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¹ Iob aunswered, and saide:² O heare diligently my wordes, and that shalbe in steede of your consolations,³ Suffer me that I may speake, and when I haue spoken mocke on.⁴ Is it for mans sake that I make this disputation? Which if it were so, shoulde not my spirite then be in sore trouble?⁵ Marke me [well] and be abashed, and lay your hande vpon your mouth.⁶ For when I consider [my selfe] I am afrayde, and my fleshe is smitten with feare.

⁷ Wherefore do wicked men liue, come to their olde age, and increase in richesse?⁸ Their children lyue in their sight, and their generation before their eyes.⁹ Their houses are safe from all feare, and the rod of God is not vpon them.¹⁰ Their bullocke gendreth and that not out of time, their cowe calueth and is not vnfruitfull.¹¹ They sende foorth their children by flockes, & their sonnes [leade the] daunce.¹² They beare with them tabrets and harpes, and reioyce in the sounde of the organs.¹³ They spend their dayes in wealthines, but sodainely they go downe to the graue.¹⁴ They say also vnto God: Go from vs, we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes.¹⁵ Who is the almightie that we should serue him? And what profite should we haue if we should pray vnto him?¹⁶ Lo, there is vtterly no goodnesse in their hande, therefore wyll I not haue to do with the counsaile of the vngodly.

¹⁷ How oft shall the candell of the wicked be put out, and their destruction come vpon them? O what sorowe shall God geue them for their part in his wrath?¹⁸ Yea, they shalbe euen as hay before the winde, and as chaffe that the storme carieth away.¹⁹ God wyll lay vp the sorowe of the father for his children: & when he rewardeth him, he shall know it.²⁰ Their owne miserie shal they see with their eyes, and drinke of the fearefull wrath of the almightie.²¹ For what careth he for his house after his death, when the number of his monethes is cut short?²² Seeing God hath the highest power of all, who can teache him any knowledge?²³ One dyeth in his full strength, being in all ease and prosperitie,²⁴ His breastes are full of milke, and his bones runne full of marowe.²⁵ Another dyeth in the bitternes of his soule, and neuer eateth with pleasure.²⁶ They shall sleepe both alyke in the earth, and the wormes shall couer them.

²⁷ Beholde, I know what ye thinke, yea and the subtiltie that ye imagine against me.²⁸ For ye say where is the princes palace? and where is the dwelling of the vngodly?²⁹ Haue ye not asked them that go by the way? Doubtlesse ye cannot denie their tokens,³⁰ That the wicked is kept vnto the day of destruction, and the vngodly shalbe brought foorth to the day of wrath.³¹ Who dare declare his way to his face? who wil rewarde him for that he doth?³² Yet shall he be brought to his graue, and dwell among the heape [of the dead.]³³ Then shal the slymie valley be sweet vnto him, all men also must folowe him, as there are innumerable gone before him.³⁴ Howe vayne then is the comfort that ye geue me, seyng falshood remayneth in all your aunsweres?