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¹ Call nowe, if any will answere thee, and to which of the Saintes wilt thou turne?² Doubtlesse anger killeth the foolish, and enuie slayeth the idiote.³ I haue seene the foolish well rooted, and suddenly I cursed his habitation, saying,⁴ His children shalbe farre from saluation, and they shall be destroyed in the gate, & none shall deliuer them.⁵ The hungrie shall eate vp his haruest: yea, they shall take it from among the thornes, and the thirstie shall drinke vp their substance.

⁶ For miserie commeth not foorth of the dust, neither doeth affliction spring out of the earth.⁷ But man is borne vnto trauaile, as the sparkes flie vpwarde.⁸ But I would inquire at God, and turne my talke vnto God:⁹ Which doeth great things and vnsearchable, and marueilous things without nomber.¹⁰ He giueth raine vpon the earth, and powreth water vpon the streetes,¹¹ And setteth vp on hie them that be lowe, that the sorowfull may be exalted to saluation.¹² He scattereth the deuices of the craftie: so that their handes can not accomplish that which they doe enterprise.¹³ He taketh the wise in their craftinesse, and the counsel of the wicked is made foolish.¹⁴ They meete with darkenesse in the day time, and grope at noone day, as in the night.¹⁵ But he saueth the poore from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hande of the violent man,¹⁶ So that the poore hath his hope, but iniquitie shall stop her mouth.

¹⁷ Beholde, blessed is the man whome God correcteth: therefore refuse not thou the chastising of the Almightie.¹⁸ For he maketh the wound, and bindeth it vp: he smiteth, and his handes make whole.¹⁹ He shall deliuer thee in sixe troubles, and in the seuenth the euill shall not touch thee.²⁰ In famine he shal deliuer thee from death: and in battel from the power of the sworde.²¹ Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue, and thou shalt not be afraid of destruction when it commeth.²² But thou shalt laugh at destruction and dearth, and shalt not be afraide of the beast of the earth.²³ For the stones of the fielde shall be in league with thee, and the beastes of the field shal be at peace with thee.²⁴ And thou shalt knowe, that peace shall be in thy tabernacle, and thou shalt visite thine habitation, and shalt not sinne.²⁵ Thou shalt perceiue also, that thy seede shalbe great, and thy posteritie as the grasse of the earth.²⁶ Thou shalt goe to thy graue in a ful age, as a ricke of corne commeth in due season into the barne.²⁷ Lo, thus haue we inquired of it, and so it is: heare this and knowe it for thy selfe.