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¹ Morouer, God spake vnto Iob and sayde:² Can he that stryueth with the Allmightie, be at rest? Shulde not he which disputeth with God, geue him an answere?³ Iob answered the LORDE, sayenge:⁴ Beholde, I am to vyle a personne, to answere the, therfore will I laye my hande vpon my mouth.⁵ Once or twyse haue I spoken, but I will saye nomore.

⁶ Then spake the LORDE vnto Iob out of the storme, and sayde:⁷ gyrde vp yi loynes like a man, and tell me the thige that I will axe the.⁸ Wilt thou disanulle my iudgment? Or, wilt thou condemne me, yt thou thy self mayest be made rightuous?⁹ Is thine arme then like the arme of God? Maketh thy voyce soch a soude as his doth?¹⁰ Then arme thy self with thine owne power, vp, decke the in thy ioly araye,¹¹ poure out the indignacion of thy wrath: se that thou cast downe all ye proude,¹² loke well, that thou makest all soch as be stubburne, to obeye: treade all the vngodly vnder thy fete,¹³ cast the downe in to the myre, and couer their faces with darcknesse:¹⁴ Then will I confesse also, that thyne owne right honde hath saued the.

¹⁵ Beholde, the cruell beaste (whom I made wt the) which eateth haye as an oxe:¹⁶ lo, how stronge he is in his loynes, and what power he hath in the nauell of his body.¹⁷ He spredeth out his tale like a Cedre tre, all his vaynes are stiff.¹⁸ His shynnes are like pipes off brasse, his rygge bones are like staues of yro¹⁹ First when God made him, he ordened the wyldernesse for him,²⁰ yt the mountaynes shulde geue him grasse, where all the beastes off the felde take their pastyme.²¹ He lyeth amoge the redes in the Mosses, the fennes²² hyde him with their shadowe, and the wylowes of the broke couer him rounde aboute.²³ Lo, without eny laboure might he drynke out the whole floude, and suppe off Iordane without eny trauayle.²⁴ Who darre laye honde vpon him openly, and vndertake to catch him? Or, who darre put an hoke thorow his nose, ad laye a snare for him?