Study Desk

Will ye speake wickedly for Gods defence, and talke deceitfully for his cause?

Will ye accept his person? or will ye contende for God?

Shall not his excellencie make you afraid? and his feare fall vpon you?

Loe, though he slay me, yet will I trust in him, and I will reprooue my wayes in his sight.

Are not his dayes determined? the nober of his moneths are with thee: thou hast appointed his boundes, which he can not passe.

Turne from him that he may cease vntill his desired day, as an hyreling.

So man sleepeth and riseth not: for hee shall not wake againe, nor be raised from his sleepe till the heauen be no more.

And surely as the mountaine that falleth, commeth to nought, and the rocke that is remooued from his place:

Thou preuailest alway against him, so that he passeth away: he changeth his face when thou castest him away.

And he knoweth not if his sonnes shall be honourable, neither shall he vnderstand concerning them, whether they shalbe of lowe degree,

But while his flesh is vpon him, he shall be sorowfull, and while his soule is in him, it shal mourne.

Shal a wise man speake words of ye winde, and fill his bellie with the East winde?

Beholde, he founde no stedfastnesse in his Saintes: yea, the heauens are not cleane in his sight.

A sounde of feare is in his eares, and in his prosperitie the destroyer shall come vpon him.

For he hath stretched out his hand against God, and made him selfe strong against the Almightie.

Therefore God shall runne vpon him, euen vpon his necke, and against the most thicke part of his shielde.

Because he hath couered his face with his fatnesse, and hath colloppes in his flancke.

He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof in the earth.

He shall neuer depart out of darkenesse: the flame shall drie vp his branches, and he shall goe away with the breath of his mouth.

He beleeueth not that he erreth in vanitie: therefore vanitie shalbe his change.