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[1]So Iob aunswered, & saide
[2]Then no doubt ye are the men alone, and wysdome shall perishe with you
[3]But I haue vnderstanding aswell as ye, and am not inferior to you: Yea who knoweth not these thinges
[4]I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth vpon God, & he heareth him: The iust & the vpright is laughed to scorne
[5]Being as alight despised in the heartes of the riche, and as one redy to fall
[6]The houses of robbers are in wealth and prosperitie, and they that maliciouslie meddle against God dwell without care, in those thinges that God hath geuen richely with his hande
[7]Aske the cattaile, and they shall enfourme thee: the foules of the ayre, and they shall tell thee
[8]Or the encrease of the earth, and it shall shew thee: or the fishes of the sea, and they shall certifie thee
[9]What is he but he knoweth that the hande of the Lorde made all these
[10]In whose hande is the soule of euery liuing thing, and the breath of all mankinde
[11]Haue not the eares pleasure in hearing? and the mouth in tasting the thing that it eateth
[12]Among olde persons there is wysedome, and in age is vnderstanding
[13]Yea, with [God] is wysdome and strength, it is he that hath counsell and foreknowledge
[14]Beholde if he breake downe a thing, who can set it vp againe? yf he shut a thing, who wyll open it
[15]Beholde, if he withholde the waters, they drye vp: yf he let them go, they destroy the earth
[16]With him is strength and wysdome: both the deceauer and he that is deceaued are his
[17]He carieth away the wyse men as it were a spoyle, and bringeth the iudges out of their wittes
[18]He taketh away the subiection of the people from their kinges, and girdeth their loynes with a bonde
[19]He leadeth away the great men into captiuitie, and turneth the mightie vpside downe
[20]He stoppeth the mouth of them that speake trueth, & disapoynteth the aged of their reason
[21]He powreth contempt vpon princes, and maketh the strength of the mightie weake
[22]Loke what lyeth hid in darkenesse he declareth it openly, 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 diminisheth them
[24]He taketh away the hearte of them that be heades of ye people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in the wildernesse out of the way
[25]They grope in the darke without light, and he maketh them to stacker like a drunken man
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