his soule desireth, euen that he doeth.


text: For he performeth the thing that is appointed for mee: and many such things are with him.


text: Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.


text: For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:


text: Because I was not cut off before the darknes, neither hath he couered the darknes from my face.


text: Why, seeing Times are not hidden from the Almightie, doe they, that know him not, see his dayes?


text: Some remooue the land-markes; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.


text: They driue away the asse of the fatherlesse, they take the widowes oxe for a pledge.


text: They turne the needy out of the way: the poore of the earth hide themselues together.


text: Behold, as wilde asses in the desart, goe they foorth to their worke, rising betimes for a pray: the wildernes yeeldeth food for them, and for their children.


text: They reape euery one his corne in the fielde: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.


text: They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they haue no couering in the cold.


text: They are wet with the showres of the mountaines, and imbrace the rocke for want of a shelter.


text: They plucke the fatherlesse from the brest, and take a pledge of the poore.


text: They cause him to go naked without clothing: and they take away the sheafe from the hungry,


text: Which make oyle within their walles, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.


text: Men groane from out of the city, and the soule of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.


text: They are of those that rebell against the light, they know not the wayes thereof, nor abide in the pathes thereof.


text: The murderer rising with the light, killeth the poore and needy, and in the night is as a thiefe.


text: The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.


text: In the darke they digge through houses which they had marked for themselues in the day time: they know not the light.


text: For the morning is to them euen as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrours of the shadow of death.


text: Hee is swift as the waters, their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the Uineyards.


text: Drought and heate consume the snow waters: so doeth the graue those which haue sinned.


text: The wombe shall forget him, the worme shall feed sweetly on him, hee shall be no more remembred, and wickednes shalbe broken as a tree.


text: He euill intreateth the barren, that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.


text: He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth vp, and no man is sure of life.


text: Though it be giuen him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are vpon their wayes.


text: They are exalted for a litle while, but are gone and brought low, they are taken out of the way as al other, and cut off as the tops of the eares of corne.


text: And if it be not so now, who will make mee a liar, and make my speach nothing worth?


text: Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said:


text: Dominion and feare are with him, hee maketh peace in his high places.


text: Is there any number of his armies? and vpon whom doeth not his light arise?


text: How then can man bee iustified with God? or how can he be cleane that is borne of a woman?


text: Behold euen to the moone, and it shineth not, yea the starres are not pure in his sight.


text: How much lesse man, that is a worme: and the sonne of man which is a worme?


text: But Iob answered and sayd,


text: Howe hast thou helped him that is without power? how sauest thou the arme that hath no strength?


text: How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisedome? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing, as it is?


text: To whom hast thou vttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?


text: Dead things are formed from vnder the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.


text: Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no couering.


text: He stretcheth out the North ouer the emptie place, and hangeth the earth vpon nothing.


text: Hee bindeth vp the waters in his thicke clouds, and the cloud is not rent vnder them.


text: Hee holdeth backe the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud vpon it.


text: Hee hath compassed the waters with bounds, vntill the day and night come to an end.


text: The pillars of heauen tremble, and are astonished at his reproofe.


text: Hee diuideth the sea with his power, and by his vnderstanding he smiteth through the proud.


text: By his spirit he hath garnished the heauens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent.


text: Loe, these are parts of his waies, but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can vnderstand?


text: Moreouer Iob continued his parable, and sayd,


text: As God liueth, who hath taken away my iudgment, and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soule;


text: All the while my breath is in mee, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;


text: My lips shall not speake wickednesse, nor my tongue vtter deceit.


text: God forbid that I should iustifie you: till I die, I will not remoue my integritie from me.


text: My righteousnesse I hold fast, and will not let it goe: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I liue.


text: Let mine enemie be as the wicked, and he that riseth vp against me, as the vnrighteous.


text: For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soule?


text: Will God heare his cry, when trouble commeth vpon him?


text: Will he delight himselfe in the Almightie? will hee alwayes call vpon God?


text: I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Almightie, will I not conceale.


text: Behold, all ye your selues haue seene it, why then are yee thus altogether vaine?


text: This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressours which they shall receiue of the Almightie.


text: If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offpring shall not be satisfied with bread.


text: Those that remaine of him shall bee buried in death: and his widowes shall not weepe.


text: Though he heape vp siluer as the dust, and prepare rayment as the clay:


text: He may prepare it, but the iust shall put it on, and the innocent shall diuide the siluer.


text: He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.


text: The rich man shall lie downe, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he is not:


text: Terrours take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.


text: The East winde carieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storme hurleth him out of his place.


text: For God shall cast vpon him, and not spare: hee would faine flee out of his hand.


