JOB. TO THE KING  
A Colon-Agrippina study of one month, for the metrical translation: But Of many years, for Hebrew difficulties.  
By Hugh Broughton.  
Anno D. 1610.   

TO THE MIGHTY Prince, JAMES, King of Albion France and jerne, defender of the faith in power & learning: Supreme governor under God, in his Lands.  
THe Eternal testified of Abraham, how he would teach his house to keep holy ways. That hath story in jobs book: where most learned Princes, five of his house, show God's ways for Christ: in such eloquence, that may argue applying of all knowledge and their days that way. The style is in his language for verse, shortness, and strange words, as Pindarus in Greek: and fuller of difficulty, than all the other books of Adam's tongue: And hath cost me time and pains accordingly: more than my translation of the Prophet's volume into Greek: which work I think your Majesty hath: & more than my showing of Scripture consent: and defending of it, against D. Reinolds and Mr lively, having 2000 years Libraries on their side: and more than my clearing of Daniel, and Apocalypse, to admiration of thousands. God would have this book as a jewel hid in the ground, not seen plain without pains. What I have done for your nations use, the King should judge & recompense accordingly.  
Your M. m. h. ● H. Br.   

To the Christian Reader.  
THe names of God in the holy tongue have in them deep notation: and argue the speakers knowledge. job only of all the disputers, & he but once, uttereth the holy name, jehovah. The penner of the story doth often: in preface & conclusion. The Poetry of the work seemeth by Arabic terms jobs own. Many names of God are in this book, beside jehovah, which is of so large force and majesty that the Lxx never express the letters: nor the jews commonly pronounce it. Our English Psal. 83. doth: I still, as the French, put Eternal, for it: for Elohim, God, and sometime for Eloah, & El: But for better note: in Eloah, seldom in others, often here, Puissant: for El, commonly omnipotent: for Shaddaj, all sufficient, and, almighty: Adonaj job hath ch. 28. and but once: which to show I set Adonaj: as the Lxx in Ezekiel. Abraham first Gen. 15. uttereth that name: but job bringeth God the autour. Elihu expresseth Abraham for the trinity in plural speech 
job. 35. 10.  Ghosaj, My makers. A translator should not hide so golden a matter. This one word had broken Arius and Machomed: that Christ should only be Machmad, delight itself: & Daniel as Mary chamudoth by grace.   

JOB.  

THere was a man in the Land of Uz, named job, & that man was perfect and upright: and feared God, and eschewed evil.  
2. And there were borne to him seven sons, and three daughters.  
3. His cattle also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, & five hundred yoke of Oxen, and five hundred asses: with a very great family: and that man was the greatest of all the sons of the East.  
4. And his sons went and made a banquet, in the house of each one his day: and they sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.  
5. And when the days of their banqueting were gone about, job sent, and sanctified them, and gate-up-early in the morning, and offered for every one of them a burnt offering: For job said, it may be my children have sinned, and little-blessed God in their heart. So did job all the days.  
6. And upon a day, when the sons of God came to stand before the Eternal, Satan came also among them:  
7. And the Eternal said to Satan, whence comest thou: 
Our adversary the Di vel goeth about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. 1 Pet. 5. 8.  And Satan answered the Eternal & said: from searching about the earth, and from walking in it.  
8. And the Eternal said to Satan, hast thou set thine heart upon my servant job: how there is none like him in the earth: a man perfect and upright, fearing God, and eschewing evil.  
9 Then Satan answered the Eternal and said: doth job fear God for nought?  
10 Hast not thou hedged about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands: and his cattle increase in the Land.  
11. But send forth now thy hand, and touch all that he 
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Devil, false accuser, Gen. 3. and here, is taxed.  hath, and then he will litle-blesse thee to thy face.  
12. And the Eternal said unto Satan: Behold all that he hath is in thine hand: only upon him send not forth thine hand: So Satan went forth from the presence of the Eternal.  
13 And upon a certain day, when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their eldest brother,  
14 A messenger came to job, and said: the Oxen were ploughing and the Asses feeding beside them:  
15 And Sheba fell on and took them: and the servants they smote with the edge of the sword: & I only am escaped alone to tell thee.  
16 While he was yet speaking, an other came & said: a fire of God fell from heaven: and brent up the sheep and the servants, and ate them up: and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.  
17 While he was yet speaking, another came, & said: The Chaldeans made three troops, and set upon the Camels, and took them away: and the servants they smote with the edge of the sword: and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.  
18 As he was yet speaking, another came, and said: thy sons and thy daughters were eating, and drinking wine; in the house of their eldest brother:  
19 And behold, a great wind came form beyond the 
Bildad, chap. 8. 4.  wilderness and touched the four corners of the house: and it fell upon the young folk: and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.  
20 Then job arose and rend his cloak, and shaved his head: and fell down upon the earth and worshipped:  
21. And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb; 
1 Tim. 6. ●  and naked shall I return thither: the Eternal gave, and the Eternal hath taken-away. Blessed be the name of the Eternal.  
22 In all this job sinned not: nor laid any blame on God.   

Chap. II.  
ANd upon a day, when the sons of God came to stand before the Eternal, Satan came amongst them also, to stand before the Eternal.  
2 And the Eternal said to Satan: whence comest thou? and Satan answered the Eternal, and said: from searching about the earth, and from walking in it.  
3. And the Eternal said to Satan: hast thou set thine heart upon my servant job, how there is none like him in the earth: a man perfect and upright: fearing God and eschewing evil: and yet he holdeth his integrity: yet thou movedst me against him to undo him without cause.  
4. Then Satan answered the Eternal, & said: skin for skin, and all that a man hath, he will give for his life.  
5 But send forth now thine hand: and touch his bone, and his flesh: and then he will litle-blesse thee before thy face.  
6 And the Eternal said to Satan: behold he is in thine hand: only, save his life.  
7 So Satan went forth from the presence of the Eternal: & smote job with sore boils, from the sole of his foot, to the top of his head.  
8 And he took him a potsherd to scrape him withal: and he, sat down among the ashes.  
9 Then said his wife to him: Dost thou still hold thy integrity: blessing God and dying?  
10 And he said to her: as a foolish woman would speak, thou speakest: Shall we receive good from God: and evil not receive? In all this job sinned not with his lips.  
11 Now three friends of job heard of all this evil which came upon him: and they came each one from his place: Eliphaz the Themanite, and Bildad the Shuchite, & Zophar the Naamathite: as they had agreed together to come to solace him & to comfort him.  
12 And they lift up their eyes a far off, and knew him not; and they lifted up their voice and wept: and they tent each one his cloak: & sprinkled dust upon their heads, into the air.  
13 And they sat down with him on the earth, seven days and seven nights: and none spoke a word unto him; for they saw that his grief was very great.   

Chap. III.  
AFterwards, job opened his mouth and cursed his day.  
2 And job spoke and said.  
3. Lost be the day when I was borne: and that night 
He pleadeth for this as well said, Chap. 7. And Bildad blameth this, Ch. 8.  whenas it was said: a male child is conceived.  
4. That day be turned to darkness: the Puissant regard it not from high: nor light shine upon it.  
5. Darkness and shadow of death stain it: that cloudiness dwell upon it: swartnes of day make it terrible.  
6 Myrknes takeaway that same night: joy may it not in days of the year: nor come in the count of months.  
7 Yea that night be turned to sorrow: I wish no joyance come to it:  
8. Curse it may they who do curse day: who will hunt the Liujathan:  
9 Dark be the stars of that twilight: look may it for light, and none be: neither, let it see the morning's eyliddes.  
10. Because it did not shut the doors of the belly which did bear me: and hid not sorrow from mine eyes.  
11. Why did I not die, from the womb, starve coming out of the belly:  
12 Why were knees ready to hold me: & what meant breasts to give me suck:  
13. For now I had lain down quiet: had slept, & then had been at rest:  
14 With Kings and Counsellors of the earth: which built them desolate places.  
15. Or with Princes which had the gold: who filled their houses with silver.  
16 Or hid, as one borne out of time, should not have been: as young infants that saw not light.  
17 There the unquiet leave vexation: and there rest the wearied in strength.  
18 The prisoners are all at ease: they hear not the oppressors voice.  
19 Little and great are there all one: and servant free from his master.  
20 Why gives he light to the miserable: & life to the bitter in soul.  
21 Which long for death but find it not? yet would dig for it more than 
* 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mat. 13. ●4.  hid-wealth.  
22 Which joy till they do skip again: be glad if they may find the grave.  
23 The wight whose way is hid, over whom the Puissant casts a covering.  
24 For before my meat my sighs come: & my roar gush like water.  
15 For a fear I feared, and it arrived to me: and that which I dreaded is now come upon me.  
26. I had no case, no quietness, no rest: and now cometh a vexation.   

CHAP. IU.  
THen answered Eliphaz the Themanite, and said:  
2. If we make a speech to thee, wilt thou hold it wearisome: and who can refrain from speaking?  
3 Behold thou hast instructed many: and strengthened the weary hands.  
4 Thy words have lift up the falling, & thou hast confirmed bowing knees.  
5. But now, it comes to thee, thou faintest: it touches thee and thou art troubled.  
6 Is not thy religion thy hope: and thy right ways thy confidence.  
7 Remember now what innocent hath perished: or where the upright have decayed.  
7 As I have seen: plowers of sorrow, and the sowers of misery, do reap the same.  
9 By the breath of the Puissant they perish: and by the blast of his anger they consume.  
10 The roaring of 
* Arjeh, Shachal, Cephir, Laish, Laby, be names of Lions, sundry in age and condition, plain in Hebrew notation: which I touch. Of Laish, in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cometh, a Lion; and of Laby, Low, in Dutch.  the renting-Lion, and the voice of the fierce-Shachal, and the teeth of the Lionceaux are brought to nothing.  
11 The hardtwasting-Laish perisheth for want of prey: and the whelps of the hart-strong-Laby are scattered.  
12 A speech came by stealth upon me: and mine ear caught somewhat of it.  
13. In thoughts of visions by night: when sleep falls 
Virgil Aeneid. 2. so expresseth a dreams time: Tempus erat quo prima quies mortalibus aegris incipit: et dono serpit gratissima divum.  upon sorrowful-man.  
14. Fear and trembling laid hold on me: and made all my bones afraid.  
15. And a wind passed afore me: which bristled the hairs of my flesh.  
16. It stood up, and I could not mark what kind of visage it might have: An Image was before mine eyes: Silence was: then I heard a voice.  
17. Can the sorowful-man be holden just before the Puissant: can the humane-wight be clear before him that was his maker.  
18. Lo he holdeth not 
* As God is only good, and only hath immortality, so light, and truth, & all, in perfection.  perfection to be in his own servants: and in his angels he judgeth not cleare-light to be.  
19 Less in dwellers 
† The body made of earth, is 2 Cor. 5. 1. the earthly house of our tabernacle: S. Paul calling us to this oration of man's baseness. `` Moses toucheth this, Psas. 90. teaching us our misery: and repeateth Eliphaz term, Dacca: Thou turnest man to Dacca, to bruising misery: and sayest, return ye sons of Adam. Psal. 90. 3.  in houses of clay: whose foundation is in the dust: `` beaten to powder as a moth, be they.  
20. Between a morning and evening, they are wasted: without guide they perish for ever.  
21. 
* Man in honour continueth not: is made like the beasts that perish: and all gift●● of reason above beasts come to nothing. This oration should teach jews & Gentiles to reject all thought of justice by the●● works: seeing they are dead in sin: that they may receive the abundance of grace of the gift of justice, to reign by Christ, Rom. 5. 17.  journeyeth not their excellency with them▪ They do die, but without wisdom.   

Chap. 5.  
CAll now whether any will 
† will like of thy grudging against God.  defend thee: and to whom of the holy 
* Ch. 36. 20. In that thou desirest night of death, Elihu will not like of it.  wilt thou look.  
2. 
“ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 4. 5.  Aey doth anguish kill the evil: and indignation bring death upon the sot.  
3. I have seen the evil fastening root: but presently did I curse his dwelling.  
4. His children shallbe far from good-case: and shallbe brought low in the gate: & 
Ԡ Deut. 32. 39  there shallbe none to succour them.  
5. The hungry shall eat up his harvest: which he had gotten through the thorns: and the thirsty shall swill up their wealth.  
6. For sorrow issueth not from the dust: nor doth misery spring from the ground:  
7. But 
‡ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  earthly-man is borne to misery, as sparks of fire flee upwards.  
8. Doubtless I would seek unto `` the Omnipotent: & dispose my talk unto God:  
9 Who doth 
* ch. 9 10. Rom. 11. 33.  great things, past searching out: wonderful, past number:  
10. He giveth rain upon the face of the earth: and sendeth waters upon the open fields.  
11. To set the humble on high: that the sad be exalted with salvation.  
12. He defeateth the purposes of the subtle: that there hands bring nothing sound to pass.  
13. He catcheth the wise in their subtlety: that the counsel of the froward is made rash.  
14. On the day time they stumble at darkness: and as in night they grope at noon:  
15. And he will save the poor from the sword: from their mouth, and from the hand of the strong.  
16. And the needy shall find confidence: and 
† Psal. 107. 42.  unrighteousness shall stop her mouth.  
17. Behold, blessed is the sorowful-man whom the Puissant reproveth: Then, despise not the chastisement of the Almighty.  
18. For he maketh the sore, & bindeth it up: he woundeth, and his hands heal.  
19 In six afflictions he will succour thee: and in seven, wrong shall not touch thee.  
20. In hunger he will save thee from death: & in war▪ from the edge of the sword.  
21. When the tongue whippeth, thou shalt be hid: & thou shalt not be afraid of spoiling when it cometh.  
22. At spoiling and famine thou wilt laugh: and wilt not be afraid for the savage-beasts of the field.  
23. For the stones of the field shallbe at covenant with thee: & the savage-beasts of the field shallbe at peace with thee.  
24. And thou shalt perceive that thy tent shall have peace: and thou shalt look to thy dwelling and not misprosper.  
25. And thou shalt know that thy seed shallbe much: & thy offspring as the grass of the earth.  
26. Thou shalt come 
* 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉  in lusty old age to the grave: as corn is reaped in due time.  
27. Behold this: we have tried it, so it is: hear it, and know thou it for thyself.   

CHAP VI.  
THen job answered and said:  
2. Oh that 
† To Chap. ●. 2.  mine anguish were rightly weighed: and that my calamities were lift in a balance together.  
3. For than it would be heavier than the sand of the seas: therefore my words 
† Ebr. are swallowed up.  come short.  
4. For the arrows of the almighty are in me: whose venom drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of the puissant camp against me.  
5. Doth the wild ass bray 
“ Ramban. He meaneth that he crieth & complaineth not without cause: as the wild or tame beasts do not: when they have all that they need. But he crieth for his calamities. Aben Ezra saith, he spoke this of his fellows which were in quietness: how the quiet roar not, or complain.  at the grass: doth the ox low at his fodder.  
6. Shall 
* Rambam. Your speech is not seasoned with salt: I cannot abide it.  the unsavoury be eaten without salt: or is there taste in the white of the yolk.  
7. Those things which I would have loathed to touch, are now 
‘,‘ And can I chose but cry in this case?  the very sickness of my 
† Lechem, is flesh in Arabic.  flesh.  
O that I might have my request, and that the Puissant would give me my desire:  
9 That it would please God 
“ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Phil. 1. 21. Death would be a gain to me.  to bring me to dust: that he would lose his hand, and make an end of me.  
10. So I 
″ In all this pang if God would make an end of me, it should be my comfort: and I would take courage in my sickness to bear it: by my joy that I should die: because I professed the religion of God. Abr. Ben. Peritz. Here is a close touch of Jobs faith: for the immortality of the soul: by his desire of death: to go from his pangs: and that he should die without sin to be worthy of the life of the world to come.  should yet find comfort: though I parch in pain: when he would not spare. For I kept not close the words of the holy.  
11. What is my strength that I should have any hope: or what can be my end, that I should 
† To see prosperity. Ch. 5. 26.  prolong my life.  
12 Is▪ my strength the strength of stones? Is 
‘ To ch ●. 18  my flesh steel?  
13 Have not I 
† When I said, the beasts would not complain but in lack: and that your words were unsavoury. Rambam.  my defence: and is judgement driven away from me?  
14 By him whose mercy is molten toward his neighbour: and who leaveth the fear of the Almighty.  
15. My brethren fail me as a brook: as streams of brooks that pass away.  
16 Which once are 
* In winter when water is plentiful, ice & snow make them deep: But in summer they are dry: that waters be scant in Thema. Esa. 21. and Herodot: & all stories.  black by ice: in which snow hideth itself.  
17 At the time of parching-weather, they are dried up: when it is hot, they are quenched from their place.  
18. They turn aside from the passage of their way: they come to nothing and perish.  
19 The passengers of Thema had respect to them: the companies of Sheba had desire to them.  
20 They blushed that any had hope: they came to the place and were ashamed.  
21 So now, you are become 
“ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the double reading abridging the similitude, given of God, may well be translated: as S. Luke, ch. 4. translateth Esa. 61. The Chaldy translated the Margin: knowing that both have God's authority.  like that, even nothing: ye 
Ԡ Tireu ve Tyrau: Here first cometh in sweet sounds: from hence very often in the Law: specially the Psalms.  see dread & are afraid.  
22 Have I said, 
† Ye need not to fear in a cause wherein ye have no harm: But ye may quietly reason's & find, that I am not to be condemned for wickedness. Might in words cannot overcome right.  give for me: and reward for me of your wealth.  
23. And save me from the hand of the afflicter: & redeem me from the hand of the violent.  
24 Teach me 
* Touching my complaint, Chap. 3.  and I willbe silent: & wherein I have erred let me understand.  
25. How strong are the words of rightfulness: & what can your blame sound blame.  
26. Do ye think 
† Because Eliphaz, Ch. 5. 1. replied upon his words, he requiteth that here.  to reprove words: & hold the terms of the forlorn a wind.  
27 But 
‘† In that ye count me wicked: ye lay a trap to make me fall. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the new T. expresseth this.  ye lay a snare for the orphan: as ye dig a pit for your neighbour.  
28 Now therefore be content, regard me: for it is before your face if I do lie.  
29 Change your mind now: Let not unrighteousness be objected: 
† 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the text is referred to jobs soul: which by a pathetical gesture of striking his breast he expressed: and then turneth his speech to his friends▪ Because this was hard for the simple, God gave in the margin a repetition: 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 change ye your mind, yet.  Be thou (my soul) of an other mind still: my justice is in it.  
Is there any evil in my tongue? cannot my palate declare all-kinds-of-heavie-sorowe?   

CHAP. VII.  
IS there not 
“ The labours of our life have an end by course of nature: so I may wish my sorrows and life ended. Chap. 3.  a set time for sorowful-man upon the earth, that his days be as the days of an hireling.  
2 As a servant doth breath unto the shadow, and as an hireling would see his works end:  
3 So I, 
* So I justly wished to die. Ch. 3.  of force possess joyless months: & nights of misery are numbered unto me.  
4 When I lie down then I say: when shall I rise? and the 
“ Evening, that is, night. Gen. 1.  dusky-time be measured out? and I am full of tossing too and fro unto the dawning.  
5. My flesh is clothed with worm, & rubbish of dust: my skin is rend and become loathsome.  
6. My days are swifter than a weavers-shuttle: and are spent without hope.  
7 Remember that my life is but a blast: mine eye shall 
What is our life? a vapour appearing, & presently gone. jam. 4 14.  see no more pleasures:  
8. The quick eye shall no more view me: let thine eyes be upon me: that I be no more.  
9 A cloud consumeth and passeth away: so he that goeth down unto the grave shall no more come up:  
10. Nor return any more to his house: neither shall his place know him any more.  
11 Therefore I will not spare my mouth: I will speak in the distress of my spirit: I will sigh in the bitterness of my soul.  
12 Am I a sea? am I a whale, that thou hast set me in prison?  
13 When I say, my couch shall comfort me: my bed shall lessen my sighing:  
14 Then thou fearest me with dreams: and frightest me with visions.  
15 That my soul had rather be choked to death, then to remain with my bones.  
16 I loth-live: I would no longer live: cease from me, for my 
† 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lxx. commonly, & jam. 4. 14.  life is but a vapour.  
17 What is sorrowful-man that thou dost make account of him: & that thou dost set thine heart upon him.  
18. To think upon him every morning: to try him every moment.  
19 How long wilt thou not look away from me: not leave me till I swallow down my spittle?  
20 I have sinned: what should I do unto thee, 
† 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lxx. Thou that lookest to the mind of men.  o thou keeper of men: why hast thou made me thy mark, that I am a burden unto myself.  
21 Why dost thou not pardon my trespass, and take away my iniquity: whereas 
* To be pitied of the keeper of men:  I lie now in the dust: why dost thou not 
“ I would by a quick death be rid from these pains.  quickly seek me out, that I should no more be.   

CHAP. VIII.  
THen Bildad of Shuach answered and said:  
2 How long wilt thou talk in this sort: that the words of thy mouth be a vehement wind.  
3 Is 
† 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. 3. 5.  God unjust: or is the Almighty unrighteous?  
4 As 
* Ch. 1. 19  thy children have sinned against him, so he hath sent them into the hand of their trespass.  
5 If thou wouldst betimes 
“ Act. 17. 27.  seek unto God; and call for pity of the Almighty.  
6. If thou wouldst be blameless and upright, then would he now raise thee up, and prosper 
* Thy soul. Aben Ezr.  the dwelling 
“ of thee being just.  of thy righteousness.  
7 And thy former state should be little to thy latter: that should increase exceedingly.  
8 Wherefore 
† Ch. 32. 7  inquire now of the former age: & search among their fathers.  
9 For we are 
* 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉  but of yesterday: and without experience: our days are but a shadow upon the earth.  
10 They will teach thee, tell thee, & utter words from their heart.  
11. Can sedges grow without mire? can great rushes increase without water.  
12 While it is yet in the stalk, not cut off, it withereth before any herb.  
13 So are the paths of all that forget the omnipotent: and the hope of the hypocrite shall perish.  
14 His 
“ That which he hopeth for shall still flee from him.  hope shall loath him: & his confidence shallbe a spiders house.  
15 He shall lean upon 
† Eb. his house.  it: but it shall not stand: he shall fasten on it, but it shall have no stay.  
16. He is ivice-full afore Sunrising, and his suckers sprout over his orchard:  
17. At the wall his roots wrap: he platteth about the house of stone:  
18 If the Sun 
* Ramban.  root him up from his place: than one may deny him: I see thee no more.  
19 Lo such is the gladness of his way: but 
† Others shall prosper in the place of the wicked, taken away.  from the ground others will grow.  
20 Lo, the Omnipotent will not loathe the perfect: not maintain the hand of the mischievous.  
21 Until he fill thy mouth with laughter: & thy lips with shouting.  
22. Thy foes 
8 Psal. 132. 18.  shallbe clothed with shame: & the tents of the wicked shall come to nought.   

