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1 Elihu proceeding in his aunswere, sayde: 2 Heare my wordes O ye wise men, hearken vnto me ye that haue vnderstanding: 3 For the eare discerneth wordes, and the mouth tasteth the meates. 4 As for iudgement, let vs seke it out among our selues, that we may knowe what is good. 5 And why? Iob hath sayd, I am righteous, and God hath taken away my iudgement. 6 In my right I shoulde be a lyer: my wounde is incurable without my fault. 7 Where is there such a one as Iob, that drinketh vp scornefulnesse like water? 8 Which goeth in the companie of wicked doers, and walketh with vngodly men? 9 For he hath sayde, It profiteth a man nothing that he shoulde walke with God. 10 Therfore hearken vnto me ye that haue vnderstanding: farre be it from God that he shoulde meddle with wickednesse, & farre be it from the almightie that he shoulde meddle with vnrighteous dealing. 11 For he shall rewarde man after his workes, and cause euery man to finde according to his wayes. 12 Sure it is that God wil not do wickedly, neither wyll the almightie paruert iudgement. 13 Who ruleth the earth but he? or who hath placed the whole world? 14 If he set his heart vpon man and gather vnto hym selfe his spirite and his breath, 15 All fleshe shall come to naught at once, and all men shall turne againe vnto dust. 16 If thou nowe haue vnderstanding, heare what I say, and hearken to the voyce of my wordes: 17 May he be a ruler that loueth not right? or may he that is a very innocent man do vngodly? 18 Is it reason that thou shouldest say to the king, Thou art wicked, or thou art vngodly, and that before the princes? 19 God hath no respect vnto the persons of the lordly, and regardeth not the riche more then the poore: for they be al the worke of his handes. 20 In the twinckling of an eye shall they dye, and at midnight when the people and the tirantes rage, then shall they perishe, & be taken away without handes. 21 For his eyes loke vpon the wayes of man, and he seeth all his goinges. 22 There is no darkenesse nor shadowe of death that can hide the wicked doers from him. Job 34:1-22, Bishops' Bible of 1568. Public domain.
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