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¹ So Eliphas the Themanite gaue answere, & sayde:² Maye a man be copared vnto God in wy?dome, though he seme to himself, for to be like him?³ What pleasure hath God in yt thou art rightuous? Or what doth it profite him, yt thy waies are perfecte?⁴ Is he afrayed to reproue the, & to steppe forth wt the in to iudgment?

⁵ Cometh not this for ye greate wickednesse, & for thine vngracious dedes which are innumerable?⁶ Thou hast take the pledge from thy brethre for naught, & robbed the naked of their clothinge:⁷ To soch as were weery, hast thou geue no water to drynke, thou hast withdrawe bred fro the hungrie:⁸ Shulde soch one the as vseth violece, wroge & oppression (doinge all thinges of parcialyte, & hauynge respecte of personnes) dwell in the lode?⁹ Thou hast sent wyddowes awaye emptie and oppressed the poore fatherlesse.¹⁰ Therfore art thou compased aboute with snares on euery syde, & sodely vexed wt feare.¹¹ Shuldest thou the se no darcknesse? Shulde not the water floude runne ouer the?¹² Now because yt God is hyer the the heauens, & because thou seist yt the starres are so hye,¹³ wilt thou therfore saye: Tush, how shulde God knowe? Doth his dominion reach beyonde the cloudes?¹⁴ Tush, the cloudes couer him, yt he maye not se, for he dwelleth in heauen.

¹⁵ Well, thou wilt kepe the olde waye, yt all wicked me haue gone:¹⁶ both olde & yonge, whose foundacion is a runnynge water,¹⁷ which saye vnto God: go from vs, and after this maner: Tush, what wil the Allmightie do vnto vs?¹⁸ where as he (not with stodinge) fylleth their houses wt all good. Which meanynge of the vngodly be farre fro me.¹⁹ For wt ioy shal the godly, and with gladnesse shal the innocent se,²⁰ that their increase shal be hewen downe, & their posterite consumed with the fyre.

²¹ Therfore recocile the vnto God, & be content, so shal all thinges prospere wt the right well.²² Receaue the lawe at his mouth, & laye vp his wordes in thine herte.²³ For yf thou wilt turne to the Allmightie, thou shalt stonde fast, & all vnrightuousnesse shall be farre from thy dwellinge:²⁴ He shal geue the an haruest, which in plenty & abundaunce shall exceade the dust of the earth, and the golde of Ophir like ryuer stones.²⁵ Yee the Allmightie his owne self shalbe thine haruest, & the heape of thy money.²⁶ Then shalt thou haue thy delyte in the Allmightie, & lift vp thy face vnto God.²⁷ The shalt thou make thy prayer vnto him, & he shal heare the, & thou shalt kepe thy promyses.²⁸ The, loke what thou takest in honde, he shal make it to prospere with the, and the light shall shyne in thy wayes.²⁹ For who so humbleth himself, him shal he set vp: and who so loketh mekely, shalbe healed.³⁰ Yf thou be innocet, he shal saue the: and thorow the vngiltynesse of thyne handes shalt thou be delyuered.