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¹ But Iob answered, and sayd, ² Heare diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations. ³ Suffer me that I may speake, and after that I haue spoken, mocke on. ⁴ As for mee, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled? ⁵ Marke mee, and be astonished, and lay your hand vpon your mouth. ⁶ Euen when I remember, I am afraid, and trembling taketh holde on my flesh.

⁷ Wherefore doe the wicked liue, become old, yea, are mightie in power? ⁸ Their seede is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. ⁹ Their houses are safe from feare, neither is the rod of God vpon them. ¹⁰ Their bull gendreth and faileth not, their cow calueth, and casteth not her calfe. ¹¹ They send foorth their little ones like a flocke, and their children dance. ¹² They take the timbrell and harpe, and reioyce at the sound of the organe. ¹³ They spend their daies in wealth, and in a moment goe downe to the graue. ¹⁴ Therefore they say vnto God, Depart from vs: for we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes. ¹⁵ What is the Almightie, that wee should serue him? and what profite should we haue, if we pray vnto him? ¹⁶ Loe, their good is not in their hand, the counsell of the wicked is farre from me.

¹⁷ How oft is the candle of the wicked put out? and how oft commeth their destruction vpon them? God distributeth sorrowes in his anger. ¹⁸ They are as stubble before the winde, and as chaffe that the storme carieth away. ¹⁹ God layeth vp his iniquitie for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know 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 number of his moneths is cut off in the middest? ²² Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he iudgeth those that are high. ²³ One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet. ²⁴ His breasts are full of milke, and his bones are moistened with marrow. ²⁵ And another dieth in the bitternesse of his soule, and neuer eateth with pleasure. ²⁶ They shall lie downe alike in the dust, and the wormes shall couer them.

²⁷ Behold, I know your thoughts, and the deuices which yee wrongfully imagine against me. ²⁸ For ye say, where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked? ²⁹ Haue ye not asked them that goe by the way? and doe ye not know their tokens? ³⁰ That the wicked is reserued to the day of destruction; they shall bee brought foorth to the day of wrath. ³¹ Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done? ³² Yet shall hee be brought to the graue, & shall remaine in the tombe. ³³ The cloudes of the valley shalbe sweete vnto him, and euery man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him. ³⁴ How then comfort ye me in vaine, seeing in your answeres there remaineth falshood?