Job 4:1-9 ▼

1 And Eliphas the Themanite aunswered, & sayde:

2 If we assay to come with thee, wilt thou be discontent? But who can withhold him selfe from speaking?

3 Beholde, thou hast ben an instructer of many, & hast strenghtned the weery handes:

4 Thy wordes haue set vp him that was falling, thou hast refreshed the weake knees.

5 But nowe it is come vpon thee, and thou art greeued: it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.

6 Was not thy feare according to thy hope? and the perfectnesse of thy wayes according to thy expectation?

7 Consider I pray thee who euer perished beyng an innocent? or when were the godly destroyed?

8 For as I haue proued by experience, they that plow iniquitie & sow wretchednesse, reape the same.

9 With the blast of God they perishe, with the breath of his nostrels are they consumed away.