My bones are pierced in me in the night-season and my finewes take no rest 18. By the great force of my disease is my garment changed it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat 19. He hath cast me into the mire and I am become like dust ashes 20. I cry unto thee and thou dost not heare me I stand up and thou regardest me not 21. Thou art become cruell to mee with thy strong hand thou opposest thy selfe against me 22. Thou liftest mee up to the wind thou causest mee to ride upon it and dissolvest my substance 23. For I know that thou wilt bring mee to death and to the house appointed for all living 24. How be it he will not stretch out his hand to the grave though they cry in his destruction 25. Did not I weepe for him that was in trouble was not my soule grieved for the poore 26. When I looked for good then evill came unto mee and when I waited for light there came darknesse 27. My bowels boiled and rested not the daies of affliction prevented mee 28. I went mourning without the Sun I stood up and I cried in the congregation 29. I am a brother to Dragons and a companion to Owles 30. My skin is blacke upon me and my bones are burnt with heat 31. My harpe also is turned to mourning and my organ into the voice of them that weepe 1. I made a covenant with mine eyes why then should I thinke upon a maid 2. For what portion of God is there from above and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high 3 Is not destruction to the wicked and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity 4. Doth not he see my waies and count all my steps 5. If I have walked with vanity or if my foot hath hasted to deceit 6. Let me be weighed in an even ballance that God may know mine integrity 7. If my step hath turned out of the way and mine heart walked after mine eyes and if any blot hath cleaved to my hands 8. Then let mee sow and let another eat yea let my off-spring be rooted out 9. If mine heart hath beene deceived by a woman or if I have laid wait at my neighbours doore 10. Then let my wife grinde unto another and let others bow downe upon her 11. For this is an hainous crime yea it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges 12. For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction and would root out all mine increase 13. If I did despise the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant when they contended with me 14. What then shall I do when God riseth up and when hee visiteth what shall I answer him 15. Did not hee that made mee in the wombe make him and did not one fashion us in the wombe 16. If I have withheld the poore from their desire or have caused the eyes of the widdow to faile 17. Or have eaten my morsell my selfe alone and the fatherlesse hath not eaten thereof 18. For from my youth hee was brought up with mee as with a father and I have guided her from my mothers wombe 19. If I have seen any perish for want of clothing or any poore without covering 20. If his loynes have not blessed me and if hee were not warmed with the fleece of my sheepe 21 If I have lift up my hand against the fatherlesse when I saw my helpe in the gate 22. Then let mine arme fall from my shoulder-blade and mine arme be broken from the bone 23. For destruction from God was a terrour to me and by reason of his highnesse I could not endure 24. If I have made gold my hope or have said to the fine gold Thou art my confidence 25. If I rejoyced because my wealth was great and because mine hand had gotten much 26. If I beheld the Sunne when it shined or the Moone walking in brightnesse 27. And my heart hath beene secretly enticed or my mouth hath kissed my hand 28. This also were an iniquity to be punished by the Judge for I should have denied the God that is above 29. If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me or lift up my selfe when evil found him 30. Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soule 31. If the men of my tabernacle said not Oh that we had of his flesh I we cannot be satisfied 32. The stranger did not lodge in the street but I opened my doores to the traveller 33. If I covered my transgression as Adam by hiding mine iniquity in my bosome 34. Did I feare a great multitude or did the contempt of families terrifie mee that I kept silence and went not out of the doore 35. O that one would heare mee behold my desi e is that the Almighty would answer me and that mine adversary had written a book 36. Surely I would take it upon my shoulder and bind it as a crowne to me 37. I would declare unto him the number of my steps as a Prince would I goe neere unto him 38. If my land cry against me or that the furrowes likewise thereof complaine 39. If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life 40. Let thistles grow in stead of Wheat and cockle in stead of Barley The words of Job are ended 1. So these three men ceased to answer Iob because he was righteous in his owne eyes 2. Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the sonne of Barachel the Buzite of the kindred of of Ram against Iob was his wrath kindled because hee justified himselfe rather than God 3. Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled because they had found no answer and yet had condemned Iob. 4. How Elihu had waited till Iob had spoken because they were elder than hee 5. When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these threemen then his wrath was kindled 6. And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said I am young and yee are very old wherefore I was afraid and durst not shew you mine opinion 7. I said daies should speake and multitude of yeeres should teach wisedome 8. But there is a spirit in man and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding 9. Great men are not alwaies wise neither doe the aged understand judgement 10. Therefore I said hearken to me I also will shew mine opinion 11. Behold I waited for your words I gave eare to your reasons whilest you searched out what to say 12. Yea I attended unto you and behold there was none of you that convinced Iob or that answered his words 13. Lest yee should say Wee have found out Wisedome God thrusteth him downe not man 14. Now hee hath not directed his words against me neither will I answer him with your speeches 15. They were amazed they answered no more they left off speaking 16. When I had
thus 7. What dost thou flinch Sure thou scornest it Thou wilt certainly make good thy challenge come therefore stand to it and play the man as thou saidst thou wouldest doe I 'll doe as I did I 'll oppose and thou shalt answer 8. Wilt thou also question and susspect my justice as wicked men and such as know not God are wont to do I had not thought it by thee or that thou wouldest have carried the matter so high through pride of spirit as to go about to condemne mee of overmuch rigour and justifie thy selfe 9. Knowest thou me no better art thou any way my equall or fit to contend with mee is thy strength like mine or canst thou equall the noise and terrour of my thunder with any speech and power of thine 10. Canst thou make thy selfe a God as I am if thou canst doe and adorne thy selfe with such majesty and excellency glory and beauty as mine is 11. Canst thou execute judgement in wrath all the world over and canst thou perceive the proud behaviour and carriage of men every where and abase them as I doe 12. Behold with me every proud-hearted man and bring him downe doe thou extend thy power like mee to roote out the wicked in every place wheresoever throughout the world they exalt themselves and practise wickednesse 13. Slay them in thy wrath and bury them in the grave of forgetfulnesse even all and every one how many or of what condition soever they be extinguish thou their pride by death and make their memories perish 14. When thou canst doe these things then will I confesse and say with thee that thou art fit and able to encounter with me 15. But yet for thy further convincing I will instance to thee two of my most remarkeable creatures which I have framed the one by land the other by sea which I would have thee take speciall notice of And first for the land Consider the Elephant which is thy fellow creature both of you made by me how farre notwithstanding hee goeth beyond thee in hugenesse and strength and yet by my ordination hee is as harmelesse as any other beast preying upon nothing but grasse though he were able to devoure all afore him 16. I have endowed him with wonderfull strength but how and where Why not in any offensive part his head hath no hornes nor his feet no clawes to doe mischiefe with but to the end he might bee more serviceable to man in bearing of burdens and drawing loads I have placed it elsewhere and chiefly in his lower parts as his loines and about his belly 17. In so much that in the heate of his lust hee erects his generative part like a strong cedar Tree being corroborated from natures cundit-pipes the sinewes of his stones which are wrapt together like as you see the roots of a great grown Tree in the earth 18. The bones in his body are as strong as if they were made of brasse and like so many barres of iron 19. Hee is if well considered the remarkeablest peece of creation that the earth affoordeth to set forth Gods power and might and yet as strong as he is I that made him and gave him his strength can breake his brasse and iron bones to peeces at my pleasure though man be too weake for him 20. And surely for all he so farre goes beyond all other beasts that none can stand against him or are equall to him for strength yet hee is nourished with the same food that they are with grasse c. And goes quietly with them and feeds peaceably among them without either hurting or so much as frighting them by mine appoyntment 21. Through his naturall heate and being bred in hot countries his abode is in shady places and for that cause lies much under Trees and where there are high growne reeds and fennes thither he resorts 22. He hants out the coolest places as under great Trees and by brook-sides where willowes grow thick and affoord most shade there is hee most conversant 23. Consider what a huge proportion he drinks to quench his thirst as if he would quite exhaust and drinke the whole river dry and whilst hee is drinking hee feares no danger as other cattel doe that through the frightfulnes of their disposition break their drought to stare about them In the vast imagination of his fancy he conceits he can devoure and drinke up whole Jordan at once when he goes thither to quench his thirst 24. If he seeth a snare set for him it inrageth him being privy to his exceeding strength in so much