¹ Bvt Iob answered, and sayd,

² Heare diligently my wordes, and this shalbe in stead of your consolations.

³ Suffer mee, that I may speake, and when I haue spoken, mocke on.

⁴ Doe I direct my talke to man? If it were so, how should not my spirit be troubled?

⁵ Marke mee, and be abashed, and lay your hand vpon your mouth.

⁶ Euen when I remember, I am afrayde, and feare taketh hold on my flesh.

⁷ Wherefore do the wicked liue, and waxe olde, and grow in wealth?

⁸ Their seede is established in their sight with them, and their generation before their eyes.

⁹ Their houses are peaceable without feare, and the rod of God is not vpon them.

¹⁰ Their bullocke gendreth, and fayleth not: their cow calueth, and casteth not her calfe.

¹¹ They send forth their children like sheepe, and their sonnes dance.

¹² They take the tabret and harpe, and reioyce in the sound of the organs.

¹³ They spend their dayes in wealth, and suddenly they go downe to the graue.

¹⁴ They say also vnto God, Depart from vs: for we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes.

¹⁵ Who is the Almightie, that we should serue him? and what profit should we haue, if we should pray vnto him?

¹⁶ Lo, their wealth is not in their hand: therfore let the counsell of the wicked bee farre from me.

¹⁷ How oft shall the candle of the wicked be put out? and their destruction come vpon them? he wil deuide their liues in his wrath.

¹⁸ They shall be as stubble before the winde, and as chaffe that the storme carieth away.

¹⁹ God wil lay vp the sorowe of the father for his children: when he rewardeth him, hee shall knowe it.

²⁰ His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drinke of the wrath of the Almightie.

²¹ For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the nomber of his moneths is cut off?

²² Shall any teache God knowledge, who iudgeth the highest things?

²³ One dyeth in his full strength, being in all ease and prosperitie.

²⁴ His breasts are full of milke, and his bones runne full of marowe.

²⁵ And another dieth in the bitternes of his soule, and neuer eateth with pleasure.

²⁶ They shall sleepe both in the dust, and the wormes shall couer them.

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

²⁸ For ye say, Where is the princes house? and where is the tabernacle of the wickeds dwelling?

²⁹ May ye not aske the that go by the way? and ye can not deny their signes.

³⁰ But the wicked is kept vnto the day of destruction, and they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.

³¹ Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall reward him for that he hath done?

³² Yet shall he be brought to the graue, and remaine in the heape.

³³ The slimie valley shalbe sweete vnto him, and euery man shall draw after him, as before him there were innumerable.

³⁴ How then comfort ye me in vaine, seeing in your answeres there remaine but lyes?