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[1]And Eliphas the Themanite aunswered, & sayde
[2]If we assay to come with thee, wilt thou be discontent? But who can withhold him selfe from speaking
[3]Beholde, thou hast ben an instructer of many, & hast strenghtned the weery handes
[4]Thy wordes haue set vp him that was falling, thou hast refreshed the weake knees
[5]But nowe it is come vpon thee, and thou art greeued: it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled
[6]Was not thy feare according to thy hope? and the perfectnesse of thy wayes according to thy expectation
[7]Consider I pray thee who euer perished beyng an innocent? or when were the godly destroyed
[8]For as I haue proued by experience, they that plow iniquitie & sow wretchednesse, reape the same
[9]With the blast of God they perishe, with the breath of his nostrels are they consumed away
[10]The roring of the lion, and the voyce of the lion, and the teeth of the lions whelpes are pulled out
[11]The lion perisheth for lake of pray, & the lions whelpes are scattered abrode
[12]But wheras a thing was hyd from me, yet myne care hath receaued a litle therof
[13]In the thoughtes and visions of the night when sleepe commeth on men
[14]Feare came vpon me & dread, which made all my bones to shake
[15]The winde passed by before my presence, and made the heeres of my fleshe to stande vp
[16]He stoode thereon and I knewe not his face, an image there was before myne eyes, and in the stilnesse hearde I a voyce
[17]Shall man be more iust then God? or shall a man be purer then his maker
[18]Beholde, he founde not trueth in his seruauntes, and in his angels there was folly
[19]Howe much more in them that dwel in houses of clay, and whose foundation is but dust, which shall be consumed as it were with a moth
[20]They shalbe smitten from the morning vnto the euening: yea they shall perishe for euer, when no man regardeth them
[21]Is not their royaltie gone away with them? they shall dye truely, and not in wysdome
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