that with his trunck he makes his way through them with ease and disdaine CHAP. XLI 1. HAving thus showne thee the Elephant by land now in the next place consider well the Whale or some such extraordinary fish by Sea Canst thou angle for him catch him and draw him on shoare with a line and hooke as thou dost other lesser Fishes 2. Hast thou strength to over-master him ring him like a Swine or a Beare or canst thou rule him so as to suffer himselfe to be led by the nose as Beares and some such beasts as thou hast tamed doe 3 Will hee lie down like a Spaniel at thy command and wag his taile to fawn upon thee 4. Will hee put himselfe into thy service for hay and corne as other creatures and wilt thou undertake to command and imploy him like them upon all thy affaires and to doe thy businesses 5. Canst thou handle him like a Sparrow or tame him so that thy maides may play with him without feare 6. Shall the fishermen who joyne in company and partnership catch him in their nets like other fishes and for joy of such a draught feast themselves and make merry with him shall they merchandize him shall they share and trade away the severall commodities which he yeelds of whale-bone and oile c. 7. Is his skinne penetrable like other fishes so that thou canst take him with such tooles and fishing instruments as thou takest them 8. Draw neere and offer but the least violence to him if thou darest and hee 'll quickly make thee repent it so that thou wilt have little joy to fight it out with him 9. For certaine hee is a creature that man hath small hopes to bring under his dominion and make serviceable who is so formidable that noe man dare attempt it for his very sight a farre off is able to scarre a man from venturing on him 10. Who is he that dare provoke him or that hath the courage to encounter him not one and if so then how dare any attempt the like towards mee and thinke to prevaile or not miscarry who am the Creator and he but my creature 11. Who hath been aid full to me in the creation or who hath made any of my
feet and hee walketh upon a snare 9. The grin shall take him by the heele and the robber shall prevaile against him 10. The snare is laid for him in the ground and a trap for him in the way 11. Terrors shall make him afraid on every fide and shall drive him to his feet 12. His strength shall be hunger-bitten and destruction shall be ready at his side 13. It shall devour the strength of his skin even the first borne of death shall devour his strength 14. His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle and it shall bring him to the King of terrours 15. It shall dwell in his tabernacle because it is none of his brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation 16. His roots shall be dried up beneath and above shall his branch be cut off 17. His remembrance shall perish from the earth and hee shall have no name in the street 18. He shall be driven from light into darkenesse and chased out of the world 19. Hee shall neither have sonne nor nephew among his people nor any remaining in his dwellings 20. They that come after him shall be astonied at his day as they that went before were affrighted 21. Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked and this is the place of him that knowes not God 1. Then Iob answered and said 2. How long will you vex my soule and breake mee in pieces with words 3. These tenne times have yee reproached me you are not ashamed that you make your selves strange to me 4. And be it indeed that I have erred mine errour remaineth with my selfe 5. If indeed you will magnifie your selves against mee and plead against me my reproach 6. Know now that God hath overthrowne mee and hath compassed me with his net 7. Behold I cry out of wrong but I am not heard I cry aloud but there is no judgement 8. He hath senced up my way that I cannot passe and hee hath set darknesse in my paths 9. He hath stript mee of my glory and taken the crowne from my head 10. He hath destroyed me on every side and I am gone and mine hope hath hee removed like a tree 11. He hath also kindled his wrath against me and he counteth mee unto him as one of his enemies 12. His troupes come together and raise up their way against me and encamp round about my tabernacle 13 Hee hath put my brethren farre from mee and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from mee 14. My kinsfolke have failed and my familiar friends have forgotten me 15. They that dwell in mine house and my maids count mee for a stranger I am an aliant in their sight 16. I called my servant and he gave mee no answer I intreated him with my mouth 17. My breath is strange to my wife though I intreated for the childrens sake of mine owne body 18. Yea yong children despised me I arose and they spake against me 19. All my inward friends abhorred me and they whom I loved are turned against me 20. My bone cleaveth to my skin and or as in the margin as to my flesh and I am escaped with the skinne of my teeth 21. Have pity upon mee have pity upon me O yee my friends for the hand of God hath touched me 22. Why doe yee persecute mee as God and are not satisfied with my flesh 23. O that my words were now written ô that they were printed in a booke 24. That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rocke for ever 25. For I know that my