text: Men shall clap their handes at him, and shall hisse him out of his place.


text: Surely there is a veine for the siluer, and a place for golde where they fine it.


text: Iron is taken out of the earth, and brasse is molten out of the stone.


text: Hee setteth an ende to darkenesse, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkenesse and the shadow of death.


text: The floud breaketh out from the inhabitant; euen the waters forgotten of the foote: they are dried vp, they are gone away from men.


text: As for the earth, out of it commeth bread: and vnder it, is turned vp as it were fire.


text: The stones of it are the place of Saphires: and it hath dust of golde.


text: There is a path which no foule knoweth, and which the vulturs eye hath not seene.


text: The lyons whelps haue not troden it, nor the fierce lyon passed by it.


text: Hee putteth foorth his hand vpon the rocke; hee ouerturneth the mountaines by the rootes.


text: Hee cutteth out riuers among the rockes, and his eye seeth euery precious thing.


text: He bindeth the flouds from ouerflowing, and the thing that is hid, bringeth he foorth to light.


text: But where shall wisedome bee found? and where is the place of vnderstanding?


text: Man knoweth not the price thereof neither is it found in the land of the liuing.


text: The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not with me.


text: It cannot be gotten for golde, neither shall siluer be weighed for the price thereof.


text: It cannot be valued with the golde of Ophir, with the precious Onix, or the Saphire.


text: The golde and the chrystall cannot equall it: and the exchange of it shall not be for iewels of fine golde.


text: No mention shalbe made of Corall, or of Pearles: for the price of wisedome is aboue Rubies.


text: The Topaze of Ethiopia shall not equall it, neither shall it be valued with pure golde.


text: Whence then commeth wisedome? and where is the place of vnderstanding?


text: Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all liuing, and kept close from the foules of the ayre.


text: Destruction and death say, Wee haue heard the fame thereof with our eares.


text: God vnderstandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.


text: For hee looketh to the endes of the earth, and seeth vnder the whole heauen:


text: To make the weight for the windes, and he weigheth the waters by measure.


text: When hee made a decree for the raine, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:


text: Then did he see it, and declare it, he prepared it, yea and searched it out.


text: And vnto man he said, Behold, the feare of the Lord, that is wisedome, and to depart from euill, is vnderstanding.


text: Moreouer Iob continued his parable, and said,


text: O that I were as in moneths past, as in the dayes when God preserued me.


text: When his candle shined vpon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkenesse:


text: As I was in the dayes of my youth, when the secret of God was vpon my tabernacle:


text: When the Almightie was yet with me, when my children were about me:


text: When I washed my steps with butter, and the rocke powred me out riuers of oyle:


text: When I went out to the gate, through the citie, when I prepared my seate in the street.


text: The yong men saw me, and hid themselues: and the aged arose, and stood vp.


text: The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.


text: The Nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaued to the roofe of their mouth.


text: When the eare heard mee, then it blessed me, and when the eye saw me, it gaue witnesse to me:


text: Because I deliuered the poore that cried, and the fatherlesse, and him that had none to helpe him.


text: The blessing of him that was readie to perish, came vpon me: and I caused the widowes heart to sing for ioy.


text: I put on righteousnesse, and it clothed me: my iudgement was as a robe and a diademe.


text: I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.


text: I was a father to the poore: and the cause which I knewe not, I searched out.


text: And I brake the iawes of the wicked, and pluckt the spoile out of his teeth.


text: Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiplie my dayes as the sand.


text: My roote was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night vpon my branch.


text: My glory was fresh in mee, and my bow was renewed in my hand.


text: Unto me men gaue eare, and waited, and kept silence at my counsell.


text: After my words they spake not againe, & my speach dropped vpon them,


text: And they waited for me as for the raine, and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter raine.


text: If I laughed on them, they beleeued it not, and the light of my countenance they cast not downe.


text: I chose out their way, and sate chiefe, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.


text: But nowe they that are yonger then I, haue mee in derision, whose fathers I would haue disdained to haue set with the dogs of my flocke.


text: Yea whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom olde age was perished?


text: For want and famine they were solitarie: flying into the wildernesse in former time desolate and waste:


text: Who cut vp mallowes by the bushes, and Iuniper rootes for their meate.


text: They were driuen foorth from among men, (they cried after them, as after a thiefe.)


text: To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caues of the earth, and in the rockes.


text: Among the bushes they brayed: vnder the nettles they were gathered together.


text: They were children of fooles, yea children of base men: they were viler then the earth.


text: And now am I their song, yea I am their by-word.


text: They abhorre me, they flee farre from me, and spare not to spit in my face.


