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¹ So Iob answered, and sayde:² Then (no doute) ye are the men alone, and wy?dome shal perish with you.³ But I haue vnderstodinge as well as ye, and am no lesse then ye. Yee who knoweth not these thinges?⁴ Thus he that calleth vpo God, and whom God heareth, is mocked of his neghboure: the godly & innocent man is laughed to scorne.⁵ Godlynesse is a light despysed in ye hertes of the rich, & is set for them to stomble vpon.

⁶ The houses of robbers are in wealth and prosperite, & they that maliciously medle agaynst God, dwel without care: yee God geueth all thinges richely with his honde.⁷ Axe the catell, & they shal enfourme the: the foules of the ayre, and they shall tell ye:⁸ Speake to the earth, and it shall shewe the: Or to the fyshes of the see, and they shal certifie the.⁹ What is he, but he knoweth, that ye hode of the LORDE made all these?¹⁰ In whose honde is the soule of euery lyuynge thinge, and the breth of all men.¹¹ Haue not the eares pleasure in hearinge, and the mouth in tastinge the thinge that it eateth?

¹² Amonge olde personnes there is wy?dome, and amonge the aged is vnderstodinge.¹³ Yee with God is wy?dome and strength, it is he that hath councell & foreknowlege.¹⁴ Yf he breake downe a thinge, who can set it vp agayne? Yf he shutt a thinge, who wil open it?¹⁵ Beholde, yf he witholde the waters, they drye vp: Yf he let the go, they destroye the earth.¹⁶ With him is strength and wy?dome: he knoweth both the disceauer, and him that is disceaued.¹⁷ He carieth awaye the wyse men, as it were a spoyle, and bryngeth the iudges out of their wyttes.¹⁸ He lowseth the gyrdle of kynges, and gyrdeth their loynes with a bonde.¹⁹ he ledeth awaye the prestes into captiuyte, and turneth the mightie vp syde downe.²⁰ He taketh the verite from out of the mouth, & disapoynteth ye aged of their wy?dome.²¹ He poureth out confucion vpon prynces, and coforteth them that haue bene oppressed.²² Loke what lyeth hyd in darcknesse, he declareth it opely: and the very shadowe of death bringeth he to light.²³ He both increaseth the people, and destroyeth them: He maketh them to multiplie, and dryueth them awaye.²⁴ He chaungeth the herte of the prynces and kynges of the earth, and disapoynteth them: so that they go wadringe out of the waye,²⁵ and grope in the darke without light, stackeringe to and fro like droncken men.