Redeemer liveth and that hee shall stand at the later day upon the earth 26. And though after my skin wormes destroy this body yet in my flesh shall I see God 27. Whom I shall see for my selfe and mine eyes shall behold and not another though my reines be consumed within mee 28. But yee should say why persecute wee him seeing the roote of the matter is found in me 29. Be yee afraid of the sword for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword that yee may know there is a judgement 1. Then answered Zophar the Naamathite and said 2. Therefore doe my thoughts cause me to answer and for this I make haste 3. I have heard the checke of my reproach and the spirit of my understanding causeth mee to answer 4. Knowest thou not this of old since man was placed upon earth 5. That the triumphing of the wicked is short and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment 6. Though his excellency mount up to the heavens and his head reach unto the clouds 7. Yet he shall perish for ever like his owne dung they which have seen him shal say Where is hee 8. Hee shall flie away as a dreame and shall not be found yea hee shall be chased away as a vision of the night 9. The eye also which saw him shall see him no more neither shall his place any more behold him 10. His children shall seeke to please the poore and his hands shall restore their goods 11. His bones are full of the sin of his youth which shall lie downe with him in the dust 12. Though wickednesse be sweet in his mouth though he hides it under his tongue 13. Though hee spare it and forsake it not but keepe it still within his mouth 1. 4 Yet his meat in his bowells is turned it is the gall of Aspes within him 15. Hee hath swallowed downe riches and hee shall vomit them up againe God shall cast them out of his belly 16. He shall sucke the poison of Aspes the Vipers tong shall slay him 17. He shall not see the rivers the flouds the brookes of honey and butter 18. That which hee laboured for shall he restore and shall not swallow it downe according to his substance shall the restitution be and hee shall not rejoyce therein 19. Because hee hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poore because hee hath violently taken away an house which he builded not 20. Surely hee shall not feele quietnesse in his belly he shall not save of that which he desired 21. There shall none of his meat be left therefore shall no man looke for his goods 22. In the fulnesse of his sufficiency he shall be in straits every hand of the wicked shall come upon him 23. When he is about to fill his belly God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him and shall raine it upon him while hee is eating 24. He shall flie from the iron weapon and the bow of steele shall strike him through 25. It is drawne and commeth out of the body yea the glistering sword commeth out of his gall terrours are upon him 26. All darknesse shall be hid in his secret places a fire not blowne shall consume him it shall goe ill with him that is left in his Tabernacle 27. The heavens shall reveale his iniquity and the earth shall rise up against him 28. The increase of his house shall depart and his goods
shall flow away in the day of his wrath 29. This is the portion of a wicked man from God and the heritage appointed unto him by God 1. But Iob answered and said 2. Heare diligently my speech and let this be your consolations 3. Suffer mee that I may speake and after that I have spoken mock on 4. As for mee is my complaint to man and if it were so why should not my spirit be troubled 5. Marke mee and be astonished and lay your hand upon your mouth 6. Even when I remember I am afraid and trembling taketh hold on my flesh 7. Wherefore doe the wicked live become old yea are mighty in power 8. Their seed is established in their sight with them and their off-spring before their eyes 9. Their houses are safe from feare neither is the rod of God upon them 10. Their Bull gendereth and faileth not their Cow calveth and casteth not her calfe 11. They send forth their little ones like a flocke and their children dance 12. They take the timbrell and harpe and rejoyce at the sound of the organ 13. They spend their daies in wealth and in a moment goe downe to the grave 14. Therefore they say unto God depart from us for wee desire not the knowledge of thy waies 15. What is the Allmighty that wee should serve him and what profit should we have if we pray unto him 16. Lo their good is not in their hand the counsell of the wicked is farre from me 17. How oft is the candle of the wicked put out and how out commeth their destruction upon them God distributeth sorrowes in his anger 18. They are as stubble before the wind and as chaffe that the storme carrieth away 19. God layeth up his iniquity for his children he rewardeth him and he shall know it 20. His eyes shall see his destruction and hee shall drinke of the wrath of the Almighty 21. For what pleasure hath hee in his house after him when the number of his moneths is cut off in the midst 22. Shall any teach God knowledge seeing he judgeth those that are high 23. One dieth in his ful strength being wholly at ease and quiet 24. His breasts are full of milke and his bones are moistened with marrow 25. And another dieth in the bitternesse of his soule and never eateth with pleasure 26. They shall lie downe in the dust and the wormes shall cover them 27. Behold I know your thoughts the devices which you wrongfully imagine against me 28. For ye say Where is the house of the prince and where are the dwelling places of the wicked 29. Have yee not asked them that goe by the way and doe yee not know their tokens 30. That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath 31. Who shall declare his way to his face and who shall repay him what he hath done 32. Yet shall hee be brought to the grave and shall remaine in the tombe 33. The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him and every man shall draw after him as there are innumerable before him 34. How then comfort ye me in vain seeing in your answers there remaineth falshood 1. Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said 2. Can a man be profitable unto God as hee that is wise may be profitable unto himselfe 3. Is it any pleasure to the Allmighty that thou art righteous or is it gaine to him that thou makest thy waies perfect 4. Will hee reprove thee for feare of thee Will hee enter with thee into judgement 5. Is not thy wickednesse great and thine iniquities infinite 6. For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought and stripped the naked of their clothing 7. Thou hast not given water to the weary to drinke and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry 8. But as for the mighty man he had the earth and the honourable man dwelt in it 9. Thou hast sent widdowes away empty and the armes of the fatherlesse have been broken 10. Therefore snares are round about thee and sudden feare troubleth thee 11. Or darknesse that thou canst not see and abundance of waters cover thee 12. Is not God in the height of heavens and behold the height of the stars how high they are 13 And thou sayest How doth God know can hee judge through the darke cloud 14. Thicke clouds are a covering to him that hee seeth not and hee walketh in the circuit of heaven 15. Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have troden 16. Which were cut down out of time whose foundation was overflowne with a flood 17. Which said unto God Depart from us and what can the Allmighty doe for them 18. Yet he silled their houses with good things but the counsell of the wicked is farre from me 19. The righteous see it and are glad and the innocent laugh them to scorne 20. Whereas our substance is not cut downe but the remnant of them the fire consumeth 21. Acquaint now thy selfe with him and be at peace thereby good shall come unto thee 22. Receive I pray thee the law from his mouth and lay up his words in thine heart 23. If thou returne to the Almighty thou shalt be built up thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy Tabernacles 24. Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brookes 25. Yea the Almighty shall be thy defence or as in the margin thy gold and thou shalt have plenty of silver 26. For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty and shalt lift up thy face unto God 27. Thou shalt make thy praier unto him and he shall heare thee and thou shalt pay thy vows 28. Thou shalt also decree a thing and it shall be established unto thee and the light shall shine upon thy waies 29. When men are cast downe then thou shalt say There is lifting up and hee shall save the humble person 30. Hee shall deliver the Island of the innocent and it is delivered by the purenesse of thine hands 1. Then Iob answered and said 2. Even to day is my complaint bitter my stroke is heavier than my groning 3. O that I knew where I might find him and that I might come even to his seat 4. I would order my cause before him and fill my mouth with arguments 5. I would know the words which hee would answer me and understand what he would say unto me 6. Will he plead against me with his great power No but hee would put strength in me 7. There the righteous might dispute with him so should I be delivered for ever from my Judge 8. Behold I goe forward but he is not there and backward but I cannot perceive him 9. On the left hand where hee doth worke but I cannot behold him he hideth himselfe on the right hand that I cannot see him 10. But hee knoweth the way that I take
waited for they spake not but stood still and answered no more 17. I said I will answer also my part I also will shew mine opinion 18. For I am full of matter the spirit within me constraineth me 19. Behold my belly is as wine which hath no vent it is ready to burst like new bottels 20. I will speake that I may be refreshed I will open my lips and answer 21. Let me not I pray you accept any mans person neither let mee give flattering titles unto man 22. For I know not to give flattering titles in so doing my Maker would soone take mee away 1. Wherefore Iob I pray thee heare my speeches and hearken to my words 2. Behold now I have opened my mouth my tongue hath spoken in my mouth 3. My words shall be of the uprightnesse of my heart and my lips shall utter knowledge cleerly 4. The spirit of God hath made me and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life 5. If thou canst answer me set thy words in order before mee stand up 6. Behold I am according to thy wish in Gods stead I also am formed out of the clay 7. Behold my terrour shall not make thee afraid neither