CHAP. IX.  
THen job answered and said: 
To chap. 8. 3. That God will destroy the wicked.   
2. Truly I know it is so: and how can a man be just before the Omnipotent.  
3. If he delight to plead with him: he cannot answer him to one thing of a thousand.  
4. He is wise in heart, & mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and found quietness?  
5. He 
* Seas are where mountains have been: as betwixt Rhegium & Sicily. Eust. upon Diunysius.  removeth mountains, that men can not mark how he hath removed them out of their place in his anger.  
6. He maketh the earth quake from her place: that her pillars tremble.  
7 He speaketh to the sun, that it riseth not: & sealeth up the stars.  
8. He only can spread the heavens: 
† Mat. 8. 26. & 14. 26.  and walk upon the high waves of the sea.  
9 He made 
“ Eb. Ghas  Arcturus, 
* Eb. Cesil.  Orion, & 
† Eb. Chima.  Pleiades: and the chambers of the south.  
10 He doth great things, 
Ԡ Rom. 11. 33.  even unsearchable: & wonderful, without number:  
11 When 
* When he showeth his judgements in the world I cannot mark his counsel.  he passeth by me, I cannot see him: when he flitteth by me, I cannot perceive him:  
12 When 
† Ch. 1. 14. & 17.  he taketh away, who can make him restore? who can say unto him, what dost thou?  
13. When the Puissant will not stay his anger, the 
“ Dan. 2. & 4. Nebuchadnez zar, etc.  proud helpers stoop under him.  
14 Much less can I answer him: can I wish to have pleading against him.  
15 Who if I were just, I would not answer him: I would crave pity of my judge.  
16 If I cry, will he answer me? I cannot believe that he will give ear unto my voice.  
17 He will 
‘† 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gen. 3. 15.  bruise me so with tempest: and will multiply my wounds 
* That none can blame him.  freely.  
18. He will not suffer me to take my breath: but filleth me with bitterness.  
19 As for force, behold he is valiant: as for judgement, who willbe my pleader?  
20 If I will justify myself, 
† Luk. 19 22. Rom. 2 1.  mine own mouth shall condemn me: If I will be perfect, it will prove me 
* That is, unperfect.  perverse.  
21 If I be 
“ Elihu, ch. 33. 9  upright: I know not mine own soul: I am weary of my life.  
22 This is uniform: thereupon I speak: 
† Ch. 35. 3.  perfect and wicked he consumeth.  
23. For with the scourge he killeth suddenly: He scorneth at the melting away of the innocent.  
24 The earth 
* Ch. 8. 11  is given into the hand of the wicked: who 
† condemneth such as would defend their country. Est. 7. 8.  covereth the face of her judges. Now if not he, who doth this?  
25 So my 
* My prosperous days: `` Aba. 1. 8  days are swifter than a runner: they are fled, and saw no good thing.  
26 They are flit as the Pirate's ships: as `` the Egle fleeing to meat.  
27. If I say, I will forget my sighing: I will leave my woful-sadnes, and be of comfort:  
28 Then I am afraid of all my sorrows: I know that thou wilt not 
† For holding my peace: for I tried that long.  clear me:  
29 I shallbe holden as wicked. Now why do I 
* To have any long hope of goodness.  labour in vain.  
30 If I wash myself in 
“ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 & 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In waters: In snow water: The double reading hath a sweet allusion.  snow: and clear my hands in soap:  
31 Yet thou wilt deep me 
† In the grave:  in the mire: and 
“ When I go naked to the grave: as though my clothes did loath me.  my own clothes shall loath me.  
32. Because he is not a man, like me: that I might give him an answer, that we should come together to judgement:  
33 There is no 
* Umpire.  dayman betwixt us: to lay his hand upon us both:  
34 Let him 
† To this Elihu speaketh, ch. 33.  take away his rod from me: that his terror fright me no more.  
35 I would then speak and not fear him. For I am not 
“ As God's scourge seemeth to make me: & your speachet would.  such with myself.   

CHAP. X.  
MY soul is weary of my life: when I leave my sighing for myself: I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.  
2 I will say unto the Puissant: condemn me not: Let me know wherefore thou pleadest with me.  
3 Doth it please thee to oppress: that thou dost loath the labour of thine own 
Ԡ Eb. palms of the hands.  hands? and shinest upon the counsel of the 
† My unjust blamer●  wicked.  
4 Are 
* Thou knowest the heart: and needest no further trial.  thine eyes of flesh? dost thou see as sorowfull-man?  
5 Are thy 
“ Thou wantest no time, to teach thee knowledged as men. Chap. 8. 8. 9 10. to be changed in sundry opinions.  days as sorowful-mans'? are thy years as earthly-wightes years.  
6 That thou seekest out my iniquity: and inquirest of my sin.  
7 Thou knowest that I am not wicked: yet 
† Deut. 32. 39  none can save me from thine hand.  
8 Thy hands have fashioned me: and have made me in every point: and wilt thou destroy me?  
9 Remember now, That as the clay thou hast made me: and unto dust wilt return me:  
10 Hast thou not powered me as milk: & crudded me like unto cheese.  
11 Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh: and thou hast covered me with 
† Ribs descending the belly.  bones and sinews.  
12. Life 
“ The immortal soul hast thou given me: and mainteynest the powers of body and mind.  and loving-kindnes hast thou dealt with me: and thy 
* 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉  providence praeserveth my spirit.  
13 And these things thou hast laid up in thine heart: I do know that this is with thee.  
14. When I do sin thou dost watch me: and wil● not clear me from my iniquity.  
15 If I be wicked, woe is me: if I be just, I dare not lift up mine head: Be satisfied with confusion, and behold my affliction.  
16 How it fleeth up: as the ramping-Schachal thou huntest me: and still art wonderful against me.  
17 Thou bringest new witnesses against me: and augmentest thine ire upon me: changes & stayed-army have I.  
18 Why broughtest thou me out of the womb: Oh that I had died and no eye had seen me.  
19 I should be as if I had not been: brought from the belly unto the grave.  
20. Will not he leave off a little in my days: cease from me for some refreshing:  
21 Before I go whence I cannot return: to the earth of darkness and shadow of death:  
22. Earth obscure as myrknes itself: shadow of death, void of order: (when light shineth) myrknes itself.   

CHAP. XI.  
THen answered Zophar the Naamathite and said:  
2 Should much speech be unanswered: & the 
† One of lip labours with out right of judgement.  lips man be justified.  
3 Should thy lies make mortal-men silent: shouldst thou 
* Ch. 10. 3.  mock and none confound thee.  
4. For 
“ Ch. 6. 10. & 10. 7.  thou sayst, my speech is blameless: and I am pure in thine eyes:  
5 Now truly I wish that the Puissant would speak, & open his lips with thee.  
6. And would show thee, the mysteries of wisdom: That thou shouldest have double by ` † justice: & know, 
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉  that the Puissant will call thee to account for thine iniquity. 
Ch. 6. 13.   
7 Canst thou 
* Rom. 11. 33.  find the depth of the Puissant: canst thou find the scope of the all-sufficient.  
8. In th'high heavens what canst thou work: it is deeper than the lowest part of the earth, what canst thou do?  
9 Her met is longer than the earth: and is broader than the sea.  
10. If he 
† Ch. 9 11.  pass by, to 
* Rom. 1. 24. 26. 28.  give over, or to 
“ Act. 11.  assemble, who can stay him?  
11. For he knoweth the vain mortal-men: and seeing badness, must he not mark it?  
12 That vain man may be made hearty: borne a wild-asse colt.  
13 If thou prepare thine heart: and lift up thy palms unto him:  
14 Where thy hands have badness: 
†‘ Sin no more.  cast it away, and suffer not unjustice to dwell in thy tents.  
15. So then thou wilt lift up thy face: that it shallbe without blemish: and be 
“ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉  settled and fear nothing.  
16. So thou shouldest forget misery: remembering it as waters passed by.  
17. And thy time should pass the noon day: obscureness should match the morning.  
18 Thou shouldest be bold because of hope: and entrench to lie down safely.  
19 And couch thee down, without all fear: & many should seek unto thee.  
20 And the eyes of the wicked shall fail: and their refuge all be forlorn: and their hope nought but pangs of soul.   

CHAP. XII.  
THen job answered and said:  
2 Out of doubt ye are the People: and wisdom must die with you.  
3 I also have an heart as ye: I am not inferior to you: and who hath not such things as these.  
4. I am one mocked of his friend: praying the Puissant and heard: the perfect just is a mockage.  
5 A base lamp to thoughts of wealthy, is he that is near to tottering of feet.  
6. The tents 
* The wicked are not always punished: Against Ch. 11. 20. Paul from this kind taught wicked prosperous Felix, that a judgement remaineth for the world to come.  of robbers do much prosper: and they that anger the Omnipotent, have securitie-void-of-all-fear: to whom the Puissant brings it to their hand.  
7 Wherefore 
† The Hebrew is a general speech of earnestness, omitted in our English B B.  in sageness, ask 
“ These men take rules of nature, to teach as Solomon from other creatures, men's affairs. So Hesiod the Poet saith: Fish and beasts and fowls eat the weaker: & tyran●●: But just men should not do so.  the beasts, & each one of them will teach thee: and the fowls of heaven, and they will tell thee.  
8. Or speak to the earth, and it will teach thee: and the fish of the seas; and they will show thee:  
9 Who doth not know even by all these: the hand of 
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is only here used by the disputers.  † the Eternal doth this:  
10 In whose hand is every living soul: and the spirit of all men's flesh.  
11 Cannot the ear discern speeches: as the palate tasteth it meat.  
12. Is wisdom in th'aged? and understanding in long life?  
13 He hath wisdom and mightiness: counsel and understanding are his:  
14. If he 
‘† In cities destroyed. Gen. 7. the tour. Gen. 11. in mind. Jer. ●  pull down, it will not be builded: 
“ in prison, grave, or mind.  shut one up, it will not be opened.  
15. If he 
† Gen. 9  with hold the waters, they dry up: If he 
* Gen. 7. &. 8.  send them forth, they overwhelm the earth.  
16. He hath the force, and all that is: 
† 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. 11. is expounded to all these.  from him, & by him, and for him are deceivers and deceived.  
17 He brings counsellors to badness: and judges unto stark-madnes.  
18 The 
“ Chains. Targ. jeru.  band of kings he maketh loose: & bindeth 
†‘ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 astewardes girdle: as a purse: & King's stewards wear in the East. Aru●. of Kings they shallbe Kings servants. But the simpler sense is, of Kings they shallbe captives.  a girdle upon their loins.  
19 He bringeth Dukes to badness: and he perverteth the mighty:  
20. He bereaveth Orators of lip: and taketh reason from Elders.  
21 He poureth baseness on Nobles: and weakeneth the * sway of vehement.  
22 He revealeth 
* As by joseph to Pha raoh, for plenty and dearth: by Daniel to Judah, for the afflicting image: by John to the Church, for Rome in two sorts; open profane, & subtle wicked.  deep things out of darkness: & bringeth to light the shadow of death.  
23. He augments nations, and destroys them: he spreads nations, and governs them.  
24. He takes heart from heads of people of th'earth, & makes them wander in wild-ground wayless.  
25 They grope in darkness without light, when he makes them 
†‘ Esa. 19 14. and 24 20.  wander as drunk.   

CAHP. XIII.  
LO, mine eye hath seen all: mine ear hath heard and understood:  
2 So much as ye do know: I know I am not inferior to you.  
3. 
†‘ Ch. 12. 7.  Assuredly, I would speak to the all-sufficient, & reason with th'omnipotent.  
4 But assuredly ye are 
†‘ Psa. 119. 69. The proud have forged lies against me.  forgers of lyes: bad physicians are ye all.  
5 Oh that ye could be still silent: and that this might be your wisdom.  
6 Hear now my reasoning: and mark the pleading of my lips:  
7 Will ye speak unright of th'omnipotent: and for him will ye speak deceit?  
8 Will ye respect his person: plead with the Omnipotent?  
9 Will it be well, when he trieth you: will you 
* 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gal. 6. 7.  mock with him, as man mocks with man?  
10 He will surely reprove you: for secret respect of person.  
11. Will not his highness make you fear: and will not his dread fall upon you.  
12. Your memory is like to ashes: and your bodies to bodies of clay:  
13. Be silent for me, and I will speak: and let come on me what may come.  
14 Wherefore 
* Think not that I speak as one desperate: whosewords fleeing through the hedge of my teeth, should rend my flesh, and cause me destruction. No I am sure to speed well, if I might plead with God. Trem. Or, wherefore have I saved whole only the flesh about my teeth: and am at deaths door. Or this, I could be content that I bite my flesh with my teeth: and have my soul in danger in my sickness: for I do not deny him.  should I take my flesh in my teeth: & 
† 1 Sam. 19 5.  lay my soul even in my hands?  
15. If he kill me, 
“ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 & 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Abraham Ben Peritzol: expoundeth both readings. As S. Luke doth, Es. 61.  should I not hope? if he kill me, I will 
†‘ I will hope for soul's life: for he will be my salvation for life eternal.  hope in him. So I would plead my ways before him.  
16. And he would be my salvation: But the hypocrite shall not come before him.  
17 Hear diligently my words: and let my talk come to your ears.  
18 Behold now, I order the cause: 
* Chap. 34. 5.  I know that I shall be found just.  
19 Who is he that will plead with me? If now I speak not, I should 
† And so Chap. 3. 11.  starve.  
20 
‘* Chap. 33. 6. 7. 8. etc.  Only two things do not to me: then I will not be hid from thy face.  
21 Draw away thy hand far from me, & let not dread of thee, fright me.  
22 Then call, and I will answer: or, I will speak, & answer thou me.  
23. 
* Ch. 33. 13.  How many are my iniquities and sins? Let me know my trespass and my sin.  
24 Wherefore dost thou hide thy face, & 
† Ch. 33. 10  takest me for thy enemy?  
25. Wilt thou break a leaf betossed? or wilt thou pursue dry stubble?  
26. To write against me bitter things: and make me heir of my youth sins.  
27 And puttest 
“ Ch. 33. 11  in the stocks my feet, and watchest all my paths; & leavest thy print in the roots of my feet.  
28 And 
* my body, a dry stubble.  it wasteth as with a rot: as a garment moth eaten.   

CHAP. XIIII.  
EArthly-man borne of a woman: is short of life & 
See Ch. 7.  full of vexation.  
2 As 
† Psal. 90. 5. 6. & 103. 15. 16.  a flower doth he shoot forth: and is cut off: and he fleeth as a shadow: and continueth not.  
3. And upon this dost thou open thine eyes: and me dost thou bring into judgement before thee.  
4. Who can make clean of unclean? not any.  
5 Seing his days are decreed: his months are numbered with thee, his limits thou hast made which he shall not pass:  
6. Turn from him that he may rest: till he pay his days work, as an hireling.  
7 For a tree hath some hope: that being cut down, it may yet sprout: and his suckers shall not leave.  
8 Though his root be old in the earth: and his stock do die in the dust:  
9 At scent of waters it buds, and beareth branches as a young plant:  
10. But the earthly-wight, dieth without strength: Adam's son starves, and where is he?  
11 As waters pass out of the sea: and rivers are spent, and dry up:  
12 So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be not: they wake not nor be raised up out of their sleep.  
13. Oh that thou wouldst, 
“ If it were possible I would be dead from this pain: to be raised up, afetr a set time.  lay me up in the grave: wouldst hide me until thine anger rested, wouldst set me a time, and remember me:  
14 Can the earthly-wight dead revive? 
“ Ram. I will wait all my set time: until my passage away come, and that I die: for as I know that I shall afterwards live, I would die to plead there with thee: Then thou wouldst favour the work of thine hands: But in this world thou wilt not call me to judgement.  all the days of my set time I would wait: 
† 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 (70) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aquil. Sym. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉  until my change were come:  
15 Thou wouldst call, and I would answer: thou wouldst tender the work of thine own hands.  
16 But now 
* Ch. 33. 11  thou dost count my goings, & keepest them not for my sin.  
17. My trespass is 
Ԡ Deut. 32. 34.  feald in a bag: that, thou joinest to present iniquity.  
18 Even 
† Mountains shaken with earthquakes lose usually great pieces of their rocks: broken unto small dust: and water overfloweth their growth.  an huge mountain waisteth: as the rocks remove from their place:  
19 Water wears the stones: thou overflowest the growth of the dusty earth: So thou destroyest the hope of sorowful-man.  
20 Thou prevaylest against him, and he passeth: tho● changest his face, and sendest him away.  
21 If his children be in honour, he knoweth it not: o● if they be the least, he can not understand of them.  
22. Only his flesh is grieved for itself: and his soul 
Ch. 5. 4.  will mourn for himself.   

CHUP. XV.  
THen answered Eliphaz the Themanite, & said:  
2 Will a wise man 
* U. 13. & 14.  utter knowledge of wind, and fill his belly with an eastern blast:  
3 Reasoning in speech unprofitable, and in words of no gain.  
4 Yea 
† In that thou pleadest justice: & seekest not to God's mercy.  thou diisanullest godliness: & hinderest prayer before the Omnipotent.  
5 Thy 
† Luk. 19 22.  own mouth shall argue thy iniquity: how thou choosest the tongue of the subtle.  
6 Thy own mouth 
Ԡ Ch. 6. 24  shall make thee wicked: & not 
Ԡ Ch. 4. Eliphaz spoke of patience, to abide Gods chastising for ordinary oversights: but did not hold him flat wicked: Now he goeth further.  I: and thy own lips shall witness against thee.  
7. Wast thou borne the first earthly-man: or form before the mountains?  
8 Hast thou heard the counsel of God: and drawn unto thee wisdom.  
9 What knowest thou that we know not? perceivest thou that is not with us?  
10 Both 
* Chap. 12. 12.  gray-headed & all grey is amongst us: greater than thy father in days.  
11. Are the comforts of God a small matter with thee? and is the 
† That thou complainest of injury & crooked judgement.  matter hid with thee?  
12 What doctrine can thine heart give thee? or what can thine eyes aim at.  
13 That thou turnest thy spirit against the Omnipotent; and utterest words out of thy mouth.  
14 What is woful-man to be cleared? or the borne of woman to be justified?  
15 Where he holdeth not his holy ones perfect: nor they of heaven be clear in his eyes.  
16 Much less the unclean, & loathsome: drinking unrighteousness as water.  
17 I will show thee, hear me: and what I have seen, that will I declare.  
18 What wise men have told: & hid not what their ●athers left.  
19 To whom alone the land was given: & no 
“ Wise sage men: peaceable: that no other were chosen to check them. as Rome is blamed for often change of policy.  stranger came amongst them.  
20. The wicked killeth himself all his days: & soon numbered years, are stored for the Tyrant:  
21 A noise of much fear is in his ears: in peace the ●obber will come upon him.  
22. He looketh not to escape from darkness, having watch he thinketh upon the sword.  
23 He wandereth for bread, where to find it: he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready 
† round about him.  at his hand.  
24 
* 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉▪ Rom. 2. 9  Distress and affliction will fright him: It will prevail against him, as a King furnished with an army about him.  
25. Because he stretched forth his hand 
† See 21. 14  against the Omnipotent: and would be valiant against the almighty▪  
26. He will run upon him: upon his neck: upon the thick 
“ bones & nerves.  bodies of his shields.  
27 Though▪ 
* A description of wealth.  he cover his face with his fat, & make playtes upon the paunch.  
28 Though he make dwellings of cities ruinated: of houses undwelt: which were coming to heaps of stone.  
29 He shall not continue rich, nor his wealth stand▪ nor that which they have brought about, spread over the earth.  
30. He shall not depart out of darkness: fire shall dry up his suckers: and he shall depart by the spirit of 
“ ver. 25. & 21. 18.  H 〈…〉 mouth.  
31 Let not the misledd trust in vanity: for vanity willbe his recompense.  
32 Which will come to the full before his day: & his branch shall never be green.  
33 
Ԡ God.  HE will snap off his soure-grape as the vines: & cast off his flower as the Olives.  
34 For the congregation of the hypocrites shallbe solitaric: and fire eateth the tents of bribers.  
35 By 
* Psal. 7. 14  conceiving sorrow, and breeding misery, s● their belly getteth guile.   

CHAP. XVI.  
THen job answered and said:  
2 I have heard many words as these: Miserable comforters are ye all.  
3. Is there any end of windy words? and what make●● thee so vehement to reply.  
4. Would I speak as you 
Ԡ Eb. Your soul in place of my soul.  if you were in my place? would I compose bare words against you, & nod 
† Mock. a●, 2 King. 19 21.  upon you with my head?  
5 I would strengthen you with my mouth: and my lips 
* comfort.  moving should bring ease.  
6 If I speak, my grief will not be eased: or if I leave of, 
“ What will it be the less.  what will go from me?  
7 As now it wearieth me. THOU hast made me desolate of all 
‘† Ch. 1. Thou hast marred all part● of my body. hast bereft me of my children & friends: ch. 1. & now of health in all my members.  my company.  
8 So thou hast made me all wrinkled: That is a proof: & my leanness riseth up against me: it speaketh to my face.  
9 His 
†‘ Ch. 17. 3.  anger renteth: and he 
† Ch. 33. 10  beareth me a grudge: he gnasheth his teeth upon me: he is become my foe: 
* Eb. He sharpeneth his eye at me  he looketh sharply at me.  
10. Men open their mouths against me: with reproaches they smite my cheeks: they come by full troops upon me.  
11. The Omnipotent hath given me over to the 
“ Chaldaean & Sabean.  godless: and hath cast me into the hand of the wicked.  
12 I was wealthy, but he hath undone me: and he layeth hold upon my neck and still buffeteth me: and hath ●et me for a mark unto himself.  
13 His 
* Sicknesses & sores.  archers compass me: he hath cleaved my ●eines: and 
',' Lam. 2. 2. 21.  spared not. He hath powered upon the earth my gall.  
14 He hath breached in me breach overagainst breach: He runneth upon me as a giant.  
15 Sackcloth 
‘* my sackcloth▪ Ch. ●. by boils broken cleaveth unto my si 〈…〉 e.  sow I unto my skin: and wallow mine horn in the dust.  
16 My face is become fowl by weeping: and upon my eyliddes is the shadow of death.  
17 For no misdoing of my hands, but my wish is clear: saying.  
18 O earth cover not my blood: and let there be n● place for 
* If there be any injury in my hands let the earth reveal it: & let God never hear my prayer.  my cry:  
19 Even now, behold, in heaven is my witness: & my record on high:  
20 My friends scorn me: but unto the Puissant doth mine eye drop.  
21 That he would decide the cause for earthly-wight before the Puissant: as the son of Adam doth with his neighbour.  
22. For the soon numbered years be arrived: and a path must I go, where I have no return.   

CHAP. XVII.  
MY breath is corrupt: my days are quenched: graves are for me.  
2. Surely mockages are bestowed upon me: and in these men's vexing 
† Night & day they vex me.  lodgeth mine eye.  
3. Set me now an umpire with 
* Whom thou allowest.  thee: who is he? Let my hand be strooken.  
4. For thou hast hid the heart of these men from judgement: therefore thou wilt not give them honour.  
5. who so speaketh 
“ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. Rom. 16. 18  vaine-goodly-speach to neighbours, the eyes of the given that way shallbe consumed.  
6 That maketh me a byword to people: & I 
Ԡ They play upon me as a tabor:  am openly a taber.  
7 Wherefore mine eye is dim by anguish: and all my members be like a shadow.  
8 Let the upright wonder at this: and let the innocent 
† encouraging himself and others not to faint for afflictions by-Iobs example.  bestir himself against the hypocrite.  
9 And 
* Rev. 22. 11.  let the just hold on his way: and let the clean in hands increase courage.  
10 Now, all ye, change your mind: and 
“ To Jobs opinion.  come now. For, I find not a wise man amongst you.  
11. My days are past, 
† I hoped for much good▪ but all that hopeis gone.  my purposes are plucked up: the possessions of my heart.  
12 The 
“ I watch and taken no rest all night: and delight little in day by dark afflictions.  night they change into day: light is short because of darkness.  
13 As I desire the grave my house: in the darkness I straw my couch.  
14. To the pit I cry, o father: o mother, o sister to the worms.  
15 For where now have I my hope: yea my hope who can behold it?  
16 To the 
†‘ Bars that carry to the grave.  mids of the grave all shall descend: when we go down together to the dust.   

