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Lo, he hath found occasions against me, and counted me for his enemie.

Why doest thou striue against him? for he doeth not giue account of all his matters.

That he might cause man to turne away from his enterprise, and that he might hide the pride of man,

And keepe backe his soule from the pit, & that his life should not passe by the sword.

He is also striken with sorow vpon his bed, and the griefe of his bones is sore,

So that his life causeth him to abhorre bread, and his soule daintie meate.

His flesh faileth that it can not be seene, and his bones which were not seene, clatter.

So his soule draweth to the graue, and his life to the buriers.

If there be a messenger with him, or an interpreter, one of a thousand to declare vnto man his righteousnesse,

Then shal his flesh be as fresh as a childes, and shall returne as in the dayes of his youth.

He shall pray vnto God, and he will be fauourable vnto him, and he shall see his face with ioy: for he will render vnto ma his righteousnes.

He will deliuer his soule from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.

That he may turne backe his soule from the pit, to be illuminate in the light of the liuing.

For he will render vnto man according to his worke, and cause euery one to finde according to his way.

If he set his heart vpon man, and gather vnto him selfe his spirit and his breath,

How much lesse to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, & regardeth not the rich, more then the poore? for they be all the worke of his handes.

For his eyes are vpon the wayes of man, and he seeth all his goings.

Because they haue turned backe from him, and would not consider all his wayes:

And when he giueth quietnesse, who can make trouble? and when he hideth his face, who can beholde him, whether it be vpon nations, or vpon a man onely?

Iob hath not spoken of knowledge, neyther were his wordes according to wisedome.