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| [1]Delite not thou in the multitude of vngodly children, and haue no pleasure in them if they feare not God. |
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| [2]Trust not thou to their lyfe, and regarde not their labours. |
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| [3]For one sonne that feareth God, is better then a thousand vngodly: And better it is for a man to dye without children, then to leaue beynde hym such children as are vngodly. |
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| [4]For by one that hath vnderstanding, may a whole citie be vpholden: but though the vngodly be many, yet shal it be wasted through them. |
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| [5]Many such thinges hath mine eye seene, and greater thinges then these haue I heard with myne eares. |
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| [6]In the congregation of the vngodly shal a fire burne, and among vnfaythful people shall the wrath be kindled. |
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| [7]The olde giauntes optayned no grace for their sinnes, whiche were destroyed trusting to their owne strength: |
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| [8]Neither spared he them among who Lot was a straunger: but smote them, and abhorred them because of the pride of their wordes. |
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| [9]He had no pitie vpon them: but destroyed all the people that were so stout in sinne. |
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| [10]And forsomuch as he ouersawe the sixe hundred thousand that gathered them selues together in the hardnesse of their heart, in afflicting them, in pitiing them, in smiting them, and healing them with mercie and chastisement: it were maruell if one being hardnecked should be free: |
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| [11]For mercy & wrath is with him, he is both mightie to forgeue, and to powre out displeasure. |
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| [12]Lyke as his mercy is great, euen so is his punishement also: he iudgeth a man according to his workes. |
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| [13]The vngodly shall not escape in his spoyle, & the long pacience of him that sheweth mercie, shall not byde behinde. |
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| [14]He wyll make a place for euery mercifull deede, and euery man shall finde according to his workes. |
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| [15]The Lorde hardened Pharao that he should not know him, and that his workes might be knowen vpon the earth vnder the heauen. |
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| [16]His mercie is knowen to all creatures, he hath seperated his light from the darkenesse with an adamant. |
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| [17]Say not thou, I wyll hide my selfe from God: for who wyll thinke vpon me from aboue? I shall not be knowen in so great an heape of people: for what is my soule among so many creatures? |
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| [18]Beholde, the heauen, yea the heauen of heauens of God, the deepe, the earth, and all that therein is, shalbe moued at his presence. |
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| [19]The mountaynes, the hilles, and the foundations of the earth shall shake for feare, when God visiteth them. |
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| [20]These thinges doth no heart vnderstand worthyly: but he vnderstandeth euery heart. |
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| [21]And who vnderstandeth his wayes? No man seeth his stormes, and the most part of his workes are secrete. |
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| [22]Who wyll declare the workes of his righteousnesse? or who shalbe able to abide them? For the couenaunt is farre from some, and trying out of men is in the ende. |
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| [23]He that is humble of heart, thinketh vpon such thinges: but an vnwyse and erronious man casteth his minde vnto foolishe thinges. |
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| [24]My sonne, hearken thou vnto me, and learne vnderstanding, and marke my wordes with thyne heart: I wyll geue thee a sure doctrine, and plainely shall I instruct thee. |
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| [25]Marke my wordes then in thyne heart: for in righteousnesse of the spirite do I speake of the wonders that God hath shewed among his workes from the beginning, & in the trueth do I shew the knowledge of him. |
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| [26]God hath set his workes in good order from the beginning, & part of them hath he sundred from the other. |
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| [27]He hath garnished his workes from euerlasting, and their beginninges according to their generations: they are not hungrie nor weeried in their labours, nor ceasse from their offices. |
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| [28]None of them hindred another, neitheir was any of them disobedient vnto his wordes. |
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| [29]After this God loked vpon the earth, and filled it with his goodnesse. |
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| [30]With all maner of liuing beastes hath he couered the grounde, and they all shalbe turned vnto earth againe. |
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