CHAP. XVIII.  
THen Bildad the Shuchite answered, and said.  
2 When will ye make an end of speaking: Mark ye: and after we will speak.  
3. Why are we counted as 
Ԡ Ch. 12. 7 & 17. 4. & 10.  beasts, are 
* Dul.  unclean in your eyes:  
4. O he that teareth his soul in his 
“ Ch. 16. 9  anger, shall 
† Shall the whole government of the world, so constant as any rock, be removed for thy opinion.  the earth be cast off for thee, & rocks be removed from their place.  
5 Yea the light of the wicked is soon quenched: and the sparkle of his fire shall not long shine.  
6 Light is darkened in his tent: and his candle is put out in him.  
7 His violent passages are distressed: and his own counsel will make him fall.  
8 He is sent into the net by his own feet: and walketh into the plaited grin.  
9 The snare shall catch him by the heel: the savage shall lay hold on him.  
10 His 
* Eb. gable or cord.  snare is hid in the ground: & his pitfall at the way side.  
11. Terrors fright him on every side: and press him, 
† Whither soever he goeth.  at his feet.  
12 His strength shall come to hunger: and woe is ready at his side.  
13 A strange death shall eat the branches of his 
“ skin.  body. All his 
Ԡ children.  branches, shall it eat.  
14 His confidence shallbe plucked up from his tent: he shallbe conveyed to the king of terrors.  
15 It shall dwell in his tent, when it is not his: 
* Gen. 19  brimstone shallbe scattered upon his dwelling.  
16 Beneath, his roots shallbe dried up: and above, his branch shallbe cut down.  
17 His remembrance shall perish from the earth: & he shall have no name in the streets.  
18. He shallbe drvien from light to darkness: & he shallbe chased out of the earth.  
19 He shall leave no child, nor nephew among his people: nor remnant in his pilgrimage.  
20. At his day they that come after shall wonder: as the present took an horror.  
21. Even these are the habitations of the unrighteous, ●● this is the 
† Eb. place.  case of him 
* See Ch. ●1.  that knoweth not the Omnipotent.   

CHAP. XIX.  
THen job answered and said:  
2 How long will ye grieve my soul: and fret me with words.  
3 Now 
* five times I spoke, and five times you, crossing my good speeches. or, Ten, that is many times.  ten times ye have reproached me: nothing ashamed: But ye harden yourselves against me.  
4. Suppose in deed that I have erred: let my error continue with me.  
5. But truly you deal stately over me: `* and bring my wretched case an argument against me.  
6. Know then that the Puissant hath 
',' wronged, or, wringed me.  overthrown me: and compassed his net about me:  
7. If 
* Elihu blameth this, Ch. 34. 5▪ etc.  I complain of wrong, I cannot be heard: if I 
` † Ch. 32. 13.  cry, no sentence willbe given.  
8. He hath 
“ Lamentations 3. 7.  hedged in my ways that I cannot pass: and hath set darkness over my paths:  
9 He hath bestript me of my honour: and taken away the crown of mine head.  
10. He hath pulled me down on every side: and I go away: and he hath plucked up my hope as a tree.  
11. And his anger is kindled against me: & he holdeth ne as 
† Chap. 33. 10.  one of his enemies.  
12. His 
* afflictions.  hosts come together against me: and cast up ●heir trench against me: and camp about my tent.  
13. He hath alienated my brethren from me, and they 
‘* my acquaintance  who honoured me are become mere strangers unto me.  
14 My kinsfolk cease, & they whom I favoured have forgotten me.  
15 The hirelings of my house, and my maidens, take me for a stranger: I am an alliant in their eyes.  
16 I call my servant; but he will give no answer: though I entreat him with my mouth.  
17 My breath is strange unto my wife, though I pray her by the children of my belly.  
18 Even Princocks do despise me: when I arise they talk against me.  
19 All men of my counsel loathe me: and, they whom 
When I was in health.  I loved turn against me.  
20 My bone cleaveth to my skin, as to my flesh: and I am whole only in the skin of my teeth.  
21 Pity me, pity me, o ye my friends: for the hand of the Puissant hath touched me.  
22 Why do ye persecute me as the Omnipotent: and are not satisfied with 
† Be content that my flesh is wasted: & go not about, as savage beasts, to break my bones.  my flesh.  
23 O that 
* Because job was termed one that knew not God: he protesteth his faith: in the incarnation and resurrection of Christ, author of our resurrection. The strict propriety of Hebrew beareth that: and God's spirit always reached to the best sense.  my words were now written: o that they were drawn in a book.  
24 Graven with a pen of iron: with lead, were in stone for ever.  
25 How I know 
“ My redeemer in the nature of man, is the Everliving: 〈…〉 shall arise from death: and by him I shall rise: and be made like his glorious body.  my redeemer liveth: and at the last shall arise upon the dust.  
26 And after this my skin is spent: yet from my i'll 〈…〉 shall I see the Puissant.  
27. Whom I shall see, even I, myself: & mine eye 〈…〉 view, and 
* No other for me.  no stranger: when my reins and boso 〈…〉 be spent.  
28. Thus, ye should say, 
* Seeing this point it the main; not to doubt in the heart, who can go up to heaven to bring Christ down: or who can go down into the deep to bring Christ from the dead: but to believe that Jesus is the Eternal: & that God raiseth him from death: Job could not be said not to know God.  why pursue we him: when the things root is found in me.  
29 Be afraid yourselves of the sword: For ire upon sin hath the sword. Therefore know there is 
† 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 & Shaddin: might seem to be Sh●ddin Devils▪ in the vn●oincted Bible. The margin reading helpeth therein.  a judgement.   

CHAP. XX.  
THen answered Sophar the Naamathite, and said.  
2. For this my thoughts make me reply: and therefore my haste is in me.  
3. A 
* Chap. 19 28. 29.  reproof to my shame I hear: and the spirit of my conscience will that I answer.  
4 Thou dost know this much, how of old, since Adam was set on the earth:  
5. The joyance of wicked is short: & hypocrites gladness for a moment.  
6. If his height ascend to heaven: and his head reach unto the clouds:  
7. Turning a little he falls for ever: 
“ they who saw him.  his beholder's ●ay, where is he?  
8. As 
†‘ Esa. 29. 7. 8.  a dream shall he flee, past finding: and pass like a vision on night.  
9 Eyes viewed him: but shall no more: nor his place behold him again.  
10. His children must content the poor: & his hands recompense his wrongs.  
11. His bones shall feel full pay for his youth pranks: which shall lie with him in the dust.  
12. Though wrong be sweet within his mouth, and he hide it under his tongue:  
13. Though he cherish it, and leave it not: and hold it within his palate:  
14. His meat in his bowels turneth into gall of asps within him.  
15 Wealth devoured he shall castup: The Omnipotent will drive it out of his belly.  
16. He shall suck the gall of asps: the tongue of serpents shall kill him.  
17 He shall no more see rivers, streams, brooks of honey and of butter.  
18. He shall restore what men's pains gate: and not have time to devour it: and never rejoice in the wealth for which he must make recompense.  
19 He oppresseth and leaveth poor; robbed of house: which he shall not build up.  
20 For he shall feel no rest in his belly: by that which 
Psal. 59 15 & 69. 22.  he desired he shall not be safe.  
21 There shallbe no remnant of his meat: therefore his goods continue not.  
22 When he hath filled him with sufficiency, than he shallbe distressed: each hand of 
† grieved.  injuried will come upon him.  
23 When he would fill his belly, God will send his hot anger upon him: he will rain upon him into his flesh.  
24. When he fleeth from the iron armour, the bow of steel shall shoot him through.  
25. The arrow shallbe drawn and come out of 
“ Chald. & Ab.  the quiver; and the head shallbe in his gall: terrors shall come upon him.  
26. All darkness is hid up for his 
† For his store of sins. Rom. 2. 5.  store: a fire 
‘* Eb. Which needeth no blowing.  unquenchable shall eat him up, and the remnant of his tent shallbe wringed.  
27 The heaven shall reveal his iniquity: and the earth shall rise up against him.  
28 The 
* As oil & wine. Chald.  fruits for his house shall pass away: & flow away in the day of anger.  
29 This shallbe the portion of the wicked earthly-man from 
Ԡ Elohim.  God: and the inheritance appointed him from the 
† 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, in the Lxx.  Omnipotent.   

CHAP. XXI.  
THen answered job and said:  
2 Hear diligently my words: and let that be your consolation.  
3 Suffer ye me and I will speak: and after I have spoken, mock thou:  
4. Is 
“ I complain not to you: but unto God. I plead with God: and sorrow that I am not heard.  my sighing unto man: notwithstanding I have my sighing: then why should not my spirit be discouraged.  
5 Mark me, and be amazed: lay the hand upon the mouth:  
6 When I bethink me, I am troubled: and a quaking taketh my flesh.  
7 Why are the wicked lively, continue long, and be mighty in riches.  
8 Their seed is settled before them with them: and their issue before their eyes.  
9 Their houses have peace without fear: and the rod of the puissant is not upon them.  
10. Their ox gendereth and looseth not seed: their cow calveth, and looseth not the young.  
11. They send forth their children as flocks: & the●● 
Ch. 15. 30.  prinkockes dance.  
12. They bear with the tabret & harp: and rejoice a● the sound of the pleasant instrument.  
13. They spend their days in wealthiness: and in a 
Ch. 15. 24.  moment they go down 
† But in Haides they are panged in flame, Luk. 16. 19 23.  to the grave.  
14. And they say to the omnipotent, depart from us: for we desire not to know thy ways.  
15. What 
* See Ch. 15  is the almighty that we should serve him: or what profit shall we have if we pray to him.  
16. Lo their wealth cometh not 
‘* But from God.  by their own power: here I am far from the judgement of 
“ which never thank God for their wealth but think their own wisdom found all: as Assur, Esa. 10. 12. 13  the wicked.  
17. 
† 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is, how often? or how seldom. Ramban.  Not so often is the candle of the wicked put out: that their woe doth come upon them: that HE imparteth pangs in his anger.  
18 That they become 
* Psal. 1. 4. & 35. 5.  as straw before the wind: and dust which a tempest stealeth away.  
19 Doth God lay up his injuries for his children: doth pay himself that he doth feel it?  
20. Do his own eyen see his ruin: that he drink the ire of the omnipotent.  
21. Otherwise what careth he for his house after him: when the number of his own months shallbe shortened.  
22. Can a man teach the Omnipotent knowledge, how he shall judge the lofty?  
23 One dieth in his very perfection, all in prosperity and ease:  
24 His 
†‘ He hath all prosperity of health and wealth.  pails are full of milk: and the marrow of his bones are moist.  
25 An other dieth with a bitter soul: and never ate good thing.  
26 They shall lie alike in the dust: & the worm shall cover them.  
27 Behold, I know your thoughts, and your injurious imaginations against me.  
28 When ye say: where is the house of 
† Or, rich Tyrant.  the noble? & 
Chap. 20. 19  where is the tent and pavilion of the wicked?  
29. Cannot ye ask them that go by the way? so ye would not make their signs strange.  
30. How the bad is spared unto the day of heaviness, the day when great wrath is brought.  
31 Who dare tell him of his ways to his face: & reward him that which he doth?  
32. But he is brought unto the grave, and still abideth in the tomb.  
33 The vale clods be sweet unto him: & he draweth all earthly after him: as innumerable went before him.  
34 And what do ye comfort me with vanity: when great offence remaineth in your disputations.   

CHAP. XXII.  
THen answered Eliphaz the Themanite and said.  
2. Can the humane-wight teach the Omnipotent? If he would teach, would he regard it?  
3. Is it a pleasure to the almighty, that thou pleadest justice: or gain, that thou wouldst make thy ways perfect?  
4. Would he reprove thee for thy religion; would he come into judgement with thee?  
5 Nay doubtless thy evil is great, and thy iniquity endless.  
6. For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother w 〈…〉 
Mat. 25. 35. etc.  out cause: and bestript the naked of their clothing.  
7 No water to the weary hast thou given to drink and thou hast kept away bread from the hungry.  
8 But the stronger in arm held the land: and 
* 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ma. 10. 42.  he estimation would devil in it.  
9 
† True devotion is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their adversuy: and to keep himself unspotted of this world. jam. 1. 27.  Widows hast thou sent away empty: and the arms of the fatherless were broken.  
10 Therefore snares compass thee: and sudden fear frights thee:  
11 Or darkness, that thou canst not see: and much water doth cover thee:  
12 Is not the Puissant in the height o● heaven: & be hold the loftiness, the stars how high they be.  
14 So thou sayest, what knoweth the Omnipotem can he judge through the dark cloud?  
14 The clouds be a covering to him that he cannot see: and he walketh upon the compass of the heaven.  
15 
†‘ Dost thou hold.  Hast thou marked the way of 
‘ 2 Pet. 2. 5.  the old world wherein ungracious men have walked?  
16 Which were made away before their time: who● 
* The middle of the book by the Massorites.  foundation became a water of deluge:  
17 Who ●●id unto the Omnipotent, depart from ● and what should the Almighty do unto them?  
18 For he filled their houses with goods: & 
Ԡ I am far from the judgement of the wicked which holdth: stars their Gods and givers of blessing.  the opinion of the wicked is far from me.  
19 The just did see and rejoiced: and the innocent 〈…〉 mock them.  
20 As our state is not yet destroyed, that the remna● of the other, 
‘ The world reserved to fire. Es. 66. & 2 Pet. 3.  fire should eat up:  
21 Reconcile thee now unto him, & be at peace: S 〈…〉 prosperity shall come unto thee.  
22 Receive now the Law at his mouth: & lay up his ●●ordes in thine heart.  
23 If thou tuine unto the almighty: thou shalt be built ●p: if thou cast far off unrighteousness from thy tents.  
24. So thou shalt set by gold as dust: and Ophir, as ●he stones in rivers.  
25 And the Almighty willbe thy plentiful gold: & ●ilver of strength unto thee.  
26 For then thou shalt delight in the Almighty: and ●●ft up thy countenance unto the Puissant.  
27 Thou shalt crave good of him: and he shall hear ●hee: and thou shalt pay thy vows.  
28 And thou shalt decree a matter: & it shall stand so ●or thee, and in thy ways shall the light shine.  
29 When 
‘* Pride will have a fall.  others shallbe humbled, thou shalt speak ●f exaltation: as the humble eyed he will save.  
30 He will spare the innocent: who shallbe spared for 
Ch. 42.  ●hy pure hands.   

CHAP. XXIII.  
THen job answered and said:  
2 Yet this day 
',' Ch. 22. 3  my sighing is holden a rebellion: though my stroke be greater than my ●roning.  
3 O that I knew how to find him: that I might come into his throne.  
4 I would lay the cause before him: and fill my mouth with arguments:  
5. Would know what words he would answer me: & would perceive what he would tell me.  
6 Would he by great power plead against me? No, but he would help me.  
7 There the upright doth plead with him: so should I ●e quit for ever by my judge.  
8. Go 
* I cannot mark Gods judgements in any part of the world  I Eastward, there he is not: or westward, I 〈…〉 not mark him:  
9 On the left hand when he worketh, I cannot vi 〈…〉 him: when he covereth the right hand, I can not see him.  
10 But he knows what way is with me: tried he m● I should come forth as gold.  
11. My foot hath held his right path: his way have kept, and not turned away.  
12. And his lips laws I cast not of: More than m 〈…〉 daily bread have I laid up the words of his mouth.  
13 Yet 
† He is unchangeable.  when he is against me, who can stay him? h 〈…〉 soul willeth, and that doth he.  
14 Because 
“ See Ch. 10 ver. 8. 9  he furnished me with my daily bread● and many such graces are with him.  
15. Therefore I shrink at his presence: I consider an● am afraid of him.  
16 For the Omnipotent hath loftened mine heart: an● the Almighty hath made me shrink:  
17 Because 
* Because I found neither death, nor ease of sickness.  I have not died by thick-darknes: nor H 〈…〉 yet 
“ That I should not seel these afflictions.  hideth gloomynesse from my face.   

CHAP. XXIV.  
WHy should not 
† The affairs of men in their times.  times be hid by the almighty, for none that know him see his ways.  
2. Men remove landmarks: rob away herds, and feed them.  
3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless: and 't 〈…〉 the ox of the widow for a pledge.  
4. They make the poor turn out of the way: t 〈…〉 meek of the land hide themselves together.  
5 Behold the wild in the wilderness go forth to their 
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 & 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. The margin expoundeth meek by helpless. Some translate the margin: & well may: But none may think the Line-reading corrupt.  york: rising timely to spoil: the vast-ground giveth him ●read for his young.  
6. They reap the field that is not their own: so the wicked snap of the vineyards grapes.  
7. The naked they do cause to lodge without garment: ●nd without covering in the cold.  
8. They are 
‘ Poor dwell in high rocks, in many showers of rain: and in holes of rocks, they lodge.  moistened with the streams of the mountains: and for want of covert, they embrace the rock.  
9 Of mischievousnes they rob the fatherless: and take ●way as a pledge that which the poor hath upon him.  
10 The 
† The naked in part they make more naked  naked they cause to go without garment: & ●hey take away the sheaf of the hungry.  
11 Men 
‘† The labourer hath not 〈…〉 is pay.  make oil within their walls, & tread wine●resses, and are thirsty.  
12. In the city, folk do groan: and the soul of the ●layne 
* As Rev. 6. 10.  crieth: and the Puissant marketh not the unsavoury dealings.  
13. They are of rebellers against the light: They know ●ot his ways: nor keep in his paths.  
14. With the light the murderer riseth: he killeth the ●eedy and poor: and on the night he willbe a very ●heife.  
15. The eye of the adulterer watcheth the twilight, saying: No eye shall see me: and layeth a vizard upon his face.  
16. 
*‘ Ramban thus: In dark places he diggeth houses: which he sealeth up on the day time: And that seemeth the right sense: so this: They can 〈…〉 I'd no light.  In the dark he diggeth houses: which he mar●ed on the day time: they know no light.  
17. For altogether the morning is unto them the shadow of death: if any spy them, then come terrors of the shadow of death.  
18 He is lighter than the face of waters: their porti●● is cursed on the earth: none will look unto the way of the vineyards.  
19 Drought and heat quickly take away snow waters: the grave them that sin.  
20 The 
‘* Raban. His wife: others, his mother; or friends; all of compassion.  womb shall forget him: he is sweet to the worm: he shallbe no more remembered: and wickedness is broken down as a tree.  
21. HE 
† The wicked man's life shall have the husband's lot.  adjoineth the barren which hath not borne child: and to the widow HE showeth no good.  
22 And HE draweth the stout after him by his might: while each stood, none was sure of his life.  
23 HE would give them security to stay upon: But his eyes was upon their ways.  
24 They were exalted a short while: but come to nothing, so they are brought low: every one are made to skip away: they are cut off as an ear of corn.  
25. If it be not so now, who will prove me a liar: and make my words nothing?   

CHAP. XXV.  
THen answered Bildad the Shuchite and said:  
2 Dominion and fear be with him: he maketh 
The majesty of God is too terrible for base man to plead with: saith Bildad: and all Gods doings are in judgement & justice: the judge is just, and the judged a sot: unable to know the secret of thus matter. At this job mocketh in the next chap.  peace in his high places.  
3. Can his armies be numbered? or 
‘* None of his Angels have light of themselves: but all from him.  over whom 
The Chaldy upon v. 2. Sultanship and fear be with him: he maketh peace in his high heavens. Michael is on his right hand: and he is of fire: and Gabriel on his left hand: and he is of water: and the body creatures be part of fire: and part of water. Such fables S. Paul forbiddeth: and ●ewes making Michael a created Angel, holp out Machomed: and ever Zohar granteth the truth, that Michael is jehovah.  doth not his light shine?  
4 And what should sorowful-man plead justice with the Omnipotent: or the borne of woman look to be cleared.  
5 Look unto the moon: and it will not be bright: & the stars are not clear in his eyes.  
6. Much less sorowful-man, a worm: & the son of Adam a vermin.   

CHAP. XXVI.  
THen job answered and said:  
2 What helpest thou to no strength? and savest with an arm having no force?  
3 What dost thou counsel without wisdom: & makest advice known abundantly.  
4 With whom hast thou uttered speech: and whose ●oule admired thee.  
5 
‘* 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Amber, and pearl, and such. God his providence reacheth to the furthest places: even to the bottom of the sea, and lowest earth: which places seem to be as cast off.  Things without life are form under the waters: 
off Job showeth that he can speak more of God's strange works then Bildad.  and places near them.  
6 The lowest earth is naked afore him: and the 
* That which seemeth to be lost and contemned.  lost hath no covering.  
7. He stretcheth out the North upon the empty: and hangeth the earth upon nothing.  
8. He bindeth waters in his thick-metcores: and the cloud is not broken for them.  
9 He 
† Ramban: He maketh the face of the heavens for an house.  fasteneth the face of the throne: He spreadeth beawtifully his cloud over it.  
10 A bound 
“ He brought the sea about the Land: to abide while day and night continue.  he hath made for the face of the waters: unto the end of light with darkness.  
11. The 
† Mountains, as Atlas, said to hold up the heavens, by earthquake tremble.  pillars of the heavens shake: and are amazed at his check.  
12 By his strength 
* Of a general water, he made many seas.  he divides the sea: and by his wisdom he parted the 
‘† Eb. Pride▪ That is the proud sea: that threateneth to drown the land.  maine-water.  
13 By his spirit he garnished the heavens: his hand hath form the long serpent.  
14 Lo, these are part of his ways: and what a small thing can we hear of him. And the thunder of his power who can understand?   

CHAP. XXVII.  
ANd job proceeded to continue his Oration, and said:  
2. As the Omnipotent liveth which hath removed my cause, & the Almighty which hath brought my soul to bitterness.  
3. Surely, all the while that my breath is in me, and the spirit of the Puissant in my nostrils:  
4. My lips shall not speak the unright: and my tongue shall not sound untruth.  
5. Be it far from me that I should justify you until I give up the ghost: I will not remove mine integrity from me.  
6: I will lay hold upon my righteousness, and I will not leave it: my heart shall take no shame from my days.  
7. Mine enemy shallbe as the wicked: and my adversary as the unrighteous.  
8. For what can be the hope of the hypocrite, that he 
If I were wicked I durst not plead with God.  should bring it about: when the Puissant would shake off his soul.  
9 Would the Omnipotent hear his cry: when distress cometh upon him.  
10. Can he delight in the Almighty? will he call upon 
Phil. 4. 6.  the Puissant at all times?  
11 I will teach you of God his hand: that which is with the Almighty I will not hide.  
12 Lo, ye all have seèn it: and why do ye then vanish in vanity.  
13 This shallbe the lot of the wicked earthly-man, with the Omnipotent: and the portion of tyrants, which they shall receive from the Almighty.  
14. If his children be many, it shallbe to the sword: & his offspring shall not be filled with bread.  
15. His remnant shallbe buried 
* as contemned slaves. (And so Beth is taken, Dan. 2. 44. presently after the days of these kings, the God of heaven shall set up a kingdom.)  as soon as they are dead: and his widows shall 
† as glad to be rid of them.  not weep.  
16 If he heap up silver as dust: and prepare him garments as clay:  
17 Well he may prepare it: but the just shall wear i● and the innocent shall part the silver.  
18 He buildeth his house as a moth: and as a booth which a watchman maketh.  
19 The rich 
Ԡ in death.  lieth and is not 
* To be honestly buried: for his children shallbe killed. ●● v. 14. Amongst the wild Arabians this continueth unto this day: and in our wild countries. It is an Hebrew phrase, for one dead taken friendly to burial: or of a stranger into lodging, as Mat. 25. 35. 43.  taken up one openeth his eyes, but he is gone.  
20 Terrors shall fasten on him as waters: and in the night a tempest shall steal him away.  
21 An 
† 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Act. 27. 14.  East wind shall take him: and he must go: and and it shall whirl him from his place.  
22. It falleth on him, and spares him not: when he would fain flee from that sway.  
23. Every one shall clap hands at him, and hiss him away from his place.   

