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| [1]So Eliphas the Themanite gaue aunswere, and sayde |
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| [2]May a man be profitable vnto God, as he that is wise may be profitable vnto him selfe |
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| [3]Is it any aduauntage to the almightie that thou art righteous? or shall it profite him that thou makest thy wayes perfect |
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| [4]Is he afrayde to reproue thee, and to step foorth with thee into iudgement |
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| [5]Is not thy wickednesse great, and thy vngratious deedes innumerable |
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| [6]For thou hast taken the pledge from thy brother for naught, and robbed the naked of their clothing |
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| [7]To such as were weery, hast thou geuen no water to drinke, & hast withdrawen bread from the hungrie |
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| [8]But the mightie man had the earth, and he that was in auctoritie dwelt in it |
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| [9]Thou hast sent wydowes away emptie, and the armes of the fatherlesse were broken |
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| [10]Therefore art thou compassed about with snares, & sodenly vexed with feare |
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| [11]Shouldest thou then see no darknesse? shoulde not the water fludde run ouer thee |
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| [12]Is not God on high in the heauen? beholde the heyght of the starres how hie they are |
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| [13]Wilt thou therfore say, Tushe, howe should God know? can he iudge through the darke cloude |
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| [14]Tushe, the cloudes couer him that he may not see, and he walketh on the top of heauen |
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| [15]Hast thou marked the way of the world, wherin wicked men haue walked |
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| [16]Whiche were cut downe out of time, and whose foundation was as an ouerflowing ryuer |
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| [17]Whiche sayd vnto God, Go from vs: and asked what the almightie coulde do for them |
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| [18]He filled their houses with good things: but the counsell of the vngodly be farre from me |
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| [19]The righteous sawe it and were glad, and the innocent laughed them to scorne |
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| [20]Is our substaunce bewen downe? As for the remnaunt of them the fire hath consumed |
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| [21]Therefore reconcile thee vnto God, and be at peace: so shall all thinges prospere with thee right well |
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| [22]Receaue I pray thee the lawe at his mouth, and lay vp his wordes in thyne heart |
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| [23]For if thou wilt turne to the almightie, thou shalt be buyld vp, and put all vnrighteousnes from thy dwelling |
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| [24]Thou shalt lay vp golde [as plentyful] as the dust, and the golde of Ophir as the flyntes of the riuers |
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| [25]Yea almightie God his owne selfe shalbe thy defence, and thou shalt haue plentie of siluer |
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| [26]Then shalt thou haue thy delite in the almightie, and lift vp thy face vnto God |
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| [27]Then shalt thou make thy prayer vnto him, and he shall heare thee, and thou shalt kepe thy promises |
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| [28]Thou shalt also decree a thing, and he shall establishe it vnto thee, and the light shall shine in thy wayes |
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| [29]When [the wicked] be cast downe, thou shalt say, I am lifted vp: and God shall saue the humble person |
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| [30]The innocent shal deliuer the Ilande: it shalbe preserued by the purenesse of thyne handes |
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