shall mine hand be heavie upon thee 8. Surely thou hast spoken in mine hearing and I have heard the voice of thy words saying 9. I am cleane without transgression I am innocent neither is there iniquity in me 10. Behold he findeth occasions against mee he counteth me for his enemy 11. Hee putteth my feet in the stockes hee marketh all my paths 12. Behold in this thou art not just I will answer thee that God is greater than man 13. Why dost thou strive against him for he giveth not account of any of his matters 14. For God speaketh once yea twice yet man perceiveth it not 15. In a dreame in a vision of the night when deepe sleepe falleth upon men in slumbrings upon the bed 16. Then he openeth the eares of men and sealeth their instruction 17. That he may withdraw man from his purpose and hide pride from man 18. He keepeth backe his soule from the pit and his life from perishing by the sword 19. Hee is chastened also with paine upon his bed and the multitude of his bones with strong paine 20. So that his life abhorreth bread and his soule dainty meat 21. His flesh is consumed away that it cannot be seene and his bones that were not seen sticke out 22. His soule draweth neere unto the grave and his life to the destroyers 23. If there be a messenger with him an interpreter one among a thousand to shew unto man his uprightnesse 24. Then he is gracious unto him and saith Deliver him from going downe to the pit I have found a ransome 25. His flesh shall be fresher than a childes he shall returne to the daies of his youth 26. He shall pray unto God and hee will be favourable unto him and he shall see his face with joy for hee will render unto man his righteousnesse 27. He looketh upon men and if any say I have sinned and perverted that which was right and it profited me not 28. He will deliver his soule from going into the pit and his life shall see the light 29. Lo all these things worketh God oftentimes with man 30. To bring backe his soule from the pit to be enlightened with the light of the living 31. Marke well O Iob hearken unto mee hold thy peace and I will speake 32. If thou hast any thing to say answer me speake for I desire to justifie thee 33. If not hearken unto me hold thy peace and I shall teach thee wisedome 1. Furthermore Elihu answered and said 2. Heare my words O yee wise men and give eare unto mee yee that have knowledge 3. For the eare trieth words as the mouth tasteth meat 4. Let us choose to us judgement let us know among our selves what is good 5. For Iob hath said I am righteous and God hath taken away my judgement 6. Should I lie against my right my wound is incurable without transgression 7. What man is like to Job who drinketh up scorning like water 8. Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity and walketh with wicked men 9. For hee hath said It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himselfe with God 10. Therefore hearken unto me yee men of understanding farre be it from God that he should do wickednesse and from the Almighty that hee should commit iniquity 11. For the worke of a man shall he render unto him and cause every man to find according to his waies 12. Yea surely God will not doe wickedly neither will the Almighty pervert judgement 13. Who hath given him a charge over the earth or who hath disposed the whole world 14 If hee set his heart upon man if hee gather unto himselfe his spirit and his breath 15. All flesh shall perish together and man shall turne againe unto dust 16. If now thou hast understanding heare this hearken to the voyce of my words 17. Shall even he that hateth right governe and wilt thou condemne him that is most just 18. Is it fit to say to a King Thou art wicked and to Princes Yee are ungodly 19. How much lesse to him that accepteth not the persons of Princes nor regardeth the rich more than the poore for they all are the worke of his hands 20. In a moment shall they die and the people shall be troubled at midnight and passe away and the mighty shall be taken away without hand 21. For his eyes are upon the waies of man and hee seeth all his goings 22. There is no darknesse nor shadow of death wherein the workers of iniquity may hide themselves 23. For hee will not lay upon man more than right that he should enter into judgement with God 24. He shall breake in pieces mighty men without number or as in the margin without searching out and set others in their stead 25. Therefore he knoweth their workes and he overturneth them in the night so that they are destroyed 26. He striketh them as wicked men in the open sight of others 27. Because they turned backe from him and would not consider any of his waies 28. So that they cause the cry of the poore to come unto him and hee heareth the cry of the afflicted 29. When hee giveth quietnesse who then can make trouble and when hee hideth his face who then can behold him whether it be done against a Nation or against a man only 30. That the hypocrite reigne not lest the people be ensnared 31. Surely it is meete to be said unto God I have borne chastisement I will not offend any more 32. The which I see not teach thou me if I have done iniquity I will doe no more 33. Should it be according to thy minde he will recompence it whether thou refuse or whether thou choose and not I therefore speak what thou knowst 34.