CHAP. XXVIII.  
NOw there is an issue for silver: and a place of 
God is merveilous in works made known: but unsearchable for man's l●t.  Golds refining.  
2. Iron is taken out of dust: & brass is molten out of stone.  
3. HE hath 
* Psal. 119. 96.  set an end to darkness: and searcheth the use of all things: stone of myrknes and shadow of death.  
4. A stream breaketh from his spring: unkenned of a●y foot: deep for sadman, it floweth away.  
5 A ground out of which groweth food: is underneath changed as 
* Erimsto●  fire.  
6. Her stones have the place of Saphir: and the dust of gold is in it.  
7. A path which the kite hath not known: nor the eye of glead looked on it.  
8. The savage beasts have not trodden it: nor fierce-Lyon passed over it.  
9 HE sendeth his hand into the flint: and changeth 
† In mountains he breaketh a way for streams.  mountains at the root:  
10 Breaking rivers out of the rocks: And all that is rare his eye seeth.  
11. HE 
Ԡ God drieth the springs whence rivers ran: that they fail: and have not so much as a tear of water.  bindeth the floods from weeping: And the hid he bringeth to light.  
12 But from whence can wisdom be found: & where is understandings place?  
13. Sorowfull-man knoweth not her esteem: neither can it be found in the Land of the living.  
14 The deep saith, it is not in me: and the sea saith, it is not with me.  
15 No 
† Ebr. Sagor: stored that is gold.  ore can be given for her: nor silver be weighed for her price.  
16 It will not be valued with 
“ The name of gold in Ophir.  Cethem from Ophir: with precious beryl and Saphir.  
17▪ No gold nor diamond will match her: nor cup of 
* Phez-gold of Pess in Barbaria.  Phez-gold make her exchange.  
18 
† East mountain stones, Sardonyx and Cha●ar in Greek as I guess.  Ramoth and Gabish may not be mentioned: wisdoms price doth pass carbuncles.  
19 The Topaz of Cush will not match her: she will not be weighed with pure Cethem.  
20 Then from whence doth wisdom proceed: and 
Ch. 8. 10.  where is the place of understanding.  
21 For it is hid from the eyes of all living: and kept close from the fowls of the heaven.  
22 Destruction and death say: with our ears we have heard her fame.  
23. God perceiveth her way: and he knoweth her 
Elohim, the name of the holy trinity.  place.  
24 For he beholdeth the ends of the earth: and he seeth all that is under heaven.  
25 When he made for the wind a poise, and held the waters in a measure.  
26. When he made a bound for the rain: and a way for lightning of thunders.  
27 Then he saw her: and showed her: and settled her: and searched her.  
28. And he said to Adam, Mark: the fear of 
†‘ The Lord. Adonaj is used first Gen. 15. of Abraham, and is plural, for note of Trinity: My stays.  Adonaj, is the wisdom: and to eschew ill, is understanding.   

CHAP. XXIX.  
ANd job continued his Oration and said.  
2 O that I were as in former months: as in the days when the Puissant preserved me.  
3. When he caused his brightness to shine over my head: when I walked at his light in darkness.  
4. As I was in my lusty years: with God's favour over my tent.  
5. When yet the almighty was with me: and my children about me:  
6. When I washed my steps with butter: and the rock powered me streams of oil.  
7. When I went out a door to the city: and settled my seat in the street.  
8. The young men saw me, & would not be seen: the aged arising stood up.  
9 Princes refrained from speaking: & laid their hand upon their mouth.  
10. The best in voice would not be seen: their tongue cleaved to their palate.  
11 When the ear heard, than it held me happy: and the eye saw, and gave me good report:  
12. That I delivered the poor when he cried: and the fatherless and the succourless.  
13 The blessing of the perishing came upon me: and I made glad the heart of the widow.  
14. I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my justice was like a cloak, and a crown.  
15. Eyes was I unto the blind: and I became feet to the lame.  
16 A father was I to the poor: and the cause I knew not I searched out.  
17. And I broke the tusks of the unright: and cast the pray out of his teeth.  
18. And I said: I shall give out the ghost in presence of my nest, and multiply days as the sand.  
19 My root was spread to the water: and dew lay upon my branches.  
20 My honour was aey-new with me, and my bow● was fresh in mine hand.  
21 To me men gave ear and regard: and kept silenc● at my counsel.  
22 After my words they diffred not: & my talk dropped upon them.  
23. They regarded me as the rain: & gaped as to the later showers.  
24. When I laughed upon them, they would not be bold: nor cast down the light of my face.  
25 I chose their way, and sat a chief: and dwelled as a King with a garrison: as one that comforteth mourners.   

CHAP. XXX.  
BUt now they make a scorn of me, who are lesser in days than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my sheep.  
2 For what could their hands strength do me: whose aged time came to nothing.  
3. In want and in famine heavy, they fled into the unwatery land, obscure, waist and wilderness.  
4 Which plucked up salt herbs among trees, and juniper roots were their meat.  
5 They were driven from company: men shouted at them as at a thief.  
6 That they dwelled in 
* Ground hollow: broken by streams.  cliffs at rivers, in holes of dust, and in rocks.  
7. Among trees they groaned: among the nettles they smarted.  
8 A vile kind, yea a kind without fame: banished from the earth.  
9 But now. I am become their talk, and made to them a common speech.  
10 They abhor me: keep far from me: and from my face spare not spittle.  
11 For HE hath loosed 
* 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 jithro, The string or rain of his government: that holdeth base from striving with mighty. Let them that think that hard, read the margin: 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 jithri, my string: the string of my bow, Chap. 29. ●0.  his strings and afflicted me: and they cast away the bridle from me.  
12 At my right hand springals arise: they thrust my feet: and they cast upon me the causeys of their woe.  
13. They have marred my way: they hold my heaviness a profit: though they be never the better.  
14 They come as into a broad breach: in the broken place they tumble.  
15 All terrors are turned upon me: each, course my 
† Chap. 29.  nobility as a wind: and my salvation is passed as a cloud.  
16. So my soul in me is powered out: and affliction days have caught me.  
17 The night pierceth my bones from me: that my sinews do take no rest.  
18 Through great force my garment changeth: as the edge of my coat it girds me.  
19 He hath 
“ Or, compared me to mire.  made me a pattron of mire: that I am like dust and ashes.  
20 I cry unto thee, but thou dost not hear me: I stand up, but thou dost 
Ԡ To bring upon me all kinds of punishments.  mark me.  
21. Thou art turned one cruel to me: by thy hand hand thou art my foe.  
22. Thou takest me up unto a wind: and 
† Layest me me thereupon.  causest me to ride: thou meltest me from all soundness.  
23. For I know, to death thou wilt turn me: and to the house appointed for all living.  
24. And prayed I not when plague was sent? when hurt came to any, thereupon cried I not?  
25. Did I not weep for the hard of day: did not my soul 
* 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Cor. 11. 29. Mercerus citeth S. Paulan expounder of this rare word: very learnedly.  burn for the poor?  
26. But I looked for good, & evil came: and I waited for light, and myrknes came.  
27. My bowels seethed & rested not: days of affliction came upon me.  
28. I walked black out of the sun: I stood up in the Church: I cried▪  
29. I am a brother to Dragons: and a fellow to Ostrich kind:  
30 My skin upon me is black, and my bones are brent without hoat-drought.  
31 And my harp is made a mourning: and pleasant sounds be weepers voice.   

CHAP. XXXI.  
I Made a covenant with mine eyen, not to look upon a virgin.  
2. For what were the portion of God from above: and lot of the almighty from on high?  
3. Have not the unrighteous woe: and be not ildoers rid away?  
4. Will not he see unto my ways: and number all my passages?  
5. If I walked in vanity: and▪ my feet hastened to guyl:  
6. Let God weigh me in even balance: and let him mark my integrity.  
7. If my step have turned from the way: and my heart followed mine eyes: and any blame sticked to mine hands:  
8 Then let me sow, and another eat: and my offspring be rooted out.  
9 If mine heart were drawn by woman: that I waited at my neighbour's door:  
10. Let my wife grind to an other: & let others bow upon her.  
11 For this should be an heinous thing: and a sin 
* To take knowledge of, search out, and punish. Pro. 6. 29. Lev. 20. 10.  for the judges.  
12. For it is a fire eating to destruction, which would root out all my revenues.  
13. If I despised my servant's cause: & my handmaids pleading with me:  
14 Then what should I do: when th'Omnipotent stood up: and when he did visit, what should I answer him?  
15 Hath not he that made me made him in the belly? and the same framed us both in the womb?  
16 If I stayed the poor from the wished: and consumed the eyes of the widow:  
17 If I have eaten my morsel alone: that the fatherless ate not of the same▪  
18. For from my youth this grew with me as a father: and from my mother's womb I did tender it.  
19 If I saw any perishing for want of clothes: and lack of covering for the poor:  
20. If his loins have not blessed me: when he felt warmth by my sheep's fleece:  
21 If I listed mine hand against the orphan: when I saw my strength in the gate:  
22 Let my shoulder fall from the back: and let mine arm break from the cane.  
23. For th'Omnipotents feared woe held me: and I could not stand be●●●● his highness.  
24▪ If I made gold my confidence, and said to Cethem, o my hope.  
25. If I joyed that my wealth grew: and that my hand found much riches.  
26. If I admired the sun how it shined: and 
† The new moon: of which yet fools say, God save her.  the moon walking precious:  
27 That mine heart was closely deceived: No, my hand 
* Stopped all idolatrous speech: of self-worship: for which Babel bred confusion▪ So Re● Peritzol taketh it: Others take that for a gesture of idolatry: The words and matter may abide that.  kissed my mouth.  
28 So this had been a sin to be judged: for I had denied the omnipotent from above.  
29 If 
† See Ch. 30. 24.  I rejoiced at the hurt of mine enemy, & bestirred me when he found loss:  
30 No, I let not my palate sin: to wish his soul under a curse.  
31 Have not the folk of my house said: 
‘* A speech of hatred to the enemy, as Psal. 124. 3. or for hospitality: that servants dinner was given strangers: that they tarried to roast more: as the next verse showeth.  o that we had his flesh: we would not be satisfied.  
32 The stranger lodged not in the street: I opened my doors to 
“ Wayfaring.  travelers.  
33. Have I covered my trespass as Adam: hiding my ●in of a self-love.  
34. For I could oppress a great troop: & those of families to baseness, that made me shrink: that I was dumb, and went not out of doors.  
35. O that I had one to hear me: behold my scope is this: that th'Almighty would answer me: & the book which my adversary would write.  
36 I swear, I would bear it on my shoulder: I would tie it for crowns to me:  
37. I would tell him the number of my steps: I would come to him as a bold Prince.  
38 If my land cry out against me: and her furrows weep together:  
39 If I ate her strength without silver, and have grieved her owner's soul:  
40 Then let thorns grow in stead of wheat: & darnel in steed of barley.  
Here end the words of job.   

CHAP. XXXII.  
SO these three men rested from answering job: because he was just in his own eyes.  
2. And the anger of Elihu, the son of Baracheel the Buzite of the family of Ram, was in a choler against job: because he justified himself above God.  
3. And against his three fellows his anger was in a choler: because they found no answer, yet condemned job.  
4. Yet Elihu waited to speak to job: because they were elder than he, in days.  
5. So Elihu saw there was no answer in the mouth of the three men, and his anger was in a choler.  
6. Then spoke Elihu the son of Baraceel the Buzite: and said: I am young, and ye are old: Therefore I reverenced, and feared to show my mind among you.  
7. For I said, days will speak: and many years will teach wisdom.  
8. Certes a spirit is in sadman: & th'almighties breath to wise them.  
9 Men of not great time may be wise: as the old understand the right.  
10. Therefore I say, Hear thou me now: I also will show my mind.  
11. Behold I waited through your speech: I gave ear to your arguments: while ye searched out what to speak.  
12 And unto you I gave attendance: and lo, job found no confuter: of you that answered his words.  
13 Lest ye say, we have found wisdom: th'omnipotent 
Chap. 19 5. 6.  doth toss him, not man.  
14. He hath framed no speech against me: I will not answer him by your words.  
15. They shrink away, do speak no more: speeches be departed from them.  
16. And I expected, till that they would no longer speaks but they stand still, they answer no more.  
17. Now I will answer in my turn: also I will show mine own mind.  
18. For I am full of words: and my bellies spirit doth press me.  
19 Behold my belly is as wine that hath no vent: as new barrels like to burst.  
20. I will speak that I may take breath: I will open my lips and answer.  
21. Look not that I regard man's person: that I respect an earthly-man.  
22. For I know not how to respect: So my maker would be my taker away.   

CHAP. XXXIII.  
ANd in sooth hear now job my talk: and give ear to all my speeches.  
2. Behold now I will open my mouth: my tongue speaketh in my palate.  
3. My words are th'upright of my heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge purely.  
4. Th'Omnipotents spirit hath made me: and the almighty's breath hath given me life:  
5. If thou canst answer, settle thyself before me, stand to it.  
6 Lo I am, as thou spakest, for th'Omnipotent: I am also form out of clay.  
7. Lo 
† Ch. 13. 21.  my terror shall not fright thee: nor my 
* 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 acaph, hand: Caph is usual.  hand be heavy upon thee.  
8 Now thou hast spoken in mine ears, and I heard the voice of the words:  
9 I 
“ Chap. 9 30.  am clear, without trespass: I am neat, without iniquity.  
10. Lo 
‘* Thou joinest unto mine iniquity more matter: Ramban so doth fitly apply the reply. * Chap. 14 17. & 16. 9  he piketh quarrels against me: 
† Chap. 13. 24. & 16. 9  and taketh me for his enemy:  
11 He 
* Chap. 13. 27. & 14. 16.  putteth my feet in the stocks: and watcheth all my paths.  
12 Lo here thou art not in the right. I must tell thee: For the puissant is greater than sorowful-man.  
13 Wherefore dost thou strive against him: that he will not speak for all his dealings?  
14 When th'Omnipotent speaketh once, or twice:▪ man will not mark it.  
15 In a dream of a vision by night: when heavy sleep falls on weak-man: in deep-slumbring upon the bed:  
16 Then he openeth the ears of weakmen: and 
† When he hath chastised them, he sealeth up the decree of their judgement.  imprinteth why they are chastised.  
17 That the earthly-man 
* Leave man's work, and do the work of God.  leave of to work: and He cover pride from the humane-wight.  
18 To keep back his soul from the pit: and his life from going on the dart.  
19 So he chastiseth with malady on his bed: yea all his bones with a sore one.  
20 So that his life abhorreth meat: and his soul the delicate food.  
21 His flesh wasteth away from sight: and his bones stand out, which were not seen.  
22. And his soul draweth near to the pit: & his life to kill maladies.  
23 If there be for him a messenger, a teacher one of a thousand: to tell the earthly 
“‘ God his mercy.  HIS rightfulness:  
24 Then he will have mercy upon him: and say: spare him (o killing malady,) from descending into the pit, I have found a ransom.  
25 His flesh shallbe moister than in youth: he shall return to his fresh days.  
26 He will pray to the puissant, & he will accept him: and he shall see his face with great joyance: and HE will restore to man his 
“ justice in Christ.  justice:  
27 He will accompany with men and say: I sinned & wrestred the right: but 
Ԡ Rom. 6. 21.  it profited me nothing.  
28 He saved my soul from going into the pit: that my life doth see the light.  
29 Lo, th'Omnipotent works all this: twice, thrice with a man.  
30 To stay his soul from the pit: to be lightened with the light of the living.  
31 Attend o job, listen to me: be silent, and then will I speak:  
32. If thou have speech to answer me, say on, for I desire to make thee just.  
33 If thou hast nothing, listen thou to me: be silent, and I will teach thee wisdom.   

CHAP. XXXIV.  
FUrthermore Elihu spoke and said:  
2 Hear o ye wise my words: and give ear ye men of knowledge.  
3 For the 
* Ch. 12. 11.  ear discerneth speeches, as the palate tasteth to eat.  
4. Let us desire judgement for us, know amongst us what is the good.  
5. For job hath said: 
† Ch. 13. 18. 23.— 27 and 27. 2. 6  I am just: but, th'Omnipotent keeps back my right.  
6. For my right I must be a liar: my stroke is sore without trespass.  
7 What sage-wight is like to job: that drinketh scornfulness 
I Looked for good: but evil is come.  like water.  
8. Who goeth in company with them that work iniquity: and walketh with the sorrowful wicked men.  
9 For he hath said, it profiteth not the humane-wight, when he would walk with God.  
10 Therefore sad-men of heart hear me: far be wickedness from th'omnipotent: & unrighteousness from the 
Rom. 3. 4. 5  almighty.  
11 For he will repay the earthly his work: and as the 
Rom. 2. 6.  way of each one is, so will make him find it.  
12 Most sure is this. th'Omnipotent will not do wickedly: neither will th'almighty pervert judgement.  
13 Who before him looked to the earth: or who settled all the dwelt-land.  
14. If he set his heart upon one, gather his spirit and his breath unto him:  
15 All flesh would yield up the ghost together: and the earthly should return to dust. 
Gen. 3. 19   
16 Now, if thou have understanding, hear this: give ear unto the voice of my speeches.  
17. Can a foe to judgement rule well: or wilt thou condemneth most just?  
18 May one say to the King, Belial? thou wicked, to 
Rom. 3. 5. 6  the King of nobles?  
19 Who respects no person of Princes: nor regards wealthy more than poor: for all be the work of his hands.  
20 People 
† Gen. 19  die suddenly: & be shaken of 
* Exod. 12.  at midnight: and they pass away: & the mighty are taken away without hand.  
21 For his eyes are upon man's ways: and he doth 
Rev. 2. 18. 19  see all his goings.  
22 No darkness, nor shadow of death, can hide in it workers of sin.  
23 Therefore 
“ Ch. 4. 17. 18. 19  it is not for man ever to purpose, to enter into judgement before the Omnipotent.  
24 He bruiseth mighty without end: & placeth others in their room.  
25 So he looketh unto their works: & bringeth night, and they are brought low.  
26 For wicked, he maketh plentiful riddance of them: in 
Ԡ In open sight: for example of others.  open place of beholders.  
27 Because they turned back from him: & considered not all his ways.  
28 Bringing on such the cry of poor: as he hears the cry of the needy.  
29. When he makes rest, who can disturb? when he hideth 
When for the poor he kills the mighty, none can stay him: and when he hideth his favour, none can find it.  favour, who can behold him? either for a nation, or one earthly man alone.  
30 That the hypocrite do not reign: that HE take away snares from people.  
31. Now unto the Omnipotent, which saith, I pardon, I will not destroy: This should be said:  
32 Where I see not: do thou teach me: if I wrought ill, I will no more.  
33 Shall that come from thee, which he will punish: as thou dost loath, as thou likest, where I would not? Now 
Loathest life, likest of death, Ch. 7 16. and 17.  speak what thou thinkest.  
34 Sad-men of heart will speak as I: and the wise person that hears me.  
35. job doth speak without knowledge: and his speeches are without skill.  
36. O my father 
* Elihu in gesture looking to heaven, by o father, meant the rest: as Abraham S. of Peritzol expoundeth the words at large.  which art in heaven, let job be tried 
† thoroughly.  unto victory: for answers of sorrowful wicked.  
37 For he adds trespass to his sin: he maketh a noise amongst us: and against the omnipotent, he doth multiply his talking.   

CHAP. XXXV.  
ELihu spoke moreover and said:  
2. Hast thou counted this for judgement? Thou saidst, I am more just than the Omnipotent.  
3 So thou saidst, what good will it do thee: what gain I cleansed from my sin?  
4 I will answer thee in speeches: and also thy fellows with thee.  
5. Consider and see the heavens, and mark the skies height above thee:  
6 If thou hast sinned, what canst thou work for him: & 
Chap. 7. 20 Thy sins punishment profiteth God, or thee. But it is nothing to God: therefore it is for thy use, and men's: as also thy justice.  thy trespass be much, what canst thou do to him?  
7 If thou be just, what givest thou him: or what will he take from thy hand?  
8 Thy ill may touch one like thyself, and thy justice a son of Adam.  
9 For violence th'oppressed complain: 
‘* Afflicted godless cry, and God heareth not: less him who saith God is his enemy. Ch. 19  cry out for the violents arm.  
10 But none say, where is the Puissant: 
* The mystery of the Trinity.  my MAKERS (the Eternal Trinity,) who stirreth to praise on the night.  
11 Who doth 
“ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉  teach us more than the beasts of the earth: and wiseth us above the fowls of the heaven.  
12 There they cry, but he answers not: concerning the wrong-doers pride.  
13 So, 
† As God heareth not the faithless: he will not hear the despiseus.  bad, th'Omnipotent will not hear: and th'almighty regards it not.  
14 So when thou sayst, thou wilt not mark it: judge thee afore him, and wait for him.  
15 And now for missing, his anger doth visit: because job knoweth not this great plenty.  
16 But doth open his mouth in vain: without knowledge doth use much speech.   

Chap. XXXVI.  
Again Elihu held on and said:  
2. 
* Wait.  Forbear me a little, and I will show the● that I have yet speeches of God:  
3 I will utter my knowledge 
† from the eternal nature of God: etc.  from far: and to him that wrought me give justice.  
4 Truly my words shall not be lies: for him that 
“ Ramban.  tendereth thee sound.  
5 Mark, the Omnipotent is mighty, no despiser, mighty, the strength of heart:  
6 He saveth not 
* Ps. 55. 23 & 104. 35.  the wickeds life: but yieldeth 
† Right is defence & mercy; in speech from God to the humble. as Act. 17.  right unto the 
*‘ The poor in spirit. Mat. 5. 3.  poor.  
7 He witholdeth not his eyes from the just, and placeth them with Kings in throne: 
Ԡ They shallbe made fit for light with the living with the angels of God his servants: in their degree and be placed for ever in honour: and be high in honour and dignity. So, ye shall sit upon 12. thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. Mat. 19 28.  that they are exalted for ever.  
8. And if they be bound in chains: and be caught i● cords of anguish:  
9 Then he will tell them of their work: and that their trespasses reigned.  
10. He will open their ears to correction: and bid that they return from naughtŷnes:  
11 And if they hear & do serve him: they shall spend their days in good, and their years in pleasures:  
12 But if they will not hear: they shall pass on the spear: and yield the ghost without knowledge.  
13 But 
* So in the Lxx & in the N. T. And is often used, for profane.  hypocrites in heart store wrath: they cry not ● when he corrects them.  
14. Their soul shall die in their youth: and their life with fornicators.  
15. He 
† Chalatz, & lachatzes, two contraries: save, undo, are sweetly used of Elihu.  saveth poor in their anguish: and openeth their ear † in oppression.  
16. Which 
* God once made thee wealthy & would again.  hath turned thee from distress mouth: to largeness where is no straightness: and that which was laid upon thy table was full of fatness.  
17 As thou hast fulfilled the sentence of wicked, sentence and judgement have laid hold.  
18 Since ire is come, look he turn thee not off by stripes: and great ransom 
†‘ from being cast of.  help not away.  
19 Will he esteem thy 
*‘ Whereof thou spakest ch. 29.  nobleness: no gold nor any other thing 
† If now thou despise repentance: be sure thou shalt be utterly cast off.  should be able to give sound strength.  
20. Breath not 
“ Desire not death, the common passage of all men: as thou hast done, ch. 6. and 7.  unto that night: for people's passage to their place.  
21 Beware 
†‘ Ch. 7.  thou look not to sorrow, to choose that: for thy affliction.  
22. Mark, 
* God can exalt thee: and knoweth how by thy anguish to teach thee means to all goodness.  the Omnipotent sets up: by his strength: who can teach as he?  
23. Who gave him chargeover his ways: who can say, thou workest evil.  
24 Remember to magnify his work: which the sons of Enosh 
“ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Behold: Ramban: praise in Psalms and songs. Beholding fully a good thing, and praising it go together.  behold.  
25. All 
† Of Adam and Enosh all men are called so: Adam in the tongue of them that knew Moses: and Enosh, the faithless east Dan. 2, 10. calleth men: Jiran slate Adam earthly in respect of God: and Enosh sorrowful: but now to distinguish from beasts man's knowledge, neither term would serve: but the Hebrew best cometh in.  of Adam see it: they † of Enosh behold a far off.  
26. Lo, the Omnipotentis great: but we cannot fully know that: nor find the number of his years.  
27. He withdraws dropping of waters: which makes rain pure through his 
* 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cloud, and vapour, But Ghab and Ghanan be also clouds, therefore I am forced to use a new school term.  meteors:  
28 Which 
“ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the welkin, sky, air, 1 Thes. 4. 17.  the air poureth, causeth to flow on 
†‘ Mat. 5. 45.  many Adam's sons.  
29. So if one mark his clouds 
* Diver sities.  spreadinges, the much roaring of his 
†‘ The roaring of winds and clouds in the air: purging it. Psal. 18. 12.  cabin.  
30 Lo, he spreads 
† Hot sun makes great rain upon the earth: upon which the sea standeth  his light upon it: and covereth 
* The earth.  the roots of the sea.  
31. When by them he will 
†‘ Help etc.  judge people: and give meat in abundant plenty.  
32. By 
*‘ Clouds. He causeth cloudy weather.  hands he covereth the light: and chargeth it as man doth pray.  
33 Declaring his favour towards him, the cattle, & also plants.   