text: Because hee hath loosed my cord and afflicted me, they haue also let loose the bridle before me.


text: Upon my right hand rise the youth, they push away my feete, and they raise vp against mee the wayes of their destruction.


text: They marre my path, they set forward my calamitie, they haue no helper.


text: They came vpon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselues vpon me.


text: Terrours are turned vpon mee: they pursue my soule as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloude.


text: And now my soule is powred out vpon me: the dayes of affliction haue taken hold vpon me.


text: My bones are pierced in mee in the night season: and my sinewes take no rest.


text: By the great force of my disease, is my garment changed: it bindeth mee about as the collar of my coat.


text: He hath cast mee into the myre, and I am become like dust and ashes.


text: I crie vnto thee, and thou doest not heare me: I stand vp, and thou regardest me not.


text: Thou art become cruell to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thy selfe against me.


text: Thou liftest me vp to the wind: thou causest me to ride vpon it, and dissoluest my substance.


text: For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all liuing.


text: Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the graue, though they cry in his destruction.


text: Did not I weepe for him that was in trouble? was not my soule grieued for the poore?


text: When I looked for good, then euill came vnto mee: and when I waited for light, there came darkenes.


text: My bowels boyled and rested not: the dayes of affliction preuented mee.


text: I went mourning without the Sunne: I stood vp, and I cried in the Congregation.


text: I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owles.


text: My skinne is blacke vpon mee, and my bones are burnt with heat.


text: My harpe also is turned to mourning, and my organe into the voyce of them that weepe.


text: I made a couenant with mine eyes; why then should I thinke vpon a mayd?


text: For what portion of God is there from aboue? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?


text: Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquitie?


text: Doeth not he see my wayes, and count all my steps?


text: If I haue walked with vanitie, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;


text: Let me bee weighed in an euen ballance, that God may know mine integritie.


text: If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaued to my hands:


text: Then let mee sow, and let another eate, yea let my off-spring be rooted out.


text: If mine heart haue bene deceiued by a woman, or if I haue layde wait at my neighbours doore:


text: Then let my wife grind vnto another, and let others bow downe vpon her.


text: For this is an heinous crime, yea, it is an iniquitie to bee punished by the Iudges.


text: For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would roote out all mine encrease.


text: If I did despise the cause of my man-seruant, or of my mayd-seruant, when they contended with me:


text: What then shall I do, when God riseth vp? and when hee visiteth, what shall I answere him?


text: Did not hee that made mee in the wombe, make him? and did not one fashion vs in the wombe?


text: If I haue withhelde the poore from their desire, or haue caused the eyes of the widow to faile:


text: Or haue eaten my morsell my selfe alone, and the fatherlesse hath not eaten thereof:


text: (For from my youth hee was brought vp with me as with a father, and I haue guided her from my mothers wombe.)


text: If I haue seene any perish for want of cloathing, or any poore without couering:


text: If his loynes haue not blessed me, and if hee were not warmed with the fleece of my sheepe:


text: If I haue lift vp my hand against the fatherlesse, when I saw my helpe in the gate:


text: Then let mine arme fall from my shoulder-blade, and mine arme be broken from the bone.


text: For destruction from God was a terrour to mee: and by reason of his highnesse, I could not endure.


text: If I haue made golde my hope, or haue said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence:


text: If I reioyced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much:


text: If I beheld the Sunne when it shined, or the Moone walking in brightnesse:


text: And my heart hath bene secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:


text: This also were an iniquitie to be punished by the Iudge: For I should haue denied the God that is aboue.


text: If I reioyced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lift vp my selfe when euill found him:


text: (Neither haue I suffered my mouth to sinne by wishing a curse to his soule.)


text: If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! wee cannot be satisfied.


text: The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doores to the trauailer.


text: If I couered my transgressions, as Adam: by hiding mine iniquitie in my bosome:


text: Did I feare a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrifie me: that I kept silence, and went not out of the doore?


text: O that one would heare me! beholde, my desire is, that the Almightie would answere me, and that mine aduersary had written a booke.


text: Surely I would take it vpon my shoulder, and bind it as a crowne to me.


text: I would declare vnto him the number of my steps, as a prince would I goe neere vnto him.


text: If my land cry against me, or that the furrowes likewise thereof complaine:


text: If I haue eaten the fruits thereof without money, or haue caused the owners thereof to loose their life:


text: Let thistles grow in stead of wheat, and cockle in stead of barley. The words of Iob are ended.


text: So these three men ceased to answere Iob, because he was righteous in his owne eyes.


text: Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu, the sonne of Barachel the Buzite, of the kinred of Ram: against Iob was his wrath kindled, because he iustified himselfe rather then God.