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¹ So Eliphas the Themanite gaue aunswere, and sayde:² May a man be profitable vnto God, as he that is wise may be profitable vnto him selfe?³ Is it any aduauntage to the almightie that thou art righteous? or shall it profite him that thou makest thy wayes perfect?⁴ Is he afrayde to reproue thee, and to step foorth with thee into iudgement?

⁵ Is not thy wickednesse great, and thy vngratious deedes innumerable?⁶ For thou hast taken the pledge from thy brother for naught, and robbed the naked of their clothing.⁷ To such as were weery, hast thou geuen no water to drinke, & hast withdrawen bread from the hungrie.⁸ But the mightie man had the earth, and he that was in auctoritie dwelt in it.⁹ Thou hast sent wydowes away emptie, and the armes of the fatherlesse were broken.¹⁰ Therefore art thou compassed about with snares, & sodenly vexed with feare.¹¹ Shouldest thou then see no darknesse? shoulde not the water fludde run ouer thee?¹² Is not God on high in the heauen? beholde the heyght of the starres how hie they are.¹³ Wilt thou therfore say, Tushe, howe should God know? can he iudge through the darke cloude?¹⁴ Tushe, the cloudes couer him that he may not see, and he walketh on the top of heauen.

¹⁵ Hast thou marked the way of the world, wherin wicked men haue walked?¹⁶ Whiche were cut downe out of time, and whose foundation was as an ouerflowing ryuer.¹⁷ Whiche sayd vnto God, Go from vs: and asked what the almightie coulde do for them?¹⁸ He filled their houses with good things: but the counsell of the vngodly be farre from me.¹⁹ The righteous sawe it and were glad, and the innocent laughed them to scorne.²⁰ Is our substaunce bewen downe? As for the remnaunt of them the fire hath consumed.

²¹ Therefore reconcile thee vnto God, and be at peace: so shall all thinges prospere with thee right well.²² Receaue I pray thee the lawe at his mouth, and lay vp his wordes in thyne heart.²³ For if thou wilt turne to the almightie, thou shalt be buyld vp, and put all vnrighteousnes from thy dwelling.²⁴ Thou shalt lay vp golde [as plentyful] as the dust, and the golde of Ophir as the flyntes of the riuers.²⁵ Yea almightie God his owne selfe shalbe thy defence, and thou shalt haue plentie of siluer.²⁶ Then shalt thou haue thy delite in the almightie, and lift vp thy face vnto God.²⁷ Then shalt thou make thy prayer vnto him, and he shall heare thee, and thou shalt kepe thy promises.²⁸ Thou shalt also decree a thing, and he shall establishe it vnto thee, and the light shall shine in thy wayes.²⁹ When [the wicked] be cast downe, thou shalt say, I am lifted vp: and God shall saue the humble person.³⁰ The innocent shal deliuer the Ilande: it shalbe preserued by the purenesse of thyne handes.