CHAP. XXXVII.  
ALso at this mine heart quaketh: and skippeth out of his place.  
2. Hearken well to the noise of his voice: and to the sound that cometh from his mouth.  
3 He directeth it under the whole heaven: and his light unto the wings of the earth.  
4 After the light roareth a voice: He thundereth with 
The lightning cometh first to our sense.  the voice of his Majesty: He will not have it to be behind, when his voice is to be heard.  
5 The Omnipotent thundereth wonderfully by his voice: he doth great things which we cannot know.  
6 For, to the snow he saith, be upon the earth; or to showers of rain: then showers of much great rain come.  
7 That sealeth up the hand of Adam's son, to peruse what all his workmen may 
* According as rain cometh in dry countries: the first rain, they apply their tillage. As in Egypt, as Nilus floweth.  do.  
8 Then the beasts go into their dens: and keep in their lodgings.  
9 A tempest cometh from his chamber, and cold from 
† The scatterers of clouds.  the fair-weather winds  
10 By the breath of the Omnipotent he giveth ice: & the breadth of the waters are made hard.  
So by clearness he wearieth thick-vapours: he scattereth the clouds by his light.  
12 And for varieties, he turneth himself in his wise counsels, for their operation, for whatsoever he commandeth them, in the face of the world, on the earth.  
13. Whether for a scourge, or for the earth, or for mercy, he doth cause it to come.  
14. Give ear unto this o job, stand still, and consider the wondrous works of the Omnipotent.  
15 Dost thou know when the Puissant disposeth of them, how the light of his cloud doth shine.  
16. Dost thou know the poising of his thick-vapours: the miracles of the perfect in all knowledge.  
17. How thy clothes are warm, (when the land is still) 
Thick clouds with suns heat in south to Arabia & all more North, without wind, in still air, give a parching heat.  from the south.  
18. Couldst thou make a firmament with him of the air, settled as glass molten.  
19 Teach us what we should say unto him, we cannot reason for darkness.  
20 Shall it be recorded unto him when I speak: would any plead when he should be undone?  
21. And now men cannot look upon the light, when it is bright in the air: when a wind passeth and cleareth it.  
22. Through the North a golden cometh: but a terrible glory is in the Puissant.  
23. The almighty, whom we cannot find out, he is huge of strength: but 
† Judgement in God, for the lowly, is defence against Satan (as in the book of judges, and Act. 17. from Psal. 76. 8, 9 and 89. 14. and 97. 2. and 103. 6.) and justice is mercy. And such is God to sad Enosh: till he will be a rebel Nemrod.  of judgement and greatness of justice he would not afflict.  
24 Therefore sad-men do fear him. He respecteth no wise in heart.   

CHAP. XXXVIII.  
THen answered the Eternal unto job, out of the whirlwind, and said.  
2 What 
* 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  a man is this, that darkeneth 
“ God's providence.  counsel by words void of knowledge.  
3. Gird now thy loins like a man, and I will question with thee: & let me see thy skill.  
4. Where wast thou, when I laid the foundation of the 
Of the Earth.  earth, tell if thou 
† This phrase holy Daniel hath ch. 2. 21. in opening the Image: callnig the hearer to this speech of the Eternal.  know understanding.  
5. Who set her measures? for thou wilt be skilful: or who hath stretched the line upon it?  
6. Whereupon are her foundations sunk-fast? or who hath cast her corner stone?  
7. When the 
“ the angels. So Christ is Psa. 22. the morning star: & Rev. 2. & 22. & so Kimchi expounds Ps. 22. The Angels were made at the first: Ramban: and Basil: The lesser, Caesariensis, etc.  morning stars rejoiced together: and all the sons of God shouted.  
8 When he shut up 
* Of the Sea.  the sea with doors, when it gushed out coming from the womb.  
9 When I set a cloud his garment: and obscurity his swadling-band.  
10. And broke the earth for it by my decree: and set bar and doors.  
11 And said, Hitherto thou shalt come, but shalt go no further: and here shallbe an end for the pride of thy waves.  
12 Hast thou since thy days given the morning his charge? and hast taught the dawning his place?  
13. To hold the wings of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it.  
14 That it should be made divers as clay to the pictured: and 
',' Herbs and all plants.  things stand upon it as a garment:  
15. That the wicked should be restrained of their light: and the arm lift up should be broken.  
16. Camest thou ever to the springs of the sea, or hast thou walked in the border of the deep?  
17. Have the gates of 
† The bottom of the sea which seemeth left of God, as a dead place: as Ch. 28.  death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the gates of the shadow of death?  
18 Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? tell if thou knowest it all.  
19 Where is the way that light dwelleth? & where 
Of light & darkness.  is the place of darkness?  
20. That thou mayst take it into his border, & know the paths of his house.  
21. Didst 
* If thou know not thy own cause, others of the beginning overreach thee.  thou know, that then thou wast to be born: & the number of thy days to be many.  
22 Hast thou come 
† Of Snow. hail.  to the storehouse of snow? or hast thou seen the storehouse of hail?  
23. Which I spare unto the time of distress: against the day of battle and war?  
24. By what way is 
* Lightning Ch. 37. 2.  light parted: and the eastwind scatterreth itself over the earth?  
25 Who divided a channel for the streams, and a way for the lightning of thunder?  
26. To rain upon the earth where no man is: upon the desert, where none of Adam dwelleth.  
27 To satisfy the waist and vast-ground: and to cause the bud of herb to spring fourth.  
28 Hath the rain a father, or who begat the misling 
Raine. Dew. Ice. Frost.  of due?  
29. From whose womb came the Ice: and who begat the frost of heaven?  
30 That the waters hide themselves like a stone: and the face of the deep is fastened.  
31 Canst thou bind the delicacies of Pleyades, or lose 
Stars.  the bands of Orion?  
32 Canst thou bring forth 
† The far stars in the South.  Mazaroth in due season: canst thou lead Arcturus and her children?  
33 Dost thou know the rules of heaven, or canst thou set his force upon earth?  
34 Canst thou lift up thy voice unto the clouds: that abundance of water cover thee?  
35. Canst thou send forth the lightnings, that they go, and say to thee, here we are.  
36. Who hath set wisdom in the reins, or who hath 
Of man.  given the heart understanding?  
37 Who could make the air 
Ԡ Aben Ezra, & Ramban.  Saphirlike by wisdom: 
Clouds.  or distill the barrels of the heavens?  
38. Sprinkling the dust with this sprinkling, that the clods cleave together?   

Chap. XXXIX.  
CAnst thou hunt pray for the hardy-Lion: or satisfy 
The Lyon.  the herd of Lion's whelps?  
2 When they couch in their lodge, and tarry in their covert to lie in wait.  
3 Who could prepare for the raven his food: when his 
Raven. Ps. 147. 9  young ones cry unto the Omnipotent: 
* The dams.  they wandering without meat.  
4. Canst thou know the time when the wild goats bring forth young: canst thou mark when hinds calve? 
Wild goat. Hart.   
5. Canst thou number the months that they must fulfil? Canst thou know the time when they bring forth young?  
6. They lie down, they calve their young ones, & pass their travel.  
7. Their young ones wax strong: they grow in the fields: they go forth, and return not unto them.  
8. Who set the wild-asse at liberty: or who loosed the 
Wild ass.  bands of that 
† An other name of the strong wild ass.  Arad?  
9 Even I, who made the plain wilderness his house: & the barren land his dwelling.  
10. He scorneth the multitude of the city: and will not hear the cry of the driver.  
11 Chosen places in the mountains are his pasture: & he will seek after every green herb.  
12. Will the unicorn do thee service: or will he abide 
Unicorn.  by thy crib?  
13. Canst thou bind the unicorn for the furrow, by his cords: will he plough the valley after thee?  
14. Mayst thou trust him, because his strength is great: or leave thy labour unto him?  
15 Mayst thou believe him, that he will bring home thy corn: or gather it unto thy barn?  
16 Couldst thou give the proud wing to the peacock: 
Peacock. Stork. Ostrich.  or feather to the stork, and ostrich?  
17. Which leaveth her eggs in the ground, and warmeth them in the dust:  
18. And forgetteth how a foot may dash them: & the beasts of the field may tread upon them.  
19 So hard she is to her own young ones: as though they were not hers: & had laboured in vain without fear.  
20. Because the Puissant hath denied her wisdom: & not given her understanding.  
21. At what time it mounteth on high: she scorns the horse and his rider.  
22. Canst thou give to the horse courage? canst thou 
Horse.  clothe his neck with thundering?  
23. Canst thou make him quake as a locust: or his proud snurting with terror?  
24. His feet will dig in the plain ground: he rejoiceth in his strongnes: he will go fourth to meet the harness.  
25. He mocks terror, and shrinketh not: neither starteth back from the sword:  
26. Though the quiver rattle upon him: with bright blade, with spear, with javelin.  
27 With shaking & stirring he beateth upon the earth: & will not stand still at the voice of the trumpet.  
28. Of the trumpet he will say, Heah, and from far will smell the battle, the thunder and shout of princes.  
29. Doth the Hawk flee from thy wisdom, spreading 
Hawk. Eagle.  the wings toward the south?  
30. Mounts the Eagle on high by thy mouth: or doth it make the nest on high?  
31. He dwelleth and lodgeth on a rock: in the edge of a rock, and a fortress.  
32. Thence he searcheth meat, his eyes will see far off.  
33. His young 
† Eb. jeghaleghu: a word made here to show choking by greedy sucking.  near choke swallowing blood: and 
“ Math. 24. 28.  where carcases be, resort they.   

CHAP. XL.  
MOreover the Eternal spoke to job, and said:  
2. Who is the pleader that will check the Omnipotent? 
Rom. 9 20.  let the reprover of the puissant speak to any on● of these things.  
3. Then job answered the Eternal, and said:  
4. Lo, I am vile, what shall I answer thee: I will lay my hand on my mouth.  
5. Once I spoke, but I will not answer: or twice, but 〈…〉 will no more.  
6. Then the Eternal answered job out of the whir●● wind, and said:  
7. Gird now thy loins like a man, and I will question with thee, and let me see thy skill.  
8. Wilt thou disannul my judgement, condemn m● that thou mayest be just?  
Or hast thou an arm as the Omnipotent? canst tho● thunder with voice as he?  
10. Deck thee now with gayness and height: & put o● glory and honour.  
11. Cast abroad wrath of thine anger: & behold ec 〈…〉 proud, and humble him.  
12. Behold each proud, make him bow down: be 〈…〉 wicked to dust as they stand.  
13 Hide them in the dust together: bind their faces i● the hid place.  
14 And then I will confess to thee, that thy right hand can save thee.  
15 
† If thou canst not deal with stout men: mark the beast Elephant how he is stronger than thou 〈◊〉 being without man's reason: and without trains can not be taken.  Behold now Behemoth, which I have made wit● 
Of the Elephant.  thee: he eateth grass as an ox:  
16. Behold now his strength is in his loins: and his power in the navel of his belly.  
17. He will make his rail stand like a Cedar: the sinews of his stones are plaited in and out as branches.  
18. His bones be as bars of steel: his hard-partes as staves of iron.  
19 He is the chief of the Omnipotents ways: HE that ●ade him, dare join his sword.  
20. The mountains do bring him fodder: where all ●he field beasts play boldly.  
21 He resteth him in the shadow: in the covert of reed and fens:  
22. Shade-places cover him with their shade: the rivers willows cover him.  
23 Lo, he robs a river, that it hast not: he durst think ●hat Iorden would gush into his mouth.  
24. Can men take him before his eyes: to pierce his nose with many snares?   

CHAP XLI.  
CAnst thou draw Liujathan with an hook: or deep 
Of the Whale.  a cord into his tongue?  
2 Canst thou put a rush into his nose: or bore his ●aw through with a thorn?  
3. Will he make much praying to thee: or speak unto thee tenderly?  
4. Will he make a covenant with thee: that thou take him a servant for ever?  
5. Wilt thou play with him as with a bird: wilt thou ●ye him for thy yonge-girles?  
6. Will companies make cheer of him? shall he be parted to merchants?  
7. Wilt thou fill his skin with sharp-hookes: and his head with fisher's angles?  
8 Lay thine hand upon him: look for war: do it no more.  
9 When hope of him proveth false: yea at his very sight one would be cast down.  
10. None is so hardy that dare stir him: and than who can stand before me?  
11. Who gave me any thing first, that I may pay it to 
Rom. 11. 3●.  him again? whatsoever is under the heaven is mine.  
12. I will not keep silence, concerning his members: and speech of strength, and grace of his frame.  
13 Who can uncover the face of his garment? who can 
The sea is his garment: who can take that from him, and bring him to land?  come with his 
† To draw him to land.  double bridle?  
14. Who dare open the 
* His jaws  doors of his face? Terror is about his teeth.  
15 The strong 
“ Scales. They are as a shield, all sealed together: as one skin.  shields have pride: he is closed with a straight seal.  
16 One toucheth an other so near, that no wind can come betwixt them.  
17 Ec● doth cleave unto his fellow, hold one the other▪ and cannot be sundered.  
18. His neising maketh a light shine: and his eyes are like the 
† huge great.  eyelids of the morning.  
19 Out of his mouth do lamps proceed: and sparks of fire leap of themselves.  
20. From his nostrils issueth a smoke: as a pans or cauldrons seething.  
21 His breath would set coals on fire: & a flame issueth from his mouth.  
22. In his neck doth strength always lodge: and before him 
† He hath no care; meeting a●y with fish to feed upon: that his taking of thought is a gladness. Abr. Ben. Peritzol.  danceth carefulness.  
23 The pieces of his flesh cleave fast, hard in him, that none can be moved.  
24. His heart is so hard as a stone: so hard as the neither millstone.  
25 At his statelynes the mighty fear: 
* Ab. been Peritzol.  & of shivering purge themselves.  
26. The sword of one that doth strike him, spear, dart, and javelin, will not fasten.  
27. He holds iron as straw: and steel as rotten wood.  
28. The 
“ arrow.  bows child drives him not away: the sling stones turn as chaff to him.  
29. The axes are counted as chaff: and he will laugh at shaking pikes.  
30. His underneath-places be as sharp shears: He spreads the pricking in the mire.  
31 He makes the deep boil as a pot: sets the sea as a spicers kettle.  
32 After him he makes the way lighten: and thinks the sea to be hoary.  
33 His like are not upon the land, which do deal without 
Though the land by nature should breed stronger things than the sea: yet God showeth that his power▪ not nature, ruleth all, & bred al.  fear.  
34 He despiseth all lofty things: He is King over all the wild kind.   

Chap. XLII.  
THen job answered the Eternal, and said:  
2. I know thou canst do all things, and no wisdom was kept from thee. 
Thou hast made all things in perfect wisdom: to show thy Eternal power and godhead.   
3. What a man hath this been, who hides counsel without knowledge? Therefore I tell, that I had not understanding: wonders are above me: such I know not.  
4 Oh hear me, when I do speak: I will make petition unto thee, & teach thou me.  
5 By ear hearing I heard of thee: but now mine eye hath seen thee.  
6. Therefore I loath myself: and I will repent in dust & ashes.  
7. Now after the Eternal had spoken these words unto job, the Eternal said to Eliphaz the Themanite, I am displeased with thee, and thy two friends: for ye have no● spoken of me the right, as my servant job.  
8 But now take to you seven oxen & seven rams: and go to my servant job: and offer a burnt offering for yourselves: and my servant job shall pray for you. For certainly I will accept his person, that I punish not your foolishness: where ye have not spoken the right of me, as my servant job.  
9 So went they, Eliphaz the Themanite, and Bildad the Shuchite, Sophar the Naamathite, and did as the Eternal spoke unto them: and the Eternal accepted the person of job.  
10 And the Eternal restored that which had been taken from job, when he had prayed for his friends: and the Eternal increased all that job had to double.  
11 Than came to him all his brethren and all his sisters, and all that had been of his acquaintance afore: & did eat bread with him in his house: and solaced him, and comforted him, for all the harm which the Eternal had brought upon him. And they gave him each, one lamb and one ear-ring of gold.  
12. So the Eternal blessed the end of job, more than his beginning: and he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand asses.  
13. And he had seven sons, and three daughters.  
14 And he called the name of the first jemimah, and the name of the second Cassia, & the name of the third, Keren-Happue.  
15. And no womankind was found so fair as the daughters of job in all the land: And their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.  
16. And job lived after this, an hundred & forty years: and saw his children, & his children's children, four generations.  
17. And job died aged, and full of days.   

The Argument of the book of job.  
IOb tried of God with many and heavy sorrow 〈…〉 loss of all his cattle, children, health, is further tried of his wife & friends. She greveth him with mocking and scolding, as though all his religion was but hypocrisy; They from God his majesti 〈…〉 and man's corruption, and jobs disturbed speac 〈…〉 would prove that either job was an evil doer; or an hypocrites otherwise the just God would never afflict him so grevously. job defendeth his speeches, God's justice & his own: & showeth th' 〈…〉 commonly the godly are in this life more afflicted than the wicked: and blameth his friends of impiety in handling God's cause unjustly, & in false accusing of him. At last, Elihu maketh a 〈…〉 dost agreement: & blameth both: & teacheth job of God's highness by his works, showing his eternal power and godhead: that bas 〈…〉 & blind man should not wish to plead with him. At the last, God confirmeth the same doctrine, by examples from all his works▪ & driveth job first to silence: then to confession and repentance▪ and teacheth his friends reconciliation: and restoreth job to health: and new children, & double wealth.  

THE ARGUMENTS of each Chapter.  

Chap. 1.  
job in the land of Uz, Aus in old pronouncing, whence Ausitae, in Ptol. table 4. where Thema, Saba, Buz, & Madian, and Chaldaea, and Minnaej be near; where Arabia the stony held Tharah's house, ismael's, ketura's, ●eare Esawes; job being Godly is tried by Satan going about like a roaring Lion and accusing the godly, by loss of cattles and children: and still continueth in sincerity.   

Chap. II.  
jobs body is afflicted by Satan with all griefs: he is mocked of his wife: visited of his friends, of Esaw, Ketura, Buz.   

Chap. III.  
job wisheth he never had been borne, in merveilous vehemency of speeches: and lastly that still he feared, but now found, extreme vexation.   

Chap. IU.  
Eliphaz upon jobs chiding with God, Ch. 3. 19 exhorteth him to patience: and to consider God's holiness: before whom the angels be not perfect: & men in this earthly tabernacle of sorrow, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of one days life: and perish almost all by ignorance of the Lord, whom to know they regard not.   

Chap. V.  
No holy would defend job: whose punishment ariseth from his sin: and to God he should seek: and so find an happier state than his first.   

Chap. VI  
job defendeth his speeches, Ch. 3. that they were nothing to his pangs: and as the wild ass would not bray nor ox low at fodder: so would not he have done: & showeth that he wisheth death: and cannot hope to live: and look for prosperity, by repentance: and hath integrity to defend himself, against his friends; in prosperity, needles; in distress, amazed: and requireth disputation, against his speech, Chap. 3.   

Chap. VII.  
All men's time is short, and they naturally groan for a passage hence: and flit like a 
* Chap. 9  Post, Pinnace, or Eagle to prey. One in pangs endless should desire death: as job did, Ch. 3. and now desireth pardon of trespass, & passage away.   

Chap. VIII.  
Bildad holdeth jobs words of pleading innocency but as a strong blast: that seemed to make God unrighteous: who, as he said, killed not his children, but for their sin: and wisheth job repentance, so he should be happier than ever he was. Ancient stories tell, that as sedges can not grow without moisture, so man cannot without moisture of just life: But his house is made a spider's web: or a tree over luxurious in branches, to provoke the Lord of the soil to root him out: as jobs children in their feasting by course. But seeking to God would bring prosperity.   

Chap. IX.  
job acknowledgeth God's justice, and himself a sinner: 〈…〉 God is only wise and mighty. He maketh seas where ●ountaines were: he maketh earthquakes: cloudy, fair, and calm weather: the stars order show his wisdom: calling us to consider how his works are unsearchable: in election and rejection: in punishing or sparing: when he rob job by Sheba & Chaldy, none could stay him: or plead with him. job, if he were just, would not plead: but crave mercy: though for civil carriage, he knoweth no gross trespass. But this is the sum: God's wrath in this world is upon just and unjust. But commonly the wicked rule countries: who kill them that would do justice: And jobs life fled away: full of heavy cares: and now can hope for no quietness: nor dare plead: for God would find him loath some. But wisheth leave out of grief to plead with God: because he knoweth not himself worthy of so heavy punishments.   

Chap. X.  
job humbly pleadeth with God of his afflictions; and of wicked men's prosperity: and acknowledgeth God's old mercy: with petition to have an end of this present sorrow.   

Chap. XI.  
Zophar blameth job for long vehement speech, for lying and for checking Eliphaz and Bildad: and for justifying of himself: deserving double punishment by God's justice. The height the depth the length the breadth, of whose counsel, none can see. (From this speech, S. Paul wisheth God's mercy in Christ known to us. Ephe. 3. 18. 19) But here punishment from justice doth Zophar plead: by which God would wise Adam's sons being naturally dull as beasts. But job by repentance may come to joy, otherwise while he continueth in wickedness, his hope can be but pangs of soul.   

Chap. XII.  
job taketh up all his three friends at once, for arrogancy in giving counsel: and challengeth equal skill: and pleadeth upon their speech, that the just is a mock, in affliction, to the wealthy: And that the God of this world hath from the true God power, to prosper the wicked. Beasts & fowls, plants and fish, show God rules all: and so from him wicked rule: & no repentance of godly can find this world's prosperity.   

Chap. XIII.  
job repeateth the checking of his friends: as not superiors to him in wisdom: and calleth them liars: and foolish physicians, and foolish pleaders for God: and trusteth that if God would give him leave to plead without his pangs, he would frame a sufficient narration.   

Chap. XIV.  
job pleadeth of man's common frailty: as a flower: (from him Moses Psal. 90.) and confesseth all unclean: and craveth ease of his pangs, till near death come. A tree dying from by-rootes yieldeth new: but man not so. As waters pass & not return: so he, dead ariseth not: till the heavens and world's end. Rocks of mountains break: and tumble into rivers: which being soft, yet consume them: So would man's hope soft strokes, and consume.   

Chap. XV.  
Eliphaz in this second reply is vehementer then in the first: wherein he blamed job not so, as openly wicked: nor justifying of himself. His long speeches he counteth a wind: and that he saith, perfect & wicked God destroyeth, so all prayer to God he holdeth also destroyed: if God regard all alike. And checketh him as ch. 4. that miserable man would compare with God: before whom the Angels be not perfect. And by old testimonties he would prove, that the wicked be aey full of sorrow.   

Chap. XVI.  
job blameth them for often windy and vehement words: and if they had been in his case he had otherwise solaced them. And he showeth that his sores exceedingly pass punishment of wicked: from deep counsel of God.   

Chap. XVII.  
job continueth blame of his friends mockages: how God hath hid their heart from understanding: and wisheth wiser pleaders: where God will not give such honour: and showeth himself being just and in misery, an example for martyrs not to shrink, Apoc. 22. And blameth their smooth words how repentance can help him that is already as death.   

Chap. XVIII.  
Bildad the second time blameth jobs much speech in defence of himself: and in sending the disputers to learn of beasts, Ch. 12. And against jobs speech there, he giveth this rule general, that the wicked man is full of sorrow, and nippeth job, as one that knew not God.   

Chap. XIX.  
After five speeches of jobs, and so many of his fellows, tedious and teaching nothing, as he wished, Chap. 6. he wisheth better argument than his afflictions to prove him one that knew not God: and now, seeing they have harped still upon the same string, he desires them to leave him rest in his error: and showeth his punishments extraordinary, and that he is not godless, but knoweth Christ his incarnation and resurrection, the cause of ours to see God in Christ: and he blameth his friends of badness.   

