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¹ Elihu proceeding in his aunswere, sayde:² Heare my wordes O ye wise men, hearken vnto me ye that haue vnderstanding:³ For the eare discerneth wordes, and the mouth tasteth the meates.⁴ As for iudgement, let vs seke it out among our selues, that we may knowe what is good.⁵ [And why?] Iob hath sayd, I am righteous, and God hath taken away my iudgement.⁶ In my right I shoulde be a lyer: my wounde is incurable without my fault.⁷ Where is there such a one as Iob, that drinketh vp scornefulnesse like water?⁸ Which goeth in the companie of wicked doers, and walketh with vngodly men?⁹ For he hath sayde, It profiteth a man nothing that he shoulde walke with God.

¹⁰ Therfore hearken vnto me ye that haue vnderstanding: farre be it from God that he shoulde meddle with wickednesse, & farre be it from the almightie that he shoulde meddle with vnrighteous dealing.¹¹ For he shall rewarde man after his workes, and cause euery man to finde according to his wayes.¹² Sure it is that God wil not do wickedly, neither wyll the almightie paruert iudgement.¹³ Who ruleth the earth but he? or who hath placed the whole world?¹⁴ If he set his heart vpon [man] and gather vnto hym selfe his spirite and his breath,¹⁵ All fleshe shall come to naught at once, and all men shall turne againe vnto dust.

¹⁶ If thou nowe haue vnderstanding, heare what I say, and hearken to the voyce of my wordes:¹⁷ May he be a ruler that loueth not right? or may he that is a very innocent man do vngodly?¹⁸ Is it reason that thou shouldest say to the king, Thou art wicked, or thou art vngodly, and that before the princes?¹⁹ God hath no respect vnto the persons of the lordly, and regardeth not the riche more then the poore: for they be al the worke of his handes.²⁰ In the twinckling of an eye shall they dye, and at midnight when the people and the tirantes rage, then shall they perishe, & be taken away without handes.²¹ For his eyes loke vpon the wayes of man, and he seeth all his goinges.²² There is no darkenesse nor shadowe of death that can hide the wicked doers from him.²³ For God wil not lay vpon man more then he hath sinned, that he should enter into iudgement with him.²⁴ He shall destroy the mightie without seeking, and shall set other in their steede.²⁵ Therefore shall he declare their workes: he shall turne the night, and they shalbe destroyed.²⁶ The vngodly doth he punishe openly,²⁷ Because they tourned backe from him, and would not consider all his wayes:²⁸ Insomuch that they haue caused the voyce of the poore to come vnto him, and now he heareth the complaint of such as are in trouble.²⁹ When he geueth quietnesse, who can make trouble? and when he hydeth his face, who can beholde him? whether it be vpon nations, or vpo one man onely:³⁰ Because the hypocrite doth raigne, because the people are snared.

³¹ Surely of God onely it can be saide, I haue pardoned, I wyll not destroy.³² If I haue gone amisse, enfourme thou me: If I haue done wrong, I wyll leaue of.³³ Wyll he perfourme the thing through thee? for thou hast reproued his iudgement, thou also hast thyne owne minde, and not I: But speake on what thou knowest.³⁴ Let men of vnderstanding tell me, and let a wyse man hearken vnto me.³⁵ Iob hath not spoken of knowledge, neither were his wordes according to wysdome.³⁶ O father, let Iob be well tryed, because he hath aunswered for wicked men:³⁷ Yea aboue his sinne he doth wickedly, triumpheth among vs, and multiplieth his wordes against God.