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Eliu proceaded forth in his talkinge, & sayde:

He turneth not his eyes awaye from the rightuous he setteth vp kynges in their Trone, and cofirmeth them, so that they allwaye syt therin.

As for soch as be fayned, dyssemblers and ypocrytes, they heape vp wrath for them selues: for they call not vpon him, though they be his presoners.

The poore delyuereth he out of his straytnesse, and comforteth soch as be in necessite and trouble.

Who wil reproue him of his waye? who wil saye vnto him: thou hast done wronge?

O considre how greate and excellent his workes be, whom all men loaue and prayse:

Beholde, so greate is God, that he passeth oure knowlege, nether are we able to come to ye experiece of his yeares.

He turneth ye water to smaldroppes, he dryueth his cloudes

He can sprede out the cloudes (a couerynge off his tabernacle)

and cause his light to shyne vpo them, and to couer the botome of the see.

By these thinges gouerneth he his people, and geueth the abundaunce of meate.

In ye turnynge of a hande he hydeth the light, & at his commaundement it commeth agayne.

The rysinge vp therof sheweth he to his frendes and to the catell.

At this my hert is astonnied, and moued out of his place.

Heare then the sounde of his voyce, and the noyse yt goeth out of his mouth.

He gouerneth euery thinge vnder the heauen, and his light reacheth vnto the ende of the worlde.

A roaringe voyce foloweth him: for his glorious magesty geueth soch a thondre clappe, that (though a man heare it) yet maye he not perceaue it afterwarde. It geueth an horrible sownde,

when God sendeth out his voyce: greate thinges doth he, which we can not coprehende.

He distributeth also on euery syde, acordinge as it pleaseth him to deale out his workes, that they maye do, what so euer he commaundeth the thorow the whole worlde:

Art thou of coucel with God, when he doth these thinges? When he causeth the light to come forth of his cloudes?