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When the rich man sleepeth, he shal not be gathered to his fathers: they opened their eyes, and he was gone.

The East winde shall take him away, & he shal depart: & it shal hurle him out of his place.

And God shal cast vpon him and not spare, though he would faine flee out of his hand.

The siluer surely hath his veyne, and ye gold his place, where they take it.

He putteth his hand vpon the rockes, & ouerthroweth the mountaines by the rootes.

He breaketh riuers in the rockes, and his eye seeth euery precious thing.

So Iob proceeded and continued his parable, saying,

When his light shined vpon mine head: and when by his light I walked thorowe the darkenesse,

I brake also the chawes of the vnrighteous man, and pluckt the praye out of his teeth.

Doubtles none can stretch his hand vnto the graue, though they cry in his destruction.

If his loynes haue not blessed me, because he was warmed with the fleece of my sheepe,

For Gods punishment was fearefull vnto me, & I could not be deliuered from his highnes.

If I reioyced at his destruction that hated me, or was mooued to ioye when euill came vpon him,

Neither haue I suffred my mouth to sinne, by wishing a curse vnto his soule.

Did not the men of my Tabernacle say, Who shall giue vs of his flesh? we can not bee satisfied.

Then the wrath of Elihu the sonne of Barachel the Buzite, of the familie of Ram, was kindled: his wrath, I say, was kindled against Iob, because he iustified himselfe more then God.

Also his anger was kindled against his three friends, because they could not finde an answere, and yet condemned Iob.

So when Elihu saw, that there was none answere in the mouth of the three men, his wrath was kindled.

Yea, when I had considered you, lo, there was none of you that reproued Iob, nor answered his wordes:

Yet hath he not directed his words to me, neyther will I answere him by your wordes.