Chap. XX.  
Zophar in his second reply chafeth that he was counted bad, v. 3. and could not chose but reply that the wicked ever since Adam stood upon the earth wicked were to themselves and children, highly plagued.   

Chap XXI.  
job replieth how he desireth not to complain to man's persuasion: but hath occasion of sighing: and therefore must have leave to sigh: and bids them merveil at his case: & not speak as of an ordinary, that speech of repentance might help him. And to confute Zophar, he replieth, that wicked and their issue commonly prosper. Or if issue doth not: the wicked little careth but for himself. And in this sort their counsel is in vain.   

Chap. XXII.  
Eliphaz now the third time cometh near job: that he should not look for familiarity with God: to think that he would regard his teaching: or joy that he pleaded justice: or punish him for being religious. And chargeth him of open trespass: that thereupon punishment cometh: as generally upon all wicked in noah's flood: to all the old world: and biddeth him in the world now, where yet fire consumeth not the wicked remnant, seek unto God: and he shall have a golden life: and as just Noah save the unjust.   

Chap. XXIII.  
job grieved that his friends complain of his desire to plead with God; and blame his carriage: still standeth to his defence: and lamenteth that he cannot: and merveileth that he neither died quickly, nor hath ease of calamity.   

Chap. XXIIII.  
God hideth his judgements: that even Prophets cannot see them. Wicked often prosper: often never have good day.   

Chap. XXV.  
Bildad the third time replieth that the terror of God is high to his very Angels: and thereby peace is on high. And God's light is too bright for man to abide: whereto stars to him be not clear: less sorrowful man.   

Chap. XXVI.  
job mocketh him for telling plain known things: & telleth from the sea bottom and deep earth, the furthest from heaven, God's works: and from the earths set in the mids, and mountains quakes, & clouds not broken, & sea shore not overflowen, & stars beauty, & Liujathans' greatness, that all these pass man's reach: that Bildad's arguments should not hinder job.   

Chap. XXVII.  
job still protesteth his innocency: and that he could not hope of good pleading before God if he were wicked. For the wicked when God entereth into judgement come to horrible ruin. But that is hid from us: how he measureth judgement times.   

Chap. XXVIII.  
God teacheth men to find mines of silver and gold, & to refine it: and to make iron and brass of stone: and to find the limit of all hid things: and precious stones deeply hid: and how of small springs deep rivers flow: and how the earth above beareth meat, Brimston and Saphir underneath: where fowls and wild beasts could see nothing: so he changeth rocks at the root: and maketh rivers: and bringeth every precious thing to light.  
But God's wisdom for dealing with men cannot be foun 〈…〉 out among the living here: the deep sea expresseth it n 〈…〉 no metals nor precious stones match it: the living on t 〈…〉 earth and fowls express it not: though they show mu 〈…〉 of God's providence. The earth in the sea bottom, when live things be not, and which seemeth as cast off, the 〈…〉 have not similitudes of this: but God only: who in h〈…〉 meteors plainly showeth his wisdom unsearchable: and said to Adam, Mark, the fear of Adonaj is wisdom, and to flee from evil is understanding.   

Chap. XXIX.  
job wisheth his former happiness restored: and showeth all his duties to God and men.   

Chap. XXX.  
But now the vilest violate job, flowing on him as rive 〈…〉 breaking the stank: and God's hand hath made him miserable.   

Chap. XXXI.  
To all sorts he showed goodness: maids, wife, man 〈…〉 servants, widows, naked, orphans: worshipped no stars▪ nor gold, Ephe. 5. 5. loved his enemy, was hospital, confessed his imperfections, paid for the land he tilled: and wisheth curse if this were not so.   

Chap. XXXII.  
Elihu seeing job silent and his three friends: was offended at jobs comparing in justice to plead with God; and with his friends for concluding that job was wicked, because God afflicted him: showeth how God's spirit biddeth him speak without respect of person.   

Chap. XXXIII.  
He replieth to particular words of jobs, wishing to dispute with God as man doth with man. He will speak right: ● creature that job may abide. This he reproveth: vers. 9 I am pure without sin: Ch. 9 21. & 16. 17. & 29. 14. And ●. 10. He picketh quarrels with me: and holdeth me as his enemy. Ch. 14. 13. & 13. 24. & 19 11. And v. 11. He layeth my feet ●n the stocks: and watcheth all my ways, Ch. 13. 27. To this ●e saith: God is too great for man to call to account for all his ways. God doth by visions and sickness warn men: which warning if they take, they are restored. And he asketh job what he can say to this, and job is silent.   

Chap. XXXIV.  
Elihu, upon jobs silence repeateth his speeches: and showeth their absurdities. job said, I am just, and God hath kept away justice from me: should I lie against mine own cause: ●y plague is deadly without my sin: Ch. 13. 18, & 23. 10. & 27. 2. & 6. 4. God's just nature which rewardeth every man according to his doing, will not abide this: who might as in noah's flood call all to judgement at once. And ●f God were not just, how could he govern the world? (Gen. 18. Rom. 3.) Now he still destroyeth the froward, and the humble penitent he restoreth: and he prayeth God to testify that, by his own judgement.   

Chap. XXXV.  
jobs justice or sin cannot reach to help or hurt to God: the height of the heavens might teach that. Oppressed cry: but faithless in vain: more, proud contemners, who said, God will not regard: now because neither God's justice upon all, nor his patience is regarded, God is angry with job.   

Chap. XXXVI.  
Elihu showeth job of God's power & tendering of his creature, of his judgements, and mercies: and biddeth job apply himself accordingly, considering God's judgement, Political and Physical, in the meteors.   

Chap. XXXVII.  
Thunder, lightning, snow, rain, ice, fair weather show power and mercy towards man: that he afflicteth not, but provoked: that the world may be governed i● order.   

Chap. XXXVIII.  
God showeth jobs shortness in wisdom, to plead i● God's causes: by the earth, how it stands, which things the Angels the first with the heavens admired: by the sea how the shores keep it in: by night and day, how they have limits: by the bottom of the sea, and parts that see● cast off: by snow and hail, for God's judgements: by lightning and great rain; by lesser, and dew; by ice, and frost● by the stars for all seasons, by their operation upon the earth: by planting wisdom in man's soul: by making the clouds saphirlike: by calling the rain to fall out of them, to clod the earth. That which may be known of God, his eternal power and Godhead, wisdom may hence see to be unsearchable.   

Chap. XXXIX.  
The Beasts and fowls on the earth and air, call job to see weakness of judgement. As how the Lions in the 〈…〉 dens have beasts to come near to be caught: and how the ravens forgetful and foul kinds breed. The will 〈…〉 goat among beasts in the high rocks keep their young fr●● being taken: and hinds hide cunningly their fawns. Th 〈…〉 wild beast, the wild ass, hath also a strange course: And the Unicorn or Indians ass, a stranger. Again in fowls the Peacock hath a proud feather: the Curlew, a flighty: the Ostrich a brave: a brave hath the Ostrich, the dull of understanding: which leaveth her eggs in the sand: not thinking whether beasts tread them: Yet by God's providence they breed, to pass the horse with legs and wing: Also the horse showeth God's power by his boldness in snurting: & digging the ground and desire to fight. Also God's wisdom passeth man's reach, in the hawks change to South and North: and in the eagles wit to nest on the tooth of a rock, and in sharp sight to find prey: (a pattern for the godly to search where Christ may be found. And none but of sharp sight willbe chief guides herein.)   

Chap. XL.  
job not knowing God's counsel in these visible things, should not plead with God for justice. Now for God's power, as Elihu showed it in taming the proud, Ch. 34. 24. etc. so God doth after long patience: to show his power and justice upon vessels of wrath bend to destruction: And who is he that will plead with God: who cannot speak to this.  

Of the Elephant.  
The Elephant showeth God's power: not a devouring beast: but fed with grass like the ox: what strength is in his loins? what force in the navel of his belly? his yard is like the Cedar: the nerves of his stones, like the branches of a tree: his bones and joints as iron & steel: God can tame him, who made him a strong one: and quiet to lie among willows:: and heavy great wight: yet not by force will pierce his snort. And thus the power of God passeth man's reach in a quiet dryland beast.    

Chap. XLI.  
The Whale in the sea showeth that they curse their da● that course him: and Dionysius the Greek Geographer, borne near jobs country, at Teredon on the Persian gulf, remembranceth whales hunting there: and poetically, how they swallowship and all. If none dare meddle with a fish in watery not hard earth breed: who dare compare with God: for jobs afflictions: (or as S. Paul citeth this place: for election, or rejection, Rom. 9 & 11.) who first could give to God: that he should be bound to repay them. job the godliest could not plead: but must stand to God's mercy. All that is under heaven is Gods, & Satan's fall and all are from him, and by him, and for him▪ he praedestined them not: that is, he furthered not their means: but gave infinite arguments of better advisement: but set them to anger: leaving them unsearchably to rebellion.  

Of the Whale.  
A description of the Whale's nature, for a watery creature, to teach all of God's power: (yea and of the God of this world, Satan, by God's just judgement: as the LXX here allude:) 1. An huck will not draw him: 2. a cord cannot be put in his tongue, 3. no rush in his nose, 4. no thorn shall pierce his cheeks. He will not be taken with sharp picks in skin or head: They are deceived who think to take him: and will not twice fight: but curse their day. Who can bring him out of the sea: and take away the waters, the garment that covereth him. Who dare meddle with the jaws of his face with a snaffuld: his teeth be terrible: his scales one continued matter: His snurting maketh a light: his eyes be great, as the mornings: his eyes sends forth, torches, with sparkles of leaping fire: and all terribles of a creature is in him. Man's weapons hurt him not: and he despiseth all, all of the earth: which should be stronger by man's esteem then the sea: as all other fish be weake● then beasts. But God would have his will to rule and overrule his means: that his will might be known the ground of all: who will suffer no pleading for his dealings full of power, and justice, & mercy in Christ: as job told, Chap. 19    

Chap. XLII.  
job repenteth, and his fellows: and sacrifice in Christ pleaseth God: and job is double happy.      

JOB. BROUGHT ON TO FAMILIAR DIALOGUE AND PARAPHRASE FOR EASIER intendment.  
TO WHICH IF ANY REQVIRE FURTHER RESOLUTION, QVAESTIONS UPON THEIR DOUBTS shallBE ADDED.  
By HUGH BROUGHTON.   

Of job brought into dialogue: for our familiar speech.  
THe case of job, that he the godliest in the world should be most afflicted, would not be understood of the children of this world: But that was to teach that the world of souls was the world of reward: as Abraham Isaac & jacob lived here in a peregrination: looking for the heavenly city, which God prepared for them in that part of Haides, Luc. 16. which was the kingdom of heaven, as chrysostom speaketh upon 2 Cor. Hom. 6. Although the outward doctrine of the law had not perfection, God providing somewhat better for us, that they should not have perfection in this world without us: yet for perfect comprehending of Christ, by spirit of prophecy and plenty of grace, they far passed us. In job God would revive Abraham's case: before the law was given: which taught dull Israel, by outward blessings closely after speech of all such, how he would have his tabernacle amongst them, Levit. 26. 10. That when the earthly house of tabernacle should be dissolved, they should have a building from God, not made with hands, everlasting in the heavens. But worldlings, who all as the serpent go upon the belly, would not understand this. Therefore job is a rare example: who in most high calamities, wished to be with God. Profane would scoph this pleading. Therefore God penned the book in such a style as Sadducees & Epicures should not care to understand it. And of myself I will say, that the tongue, in propriety and trop●● and sequels of arguments, hath been hard● to me, than all the rest of the Bible. That he may be softer to others, I have made a translation with great pains and the be● circumspection that I could. Moreover I have brought the disputers speech, in terms hard and short, unto a softer & larger vein: bringing the best examples at large to enlarge sentences. As Targum jerusalemy cited to general sentences particular examples, & sometime later than jobs time, as a Paraphra●● might do: So when I make them Prophets, to speak of latt● times than their own: I speak it as my own Paraphrase. The settling of arguments: to what verse of the former's speech, repliers do speak: that I studied to express clearly: and all har● Phrases. My desire was to have had the Hebrew text joined to the English, with rabbin commentary for their tongue: saving job. 10. where the incarnation and resurrection passeth Iew● modern faith: for the bare tongue, my desire was to force our enemies the Thalmudiques to speak for us: But I could fin● no cunning and ready hebrew printers unless I had gone to Basil. To print the whole Bible in the original and my English, I would have done it: upon allowance & expected recompense. But I might not be at so great charges for one little book. Besides this dialogue: I have before added sundry helps: Short not●● in the Chapters, large Abridgementes and arguments of every chapter, & here a description of the disputers story, how they belong to Abraham's kindred. To a plain book I would not have done so: But for this of unspeakable difficulty it will not be tedious: as the disputers themselves infinitely roll one stone: The rest, all save Elihu: That job is wicked: yet by repentance may be sure of God's grace: and, that still the wicked be punished: and the strangely punished, be so far in wickedness. job as often defendeth his integrity: and that he cannot be ever better than he was: and therefore would gladly know the reason of his affliction. As they often repeat their discourse, so the commenter might. When this is abroad, if my readers think it not plain enough: questions upon difficulties remaining shall come forth, if God will. So I have made two commentaries vpō●poc. one curt, that the hearer may soon see the tenor of the ●ork: the other larger, showing by what mispolicy and mistudy, the City of Quirinus came to be so great. When those books be printed: I would bring in Dialogue some demanding of matters which breed hardness. Dialogues have brevity: and therefore Plato the learned contrived his matters into Dialogues. But now let the reader turn his mind from me, unto job.   

THE SPEECHES IN JOB BROUGHT TO a short sum, showing at which the repliers aim.  

Chap. 3.  
IOb. Lost be the day wherein I was borne: 
job.  I had forty tongues, I could not sufficienth curse it. For before my meat my sighing● come: and my roaring gush like waters. ● had small ease in heart, when Sheba took m● Oxen and asses: no quietness, when Cald●● ans took my Camels: and both killed my men. So whe● fire from heaven brent my sheep: and wind field th● house upon my children. In this I had grief enough. Y●● all this while I blessed God: that gave and took away: But now that I am strooken with boils from the sole of my foo● to the top of my head, I cannot sufficiently curse my days▪ Now I have in my sickness an untolerable vexation.   

Chap: 4. and 5.  
Eliphaz. May I speak my mind? Thou hast comforted many others in sorrow: Thy religion knoweth the right 
Eliphaz.  way of hope in God's mercy: and thou knowest how to make thy ways right, by seeking unto God. v. 6. But no● thou art thyself touched, thou art most unpatient. Rem●ber that no innocent perisheth: But they that reap misery, have ploughed sorrow: and by the blast of God's anger they consume: Mighty tyrants like lions, as Emi●● and Zamzummim are come to nothing: and Ishmael hat● had twelve dukedoms in Cush or Abyssinj, (as Th● ma is one, our neighbour:) and droven out mighty L●ons. And Esaw my ancestor hath broken lion teeth in Seyr: And ye of Ketura the children of the east have droven Cush further South: & have dukedoms: as Madian thy ancestor: & Medan: & Shuach, or Sychaeus, of whom Bildad cometh: and Sheba that took jobs oxen & asses: forgetting the kindred of Abraham: and when we plow sorrow, we reap misery: yea the richest of Abraham's sons: when we play the tyrants: As at this time Israel in Egypt, see Pharaoh kill their children, because none forsake Pharaohs Idols. I will spare to blame job of Tyramny as a lion: though he be Lord chief justice in Aus Land: yet I would desire him to consider man's common corruption, and how the very Angels have not perfection before God: Much less our souls that dwell in this earthly tabernacle: of one days life: 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Greeks: beaten to powder as moths: and all their excellency of learning and eloquence cometh to nothing, and their thoughts perish, when they die: and they perish for ever, unless God be their guide: as the most part of Edom my father leave God: though he pitied some of my father's house. Madian thy ancestor gave goodly names to his sons to teach them godliness, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 darkness: 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dust: 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Enoch dedicate 
Gen. 25. 4.  thyself to God: be a new Enoch: and walk with God: 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 know the father which is in heaven: 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 know God: (I think he is thy father, o job.) The first of these tell we are in darkness, and be but dust: and I had a dream from God, v. 12. etc. which taught me the same that Madians children's names warn them: though many now worship Baal Peor. These matters should humble thee from such invectives against God. 
Chap. V.   
No holy will like of thy dealing: such chase killeth the evil fool. I have seen the evil fool prosper: and ●● children come to nothing: and wild Arabians rob him ●● all. Misery doth not spring from the earth: but from man wickedness, which as sparkles, breaketh out. Therefore ●● would wish thee not to inveigh against God: who is unspeakable in mercy: as his works, specially the rain, in o● dry Arabia showeth. Subtle contemners, as hypocrites and inventors of false religion, he will defeat: that in the● high day prosperity they shall come to nothing, to darkness of night. But the poor he will save from the sword of the strong wild Arabian: from their conspiracy: such as the Caldaeans and Sabeans made to spoil in one day Yea the poor in spirit shall find confidence And it is great token of God's favour to be chastised: for him tha● can seek to God. For as he striketh, he can heal. After six afflictions he can succour thee; after loss of Children of Sheep, of Camels, of Oxen, of asses, of family: after all this he can so deal that harm shall not fasten upon thee. Though thou hast lost thy oxen for tillage, in hunger he can save thee from death: as thy money is not take away: and in war from Sabeanes and Chaldeans: that they make amends for thy Oxen, Camels, and ass. From all conspiring to spoil thou shalt be safe. For stony hearted shallbe at peace with thee: and the wild savage Arabians. Thou shalt be wealthy, and have many children: and live long, notwithstanding this great sickne● I have seen the like: and from things past can judge wh● will be to come.   

Chap. 6. and 7.  
job. Am I evil that so complain (through Ch. 3.) w●●● 
job.  such streams of grievous speeches? Oh that my calamiti●●vere weighed: & my complaint: so my words should be seen to come short. For when the arrows of the almighty are in me, and there venom drinketh up my spirit, & the terrors of the puissant camp against me; should I not wish the day of my birth never to have been: or that darkness and shadow of death should stain it: and cloudiness dwell upon it: and swartnes of day make it terrible? Do you think that I would thus complain without just occasion. A beast wild or tame would not do so. Doth the wild ass bray at the grass: or the ox low at his fodder: when they want nothing? Your speech is unsavoury, without salt of reason: and hath no more taste than the white of the yolk: and complaining in grief, is as salt to the unsavoury white of an egg.  Strangulat inclusus dolour, atque cor aestuat intus: Cogitur & vires multiplicare suas. 
I would have loathed to touch in an other, such sores as now are in my flesh. Therefore I cursed the day and night of my birth and conception. And now again, I say: o that God would make an end of me: Though I parch in pain, I should find comfort: if I knew I should soon die. I am sure I shall go to Eternal joy: for I kept not close the words of the most holy: but as my father Abraham, I showed my hope of the world to come. Now where Eliphaz saith, I shall come in lusty old age to the grave: what hope can I have that way: or of what sort can my end be: that I should prolong my life? Am I of stone or of steel, to abide long in this parching: But where ye would persuade me, that for Lion-like tyranny I am punished, or for sowing sorrows to reap misery, and to have sorrows for coals of sin, whose sparkles flee out up: I have my defence against such: whose mercy is molten towards the neighbour: and he leaveth the fear of the ALMIGHTY. My brethren are like the rivers of our Arabia, which i● winter are black by Ice, and deep, when men want not water: but when heat cometh, be dried up and come to nothing. The passengers of Thema, the Ismaelites our neighbours, and of Sheba, that rob me of my oxen, (wh●●● I name to teach posterity of what Uz land I am, not o● Edom's, but of Nachors, as the Chaldeans are on the ea●● neat:) these men come for water, and find none: and art ashamed of their hope: So ye are become like that, come to nothing: ye see parching affliction and ye are at your wits end. You need not to fear: I request no money help, to ransom me from some wild Arabians, or any strong hand: but touching my complaint, Ch. 3. let me understand wherein I have erred: Nay right will never be reproved: and what can ye sound blame? You think to reprove words, that I curse my night of conception & day of birth. And whereas I am past hope for this world, and would joy for the grave, ye think my words to be but a● wind: ye lay a snare to overthrow me: while ye would persuade me not to stick to my former integrity. Be of an other mind: object no wickedness: Be thou my soul of an other mind still. Is there any wickedness in my tongue: for my vehement complaint, Ch. 3. Cannot my palate declare all kind of sorrows: more than the boils which you see?  
All men by nature's course have an end of life's toil: as 
Chap. VII.  a servant of his days work: But I have most joyles months and nights, of sorrow: that when I lay me down, I would fain see the morning. My flesh is loathsome: that I am past hope of long life: my days are spent: my life is but a blast: I can hope for no more pleasures: I slit away as in the twinkling of an eye: I go to the grave as a fading cloud: Therefore as Ch. 3. I will not spare my mouth: but I will sigh unto God in the bitterness of my soul: That I am kept in prison with boils: and I would not live: Pity me from this visitation, every moment: leave me for a breathing while: I have sinned, as the heart of man is only wicked all the day: and what can I do unto thee, o thou watcher of men, that every sin receiveth recompense: that thou hast made me thy mark: that I am a burden unto myself. O that thou wouldst so pardon my sin, as I lie now in the dust to be pitied of the keeper of men: that thou wouldst make a short end of my sorrows: and lay me in my grave.   

Chap. VIII.  
Bildad. How long wilt thou talk in this sort: that we 
Bildad.  may as thou speakest, Ch. 6. 26. hold the terms of the forlorn a wind? Is God unjust who showeth anger? Far be that: So how could God rule the world? Rom. 3. Gen. 18. Take an example by thine own children: As thy children have sinned against him, in their continual feasting: so he hath sent them into the hand of their trespass. By their example look to thyself. If thou would crave for pity at the almighty, and become upright: thou shouldest be happier & richer then ever thou wast. Inquire of the former age: and the age of their fathers: For we are but of yesterday, and have no experience: as our days are but a shadow: Ancient examples since God scattered noah's sons, and how for wickedness one is overrun of an other, such remembrance of ancient days, such marking the years of all ages, will teach sound judgement. As sedges can not grow without water, but soon withereth and is cut off: so they who have not the dew of grace to remembe 〈…〉 God: soon perish. Nenrod was a lusty hunter: & set up kingdoms: but soon seems house in Elan was Emperor: & 〈…〉med the Chananeans brother, who when their sins 〈…〉 ripe, shallbe wholly given to our Israel's house. Of Nacho 〈…〉 Elihu his father, for Abraham's sake twelve nations settle 〈…〉 the heart of Cush: of Ishmael, as many: of Esaw, more Dukedoms: who drive Cush further off. And because Abraham 〈…〉 after marriage with Ketura our grandmother, left religion i 〈…〉 our families, we have prospered: That Tyrus King take 〈…〉 the name Sychaeus from our father: as glad to honour o 〈…〉 houses. Now they whom our fathers drove away: wanting moisture of grace, dried up as rushes without mire: The favour of God in Christ, is as due upon grass: and the wicked, as rushes without water. Chanaan now buildeth cities full strong, to defeat the promise to Abraham: B 〈…〉 his building shallbe a spiders house: he shall lean upon 〈…〉 it, but it shall not stand. Pharaohs daughter took up lately an infant of Israel cast into the waters, and meanet 〈…〉 to make him King: and calleth him, taken out of the water: when he shallbe 80. years old: then shallbe 400 years to our brother Isaaks affliction. Then God will revenge Cham's land: and Chanaan: juicefull now afore sun 〈…〉 parching: and his suckers sprout over his orchard. B 〈…〉 when the sun shall root him out of his place: then he wi 〈…〉 flee to Lybia: and thence to the Island jerne: and in Chanaan he shallbe seen no more. But from the ground others will grow: our brethren of Israel. Lo, the Omnipotent will not loath the perfect, nor maintain the hand of the mischievous Chaldeans & Sabeans that rob thee: For the tent of the wicked shall come to nought.   

