Elihu Rebukes Job

1Wherfore, heare my wordes (O Iob) & herken vnto all, that I wyll saye:

2Beholde, I wil open my mouth, & my tonge shal speake out of my chawes.

3My hert shall ordre my wordes a right, & my lyppes shal talke of pure wysdome.

4The sprete of God hath made me, & the breth of the Allmightie hath geue me my life.

5Yf thou cast, then geue me answere: prepare thy self to stode before me face to face.

6Beholde, before God am I euen as thou, for I am fashioned and made eue of the same moulde.

7Therfore, thou nedest not be afrayed of me, nether nedest thou to feare, that my auctorite shal be to heuy for the.

8Now hast thou spoken in myne eares, & I haue herde ye voyce of thy wordes:

9I am clene without eny fawte, I am innocent, & there is no wickednesse in me.

10But lo, he hath pyked a quarell agaynst me, & taketh me for his enemy:

11he hath put my fote in the stockes, & loketh narowly vnto all my pathes.

12Beholde, vnto these vnreasonable wordes of thyne wil I make answere. Shulde God be reproued of man?

13Why doest thou then stryue agaynst him, because he geueth the no accomptes of all his doinges?

14For whe God doth once commaunde a thinge, there shulde no man be curious, to search whether it be right.

15In dreames and visions of the night season (when slombrynge cometh vpo me, that they fall a slepe in their beddes)

16he rowneth them in the eares, he infourmeth them, & sheweth the planely,

17that it is he, which withdraweth man from euell, delyuereth him from pryde,

18kepeth his soule from destruccion, & his life from ye swearde.

19he chasteneth him with sicknesse, & bringeth him to his bed: he laieth sore punyshmet vpo his bones,

20so that his life maye awaye wt no bred, & his soule abhorreth to eate eny dayntie meate:

21In so moch, that his body is clene consumed awaye, & his bones appeare nomore.

22His soule draweth on to destruccion, & his life to death.

23Now yf there be an angel (one amonge a thousande) sent for to speake vnto ma, and to shewe him the right waye:

24the the LORDE is mercifull vnto him, & sayeth: He shalbe delyuered, yt he fall not downe to destruccion, for I am sufficiently recociled.

25Than his flesh (which hath bene in misery & trouble) shalbe, as it was in his youth.

26For yf he submitte himself vnto God, he is gracious, & sheweth him his countenaunce ioyfully, & rewardeth man for his rightuousnes.

27Soch a respecte hath he vnto me. Therfore let a man cofesse, (& saye:) I offended, but he hath chastened & refourmed me: I dyd vnrightuously, neuerthelesse he hath not recopensed me therafter.

28Yee he hath delyuered my soule from destruccion, & my life, that it seyth ye light.

29Lo, thus worketh God allwaie with ma,

30that he kepeth his soule from perishinge, & latteth him enioye the light of ye lyuinge.

31Marke well (O Iob) & heare me: holde the still, vntill I haue spoken.

32But yf thou hast eny thinge to saye, then answere me and speake, for thy answere pleaseth me.

33Yf thou hast nothinge, then heare me, and holde thy tonge, so shal I teach the wysdome.