Chap. 9 & 10.  
job. I know that I must seek to God for mercy: as I 
job.  confessed, Chap. 7. vers. 20. and 21. every mouth must be stopped: and no flesh can be levied before God. If he will plead with a man: he cannot answer him to one thing of a thousand: as he is wise in heart, & mighty in strength: ●o defeat the subtle in their purposes, that their hands bring nothing sound to pass. And all that which may be known of him, appeareth in his creation. His might appeareth in removing mountains to be seas, & making islands of a continent: as in Cittim land: the Island flaming with brimstone, called three mountained Trinacria, was joined to the near continent. And Rhegium beareth ●ame 
The next land of Italy to Sicania or Sicily.  of breaking the ground. He makes the earth to quake: that the mountains, the pillars of it tremble: he cloudeth the sun, to be no more seen then if it were not risen, & sealeth up the stars: that they cannot be seen of certain days, when he will make a tempest (as Act. 27.) Again he spreadeth the heavens, which in tempest, were rolled up as a book, not to be looked upon: and he walketh upon the high waves of the sea: and when God shallbe 
Math. 27. & Ch. 14.  manifested in the flesh, and prove himself to be God by the miracles of the spirit, he will darken the sun at noon day, and walk upon the waves of the sea. His eternal power and goodliness appeareth in the clustered stars: for all seasons: in the bands of Orion, for wintery weather, and for delicacies in Pleyades: He doth great things (as Eliphaz spoke) unsearchable: and wonderful without number: specially in election, & rejection. Now ketura's sons, & some of Esaw, and Elihu, & others of Aran, as Bosor his house, hold truth in part: & none of Israel forsake the idols of Egypt. We shall soon fall: and Israel shall in Chanaan tie Satan for a thousand years. And then shall Israel be cast off: & lapheth dwell in the ten 〈…〉 of Sem. So unsearchable are his ways. Now when h〈…〉 passed in his judgement over me, I cannot perceive high 〈…〉 counsel: when he taketh all away, who can make him 〈…〉 store: or enter an action against him: and say unto high 〈…〉 what dost thou? Dan. 4. when the Puissant will not sta 〈…〉 his hand, proud helpers can do the afflicted no good. A 〈…〉 all my confederates could not help me against the Sab 〈…〉 ans, and Chaldaeans: but all lost heart, and durst not sti 〈…〉 If I were just, I would crave pity: If I cry, I can hardly b 〈…〉 lee●● that he will answer me. He will bruise me with tempest, so that none can blame him. As for judgement who can be my pleader? If I willbe perfect, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I be upright, I know not mi 〈…〉 own soul: but that great impiety lurketh hid: But this know, I am weary of my life: This is uniform: The perfe 〈…〉 in man's judgement, and the wicked doth he consume: 〈…〉 mocketh at the scourge of the innocent. The earth is give 〈…〉 to the hand of the wicked: which overrule them that d 〈…〉 right. And yet none can have any authority, unless 〈…〉 be given him from God. So my days are fled: and I a 〈…〉 full of sorrow: and if I would forget my sighing, Ch. 3. 〈…〉 know God will not clear me: I shallbe holden as wicked Now then, why should I labour in vain, by repentan 〈…〉 to hope for any goodness. Bildad exhorteth me to b 〈…〉 blameless and upright. Ch. 8. vers. 6. If I wash myself i 〈…〉 snow, in snow water, die must I quickly: & thou wilt dye 〈…〉 me in the grave naked: as though my clothes loathed m 〈…〉 If the high God would take from my baseness his rod: that his terror fright me no more: I would then speak and not fear him: for I am not such with myself as my calamities make you think.  
Ye find great fault with my complaint, Ch. 3. still I tell 
Ch. 10.  you, my soul is weary of my life: when I leave my sighing for myself: Therefore I will say unto the Puissant: condemn me not: let me know wherefore thou pleadest with me. I am the work of thine hands, why shouldest thou loathe me: and shine upon the counsel of these troublesome pleaders. Thou art not as a man that needest years, as Ch. 8. 8. 9 10. or trial: where thou knowest the heart. Thou knowest that I am not wicked: and yet I am plagued, past all man's help. Consider thy goodness in my frame of body: and joining of soul: and looking to me: to plague me, upon sin. Which now is come to the highest, that I wish I never had been: Ease my pain, seeing I shall shortly die.   

Chap. XI.  
Zophar. Thou hast used much speech, Chap. 3. Eliphaz 
Zophar.  blamed that: Ch. 5. thou dost answer, Ch. 6. that thy complaint is less than the sorrows undeserved. And thou dost mock, Ch. 6. that thy friends are like the rivers in our dry Arabia: full, when men need not rivers, in winter: in summer. dried up. etc. all Ch. 6. And thou wilt say to the Puissant, condemn me not: doth it please thee to oppress? Ch. 10. 3. And, thou knowest that I am not wicked: v. 7. and thou art not such with thyself; as Gods scourges argue, and the advise from Eliphaz and Bildad.  
Thou wouldst fain plead with God: as a man doth with man. Ch. 9 3 3. and would take his rod from the 〈…〉 that thou shouldest not be frighted: So now truly I w 〈…〉 that the Puissant would speak, and open his lips with thee: that thou shouldest have double by justice: & know that the Puissant will call thee to account, for thine iniquity. Canst thou find out the depth of the Puissant? 〈…〉 depth of riches of the knowledge and wisdom of Go 〈…〉 How unsearchable are his judgements and his ways p 〈…〉 finding out!  
The translator commentary. Before the flood, wh 〈…〉 they despised the fathers, he did let them run to the destruction of the deluge: He gave over the builders of Babel for worship to stars, that even seems house in joc 〈…〉 tan hath perished more by millions of parts than Cha 〈…〉 despising despising Noah, Sen, Arphaxad, Sala, Eber, all all 〈…〉 still warning them. The east Indians come of them: as Io 〈…〉 tans sons names show: famous in Greeks, by names remaining in cities, rivers, mountains. And the west co 〈…〉 of them: as the passage betwixt is very narrow. And me 〈…〉 from the West could not so pass over the broad Ocean▪ Abraham is called to revive the world: the sons of Abraham will fall away: and yet be zealous in the law: to give warrant to the Apostles for all that they speak, plain warrant: but for the mystery hid of long time: that God i● Christ will reconcile the world unto himself. And here cometh a new mystery: That the city which crucified Christ, shallbe extolled by Satan's sleight, to overthrow the Gospel: because men love not the truth: and when reformation cometh, yet wicked archbishops overruling common laws: and other creatures of the King of Locusts, will still plague in the ends of the earth: where Christ hath his chief possession. Now God's ways be unsearchable in these dealings. When the Gospel was confirmed: if Princes and all sorts had daily read it: all had held the truth: but as they disdained that pains, God gave them over to embrace deceit: That many are called: and few be saved. The height, the depth, the length, the breadth, of God's counsel is unsearchable. This should be our work, to bow our knees unto the father of our Lord jesus Christ: that▪ we may comprehend the breadth and length, the depth and height: and know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge. job will flee to this. Ch. 19 Return to Zophar.  
If God pass through the world, to give over men to Satan in blindness, or conqueror to be servant; or keep them in assemblies, to continue religion, or policy: who can stay him? In punishment most we feel him. Because he knoweth men aey dying to be nothing worth: and seeing sin, should not he mark it: That vain man should have an understanding heart. For as God told Abraham of our Ishmael, that he should be a wild ass: so we are all: & thou, I guess, by many mother's art of Ishmael, as Israel of Chanaan: we wild asses must be tamed, by God's hand: seeing men cannot tame us. Now I will tell thee, as Eliphaz did, Chap. 4. that the just perish not: neither come the upright to ruin: (Chaldy Paraphrast, Ch. 4. 7.) The just, as Abraham, Isaac, and jacob, perish not: But the wicked nation of the deluge perished. So Ishmael and his children, as Lions and Lionceaux, given to spoiling, have their teeth pulled out. As each was borne the foal of a wild ass: I as Eliphaz, Ch. 5. 8. would wish that thou seek unto God: so sinning no more, thou shouldest have great prosper●●● This rule is general: that the eyes of the wicked sha●● fail: and their refuge all be forlorn: and their hope nought but pangs of soul.   

Chap. 12.  
job. Out of doubt wisdom must die with you. B●● 
job.  I am not inferior to you. And who cannot speak suc● things as these: That God is high, and invisible, & God only wise: ● Tim▪ ●▪ & men cannot search out, his ways▪ Take this Proposition: A mockage to his neighbour sh●●● the perfect just be: who prayeth unto God, and he 〈◊〉 hear him: a base lamp to the thoughts of the wealth 
Aben Ezra & Kimchi upon the brave Hebrew.  and for calamity a contempt to the shining state of the prosperous is he that is near▪ to tottering of feet. The just perisheth in his justice: and the wicked prospereth 〈◊〉 his wickedness: To show that this world is the world 〈◊〉 trial: and the world of souls is the world of reward Eliphaz said: The roaring of the renting Lion, and th● 
Ch. 4. 10.  voice of the fierce Shachal shall come to nothing. And Bildad said: As sedges cannot grow without mire: such 
Ch. 8. 11.  is the gladness of the wicked, that hath not moisture of grace. And Zophar said this as a general rule: tha● 
Ch. 11. 20.  the eye of the wicked shall fail: and their refuge all be forlorn. I answered Bildad, that the earth is given commonly all to the hands of the wicked: The wicked be the Pakidim: who condemn all that would do good to their state: and cover their faces: as unworthy to see light: So will they do to the son of God: when in the flesh he cometh to give light to the world. Among beasts, fowls, trees, fish, the strongest oppresseth the inferior. And who can deny, but God ruleth in all varieties. Ye speak at random. But cannot mine ear discern speeches, as the palate tasteth it meat. Elihu will confess thus much: Chap. 34. Ye bid me look to former ages: when they lived long: Ch. 8. 9 Is the wisdom in the aged? The foolish builders of Babylon were of long life: but short in wisdom. God hath wisdom and mightiness, counsel and understanding are his. If he pull down the tower, Gen. 11. it will not be built: If he shut one up in prison, as Pharaohs baker: he cannot be set free: if he with hold the waters, for mercy to Noe. Gen. 8. they dry up. When he sent them forth, Gen. 7. they overwhelmed the earth. For him and by him and from him are deceivers & deceived. Because they knowing God by his works, do not honour him as God: he shuts them up to a bad mind: and although he putteth not wickedness in their heart: yet that which they have, he ruleth to his counsel: Pharaoh would destroy Israel: God turned him from the right way to that: which had been to kill the fathers: that he set to kill some children: Esaw would kill jacob: God suffered him not to think of present murder: but when his father should be dead: And when with 400 men he came against him, he bridled him. All states he ruleth up and down: and the rulers which prosper are wicked: and one wicked plagueth an other. He bringeth counsellors to badness: and judges unto stark madness. Such they were in Enos age: when corruption sprang, in stead of calling upon the name of God. The rulers or judges of families being profane, hating God that looked unto all things, and required to be regarded in all things: they hated him, as curious and full of business: and worshipped stars: & the creature, not the creator. For the wickedness of their heart: he shut up the rulers of many families, called counsellors and judges into madness.  
The band of Kings he maketh loose: when the Kings 〈…〉 Chanaan Gen. 14. did cast of the yoke of Cedarlaomer: 〈…〉 bringeth Dukes to be a spoil: and overturneth the mighty. As to Kedarlaomer the Raphaim, and Zuzim, & A●●mim, and the Aemorites. So he poureth baseness vpo● nobles, Psal. 107. and weakeneth the sway of vehement▪ He bereaveth eloquent speakers of lip: and taketh reaso● from Bishops: as from Pharaoh & his counsellors, to ma●● Israel a bush burning but not consumed: and pricks 〈…〉 Egypt in the end. Exod. 1. Act. 7. He revealeth d 〈…〉 things out of darkness: and bringeth to light the shadow of death: as to joseph in expounding Pharaohs dream: 〈…〉 to jaacob in the Lot of his Children. He augments nations: as before the flood: he spreads nations, after the flood and setteth their limits. He taketh heart from the head of the people of the earth: as when Cush fled to the furthest south & west: and so joctanes 13. sons: They grope in darkness without light, and wander as one drunk. Es. 19▪ 14. & 24. 20.  
By this ye may see that I am not inferior to you i● 
Ch. XIII.  knowledge how God doth govern the world. Therefore I would speak with God: you are all bad Physicians▪ Will you plead for God's justice more than due? God will not be mocked. God's highness, & your glory dust & ashes should keep you in order. Gen. 19 be silent and I will speak. Wherefore should I take my flesh in my teeth as one desperate: whose words fleeing through the hedge of my teeth: should rend my flesh, and cause me destruction. Behold Lord I have ordered my pleading: and i● is death to me not to defend my good conscience of walking uprightly. I know I should be found just. God● hand and terror I wish withdrawn: then would I plead. How many are my sins, that I am thus strangely afflicted?  
Earthly man is of himself but as a flower, and should 
Chap. 14.  such be thus afflicted? I confess, all are unclean: Seing his days be short, let him end them with some rest. A tree cut down may yet sprout: But Adam's sons starves, and where is he? As rivers are spent and dry up: so man byeth down, ariseth not till the end of the world. I could wish to be dead: to plead in the world of souls: where my soul should joy till the resurrection. Now thou dost count my goings: but keepest them not from sinning. But my trespass is sealed in a bag: That thou joinest to present iniquity: to punish the old and new together. Rocks of mountains falling unto the water do waste: the hard growth of the earth: So thou sendest man away. He knoweth not what shall become of his children: unless he be a prophet, as Abraham: for special revelations: to know Moses and the Prophets: and as jacob, know principal heads of his sons affairs. Only a man will mourn for himself: and for his sick body. For this cause we never pray to Enoch, Sem, or any but unto God: because he only knoweth our hearts: And also because the souls and the Angels are in a fear before the infinite majesty: and leave man to learn how to pray for himself. And God is the only that heareth prayer.   

Chap. 15.  
Eliphaz. Wind and blast: Thou disannullest prayer: 
Eliphaz: The second tyme.  Thy own mouth shall argue thee to be wicked. I Chap. 4. spoke not so expressly: but of ordinary infirmities. But now I tell thee plainly, thou speakest wickedly. Thou sayest, art not inferior to us: and that we are forgers of li 〈…〉 and bad Physicians: and should be wisest in silence. The hast no extraordinary, as Adam had, or the Angel ●●ated the first day. Therefore by years wisdom come 〈…〉▪ And there be here elder than thy father. Thy chasti 〈…〉 ment wisely expounded, and our speech upon it, be comforts: But thou chafest against God, and with subtle hypocrisy deceivest thyself. I told Chap. 4. that all me● are miserable before God: and I repeat that: for the worthiness of the matter. And for open wicked, open punishment cometh: as sage wise men taught: such as the people obeyed quietly: and never sought others to i 〈…〉 them. Thus they teach: that the wicked waxeth him see 〈…〉 and hath no hope, as thou hast none: from v. 20. to 〈…〉▪ Be not deceived: punishments argue a man wicked.   

Chap. XVI. and XVII.  
job. I have already heard many words as these: wi●dy 
job.  words, as you reckon mine to be▪ Chap. 15. 2. I woul● if you were in my case, strengthen and not weaken yo●▪ Ye blame my vehement complaint: when I complayn● not, I find no ease: And my punishment is more grievous than they have which are openly sinful.  
And there is no hope for a body as mine to be restored 
Ch. XVII  to long life: as you would persuade me, Ch. 5. T● the pit I cry, o father: o mother and sister, to the worms▪ Ye mock and vex me: o that God would judge: for Go● hath hid your heart from judgement: and will not give you that honour: God will consume your eyes, for your vai● goodly speech: which maketh me to be a byword to the people: that I am openly a taber. Wherefore mark wha● I tell you: Mine eye is dim with anguish: and all my members be like a shadow. This counsel God hath: that the just should have me for an example: not to shrink for afflictions: jam. 5. But that the just should be just still: Apo. ●2. Therefore change your mind, and cause not me to be ●l-spoken-off. My days are past: for any comfort in this world: and the night they change into day: that I fleepe not: but wake, as men do on the day. And light of day, short by my darkness of afflictions: little light, that is little rest, do I find on the day tyme.   

Chah. XVIII.  
Bildad. Why are we counted as beasts, when thou dost 
Bildad: the second time  bid us ask the beasts of the field, Ch. 12. 7. & unclean, as fools, Ch. 17. 10. Apo. 22. Oh thou that rentest thy soul in thy anger: Ch. 3. & 6. & 10. and 14. and 16. thou thinkest to remove rocks: and alter the most constant course of God's judgement. Yea the light of the wickeds prosperity is soon quenched: His tyranny will come to distress: and his own counsel, as pharoh's, will make him fall. Pharaoh now killeth Israel's children, But Pharaohs daughter hath taken one up, that shall pay his successor, and God will judge him as he told Abraham, Gen. 15. Pharaoh shallbe sent into the net by his own feet: And the present Pharaoh, if he do envy Moses, when he shallbe forty years old, and will visit his brethren: he shall not long live, but his candle shall soon be put out. job, thou mayst hope to see the day, some forty years hence, that Moses will come to thy nation of Madian, near Aus to raguel's house: who hath a little Boy called jethro: Who can tell but we may have affinity with him. And Pharaoh that shallbe in time, when God will judge: 400. years since wild Ishmael aged 18. vexed Isaak, entering into six: doubt not job but that thou shalt see the day about 80. y. hence to see judgements. Pharaoh willbe sent ●● his own feet into the net: when he pursueth Israel, w●●● God in the fourth age brings them out. And so other wicked of families amongst us: shall soon have their na●● put out. Consider job: these are the habitations of th● unrighteous, as thou art: I must tell the plainly: a●● this plainly is thy case, that knowest not the Omnipotent   

Chap. XIX.  
job. How long will ye fret me with words? Now t●● 
job.  times ye have reproached me. Five times I spoke: and five times you, crossing my speeches; Eliphaz twice: and Bildad twice: and Zophar once. Suppose I have erred: 〈…〉 my error continue with me. Eliphaz hath made me 〈…〉 be counted wicked over Theman: because I am so greatly plagued: and saith that my children were punished f●● their sins. And because God hath given me over in●● the hand of the wicked, Chaldeans in my Camels, and wicked Sabeans, who have forgotten our kindred in Abraham, Eliphaz will have me counted wicked, bringing my wretched case an argument against me. Bild●● will make all the Land Sacchaea, make me a parable: and Zophar over all Minnaea. The Agarey of Hagar, and Ch●tramis Land of Cheturam, Abraham's wife: (In Arab 〈…〉 we term gladly names in the letter M) these will have as ill a conceit of me. Thema of wild Ishmael is most quiet my next neighbour to our Aus or Uz land: where mountains of Chaldaea lie East: Saba that took my Oxen & Asses, West: and Dry Thema, South. When my story shallbe written, men will think than I am of Us in Edom. It is much that Eliphaz cometh to grace: of profane Esaw, that sold his Birthright, for a mess of Pottage. I● him God in wrath remembreth mercy: But one swallow maketh not a summer. Of profane Nachor, Elihu is one, best of all us. But of Chetura, our best and most good be. Amongst all these families, ye would have me counted one that forgetteth God. Ye deal too proudly against me. Know then that God hath dealt more strangely with me, than ever with wicked men for wickedness. Know then that the Puissant hath overthrown me: and compassed his net about me: As never to any man for wickedness. If I complain, I cannot be heard: The common rule is: call upon me in the day of trouble, and I will hear thee. But I call, as one that God should hear: but no sentence is given. Therefore my case is strange: & not as of one punished for wickedness. He hath hedged me in on every side, that I cannot pass: He hath not done so with wicked Nemrod: nor with any wicked. He hath bestript me of all my honour: whereas I was Lord chief justice in all our confoederated provinces: and the richest of all Abraham's sons by Ketura. He hath pulled me down on every side: as never any for sin. For God's patience leadeth them in many degrees still to repentance: and I go away, uncapable of any benefit in this world. His anger is kindled against me: and he holdeth me as one of his enemies. Elihu will reply upon this, Chap. 33. 10. as that I complain upon wrong, and cannot be heard, Ch. 34. 3. etc. As he holdeth me as one of his enemies, so he cometh with an host against me: His host of affliction in wealth body and friends come together against me: & cast up their trench against me: and camp about my tent: my brethren, all honourers, my kinefolke, my promoted, my hirelings, my maidens, my wife: prinkockes, sage counsellors, my tendered: And my body, is so lean, that it cleaveth to my bones: so full of sores, that only the flesh of my teeth within my lips hath escaped. Therefore do ye persecute me, as the Omnipotent holdeth me as one of his enemies: and why are ye not satisfied with my flesh so eaten up: but ye will as savage beasts, eat my bones. And where ye say, that I am one that forget God: I have a ready answer for my hope: as Abraham taught us in our fathers: how Adam lost life, and brought death upon all. But the S. of God will dwell in our tabernacle: and perform justice for us: That as all being in Adam lost life: so they who will receive the abundance of the grace of the gift of justice shall reign by one. The abundance of grace is in this: That one disobedience brought death: but the grace washeth all soul sore, from the sole of the foot to the top of the head. Now of Abraham the God of Bethel will take flesh: in Isaac, his death and resurrection were taught: with jacob he wrestled, and showed how his delight is to play with the sons of Adam: Of juda he cometh, & that tribe shall not be scattered till his Son cometh. jacob in Mestra land, where the great river Egypt is, told all this in his last speech: and thence we learned all. But as now we of Ketura in Ismaels' land, stick to God: and none of Israel forsake the Idols of Egypt, so in time we shall have equal glory: though when they have the land of Canaan, and all must come thither, to worship, our children will not: but be enemies. Troops of Camels shall cover the land: Dromedaries of Madian and Ghepha our house, and all of Saba: the Saba that rob me, now godless: they shall bring gold and incense: and preach the praise of the Eternal. Yea and wild Ishmael willbe ashamed of Hagar, and name them of Sara: and Cedar & Nabaioth called commonly Nabathaea, shall serve the God of Bethel: the Angel that wrestled with jacob: in memory of which story, jacob was called Israel: and the place, Phanuel. This I know, that seeing in Abraham all families shallbe blessed, Abraham's natural specially. Now than I will bring the sum of my faith: and o that my words were written, and drawn in a book; graven with a pen of iron, with lead were in stone for ever: How I know that my redeemer is the everliving: and at the last shall arise upon the dust: dying for our sins, and arising for our justification. And after worms spend this my skin & flesh, I mean, after my resurrection, (and I use a doubtful term, to contain both, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉) from my flesh shall I see the Puissant. When God hath been manifest in the flesh, and seen of Angels, and taken up in glory. The very same body shall come to this soul, not a new body: God hath all the dust of the earth in measure: and all dust of bodies eaten with fish, water or fire, dogs or worms, shall return to their old bodies. So I shall see the Puissant, in his most glorious body: & my eyes shall view him, & not an other job: when my reins and bosom, all is once spent. God will do this by the power wherewith he is able to subdue all things to himself. Thus ye should say, why do ye call him wicked, when the things root is in me: that my mind goeth up to heaven, and bringeth the God of Bethel, the angel of the covenant down: to be made a man of a woman: and to be made under the law: and my mind descendeth to the grave to bring him from death. And this matter is the main point: whereby God is pleased. Consider how wickedly you deal in your bitterness against me: and be afraid yourselves of the sword. For ire upon sin hath the sword. Therefore know there ●● judgement.   

Chap. XX.  
Zophar. Where thou dost charge us with sin: for 
Zophar: the second time.  this my thoughts make me reply: and I hast to do that. A reproof to my shame I hear: and the spirit of my conscience will, that I answer: now my second time: as Eliphaz and Bildad have done. I will speak in a word: Since Adam was set on the earth, the joyance of the wicked is short. etc. from 6. to 28.   

Chap. XXI.  
job. I will speak, and after I have spoken, mock. Is 
job.  my sighing unto man: as though I thought you could help me. But I have much cause of sighing and sobbing speeches: and then why should you complain of my discouraged speeches? Mark my case: & marvel. When I myself bethink me, a quaking taketh my flesh: seeing the contrary prosperity of 
† So Moses desired to know this: Ex. 33. Asaph Ps. 73. jer. 12.  the wicked. You see the wicked are lively: continue long, and be mighty in riches. Why said you then: their joyance is short: their height hath a quick fall: and they pass like a drcame. Their seed is settled before them: and their houses have peace: & how say you then, He oppresseth and leaveth poor: robbed of houses, which he shall not build up: and the fruits for his house shall pass away: and flow away in the day of anger. They bear with the tabret and harp: & rejoice at the sound of the pleasant instrument. And why say ye then: he shall feel no rest in his belly. They spend their days in wealthines: and in a moment go down to the grave. The house of Lamech was like them: & thence we have a pattron: for wicked Iabal had sheep: jubal Music: and Tubalcain smithrye, that man made him a God of smiths, Vulcain. And men said as before the flood: what is the almighty, that we should serve him. They thought that the stars had spirits in them, and gave them wealth: and thereupon sprang corruption in steed of calling upon the name of God, in the age of sorrowful Enosh. But far be from me the judgement of the wicked. God giveth all that all have: But they never thank God. Eliphaz said, Ch. 18. the wicked his candle is put out with him. How often is his candle put out? not so often: that God doth lay up his injuries for his children, Ch. 5. 4. & 20. 10. Can a man teach the Omnipotent knowledge, how he shall judge the lofty? One dieth in perfection: an other with a bitter soul: and never ate of good. As for the wealthy wicked, Ch. 5. 10. & 20. 19 God doth not always, lay up his injuries for his children: pay him that he doth feel it. Behold, I know your injurious imaginations against me: when ye say, where is the pavilion of the wicked, Ch. 5. 3. I saw the wicked fasten root, but presently did I curse his dwelling: the hungry shall eat up his harvest, as the Chaldeans: and the thirsty Sabeans shall swill up, their wealth. And Ch. 20. 19 He oppresseth and leaveth poor: robbed of house, which he shall not build up. I know your imaginations when ye say, where is the house of the noble tyrant? Can ye not mark them which go by the way? how came Ishmael by 12. princehoods: & Esaw by so many dukedoms? They would tell you: What stately houses see you not built of tyrants? The bad is spared unto a day of heaviness, a day when all wrath is brought: that men may know that this world is the world of work, and an other world is the world of reward: And God in this world often plagueth all sorts, that men may know him judge. But the just are not still in best case. And what do ye comfort me with vanity: when great offence remaineth in your disputations.   

Chap. XXII.  
Eliphaz. Thou wouldst be pleading with God. If 
Eliphaz: the third tyme.  thou would teach, would he regard it? is it a pleasure to the almighty that thou pleadest justice? What shall we say of our father Abraham: that he attained of his natural power? If Abraham were justified by works, he hath wherein to rejoice: but he hath no such matter before God. Before men he was a Prince of God: And rare in readiness he was to have sacrificed Isaak: But Isaak was no less rare, that would be sacrificed. Now mark Abraham, how far he was from justification by works: 
* The jew Bechaia reasoneth, as Eliphas might, upon Gen. 15. Fol. 22. Col. 3.  Behold this was a great sin, that Abraham sinned, saying to Sara, I pray thee say, thou art my sister. This sin which Abraham sinned, was the cause of the slavery in Egypt. And doubtless it was a great sin, that he brought his just woman, into a trap to sin: for his own fear, least men should kill him. It was his part to have trusted in God, that he would save both him and his wife. Moreover he sinned in going out of the land concerning which he had the charge: It was his part to have trust 
Thus much Bechaia bringeth from Ramban, which Eliphaz might have told.  in the blessed God, that he would save him in hunger, from death. And for this was decreed against his seed, the captivity of Egypt: for in the place where he sinned, there was the punishment. job, all that Eliphaz telleth, thou mightest have known not to plead justice before God. Would God reprove thee for thy religion: and call thee into judgement for being holy? Nay, thy evil is great: unjust pledge; bestripping the naked; denying water to weary, bread to hungry; violent holding of Land; oppression of widow and fatherless: These be thy sin: that snares come, and darkness, in God's providence: that he cannot see through the clouds. Hast thou marked the old world: when mockers following their own desires said, said unto Noah, as doting in the work of the Ark: where is the appearance of Gods coming: as Enoch said, that God would come with thousands of his Angels, to be revenged upon all wicked men. They were willingly ignorant of this, that the heavens were of old: & the earth, set out of water and by water, by the word of God, and by them, by the windows of heaven opened, by the springs arising and sea swelling, the world then deluged by water perished: But the heavens now & the earth, stored by his word are kept for fire to the destruction of godless men. In memory of this story Greek fables grew that Noah, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is Deucalion: and his wife in warning of destruction by fire is called Pyrrha. So the Poet Metamorph. ●. tells with the flood, of fire, in this sort.  

Esse quoque in fatis reminiscitur, affore tempus,  
quo mare quo tellus immensaque regia Caeli  
ardeat, & mundi moles operosa laboret.   
That is,  

jupiter bethought him, how time should come,  
when sea and land and great heaven's palace  
should burn, and the worlds workmanship decay.   
The Greeks of old had learned the same: And their verses be worthy marking: and now we are in the mids of job: and at a main matter, for the old world, and end of the present. Sophocles saith in this sort, in justine Martyr, fol. 167. and in Clem. strom. 5. fol. 258. Commel. and Euseb. Pr●par. 13. fol. 400. from Aristobu●●●▪ learned Iew● so rare the matter is:  

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Such a time of ages is for to come:  
when the welkin of golden hue sendeth  
a store of fire, & then the hungry flame  
shall burn all that is below or on high:  
And when all is wasted and consumed,  
all the depth of waters shall come unto nothing:  
And the Land shall have no dwelling, nor fowls  
that can flee when fire hath eaten all up.  
For in haides we settle two dwellings,  
one of the just, and th'other of godless.   
Thus the old families taught of the world to be consumed with fire: that not only Abraham in Israel should hold it, and in Edom, and Keturah: but heathen estranged from Israel. Now the two last verses are in Diphilus, And Philemon & Diphilus have more verses the same, then lightly any brace of writers, for Haides. So when S. Luke wrote to Theophilus in the gospel, Ch. 16. he placeth Abraham of the city which God prepared for him, to be no less in Haides, being in joy: then was the contemner of God, the tormented inflames. This digression the Author maketh: Now Eliphaz shall speak to job. Hast thou marked the way of the old world: which say, depart from us: as thou spakest, Chap. 21. 14. we desire not the knowledge of thy ways: when the spirit of our Saviour went and preached in the days of No: when the patience of God waited while the ark was in making: their bodies wrinkled by waters, but the spirits which disobeyed are in prison, for not giving ear to Noe. And what should God do to them. They had sheep, and music, and smithry for all tillage and husbandry, and to lock their house filled with all store: and feasted and married: till Noah went into the ark: and the flood came and took them all away: Because they bred profaneness & called not upon God with a clear understanding: but said, what can the Omnipotent do unto us: our Bell is he that storeth: as I'm taught Nemrod. I will say with thee, job: that I am far from those wicked minds: I know God is the giver of all wealth. The just Noah & Sem & japheth did see God's judgement, and rejoiced: No the eight, the preacher of righteousness, with his two sons and their wives, did mock them: And they were saved by waters: & we should be saved with waters of knowledge to call upon God aright. So job reconcile thee unto God, & thy afflictions shallbe unto thee as the waters of No: that as God swore, he would drowned the earth no more, so if thou turn to the Almighty, thou shalt be built: So thou shalt set by gold as dust: and Ophir, as the stones of rivers. And th'almighty willbe thy gold, and silver of strength to thee. He will spare the uninnocent, as Cham was to Noah, and he shallbe spared for thy pure hands.   

Ch. XXIII.  
job. Yet this day my sighing, is holden a rebellion: 
Job.  as though I would teach the Omnipotent: to hold it a gain, that I make my ways perfect. Oh that I knew how to find him, that I might come unto his throne: would he by great power plead against me? No, but he would help me. There the upright do plead against him. So should I be quit for ever by my judge: if I might plead, why the ill have good, and the good ill. Of this I can learn nothing by your speech. But neither in East, West, South, or North, can I find him. He knoweth what way is with me: tried he me, I should come forth as gold: More than my daily bread have I laid up all the words of his mouth. Yet when he is against me, who can stay him? But because he furnished me with my daily bread, and many graces: whereby I do know, that he tendereth me, as I told, Ch. 10. 8. & 9 I consider and am afraid of him▪ Because thick darkness & affliction hath not made an end of me: nor I see an end of my burning sickness.  
Who can deny but that God hath hid his counsel 
Ch. 24.  for men's affairs: seeing the coil our wild Arabians keep. They daily fight for their borders: rob one an other: as the Chaldaeans and Sabaeans have done to me: yea the fatherless and widow: and the poor of their garment: that they cannot pass the ways for freebutters: the grapes & corn of others they eat. They drive the poor to dwell naked in high rocks: in many great showers: & live Tr●glodytae in dens. And if they have a garden of hemp to have a shirt, or of corn to have a sheaf: they rob them of that. So the wild live abroad. In the city they are as bad. Poor make oil, and tread winepresses, and without pay: by hard Landlords: they groan by oppression, and by unjust death: and yet God suffereth all this. He suffereth rebellers against the light of conscience: which keep not in his paths: Murderers on day: thieves on night: adulterers, house-breakers. This sort is of less weight in trade of life, than the face of waters which winds beat: their portion in the earth is cursed: tillage they regard not: nor planting of vines. Miserably they live: & miserably they die: taken to the grave as heat taketh snow: his mother and wife will soon forget him: only his sweetness shallbe for worms: and he is no more pitied than a tree cut down: which hath no feeling. God sendeth after him, a barren wife: that he should have no help by children: and showeth no pity to his widow. God draweth the stout after him by his might: & while they stood, they were not sure longer than God would. God gave them a while security to stay upon: but his eyes were upon their ways. A while they were exalted: but soon come to nothing: they are cut off as an ear of corn. Thus the course of the world is: God long suffereth: and leaveth some to ungraciousness: and payeth the mighty, mightily. And who can deny this?   

Chap. XXV.  
Bildad. Although the state of men be on earth confused, 
Bildad: the third time.  God on high is terrible to all about him: who see his angry face upon them that despised his covenant of grace: but rebelled against him: whose worm shall not die: and whose fire shall not be quenched. On high is terror: & so peace: his armies of light be innumerable: & his light overshineth all: where sorowfull-man could not abide an angel's light. And what should he plead justice with the Omnipotent? In the moon he teacheth us: that it hath not clearness of itself: neither be stars bright, when he will shine in the redemption, And what should one of Adam plead with God? We are but worms.   

Chap. XXVI.  
job. Thou helpest nothing, nor showest wisdom. Who 
Job.  would admire so weak a speech: to tell a little of God's terror on high? Who knoweth not that? or who would plead justice with God? I told you, Ch. 9 none can be just before God: but as in mercy he held me his servant: and I have run for the goal of the heavenly calling, I would plead why I am thus punished: and touching honour to God for his works, ye shall see what I can say. Thou speakest of his power on high▪ it reacheth to the furthest off. The sea bottom hath things without life form, as ambre and pearl and topaz and such. The low earth seeming lost and cast off, is showed to have stones precious, and for building, and coals. He turneth the heavens about upon no stay: and hangeth the earth in the mids. The heavy meteors he bindeth: & beautifieth the air, as a palace for himself. The unconstant sea he keepeth in bounds: and maketh mountains as Atlas the Pillars of heaven to shake. The divisions of all seas, and great rivers through mountains show his power. By his spirit he trimmed the heavens by a most pleasant situation of stars: to be remembered by forms of creatures. This on high: and below his hand hath made the great terrible Whales. And these are but part of his ways: and what a small thing can we hear of him: as when you teach me slenderly how to seek to him by repentance. Now the thunder of his power who can understand: as how the wicked armies in millions fall to Eternal death: and the old world: & the builders of Babel are cast off: and how God hath set unto wrath all them whom he hath not chosen of Eternity to seek him in this life: and here to honour him. These be his hid works.   

Ch. XXVII. and XXVIII.  
Now as the Almighty, which hath brought my soul to bitterness, doth live, my lips shall not speak the unright: I will not justify you: nor remove my integrity from me. My enemy shallbe as the wicked: and my adversary as the unrighteous. This I speak unto you: Eliphaz, Zophar, and Bildad. If I had been an hypocrite, what hope could I have: when God should shake off my soul? Would the Omnipotent hear my cry? I will teach you of God's hand: and ye have seen it. Wicked tyrants shall come to nothing: either in their life, or soon after: This is the ordinary course of God's judgement. But God in patience often suffereth much: knowing his heavy punishment.  
God openeth exceeding secrets of his works in the earth: 
Ch. 28.  but none of them have any resemblance of his dealing in his counsel for men, cast off, or spared. But each one should fear him: and labour to eschew evil.   

Chap. XXIX. and XXX. and XXXI.  
I job was in high prosperity: a Prince in our confederate states: for sage counsel all gave place: & I aey defended the poor in right: I broke the tusks of the unright: and I was loved accordingly: And this was long: according to God's ordinary favour to the rulers in justice. I washed my steps in butter, of sheeps milk & Camel's milk: and I had woods in stony ground of olives: which I bought, Ch. 31. 39 Young and aged, princes and orators, gave me place: when I went to judgement court: They regarded me as the rain: and gaped as to the latter showers.  
But now, for grave aged and nobles, young vile-mens' 
Ch. 30.  sons, the basest that can be, a vile kind, banished from the earth, arise against me: thrust my feet: and hold my heaviness a profit. They rejoice as though they had been the better by my sad case. As waters in part of a wear broken all tumble: so they upon my misery. And they vex my former noble case: become now as a wind. And by God's hand my sickness is unspeakable: and he is turned to me as one cruel: and I know to death will he turn me. When others were in hard case: I parched in sorrow: and should but for some hid judgement of God feel the like. Not for 
Chap. 31.  my sin: as come punishment. For my eyes durst not look upon a maid: I held that adultery, and sure of heavy punishment. I used my servant, as knowing that I had a Lord in heaven. I let the poor have what they could wish: specially the sad widow, & the fatherless ate with me: The naked I clothed: the orphan I protected: covetousness I hated: and star worship I detested: I rejoiced not in my foes hurt: passengers by, had my servants portion: that they tarried for a new dinner to be dressed: that they said, o that we had the flesh prepared for us: we would soon eat it up: we come so hungry from work. The stranger lodged not in the streets: I opened my doors to travelers. Abraham and Lot taught me such hospitality. If my folk did any wrong, and they complained: I covered not my trespass like Adam: hiding my sin of self-love: Though I could oppress a great troop. But such families come to baseness. That made me shrink: and that made me dumb, that I never went out of doors to plead in injury: but at home made content. That all this is true: I wish the almighty would plead. And lastly this: if ever I ran into my neighbour's ground to plow or graze without pay: then let thorns grow in steed of wheat: and darnel in stead of barley.   

Ch. XXXII. and XXXIII.  
Elihu the Buzite, of Buz Abraham's brother's son, of the family of Ram, famous then for knowledge: Auz was the eldest brother: and to the eldest, to avoid envy, would Abraham send the sons of Ketura. Auz & Buz, jer. 25. are together in Arabia. Rebecca & jacob seem to have left religion in Nachors house: That Elihu should be rare of knowledge. He endeth the disputation. Nowlet speak Elihu. 
Elihu.   
Elihu. I am young, and ye old: therefore I reverenced and feared to show my mind among you. For I thought, many years will teach wisdom. Certes a spirit is in sadman: and the almighty's breath to wise them. Men of not great time may be wise: as the old understand the right. Therefore I say, o job hear thou me now: I also will show my mind. Behold I waited while ye searched what to speak. And unto you I gave attendance: & lo, I found no confuter of you, that answered his words. Ye thought this enough: His punishment showeth he is wicked. He hath not framed speeches against me: and I will not reply upon him, as ye do. Now I will speak: and I will not regard Person: which doing job blamed in you: and spoke of punishment for mocking with God: as thou spakest, Ch. 13. He will surely reprove you, for secret regard of Person. Will not his highness make you fear: & will not his dread fall upon you? I will not plead for God, that he never punisheth but of hatred? So my maker would be my taker away.  
And in sooth hear now o job my talk: if thou canst 
Ch. 33.  answer, settle thyself before me, stand to it. Lo I am, as thou spakest, for th'Omnipotent: I am also form out of clay. Thou didst say of God: Draw away thy hand far from me: and let not dread of thee fright me. Ch. 13. 21. Lo my terror shall not fright thee: nor my hand be heavy upon thee. Now thou hast spoken in mine ears, and I have heard the voice of the words: I am clear without trespass: I know I shallbe found just. Ch. 9 21. Lo he piketh quarrels against me: when my trespass is sealed in a bag, that thou joy nest to present iniquity. Ch. 14. 17. Also thou hast said to Bildad: He taketh me as one of his enemies. Ch. 19 11. And to Zophar: He putteth my feet in the slocks: & watcheth all my paths. Ch. 13. 27. Lo, here thou art not in the right: I must tell thee. For the Puissant is greater than sorowful-man. Wherefore dost thou strive against him, that he will not speak for all his dealings. First I will tell thee of God's general dealings: manifest, and felt: then I will touch thine more particularly: and his unsearchable in the frame of natural philosophy in the meteors. Mark job, when the omnipotent speaketh once or twice in visions, or sickness to the grave, to stay man from his own work, man will not mark it job now thinketh himself past hope of recovery, Ch. 7. through out. But when a man's soul draweth near to the pit, and his life to kill maladies: if there be for him a messenger, a teacher one of a thousand, to teach the earthly, God's rightfulness: then God will have mercy upon him: and say: spare him, o kill malady, from descending into the pit: I have found a ransom. His soul shallbe moister than in youth: He shall return to his fresh days. Attend o job: and then I will speak. If thou have speech to answer me, say on: for I desire to make thee just.   

Ch. XXXIV.  
Hear me o ye wise, and give ear ye men of knowledge: for job said truly, Ch. 12. 11. The ear discerneth speeches, as the palate tasteth to eat. And when words be spoken as before God: a man's soul is an angel betwixt God and him to judge of them. Let us desire judgement: know amongst us what is good. job said, I am just, Ch. 9 21. & 10. 7. & 13. 18. 23. 27. and 27. 2. ●. But job drinketh scornfulness like water. Also he hath said, it profiteth not a man when he would walk with God. For he said, perfect & wicked he consumeth, Ch. 9 22. Far be unrighteousness from God. For he will repay every man according to his work. His justice is so great: that if he minded feveritie, all flesh would yield up the ghost together: & all of Adam should return to dust: as Gen. 7. Can a foe to justice rule well? But God ruleth well. Wilt thou then condemn the just. He respecteth no person, as all are the work of his hands. We see great judgements: and we see his justice. Whole troops die suddenly: as the consumed with fire from heaven: Gen. 19 and the mighty are taken away without hand, as in the deluge. He bruiseth mighty, without end in open place of beholders: Because they 〈…〉ed back from him: and oppressed the weaker. So he bringeth on such the cry of the poor: when he rooteth out all their families: as in time he will root out the Chanaanites, when their sins be ripe. When he makes rest, who can disturb? When the Sychemites were killed: who durst meddle with Jacob's family to whom God had promised favour? When he hideth favour, who can behold his mercy? wholenations & several men find this: Where Abraham's posterity, though faithless, drove out other nations: Nemrod was mighty: But Sinear served Elam of Sem in Abraham's days, Gen. 14. though Elamites left God: and made Gods of the fire that brent the sacrifice, yet for Sem they had superiority: that the wicked house of Nemrod should smart: As they smarted by Abraham. Now touching thy case, o job: Unto the Omnipotent, which saith to thee repenting, I pardon, I will not destroy: this shouldest thou say: Where I see not the causes of my affliction, teach thou me: I know, I am wicked: If I have wrought evil, I will do it no more. Shall that proceed from thee, which he will punish: as thou dost loath life: and likest of death? where I durst not do so. Speak what th●● thinkest. Wise men will say as I: but jobs speeches are without skill. O my father which art in heaven, let job be tried unto victory. For against the omnipotent doth he multiply his talking.   

Ch. XXXV.  
Now job I will come near thee: Thou sayest in effecti 〈…〉 thy great complaint: I am juster than God. Ch. 6. And wh●● gain I cleansed from my sin, seeing perfect and wicked he destroyeth. Ch. 9 Consider as thou canst not reach unto the heavens: so thy dealing, in justice or sin, cannot help or hurt God: But for thy, self thy punishment cometh to amend thee. Thou complainest, that God doth not hear thee▪ Ch. 30. ●0. For violence the oppressed complain: as thou of the Chaldeans and Sabeans, the godless. When thou w 〈…〉 wealthy: but art undone: Changed 16. 11. Thou didst cry out, for violent arms. So the oppressed do. But none say: where is the Puissant my makers: the Eternal trinity: who stirreth to praise on the night. There they cry, but he answers not, concerning the wrong-doers pride. So God heareth not sinners. (joh. 9) So when thou sayst: Thou wilt not mark it: Ch. 30. 20. judge thee afore him, and wait for him. Now for missing, his anger doth pay thee: because job regardeth not the great plenty of God's ways, which should teach him wisdom? But doth open his mouth in vain: without knowledge doth use much speech.   

Ch. XXXVI. and XXXVII.  
Forbear me a little: I will utter my knowledge from far, from the nature of God. Mark, the Omnipotent is mighty: no despiser: mighty; and that the wicked feel: the strength of heart; and that the poor in spirit feel. He saveth not the wickeds life: but makes him feel his might: but he yieldeth right unto the poor: as he is no despiser. He placeth the just with Kings in throne, as he did thee when thou didst well: and if they be bound in chains of sorrow, he will open their ears to correction. If they will not hear, they shall die without knowledge. But hypocrites in heart store up wrath & their soul dieth in youth. He saveth the poor in their anguish: and openeth their ea●e in oppression. As he made thee great of a small man: one of the richest of ketura's sons. But as thou hast fulfilled the sentence of wicked (some close error) sentence and judgement have laid hold. Since ire is come: look he cast thee not off: will he esteem thy nobleness & great hospitality? such ransom which thou spakest off, Ch. 29. will not help away. This may be thy very great sin: that thou dost breath unto death: in thy continual speeches: as mistrusting Gods will or power to restore thee: And this also: that thou wouldst be reasoning with God. Beware thou look not to sorrow: to choose death for thy affliction. Mistrust not God's power, for thy restoring: Mark, the Omnipotent sets up, by his strength: and who art thou that disputest with God? who can teach as he: who can say, Thou workest evil. Remember to magnify his works: which all men see: even the meteors in the air: which all men behold: but none can tell how they be ruled: for mercy, and plague: In rain, for men, cattle, and plants: In thundering and lightning: 
Ch. 37.  in snow and wintery weather: sealing men's hands from work: to cast their accounts with better leisure, for husbandry: Ice, cloudy weather, clearness, heat, and such. Through the North a golden light cometh: but a terrible glory is in the Puissant. The almighty, he is huge of strength: able to pay all that will be contending: and him we cannot find out, to be pleading with him: But of judgement in tendering his creatures and justice of ●●●cy he delighteth not to afflict. Therefore sad-men fear him. He respecteth no wise in conceit: such as will be pleading with him.   

Of Ch. 38. 39 40. 41. & 42.  
The speeches of God, plead not of jobs faults, but 
The Lord: And job.  of wishing to plead with God. Whom he teacheth from his visible works, yet unsearchable, that God's counsel for men is deeper. And who should plead with God: who punisheth not but the proud: and the deserving: and why God rejecteth men: none should plead: seeing to the visible creatures our wit reacheth not to see the reason of them. I leave the whole text to be sought for them. Now Chap. 42. hath no hardness.   
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Faults escaped.  
Chap. 30. vers. 11. for, strings, read, string, and etc. Chap. 31. v. 34. for, and those of families to baseness, that made me shrink etc. read, but such families come to baseness: That made me shrink: etc. Chap. 36. v. 13. put out, ●, in the end of the line.